Therapy in Life Therapy, Part 2: Core Problem with Treatments

Core Problem with Therapy-as-Treatment

The core problem with therapy-as-treatment is a combination of three false assumptions: 

1. Humans are machines

    2. They can be mechanically repaired when broken

    3. Those who fix them are rightly well-paid 

These false assumptions have influenced Western medicine since the Enlightenment period of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They are obviously false to us today, and yet they’re still at the heart of modern Western health care.

Western health care is an industry based on the factory assembly line. The product on the line is patient visits. Therapists are assembly line workers with a quota of patients to work on each day. As a patient, you are one item on the assembly line. There is no time to waste on human interactions.

There is only time, an average of 7 minutes, to examine the problem, order diagnostic tests, make a diagnosis based on what’s most common, order treatments based on what works most of the time, and schedule a follow up visit, if needed.

Therapy-as-treatment is a mechanical transaction. It treats you like an it-object on a factory assembly line. But you’re not a mechanical it-object. You’re a living human being, living your complicated human life.

You are not a machine. You are a living human being.

Therapy is not rightly a mechanical transaction that fixes your broken parts. It is the process of attending to, serving, and taking good care of you as a human being. 

 It is immoral to-

1.    Turn health care into an industry that functions like a factory assembly line

2.    Treat ill and injured humans like it-objects on an assembly line

3.    Treat health care providers like assembly line workers with daily quotas

4.    Extract enormous financial gains from ill and injured humans that fill the bank accounts of the factory owners and share holders

These false assumptions form Western health care practices today. 

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