Mind and Body in the Guardian again

This is interesting, @V.R.T. I have noticed an increasing tendency for psychological and neuroscientific evidence to be misappropriated to support some model of society or why we should improve it. It is not that I disagree with the models or recommendations, its that the psyc/neuro evidence has nothing to do with it.

e.g.

• Your symptoms are signs of generational trauma that needs to be righted (may be true, but has nothing to do with your symptoms).
• Your pain/fatigue are the result of rising economic pressures and increasing social injustice (yes, we need to address social injustice, but pain and fatigue, really? Wonder how any humans in the ancient world/middle ages ever functioned at all...)

And even these social interpretations are just thrown out there as a sort of lure to draw you in. When it really comes down to it, the cure is always within the person's control, they just have to change their thoughts, attitudes, biases or behaviours.

 

This is the most dangerous lie they tell, at the core of it, and it's one people want desperately to believe, both about themselves and others.