Chapter 6, "Healing as Killing," reveals how neoliberal psychopolitics employs increasingly refined forms of exploitation, targeting the "integral human being" beyond just working time, including their attention and entire life.

It argues that the pervasive imperative of self-optimization, driven by systemic and market logic, seeks to therapeutically eliminate weaknesses and enhance efficiency and performance within the system.

The chapter critically states that this perpetual self-optimization, though presented as "healing" in contemporary self-help culture, is ultimately destructive, leading to mental collapse and effectively "killing" the human soul by negating essential aspects of human experience and contributing to an "age of exhaustion".