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I saw a talk with a therapist recently when she said the most difficult kind of patients she had were the poor ones, when they problem was capitalism and she don't know what to do.
I don't believe these professionals have much to do as well in a therapists patient relationship.
Yes, to be clear, I'm not trying to vilify average psychologists who want to help people. Generally, if you're willing to choose to make a lot less money by helping people directly, you've already shown yourself to likely be a halfway decent person.
I would say most psychologists aren't bad people as much as they're decent people working within the bad framework of the system in which they exist. The therapist you're referencing is correct: it's not really their fault that they don't have the tools to help people broken by capitalism. I don't think these people are purposefully pushing ignoring reality, but they can't 1. promote things that could cause their client harm (revolution) 2. magic up new ways to fix people's live under capitalism. So they're stuck, and that sucks for their clients, and for them.