“Tim Kasser: ‘The heyday of humanistic psychology was in the 1960s and 1970s, when Keynes dominated. But since the rise of neo-liberalism from the 1980s, we’ve seen an influx of cognitive behavioural approaches and psychiatric drugs – technologies that put the cause of the problem right between your ears. The therapies our governments now want all focus on internal not external reform. They don’t see suffering as a call to change external circumstances for the good of our development.” SufferingPsychologyCapitalismTherapyPsychiatryNeoliberalismKeynesCbt Book:Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis Source: Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
“As the renowned clinical psychologist Dr Anne Cooke put it to me in conversation: ‘The mental illness narrative encourages us to see mental health problems as nothing to do with life and circumstances, so no wonder we don’t look at structural or social causes; and of course this perspective is a great fit with the current neoliberal approach – where individuals have to reform themselves to fit with existing social structures.’ The trouble with programmes that are blind to the perils of such adaptations is that they essentially neuter political reflection on why distress proliferates in our schools, certainly when compared to schools in most other developed nations.” PsychologyMental HealthSocial IssuesPsychotherapyNeoliberalismHealthcare ReformDepoliticisationAnne Cooke Book:Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis Source: Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis