I understand, what I mean isn’t supposed to apply for all of therapy or psychiatry, or even to all depressed and anxious patients. I just wanted to point out the systemic issue that psychologists need to understand and apply to so that it can be easily accessible to all. This is not limited to treatment of certain mental disorders, but also to the way mental health treatment is itself accessible to those who can’t afford it. I see how what I said may seem like a generalization, and I apologize for that.

This is made to be hard work because its so internalized in us that its just the way it is, that the system makes it as hard as possible for the people to be class conscious. I appreciate it, but I’m still learning. And so are you. As long as we are actively questioning the reality around us, nobody is more or less equal

I think this should be bookmarked by now, but marxists archive has a section on marxist psychology in general, and there is another section on education, which is also relevant, hope it helps comrade.

https://www.marxists.org/subject/psychology/index.htm

similar to anti-vax movement? What? Psychology (and to extension medicine) is so corrupt because of how bourgeoisie it is, with poor people not being able to get any sort of healthcare (mental health related or not). People who live minimum wage, paycheck to paycheck are more than disillussioned with what the current state is. My argument, towards the mental health system is that it does not have a Marxist perspective and only a Marxist informed therapist can effectively know what to say to people who don’t know what to do.

Each illness has a different root cause, and its not just depression that these days is a sub product of capitalism. I want to know what are the other root causes you are mentioning?

Schizophrenia and bipolar patients are told to swallow pill after pill which does nothing but keep their sanity at bay. Is their autonomy not essential to their well being? And behold, if pills cannot “control” them, what happens? They are admitted to mental asylums, rehab centres, which ALSO profits off of it.

What about PTSD? Is PTSD not a sub product of capitalism, because, patriarchy which, is one of the many gruesome ways capitalism manifests itself, abuses women and somehow (not surprisingly) the people who have connections get away with it. Capitalism controls what they deem to be quality education and what isn’t. If you don’t provide proper sex education to someone and they somehow sexually assault someone, its the fault of the system as a whole. If that person also doesn’t get punished for it, it is also the fault of the system.

I remember a quote of a revolutionary who said something along the lines of all proletariat thinkers being depressed because that is what is needed for people to realize their worth.

I recognize saying that therapists just tell you to accept reality is a faulty way of thinking and by no means can it be a generalization. But is it really working? Is psychotherapy doing its job?

Ohh! I posted this because one of my batchmates quoted a meme post of a client complaining he doesn’t want to work and to die (with the therapist asking them to accept it), by saying the OP of the post is bigoted??? and talks about how the biopsychosocial model is the most effective right now, etc. Like, it doesn’t matter if IT IS BEING REGARDED AS THE MOST EFFECTIVE right now, because it still doesn’t mean its doing the job. As someone else above pointed out, humanistic Rogerian psychotherapy, postive psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, existential, CBT, no other school as it is right now will be able to effectively claim to FIX a person’s material reality while actively NOT accepting the exploitation of the people

I’m glad it helped you but I never dissuaded anyone from getting help. I just emphasized the need for a Marxist perspective to be integrated in practice