Let’s say you’re some mental health therapist working in somewhere you’d describe as mainstream, e.g. the UK’s NHS has talking therapy.

Let’s say you have no clue about historical materialism / socialism / psychotherapy-leftism and neither does your patient.

• What are you doing to your patient?

• What is your function in the capitalist system?

• And, in what situations will you meet a contradiction you can’t resolve?

Originally posted by u/WritingtheWrite on Reddit.