Therapy Culture
A long-standing thread in the Spiked critique is what they identify as 'Therapy Culture' – a culture where the victim takes ascendancy and where rationality and logic is replaced by emotions and feelings. For Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, the core issues here are about agency and political autonomy and he argues "we should stop surrendering our sovereignty to the 'therapeutic state'".
The medicalisation of personal problems may relieve the individual of moral responsibility, but at the cost of allowing the therapeutic state to control personal behaviour and psychic life.
Read more about this topic: Spiked (magazine)
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