And if possible, please provide contacts for verified psychologists who work with this topic.

Nihilist (the question is accompanied by a donation of 0.0005 ₿)

In my book about ancap, there are two chapters on this topic: Problems Within Us and, accordingly, Eliminating Problems Within Oneself. In short: from early childhood, our life in complete dependence on parents leads to the fact that paternalism is something familiar and natural to us, while the striving for freedom, the readiness to take full responsibility for one’s life, and other such libertarian things manifest gradually, not in everyone, and not fully. The state exploits this vulnerability, spawning statism, which is a variety of abusive relationships. This means that statism within oneself must be reflected upon, worked through, and one must learn to outgrow this childhood trauma. And that is where the author of the question comes knocking with a request for recommendations on this matter, as if I were a verified psychologist and not a couch theorist.

And I have great news for you. I am not a psychologist, but the market is full of psychologists. Among them (I will say right away, I don’t have a firm conviction about this precisely because I am not a psychologist and have never used their services) there are not only charlatans but also true professionals of their craft. And if you set a task for them, even one that sounds quite unusual to them, they may, of course, bail and go into denial, like DeepSeek when asked what happened in Tiananmen Square, or they may actually start doing their job.

So, here is my recommendation for psychological help for those suffering from the statism of their own brain. Go to a psychologist and present the problem: “I simply cannot get out of an abusive relationship. The abuser uses me at their discretion, imposes rules on me that constantly change, and refuses any firm commitments. I owe them simply by virtue of being born, but they owe me nothing. They demand love from me and constantly belittle me in petty ways. They take my money and constantly instill the idea that I won’t survive without them. And intellectually, I understand that I need to run away from this monster, but I really struggle to imagine a life without them. Help me break this dependency.”

Then, once the psychologist states that they are ready to solve this kind of task, all that remains is to add that this abuser is the state. At this point, the psychologist will likely experience a slight freeze, but then there is a chance that they, having already begun to think about the object of dependency in their professional key during the description of the task, will by inertia begin to think the same way about the state. And that’s exactly what we want! They will get a truly interesting problem, you will get professional help, and the state will get minus two statists: you and the psychologist. Moreover, after this, you will be able to recommend them to others suffering from statism—and then the second part of your question will also receive an answer.