ABSTRACT
Drawing on my analyses throughout the book, in this chapter I outline the process of pathologisation, victimisation, and normalisation evident in psychology, psychiatry, and medicine. I describe how the psy-complex first frames particular groups of people as ‘abnormal’ to justify harmful intervention; interventions that are then normalised and sanitised as ‘treatment’. This process occurs within a broader therapeutic rape culture that draws on and contributes to multiple intersecting axes of oppression. Finally, I discuss the need for a culture of consent in therapy to counter the normalisation of abuse in psychology, psychiatry, and medicine, and the importance of believing survivors.
