What did D&G think about therapy?
So, for context, I’ve experienced a lot of personal trauma in my early life which manifested into bouts of depression, suicidality, and interpersonal conflict for most of my teen years. While I’m much more “stable” these days, I’ve been drawn to the prospect of beginning therapy in order to better understand and live with some of my experiences and neurological differences. While I feel there’s some potential for benefit in doing so, I know that these authors were involved in an antipsychiatry movement and were critical of psychoanalytic dogma and practice. To better understand differing perspectives on the issue and decide how I should approach this endeavor, I’d like to invite a dialogue on therapy from the viewpoint of D&G. I do plan on reading Capitalism and Schizophrenia soon enough, but the immediacy of this problem has convinced me that a secondary explanation will be useful in the short term. To be clear, this is not a question of “should I go to therapy?”, but one about how I should engage with the system and in which ways I should allow it to change my thinking or not.