r/psychotheraphyleftist

Psychologys solutions may work, but for complexer problems they are way too simple.

Most Therapists are not being educated at university in culture, society, patriachary, raceism, history, hierachy, outcasted subgroups and the overall structure of society. Psychology and mental health are in danger to become the priests of the industrial system.

How can a problem, that was caused by the outer world, and caused in the inner world of a person, need to be "fixed" by "fixing" the person. It's like the same person who put a bandage on you, forces you to play football with a broken leg.

That results in generalized problems. By the lack of understanding society, the combination of the differnent factors, which caused the issue, will never be fully understood nor fixed.

Theraphists and Psychiatrists have the abilty to emphatise with the clients words, inform them about individual human behaviour, analyze theier current emotions and state of mind, but when it comes to the way the world spins, theier own experieneces may be the only source of information.

It is physically imposible to understand each situation, without deeper insight into society. It's nature that humans can not emphasis with a person, who is socialized so differently than us, in our society. There is no natural understanding for the person infront of you, if theier culture is unfamiliar. Understanding does not just emerge with emphathy. Understanding needs insight.

Also significant is the impact of attempted empathy on only the client. Most people don't want to be judged by one another, even your own theraphist could think of you as "a bad person". It feels best to avoid faceing our own behaviour, and focus on others wrongdoings.

In theraphy conflicts are just one sided perspectives, which mostly result in break-up or communication. The theraphists evaluation of the other persons behaviour may cause deep resentment, frustration, doubt, false confirmation as well as conditioning certain behaviours the theraphist may not even know of.

For example imagen a conflict between two individuals. Both tell theier conflict to eaches own theraphist, but both leave out their own wrong doings. They will just feel confirmed in themselfs, lack selfreflection and start blameing each other.

In summery modern psychology does not teach the Client how to create a beautifull life in connection to each other, instead it teaches people to adjust into a system that was made to make as much profit from them as much as possible. In the name of individuality we blame others and grow apart. I am talking about the german psych system, and have no experience with american social works nor theraphists. I understand it may be hard for you to understand me, if you've never been a client yourself or just come from a very different finacial and cultural background. My intend is not to critize personally, but to raise awareness, speak for those who are afraid to speak and spread my word. I wish for the acceptance of others and our own wrong doings. Only with honesty can communication be effective. It is time to change Freuds outdated concepts, and combine needed humanities so we can finally evolve as a whole.

Societal psychology would be a good starting points. Which is characters is characterised by fifteen key positions:

1.Human beings need to be studied in a sociocultural context

• The individual and the collective cannot be separated ontologically

• The ecology of the environment, its objective characteristics, needs to be studied alongside ₹9 mediated reality

• People create social organizations-but it is the ocial organizations that recast people

• Innovation is as much an imperative of the social system f relations tO the environment as is conformity

• The aim of societal psychology is the development of conceptual frameworks or models rather than the forlorn search for invariant laws

• The need for theoretical and methodological pluralism

• There is a need to maintain a historical perspective

• Cross-fertilization between societal psychology and A7 other social sciences is indispensable for the adequate analysis of social phenomena and social systems

• There is a need for cross-fertilization among societal, developmental, and personality psychologists

• There is also a need for cross-

fertilization between basic and applied esearch

• Societal psychology requires a systems approach

• The study of a s social phenomenon requires a multilevel approach, at the macro as Weff as the micro level

• We need to accept and examine the mplication that there iS no such thing as value-free social research

• We need to adopt a much wider range of research tools

Originally posted by u/LanadelreyLarp on Reddit.

Top comment by u/granduerofdelusions

but then the field would have to start doing its job and engaging with the world and thinking about their subject matter.

HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST SUCH A THING