Your comment seems to have nothing to do with the OP. It starts with "In my career as a psychologist..." so it's not like he's trying to tar all psychological

Your comment seems to have nothing to do with the OP. It starts with "In my career as a psychologist..." so it's not like he's trying to tar all psychological treatment with the one brush. He's specifically talking about a tendency to use psychological diagnosis as a tool to dominate and marginalize resistance to established norms. You can still see value in psychological treatment even if you stipulate that it's sometimes used as a tool for domination. E.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madness_and_Civilization#Impact http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madness_and_Civilization#Impact