Different perspectives on mental health

[Have at ye]

Just browsing through your post here, it's sad but very true that western medicine and healing is NOT aimed at healing.  Not at all.  Professionals coming to Rwanda using western practices is......stupid.  It doesn't work here, and it won't work there.

Simply put, our whole medical and health culture is focused on "getting and keeping the money".  It's a money business, not a healing business, and it's a risky move to try to change it.

That's why I come here, use subliminals, learn more freedom, and change myself--the only person I have power over.  They're playing their game; I'll play mine.  We do have a lot more power than they tell us.  Because they've been slowly and steadily brainwashing us from childhood on.  Waking up from that is, in no small way, miraculous.  

Thanks for posting this.

I think that they are trying to do what they can with the knowledge they have, but that knowledge isn't enough to help people with mental health problems. Mental health can't be standardised and understood in scientific terms, but stems from an understanding one can only achieve by dealing with their own problems. I saw an interesting talk with Dr. Gabor maté who mentioned that the medical profession is in large represented by people running away from their own problems to a profession where they will have power, be needed by others, and can focus on their career - all of things that a person who don't want to deal with their own problems and want to substitute it with other things will thrive. So that could be a reason why the medical profession is reluctant to looking at new angles on mental health, because of their own personal inability and resistance to relate to it.

Hey, I know a foxy psychotherapist who did *just* that. Trouble is, she decided to go the psychoanalytic route a bit "for fun" and now she's healing properly, heheh.

If you have the time and inclination, I would recommend you read some Lacan, most of his stuff is in English translation by now, as well as the daddy Freud stuff he used as a basis. I believe you'd like it as he started out on his own upon noticing that the psychiatric establishment of his time started falling into the trap of stale doctrine and forceful "scientification" (a.k.a. "the Popperization" of psychotherapy; so, in short, trying to make it *look* like a strictly empirical science, like biology, anatomy and such, while it's not, lol)/"psychologization" of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and such.

I guess you could try Zizek's (the Peterson debate guy) "Reading Lacan" to get a pretty decent overview and guideline with amusing examples taken from popular culture, but Zizek purposefully omitted the therapeutic application of Lacan's ideas in that book.