Therapy for the victims of capitalism

[JohannGE]

The government has announced a £13m package of measures aimed at helping unemployed people experiencing depression or anxiety get back to work.
Measures





The package includes:

faster rollout of talking therapy services around the country throughout 2009, with services beginning to be available in every area by 2010;
training for health advisers on a dedicated NHS Direct phone line to spot and refer people who might be experiencing depression due to economic problems;
employment support workers linked to every talking therapy service, providing job support for people with common mental health problems and helping people get back to work;
more training for primary care staff, helping them to recognise mental health problems that could be due in part to the economic downturn
http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/2009/03/managers_welcome_health_boost_for_credit_crunch_vi ctims.html



The "talking" therapy on offer will be Cognative Behaviour Therapy (C.B.T.). This is often claimed to be effective in up to 40% of cases. Recent studies cast doubts it's long term effectivness.



"CBT works by changing people's attitudes and their behaviour. The therapies focus on the thoughts, images, beliefs and attitudes that we hold (our cognitive processes) and how this relates to the way we behave, as a way of dealing with emotional problems."

http://www.mind.org.uk/NR/exeres/41788138-E53E-4D94-B302-4020BA5598B7.htm



Looks like more newspeak from Ingsoc to me.

Therapy = Control

No regognition whatsoever of the root cause of either the current financial crisis or the emotional price payed by the population living in their Brave New World.

[Kassad]

Well, I won't necessarily say that therapy is the beginning of the social manipulation under capitalism. If someone needs psychological or emotional counsel due to capitalist manipulation, they failed to embrace the true and honest solution to the people's struggle. I sympathize with all those who have been so traumatized by the exploitation at the work place, at home and across the globe to to the ravages of capitalism, but instead of allowing oneself to be indulged in hysteria, one should embrace a militant ideology of class emancipation. It's really a shame that some people are unable to grasp such a valuable attribute in the struggle.

Regardless, back to my original point, the manipulative nature of capitalism is there from the first moment of conception. In a country like America, a family who's child may need a few extra days in the hospital just to survive might be faced with immense debt. From the moment you come out of the womb, it is obvious that there is a dollar sign on everything, for even in what many people consider 'liberal' countries, socialized healthcare and education is not always paid for by the means it should be, such as regulation and progressive tax, but instead, a tax burder is often placed on the working class. It's despicable.

People are consistently conditioned to embrace authority. From the most basic educational stages, children are taught information and those who blindly repeat and consistently conform to the ideological standards that are asked of them are rewarded, whereas those who question the information are often ridiculed. Education should be used to promote critical thinking and rationality, not conformity. Regardless, you will never see education serve for intellectual development of the human mind and body under capitalism, as that does not serve those on a crusade for profits.

Conditioning is the key. If a child is taught that socialism will never work because it causes authoritarian bureaucracy, what are the chances that they will embrace that idea later on in life? I'd say it's very high, as that is how capitalism reaffirms its absurd manipulation, as vile conditioning is the only way to maintain control. On the other hand, what if a child were raised in an environment of cooperation? Of unity and a lack of class division? What if contribution to society affirmed the necessities of all and consistent technological and social development were promoted to meet people's needs and to consistently create for humanity, as opposed to greedy profits and wealth exploitation? What are the chances that someone will reject a system that provides anything. Slim and none, for at the end of the day, depriving humanity of its necessities is what causes psychological, sociological, emotional and physical ails, without fail. The only solution to the cruel parasite of capitalism is revolution.

[brigadista]

more depression will result when seeing the exploitative jobs with lowlow wages they will be "offered"

[acc]

Surely the realization that the capitalist system causes stress and depression is in itself an important step? We must not discount the small victories simply because they fall short.

[JohannGE]

Surely the realization that the capitalist system causes stress and depression is in itself an important step? We must not discount the small victories simply because they fall short.

Of course we already realise that
But this program does not suggest that the government is accepting it. They are in effect saying that the depression and anxiety they wish to treat is caused by incorrect patterns of thought and behaviour of the victims. They want to "correct" those thoughts and behaviours.

They apparently believe that if they can persuade people to stop thinking that they are victims of an immoral and unjust system, they will be cured.

[Bilbo Baggins]

more depression will result when seeing the exploitative jobs with lowlow wages they will be "offered"

Indeed-the only "therapy" that will ever actually work is working class liberation from capitalist slavery!:thumbup1: