Authoritarian individuals resist introspection and psychotherapy during high social threat

Evidence

Following Adorno et al. (1950), Sales reasoned that the “authoritarian individual is opposed to intraception and particularly to psychotherapy and psychiatry” (1973, p. 48). He found comparatively fewer popular magazine articles and books about psychoanalysis and psychotherapy published during the first, but not the second, high-threat period, and the number of undergraduate majors in psychology (presumably an intraceptive discipline) increased during the high-threat period of the late 1960s. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 796

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: De-psychologization disarms the psychological steering that sustains domination — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 181