Adorno transferred class-struggle logic to therapy without questioning fit

Evidence

Adorno did not ask himself whether what might be true at the level of aesthetic theory or the theory of class struggle would be applicable without further difficulty to individual therapy. The danger that `kindness’ would lead to naive conformism was at least as great as the danger that hard disillusionment of the patient would either reinforce the illness or make the patient cynical. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1107

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how far did the Institute’s political-theoretic categories actually transplant into clinical practice, and did anyone (Fromm?) mount a sustained rebuttal?