For one thing, she notes that if the therapist, in the false hope of shortening the recovery process, becomes a “rescuer”, that that actually impedes and slows–or even prevents–the recovery of that patient. “Victims” need two things: empowerment, which can only come from a realistic appraisal of their actual control over themselves and events; and reconnection with the larger social world, which can only happen in a desirable way following the development of a sense of autonomy, which itself of course is related to empowerment.
Leftist politics, by their very nature, don’t even ASK the question: “how can we help people without undermining their sense of autonomy?” It is PRESUMED that if politically correct people are on the task, that by definition their work is immaculate, and only capable of being corrupted by ideological others, which is why there is so much hate directed by the left at the right. It is literally the case that one could make a strong case that as a group leftist politics are DEFINED by clinical cognitive dissociation. Their left hand, which can do no wrong, has no conversations with their own right hands, which see very clearly the pain and misery their policies routinely cause.
Consider in this context this very interesting quote which does so much to explain Detroit, the massive unrecognized failures of poverty politics, both domestically and abroad (in purported economic aid and development packages), and idiocies like this treatment of Obamacare (which assumes among other things that you can add tens of millions of people to Medicaid–a fact I don’t see mentioned–keep everything else the same, and yet somehow decrease overall costs):
The three most common narcissistic snares are the aspirations to heal all, know all, and love all. Since such gifts are no more accessible to the contemporary psychotherapist [in my use: self proclaimed do-gooder] than they were to Faust, unless such trends are worked out. . .[the therapist/leftist] will be subjected to a sense of Faustian helplessness and discouragement, and tempted to solve his dilemma by resort to magical and destructive action.
Does one not see this tendency, repeated incessantly, to proclaim that the problem is SO URGENT that SOMETHING must be done, and not by the people affected, but by their self appointed representatives?
Obamacare is a prime example. I will be writing a refutation of it that goes farther than I have in the past soon, but the net is that the situation is unambiguous: this policy will lead to greatly increased costs for the middle class in the form of insurance cost increases (somebody has to pay for the already-sick who can no longer be denied, and whose coverage cannot be subjected to ANY lifetime limits); healthcare rationing; a bloated Federal bureaucracy that will cost 2-3 times the bullshit numbers we are being fed; and VASTLY decreased choice. Where we have no waits now, we will. Where we have ready access to experts now, we won’t. None of this is the slightest bit ambiguous economically.
I propose that it is only the magical thinking that attends profound boundary violations of the supposedly down-trodden that enables stupidities like this to pass unnoticed. Self evidently, when what I say will happen happens–if Obamacare is allowed to continue as the cancer that it is–NOBODY on the left will admit it, despite the fact that they deny these things are possible now.
The saying “Liberalism is a mental illness” has been with us some time. I literally, clinically, think that specific terms and psychodynamic verdicts oriented around narcissismic overreach can be applied as generally useful.