Being a graduate from 3 years of studying psych and with an active experience of mental illness, I can say that no amount of studying theory and doing therapy+ taking meds for years helped me realize the root of my problems and my worth as a human. more than Marxist analysis. I live to be a part of the revolution, and as long as psychotherapy reinforces the client to believe in themselves and to accept the realities of it is what it is, it will never achieve its job of liberating the person. There is a need for psychology to gain a Marxist perspective, more so from modern day leftists in the mental health field.
Where I live there’s a place that we called The Little House (La casita) which is like an evangelical rehabilitation clinic, a lot of kids get sent there, I have quite a couple of friends who were sent there, for smoking weed, and they give you shit like clonazepam, alplax, ketiapine and shit to “quit weed” and they get out of there literally fucked up in the brain because of how much pills they give them, so any parent can send their kids there.
Sounds like the old sounds asylums. Jfc.
Do they then also force those people to go advertise for it and collect donations to keep that shit going? We have something similar here and they do that a lot. Basically a religious legal drug gang.