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Psychotherapy Leftists

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A community for psychotherapy providers, students, and participants who believe that capitalism generates distress and trauma in individuals & communities.

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Discussing leftist therapeutic approaches and modalities
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If mainstream therapy is inadequate, how would you describe what they do from a historical materialist perspective? (piefed.diffrint.org)

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Let's say you're some mental health therapist working in somewhere you'd describe as mainstream, e.g. the UK's NHS has talking therapy.

Let's say you have no clue about historical materialism / socialism / psychotherapy-leftism and neither does your patient.

What are you doing to your patient?
What is your function in the capitalist system?
And, in what situations will you meet a contradiction you can't resolve?

Originally posted by u/WritingtheWrite on Reddit.

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