Psychology qua therapy starts, or has to start, otherwise it would go beyond its own field of activity as an ineffectual institutionalized "scientific" study, with a singular elemental assumption, and it is as follows:
1. That human actions are the actualizations of psychic elements that are both a part of one's "nature", and that they are below the activity of the conscious will.
Now, what do I mean by this? That thoughts, actions and such are always relegated back to their "true" origin, which is the unconscious. Therapists do not care whether a thought is right or wrong, or rather it cannot see thoughts like this. Rather, their function is to always relegate back to an untouchable part of your self, and then exclaim "See, your unemployment is grounded on this and that, which are situated in your self. Chop chop, back to improving yourself lad!" Success is totally dependent on you. If you have the "characteristics" of a successful person, by which they mean a vague set of emotional qualities, the totality of these being a distinct "ability to succeed".
Labor demands are low, the job market is fucked? You couldn't enter the only available jobs due to a competing nepo-baby? He had the character of a self-made man, and you are ought to make better use of your chances. It is never the fault of the underlying structures. The problem isn't the problem itself, but rather the attitude taken towards this problem. The attitude itself is only "good" in so far as it allows the subject to continue whatever torture they must go through in any given function/area of society, without suicide ("No lad, you must not kill yourself. How will you sell your labor if you do?") And this is the goal of therapy, of re-orienting any given client to better cope with these problems, not to necessarily change them.
If the client still persists, they can, of course, always give them pills and medicine that literally doesn't do shit beyond fogging their neural wiring in a matter of months, maybe weeks.
A very genius trick, I must say.
