Commentary The therapy-industrial complex has imposed a Marxist view of mental health on our major institutions. Education, human resources, law enforcement, the media, and of course healthcare have all embraced the “disease model” of mental health. It asserts that good feelings come effortlessly to “normal” people, so bad feelings are evidence of a disease. To cure the disease, you only need to “accept help” from the therapy-industrial complex. The disease model is ostensibly based on science, but it’s clearly based on Marxist thought. It suggests that happiness is unfairly distributed because those who have it did nothing for it. It insists that the government must provide “access” to “help” those unjustly deprived of happiness, and when that doesn’t work, more and more “treatment” is the only solution. The disease model has created a terrible mess. It leads most people to believe they are broken because happiness does not come effortlessly. …
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