“What we need is a profound rethinking of the nature of suffering itself, and what it is trying to highlight and ask us to change. We need to repoliticise emotional discontent in the minds of teachers, parents and policy-makers, rather than continue reducing it to dysfunctions that allegedly reside within the self. We need to acknowledge that suffering also reflects family/socio/political dynamics we would do well to better acknowledge and address.” SufferingMental HealthTherapyHealthcarePsychotherapyNeoliberalismDepoliticisation Book:Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis Source: Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
“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