Comments on: More Psychologists, More Problems? The Paradox of Mental Health Workforce Expansion https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/05/more-psychologists-more-problems-the-paradox-of-mental-health-workforce-expansion/ Science, Psychiatry & Social Justice Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:05:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Birdsong https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/05/more-psychologists-more-problems-the-paradox-of-mental-health-workforce-expansion/#comment-282348 Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:05:06 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=256741#comment-282348 In reply to Frank Blankenship.

It just proves how far and wide bad ideas can spread.

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]]> By: Frank Blankenship https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/05/more-psychologists-more-problems-the-paradox-of-mental-health-workforce-expansion/#comment-282252 Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:59:02 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=256741#comment-282252 Mental health workers are dispensable, inessential personnel. Ditto, career mental patients with their precious bogus diseases (Ever hear the one about getting a real job?), however, where would either be without the other? Big business is big business, and as for mental health, well, we don’t have it because there’s no profit in it. The people fixers, in other words, would be out of business if they could fix people, that is, if they weren’t in actuality conducting a fraudulent enterprise. Pretend to fix people pretending to be broken. That’s the ticket! Now you’re set for not only life but several lifetimes. You can’t clean up the mental health profession because doing so would put mental health professionals out of work. They’re business is selling the illness that they are there to treat. You can’t cure it. If you did, you’d be out of work. The mental health crisis is big business otherwise there would be no crisis and no mental illness. The industry itself, apparently, is contagious.

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]]> By: Birdsong https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/05/more-psychologists-more-problems-the-paradox-of-mental-health-workforce-expansion/#comment-282007 Thu, 30 May 2024 16:54:15 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=256741#comment-282007 More psychologists clearly aren’t the answer. Maybe that’s because manufactured intimacy (psychotherapy) is a sorry substitute for the real thing.

IMHO.

“Stop Trying to Be Vulnerable. Do This Instead.” The Jordan Harbinger Show Podcast

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]]> By: Birdsong https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/05/more-psychologists-more-problems-the-paradox-of-mental-health-workforce-expansion/#comment-281972 Thu, 30 May 2024 04:26:15 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=256741#comment-281972 In reply to Birdsong.

…and so is psychiatry.

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]]> By: Birdsong https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/05/more-psychologists-more-problems-the-paradox-of-mental-health-workforce-expansion/#comment-281962 Thu, 30 May 2024 02:01:38 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=256741#comment-281962 In reply to Jj.

AGREE 100%.

I don’t trust anyone that makes a buck from people feeling down on their luck.

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]]> By: Jj https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/05/more-psychologists-more-problems-the-paradox-of-mental-health-workforce-expansion/#comment-281949 Wed, 29 May 2024 22:14:09 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=256741#comment-281949 More analysis and more dumping of meds. Leave human behavior to individuals and the society. No professional help needed.

http://www.wayneramsay.com/evil.htm

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]]> By: Birdsong https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/05/more-psychologists-more-problems-the-paradox-of-mental-health-workforce-expansion/#comment-281941 Wed, 29 May 2024 20:04:27 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=256741#comment-281941 Authenticity with oneself—and hopefully at some point with other people as well—is the only way people and society will ever truly heal.

‘Clinical’ psychology is plastic surgery for the soul.

IMHO.

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]]> By: Leo https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/05/more-psychologists-more-problems-the-paradox-of-mental-health-workforce-expansion/#comment-281889 Wed, 29 May 2024 03:10:12 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=256741#comment-281889 The study takes for granted the notion that some countries are more developed than others, and that notion comes from the countries that consider themselves more developed. I guess the less developed countries have to take to our word for it. Increasing wealth that is paralleled by increasing incarceration? Increasing homelessness? Increasing addiction? Increasing anxiety? Decreasing gratitude? If we rightly question our assumptions about development, the systemic psych grammar breaks down and the crack in the logic (which it is logical to recognize) offers us a real opportunity to do things differently that might actually work. It amazes me that we remain this arrogant despite the glaring failure of the psych disciplines to come anything close to fulfilling the promises they give us, over and over and over, generation after generation.

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