The basic assumption of psychotherapy is that people are responsible 
for their suffering and that it is up to them to will the appropriate 
changes in their lives. Psy represents social damage as personal 
failure and transmutes potential political dissent into an anxious 
concern with individual adjustment. p 233

Psy is consistent with a conservative social ideology that is 
unwilling to accept broad-based social expenditures to provide 
greater social equality through government action. (Smail citing Epstein) p 234

David Smail in Rapley, etal, De-medicalizing Misery, Palgrave, 2011.


"People Who experience mood swings, fear, voices and visions"