“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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