Psychology is not immune to falling into power and control
It’s sad that the establishment makes you prove that constantly invalidating human beings is unhealthy for their minds. Just like it’s sad that somebody had to inductively prove that monkeys without mothers don’t learn how to be mothers by depriving monkeys of their mothers. It sounds like absurd behaviour, yet it’s commonplace in the history of science.
The psychological theories to which you refer pass themselves off as science, but they’re actually shitty humanities. They’re shitty humanities because they try to pass off perspective as fact. They’re humanities because they name and classify, meaning they are a way for us to have language to talk about odd people. That can be helpful, and even I use the language. But I only use it to explain to myself why or how to be careful around somebody. Unfortunately, the psychologist/psychiatrist is privileged to pathologize behaviours based on appeal to their authority, which they got by studying the language and how it is commonly applied, as if that has anything to do with the person they’re pathologizing. It certainly isn’t based on a thorough examination of a whole person and situation.
With children, pathologizing is nasty business, because children will not tell you whether behaviours that look like symptoms are really healthy reactions to abuse. At any rate, the growing brain can be permanently harmed by medications; doctors conveniently neglect to tell you that a youth’s brain up to age 25 is more apt to react to medication by getting worse. They conveniently neglect that teen brains are growing quickly and strangely, that healthy teens may have psychoaffective symptoms for a few years of their lives; thus, the teens which are diagnosed are merely the ones that have been targeted for being inconvenient to adults who are probably unfair. And once a prescription drug causes symptoms in a brain it was not created for, it is more likely to be the parents and psychiatrist, not the teen, who are validated. Somehow.
Somehow in our adult lives we learn that we should listen to each other in order to solve problems together, but we conveniently ignore such principles when we have an opportunity to apply them to children. Actually, the first half of that sentence was a romantic exaggeration. Most people just learn that they can’t get away with fucking with other adults, so they fuck with children instead. It is entirely because children cannot fight back, and because most adults are really animals, that basic respect and human rights don’t apply to children.
