People are slowly losing their ability to live with problems and overcome them.
"I have been observing the processes for a long time, and I have noticed that the number of different diagnoses has continuously increased over the past year. (…) The more psychologists there are, the more sick people there are," said Frank Füredi, director of MCC Brussels, author of the book Therapy Culture, published in 2001. The professor identified the phenomenon that psychology has taken the place of religion and philosophy in society.
With this, existential problems were rechristened psychological problems.
This is just as big a problem as woke politics, and the right wing in Hungary does not yet understand its impact, said Füredi.
According to the well-known sociologist, an over-psychological society gives rise to symptoms. For example, if a child has not yet developed self-confidence and is afraid or tense before speaking in a company, he will receive the stigma/diagnosis of "social phobia".
Füredi believes that as a consequence of this, people slowly lose their ability to live with problems and overcome them.
The director of MCC Brussels considers the new approach especially dangerous for children. By over-helping and blocking them from failure (this also happens in schools: following a popular Western approach to education, they refuse to evaluate students negatively), we provide a world for our children in which they will not be able to stand on their own two feet, because they have not been prepared to life presents them with challenges.
In his statement, he recalled that in the past it was believed that depression did not affect children.
On the other hand, in the last forty years, especially in the Anglo-American world and in Northern Europe, every year more money is spent on psychological therapy treatments, he underlined, adding that
at the same time, the number of people who believe that they cannot live and work normally because they suffer from some kind of depression is also increasing.
"If we continue like this, society will be so weakened that it can lead to serious problems. I know a lot of people think it's great that we can talk about our personal problems and not be as stoic as we used to be, but in reality people are weakened and unable to work and behave seriously. That's why we can see that young people in their twenties often still behave childishly", emphasized the professor, who said that this is not the fault of young people, because they get this from their teachers and parents, who are guided by culture.
"If the culture says that a good parent is someone who always smiles at the child, who doesn't yell at the child, who doesn't tell the child that you did this wrong, then everyone will go in that direction," he explained the phenomenon.
Frank Füredi hopes that a debate can still arise in Hungary about this new approach, because according to his experience, parents in Budapest are beginning to behave more and more similar to those in Western European societies. "They're afraid their kids won't like them if they send them up to their room, for example," he said pointedly.
The "horror", according to the head of the Brussels think tank, is that no one has bad intentions in this process, perhaps only the industry that settled on it.
Examining the entire trend, he concluded that although this is important mainly to the liberal left, the right does not yet understand what is happening in this area either.
Cover photo: Frank Füredi
Source: Facebook/Frank Füredi
