Psychology and its chemically-altered friend, psychiatry, are relatively recent inventions. These scientific fields have taken the place of the religious functions that were occupied by non-state entities in the pre-modern time, addressing the life difficulties of ordinary people using secular personnel. States ordain and employ many of these secular priests, although those priests tend not to obey a strict orthodoxy. Whereas churches once monopolized functions such as charity, marital counseling, and the guidance of wayward children in the past, all of those functions have been subsumed by the state through it’s various psych- functions. Rather than identifying themselves based on their place […]