Imagine you were the therapist for a second. Then the patient is your primary source of income. The patient becomes your working material, and you want to have material from which you can make money. Say, a dentist would have no base to exist, if there were no teethes. And unhealthy teethes means that there’s more to for the dentist and that means he has more tasks which he then can cash up. For the therapist this means that he needs to have unhealthy psyches to have more tasks which he then can cash up. It’s kind of important for the therapist that the therapy does not end after the first few settings, its systematically not in his interest to cure the patient ‘too quickly’. In the case of 4 sessions, let’s say 100 $ per session per week, the therapist makes 400 $ from a single patient, but if he can extend the therapy to 24 sessions he makes 2400 dollar from the same patient.
Now let’s take this a step further. The therapist profits from an increasing number of mentally ill persons on the ‘market’ as potential clients for his business. There are incentives to make people feel mentally ill so they go to a therapist. Also, he’s not alone in this, there are other therapists out there, so he has to prevail against the competition. Now, how would the therapist increase his chances to prevail? Collusion and cartel structures between therapists, but obviously not as straight forward as actual business cartels but in a much more covert way. There are not only therapists out there, there’s a whole industry built around mental illness – psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, clinics, rehabs, significant parts of the pharma industry (production, distribution, apothecary), research facilities (psychology, neuroscience), health insurance funds, institutions of the state, journalism. All these players need a right to exist and this is given to them by the human psyche capable of being ill. Now what’s happening is that increasing parts of the human psyche are pathologized. That means, that more and more behaviors, thought patterns, emotions, psychosomatic symptoms etc. are classified as part of mental illness. The ‘healthy’ parts of our overall spectrum of inner experience which our consciousness can theoretically display and produce become narrower through this classification while the pathological parts become largely extended. Same goes for the observable external expressions which we physically display (behavior), increasing parts of become patholog
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