Having been a counselor for 25 years (the last 11 in Victoria, BC) I have noticed a shift in how I see the field of counseling and the study of psychology.  That shift has involved moving away from seeing the client as someone who has something “wrong” with them to seeing them as being more sensitive to a disconnected, competitive, polluted, materialistic and fearful environment and “culture”.  The way the modern world has changed so dramatically since the industrial revolution has put an exponentially increasing pressure on individuals to adapt to their environment.  The theory of evolution with its “survival of the fittest” mantra emphasizes survival.   I am not convinced that individuals who are most successful in a toxic, uncaring, short-sighted and self-absorbed environment are the
ones we should be cheering for to propagate our species.

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