Think i just found a new intellectual hero

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"The radical therapist David Smail argues that Margaret Thatcher's view that there's no such thing as society, only individuals and their families, finds "an unacknowledged echo in almost all approaches to therapy". Therapies such as cognitive behaviour therapy combine a focus on early life with the self-help doctrine that individuals can become masters of their own destiny. The idea is "with the expert help of your therapist or counsellor, you can change the world you are in the last analysis responsible for, so that it no longer cause you distress" - Smail calls this view "magical voluntarism" ". - from Mark Fisher's Guardian column.

Now all we need a discourse-theory-informed awareness of psychiatry's own unacknowleged construction of the subject and we're in business.