A therapist argues that modern therapy focuses too much on individual pathology and leaves people feeling broken. Instead, he proposes a model where trauma survivors live on a ranch together, doing hands-on building and land work to rebuild competence and self-worth through shared purpose.
I think that so much of therapy and again psychoanalysis today is so focused on the me aspect. Oh, it's all about me and my feelings and I gotta fix that. And if I fix that, I can be this fixed person and all these kind of things. And then it diagnoses you with some sort of problem and now you feel every single day like you have some sort of problem. All this kind of stuff when it comes to psychotherapy should be about purpose. It should be about mission. It should be about people finding the confidence in themselves to actually do amazing things. If I were to set up a practice, I would want to set up someplace like a ranch or farm and people who have with trauma and things can come together and they can live on the land and they can do things, build things with their hands to build up confidence in themselves. These are the kind of things that I feel like are actually healing for people, give them the ability to feel like, oh, I can actually handle the world around me and I do have worth on this planet.
