That's all psychology is for the most part. Keep people functional within the confines of the established value system. It's not about helping people.
You help someone when you provide them with a resource they are lacking. That is help. Convincing someone to think different about something isn't help, it's manipulation.
Not all manipulation is immoral but I'm not helping people. I am manipulating them to think of psychology a different way. That doesn't help anyone. Does thinking about psychology differently change your life at all? Nothing in your life changes.
Sometimes I wonder if "Soviet abuse of psychiatry" was not abuse at all, but simply the nature of psychiatry itself.
The ruling regime at any time will stigmatize any sentiment that it does not like as some sort of mental illness.
You're starting to wake up.
That's all psychology is for the most part. Keep people functional within the confines of the established value system. It's not about helping people.
You help someone when you provide them with a resource they are lacking. That is help. Convincing someone to think different about something isn't help, it's manipulation.
Do you consider yourself immoral for trying to convince people to think differently about psychology?
Not all manipulation is immoral but I'm not helping people. I am manipulating them to think of psychology a different way. That doesn't help anyone. Does thinking about psychology differently change your life at all? Nothing in your life changes.