The Personal is Political
By Carol Hanisch
3 pagesTherapy assumes that someone is sick and that there is a cure, e.g., a personal solution. I am greatly offended that I or any other woman is thought to need therapy in the first place. Women are messed over, not messed up! We need to change the objective conditions, not adjust to them.
A highly influential, feminist essay which is still informing leftist thought today.
For a conversation on what it means, check out Chris Hayes’ interview with Brittney Cooper.