“The ideology of psychotherapy serves principally
to divert our gaze from the real causes of our
troubles in the outside environment.” p 235
“What enables us to live reasonably
comfortability in the social world is the kind of
exoskeleton provided by its institutions we
cannot hold ourselves together psychologically
just by our own internal structures. p 238
David Smail in Rapley, etal, De-medicalizing Misery, Palgrave, 2011.
More on social materialist Smail:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Smail_%28psychologist%29
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