ABSTRACT

The growing demand for mental health care, especially in young people, reflects a social unrest that is not always reflected in psychotherapy. The adoption of a class perspective is proposed, along with a gender perspective. The role that awareness of socioeconomic and political determinants could play in the effectiveness of psychotherapy is analyzed. The proposals of Claude Steiner’s Radical Psychiatry and Ronald Laing’s concept of mystification are analyzed and some possible interventions in therapy are synthesized.