Thursday, January 26, 2023

Too many professional psychiatrists just accept rat race capitalism as the natural order of human society

So many mentally disturbed people always " falling through the cracks " of our vanished mental health care system. As a long time independent democratic socialist I suspect the word ALIENATION - alienation in the context of a decaying capitalist society- explains most individual crack ups in this decidedly UN-SANE Society . As a young man I was influenced by socialist-humanist Erich Fromm's book " The Sane Society ". In particular, the often isolated nuclear family - in contrast to old fashioned EXTENDED FAMILY ( also , the old Chinese family , for example ) contributes to unbearable stress in young mothers with un-supporting mates. A real feeling of COMMUNITY could prevent these tragedies. Too many professional psychiatrists just accept rat race capitalism as the natural order of human society. How are they not useless charlatans?

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