Personal Responsibility, Inc.: How Psychotherapy Turns Society’s Problems into Yours

A powerful critique of how therapy reinforces neoliberal values, and a visionary call to reclaim collective responsibility in the face of systemic distress. Personal Responsibility, Inc. offers a one-of-a-kind investigation into psychotherapy’s complicity with the insidious and harmful effects of neoliberalism on individuals, relationships, and society. Increasingly, therapy functions as an arm of neoliberal ideology-reinforcing its imperatives of personal responsibility, individualism, and relentless self-improvement.These values compel people to search inward for solutions to problems created and sustained by the system itself. But this book goes beyond critique. It presents a vision-and concrete practices-for resisting neoliberalism’s pressure to seek individual fixes for structural problems. It’s time for therapists and therapy-users alike to stop blaming non-normative brains, negative thinking, or poor coping skills for the widespread suffering we experience in a world on the brin