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One does not need to be a cynic to acknowledge that the psychiatric profession and the pharmaceutical industry form a marriage made in heaven. Psychiatrists benefit from the marketing of the latest drugs; pharmaceutical companies capitalise on the psychiatric diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. Psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and related mental health care professionals who rely on the ‘talking cure’ seem to circumvent this insidious corporatisation of their clinical practice, but it does not stop them from placing a monetary value on the dispensation of ‘care’, and quite often in the absence of scientific, ‘evidence-based’ principles of treatment. Should we really believe that there is no such thing as a psychotherapeutic industry in which patients are cash-cows and practitioners are enriching themselves on the back of other people’s misery? How does one place a value on words anyway?
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Nobus, D. (2012). (E)valuating Words: Money and Gain in the Therapeutic Economy. In: Vanderbeeken, R., Le Roy, F., Stalpaert, C., Aerts, D. (eds) Drunk on Capitalism. An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Market Economy, Art and Science. Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2082-4_6
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