Mass neurotic behavior is healed only by changing life conditions

Evidence

This is why any individual therapy — even that practiced by a sympathetic and politically progressive therapist — can only ever have limited effects. In order to really come to terms with the damage that has been done to them by and in the wider social field, individuals need to engage in collective practices that will reverse neoliberalism’s privatisation of stress. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1947 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A change of environment cannot cure a neurosis the subject himself deploys as self-confirmation; Neurotic structure erupts from environment and the individual’s personal reactions combined.; Only collective practice, not individual therapy, can address socially-caused distress — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1947 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society #corroborates (0.90)
• Only collective practice, not individual therapy, can address socially-caused distress #corroborates (0.88) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1947
• Neurotic structure erupts from environment and the individual’s personal reactions combined. #qualifies (0.80)
• A change of environment cannot cure a neurosis the subject himself deploys as self-confirmation #complicates (0.78)