Psychology Today | 19.05.2026 00:27
Some people claim that the psychotherapy room is no place for politics, but I disagree. At a macro level, therapy exists within a particular social, cultural, environmental, and, yes, political context. Decisions made "out there," by politicians in power, directly affect society and impact what happens "in here," in the therapy room—things like how much money the government assigns to mental health care and updates to legislation that determine whether and how we can practice certain types of therapy with certain types of people.
