There are profound political implications for the emergence of the 
clinical rather than the political arena as the cultural choice for 
handling feelings like depression by detracting policy attention away 
from the possibly of social and economic remedies for debilitating 
psychological reactions. p 16

"Without credible evidence that psychotherapy can treat depression, 
the relationship between patient and therapist takes on the tragedy 
of a folie a deux, a mutual self-deception providing the would-be 
healer with status and income that sustains an allegiance to the 
field and the patient with a compelling but false hope that 
introspection is a valuable remedy for melancholy. " p 45

Epstein, Psychotherapy as Religion: The Civil Divine in America, U Nevada, 2006

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