What a great graph for making big rich countries feel good. The "per capita" calculation gives a wildly misleading idea of who should be acting to stop plastic pollution. A lot of the countries with the longest petals are just very small.

Ty. What other reading critical of psych (inc the wider mental health professions) would you recommend?

I wonder if you are creating a more black and white version of the position given making it easier to dismiss - the suggestion isn't that all mental illness is only a tool for capitalist exploitation but that the system of responding to mental distress is vulnerable to being used that way with numerous features, like the DSM and professional activities /treatments, having been so influenced that they become blunted, useless or - often - worse by only emphasising the individual. Asking whether a particular condition (like schizophrenia or depression) exists as defined is different than saying the symptomology doesn't exist. The implication is that we should do a far better job of "carving nature at the joints" in our categorisation and redefine the meaning of symptomologies and recognise social causes of distress, working on those, rather than blaming individuals for not being able to respond well to the craziness of their situation. Working to improve society and our group-think doesn't require that we locate all distress in social ills but that we should not deepen their harm by pretending the solution lies with adjusting individuals to better tolerate misery in miserable conditions. A therapy that supports the client would be working to change those conditions as well as empowering the client to do so themselves.

Interesting critique. What a valuable and under appreciated perspective. I am struck by the number of times I am told a person must have faith in the psych intervention or they are to be blamed for it not "working". Any practitioner who develops doubts about the profession along any similar lines is in a position not unlike that of a priest having to go to the Bishop and saying - " look, behind the scenes and just between us... Even if God is real, all this ceremony and praying and stuff... That's not really something we know works is it? " In my experience, that's a really awkward conversation to have and the "Bishop" is pretty likely to just re assert the dogma.