Oh, wait. Read this first, re Theodore Dalrymple’s new book:
However, it’s also clear from the outset that the primary target of his scathing critique is not psychology but reductionism, the view that all aspects of human life and values can be exhaustively explained in terms of physical processes:
No, seriously. Someone noticed.
Contrarian Theodore Dalrymple, who investigated the mentality of the British underclass in Life at the Bottom, has frequently described psychology as a modern religion, or pseudo-religion. The medical establishment is the brave new priest class, while the anxious therapy patient replaces the penitent sinner.
If so, then Dalrymple must be a heretic of the first order. … Moreover, deference to psychology has led to a culture of self-obsession and a diminution of personal responsibility.
More.
And more jobs for bureaucrats. Isn’t that really the point?
Dalrymple reveals how the fashionable schools of psychoanalysis, behaviorism, modern neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology all prevent the kind of honest self-examination that is necessary to the formation of human character. Instead, they promote self-obsession without self-examination, and the gross overuse of medicines that affect the mind.
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