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Laddar... Power, Interest and Psychology (2005)av David Smail
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Therapeutic psychology suggests that we are essentially self-creating and able to heal ourselves emotionally. This view reflects the wishful thinking necessary for the success of consumer capitalism, but it does not reflect the way things are. Smail examines how our experience of ourselves and our conduct can be explained in terms of the social operation of power and interest. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Sometimes this made me feel disheartened about the prospects of ever achieving meaningful change, whether on a personal/individual level or on a societal/global level. The overwhelming forces of power and interest outlined by Smail are so monumental and seemingly impervious to challenge that his exhortation that It is incumbent upon us to do what we can, even if we cannot do much, seems woefully inadequate. Such light that breaks through is in the call for solidarity amongst the weak against the strong, in the face of forces that understand the strength of numbers and which accordingly seek to atomise society into self-interested individuals preoccupied, and so distracted, with personal gratification.
Smail's stance on clinical psychology and therapy is damning, positing that professional vested interest gives rise to the view that the causes and cures of distress are personal and internal, and so amenable to change in a therapeutic setting, whereas he sees the actual causes of distress to be mainly environmental and cultural, with roots far beyond the horizon visible to most, and thus amenable only to political solutions. The best a therapist can do is to be a companion in this existential theatre and hope that some degree of clarity in respect of the bounds of personal agency arises, freeing people from the burden of assuming responsibility for the causes of their own misery.
Whilst I have felt a certain bleakness in the picture Smail has painted, I find myself largely persuaded by him. Quite how this will influence my own practice as a therapist, I'm not yet sure. ( )