Therapy as a Tool to Cope With a Problem

The pod casts discuss the idea of therapy. Is it just helping people to adapt to circumstances that need to change? Or is it helping people survive ase circumstances that aren't going to change any time soon, and thereby be in a better position to try to change them when the opportunity arises? It's the dilemma around lots of cultural forms we've talked about, you know, is it escapeism, or is it utopianism?