Only collective practice, not individual therapy, can address socially-caused distress

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

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mass neurotic behavior is healed only by changing life conditions; Therapy’s real flaw is privatizing systemic problems as individual self-work — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1923; Mainstream therapy shares Thatcherism’s denial that social conditions shape distress — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1604 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Neither individual detachment nor therapy can substitute for collective material action #corroborates (0.90) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1072
• Therapy co-opted consciousness-raising by converting it from collective to private practice #corroborates (0.88) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1949
• Mainstream therapy shares Thatcherism’s denial that social conditions shape distress #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1604
• Treating youth distress as individual illness rules out systemic political explanation #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 46
• Individualized therapy depoliticized the collective consciousness-raising of 1970s movements. #corroborates (0.83) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1949
• Therapy’s supposed interior self is an ideological fiction masking social origins #corroborates (0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1945
• Pain is socially structured through learned practices, not essentially private. #corroborates (0.80) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 388
• CBT and antidepressants contain depression without addressing its social causes. #corroborates (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2129
• True therapy must cultivate consciousness of unhappiness, not adaptation #qualifies (0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 76