irishmic wrote:
The wealthy readily seek any assistance that will maximize their well being and maintain their social status. The poor and the middle class are told to subject themselves to cruel labor policies which work to dehumanize the individual. Thus, something like good therapy is deemed elitist and/or socialist and thus forbidden.
The class thing is active in the UK also....even Relate now charge £50 per hour, with just a £10 discount if you can prove your income is below £20,000 per year. The fees used to be entirely voluntary. I can see why they had to start serious charging (voluntary fees = no money to hire the rooms = no service), but they've lost something in the process.
Mind you, I've seen decidedly working-class people in the waiting room. I guess it's amazing what the agony of a faulty marriage can drive a man to, if he's still got an atom of sense in his noggin after his
Daily Star-reading peer group have done with him. But I shouldn't generalise. I've met some very enlightened proles, and although I've always gravitated towards the middle class for their more sensitive, informed opinions, I am and always will be working class at heart.
Slightly off-topic, but I felt somewhat "Big Brothered" when I saw the information-sharing waiver forms and heard the screening questions which were clearly done to flag up potential child abusers, drug abusers, etc.......again I see the point, but it's sad to see the old confidentiality principle blown out of the water. Looks like I gave up cannabis in the nick of time.
01 May 2009, 4:58 am
