I don't know that I agree with your characterization of modern psychology, and I am anyway talking more about psychiatry and its chemical interventions.
But even if I granted your point, you're still demonstrating one aspect of the problem I'm talking about. You suggest that any time there's a mismatch between a person and the society they find themselves in, there's a problem with the person. Rather than with society, or with their expectations or what "functioning" means, or with some other aspect of the situation.
The same thing happened with the pilots. The assumption was that the planes were fine, so any issue must be with the pilots. But the planes were constructed around a mythical "normal" person, and I am suggesting we construct society and our expectations of its participants around a "normal" person.
But even if I granted your point, you're still demonstrating one aspect of the problem I'm talking about. You suggest that any time there's a mismatch between a person and the society they find themselves in, there's a problem with the person. Rather than with society, or with their expectations or what "functioning" means, or with some other aspect of the situation.
The same thing happened with the pilots. The assumption was that the planes were fine, so any issue must be with the pilots. But the planes were constructed around a mythical "normal" person, and I am suggesting we construct society and our expectations of its participants around a "normal" person.