How Therapists Became Social Justice Warriors
‘They are training people who will not be able to see half the population as human beings who need compassionate treatment.
In January 2021, Cooney sought help from a black therapist in Portland she found through a therapy database, who agreed to work with her around issues of race and gender.
Initially, they practiced mindfulness and self-compassion techniques, from forgiving oneself out loud to the “butterfly hug,” crossing arms and tapping the chest. The therapist even cried with her when she cried about sexual assault or feeling unsupported in relationships. Cooney felt supported and eventually, more in control, more accepting of herself as female.
Then something unexpected happened. The stronger and more mentally healthy she felt, the less Cooney viewed the world through the lens that had informed her activism—a binary perspective that split all people into categories: white and black, oppressor and oppressed, victimizer and victim.
and,
And I talked to psychologists and others fighting back. They described their alarm at how the very people who are supposed to help ease trauma become the source of it, as therapy sessions transform into ideological struggle sessions. British psychotherapist Val Thomas told me “the reason this happened is that activists captured the institutions and professional bodies of counseling and psychotherapy.”
At a time when as many as 90 percent of adults believe there’s a mental health crisis in this country, parts of the mental health profession are in crisis too.
first the poison spreads slowly and then quickly,
“The whole point of understanding cultural differences was that you didn’t walk in and assume,” says Christine Sefein, until recently a professor of clinical psychology at Antioch University’s Los Angeles campus. But over the past decade—spurred by the rise of social media, Trump’s election in 2016, and George Floyd’s murder in 2020—Sefein, like many in her profession, began to see the mission change to something more insidious: imposing the bias and framework of Critical Social Justice (CSJ)—the term some psychologists use to refer to social justice ideology.
According to CSJ, one’s identity categories are paramount to the therapeutic process. Neutrality and objectivity—once the cornerstones of the practice—are now tools of oppression and white supremacy. The major professional organizations for the therapeutic fields have in recent years produced scholarship, mission statements, position papers, and curriculums reflecting this newfound dogma, one that leads therapists to refashion themselves into social activists.
The Long March Through the Institutions.
Read the whole damned thing.
44 Tedtam
It’s about time. Better late than never.
DAYAMM! Gorsuch unloads!
One of these days, I’ll rig up an entry with 3 links, just to see if it gets stuck in the HELP bucket.
My #40 is free! Thanks!
Uh oh, three links, got one in the spit bucket. I just hope a Moderator stops by sometime before Friday morning.
My day. On my second cast caught a small one but he sure put up a fight. I was casting a blue worm until I started using live bream and they seemed to work better. My wife was drowning worms, catching a few Blue Gills and wanted to try to catch a bass so I fixed her rod up with… Read more »
I’ve been watching with great anticipation the development of my beefsteak tomatoes that were ripening. I had wrapped tulle around them to discourage critters from getting to them. Hubby and I decided I should pick them tonight and let them finish ripening in the house, before the bugs got to them. Too late. They are now exciting the earthworms in… Read more »
Alberta as a state might not want to give up having two senators to be a part of Texas though.
Texanadian I posted an article about Alberta51 a couple of days ago. I’m thinking Texans would be glad to have Alberta as part of Texas and they ought to go ahead and annex the province. It might speed up the secession process quite a bit. I always had a good time with the guys who came down from Calgary and… Read more »
Fast as anything I have used, upload may be a little slow.
Taking(ooops borrowing) SD’s patented linehttps://tinyurl.com/3fwws765
The remote controls of the 60’s were far more advanced than what we have today. 😀
Hubby got brave and mowed the back yard while I was out there, too. But there’s about a 15 foot circle around the bee tree…I’m surprised he did anything. He was very leery of the bees, as he should be. I used to tuck a bottle of Benadryl in his tool box, in case he ever got stung on the… Read more »
#33 – Interesting – is it fast?
As a point of interest, the place we are staying does not have internet. I noticed connections were available and guess what? I am liked in to Musk’s Skynet for free. Too cool.
I wasn’t going to do a lot of gardening today, but I picked up some clearance plants yesterday and needed to get them in the dirt today, since I’ll be gone for the weekend, starting tomorrow morning. That meant I needed to set up a new tote (which I bought for $.99 at the thrift store yesterday -SCORE!) That meant… Read more »
Good to hear from Texanadian.
I was afraid we’d said something to hurt his feelings and he picked up his marbles and went home.
Here’s hoping the only fires that get close to you are the ones in your heart for your family.
Because…I hear the medical system sucks where you live, and you may not survive the burns…
Got my first cutting done on the yard. Tomorrow or Saturday, I’ll lower the deck an inch and hit it again.
I knew there had to be good news somewhere out there “Openly genderfluid” Sam Brinton, the MIT grad who served Joe Biden’s administration in a key nuclear role before being fired, was reportedly arrested Wednesday as a “fugitive of justice.” The Daily Wire reports Montgomery County, Maryland, enforcement officers took Brinton into custody at his home, police logs show. He is… Read more »
One I could have avoided. We buried TW’s mother yesterday. She passed in December.
#27 – Sounds like a well needed journey!
Yall stay safe and ENJOY!
I have been on the road since the 10th. Stopped in Minnesota to see my son and rest for a couple of days, that was a nice break. I am currently on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron until Saturday then we head back to smoke and fire. Fires are close but of no threat so far. This is the first… Read more »
Izzit FRIDAY YET??????? *whew*
Cuba and Canada – greatest healthcare on the planet,
Morning, chickadees. I had no idea that Canada was miserly on public health care.
Trudeau’s government thought they could solve their disastrous healthcare system from collapse by installing the suicide option. All these irritating, bothersome people with cancer should simply agree to governmental euthanasia so we can turn their wretched bodies into composted fertilizer. What’s wrong with these people insisting on being a burden ? Where is their patriotism ? Oh, wait ! We… Read more »
Don’t tell me you have one of those kind. . . . .
Well, I plan on eating it, so it won’t be around to bother me later on….
Hubby and Handyman showed up this morning to get the lawnmower so they could cut grass at one of our properties. Handyman was assigned the task of getting the machine and driving it through our backyard because of the bees in our tree. Hubby laughingly told me to let him know if Handyman started running, because he’d never seen him… Read more »
Don’t tell me you have one of those kind. . . . .
I had a bust made in my image.
Well, I mean, I’m having it made.
Sorry I got ahead of myself.
/This concludes the punishment for a while.
Loaded Fred with the beautiful tomatoes I acquired at Aldi yesterday. Their ‘mater prices are lower than any other store that I shop at. My tomatoes haven’t come in yet, thought one of them is starting to transition. I got another load of butter in the crock pot. Aldi’s butter prices were low enough yesterday (almost $1 lower than Wal-Mart)… Read more »
#16 Bones
I see what you did there! 😀
Ok I picked out my Medicare plan two weeks ago, how do I stop the bombardment of ads?! Enough already!
The story posted Small Dead Animals states the Canadian federal government spending on indigenous peoples skyrocketed from $10.3 billion in 2015 to $23.3 billion in 2022.
My comment there:
I never understood the difference between butter and ghee, perhaps someone could clarify?
I’m inclined to AGREE! *proudly holds out hands for cuffs* *snikker* 🙂
Lastly, Errol Musk, Elon’s father, has a video clip making the rounds. https://twitter.com/Vision4theBlind/status/1658806641045786625 We are being brainwashed to be told that Ukraine is good and Russia is bad. And yet they have found multiple bioweapons laboratories run by the United States in Ukraine. Ukraine is led by a stand-up comedian who became president, which is extremely odd to me. I… Read more »
I’ve been catching bits and pieces of Kari Lake’s legal fight against TPTB from the last election. She got “Trumped” in her attempt to acquire the governorship of Arizona, and she is being relentless at fighting the cheating that put Hobbs in place. Good for her. We need this kind of fight on our side. Kari Lake’s lawsuit against Maricopa… Read more »
Next up: legalizing marijuana ain’t such a good idea, after all The NYT put out an op-ed that is surely making some liberal heads spin. Marijuana is safer that alcohol! Than cigarettes! Nothing to see here, just move along! Ross Douthat, the conservative writer of the op-ed pointed out the results of some studies: A new paper from the Journal… Read more »
More from the C&C: — Next, KQED ran a story Tuesday headlined, “California Officials Investigating Loss of 30-Ton Shipment of Explosive Chemicals.” Loss is one way to put it. They lost it. It’s “lost,” probably wandering around somewhere, asking for directions. The gist was that a few pounds, well, 60,000 pounds of pelletized ammonium nitrate, a common fertilizer compound that… Read more »
Here’s one for Texanadian: There’s breaking news from the Fifth-Generation Proxy War, or the Climate War, depending on your preferred narrative. — Canada’s annual wildfire season is burning brightly. So brightly that it’s TEN TIMES normal — 100 fires instead of the average 10 — which seems sort of like a lot, and raises a few questions. But don’t strain your cerebrum,… Read more »
VAPORIZED ☙ Thursday, May 18, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS Roundup: Happy Thursday, C&C, and good morning! Your roundup today includes: CDC vaporizes the J&J jab, this time for good; Canadian wildfire season mysteriously 10x normal; thirty tons of explosives mysteriously fall off a train; more industrial plants mysteriously ignite for no reason; New York Times publishes controversial conservative op-ed critiquing… Read more »
I got a load of laughs out of this one. Step One by Bruce C.T. Wright, December 8, 2021: Kamala Harris, the nation’s first Black and woman vice president, on Wednesday cast the historic tie-breaking vote in the U.S. Senate to confirm Rachael Rollins as the first-ever Black woman to be U.S. attorney for Massachusetts. and, Typically, nominations to be… Read more »
Having a hard wake up this morning. After 2 treadmill miles, 4 hours gardening in the sun, going into back spasms because of the lady I mentioned last night – I took a half pill for muscle relaxing last night. Conked out at 10:30 (actually 10:00 on the couch, then made the official decision that I wasn’t getting anything done… Read more »
As ye sow, so shall ye reap. Nolte: Tucker Carlson-less Fox News Primetime Loses to MSNBC Monday The far-left MSNBC attracted more total primetime viewers than the Tucker Carlson-less Fox News on Monday. CNN—a left-wing propaganda outlet that spreads conspiracy theories and encourages political violence against Republicans—was so far in last place Monday it looked like the speck of dirt… Read more »
Cool (IMHO) Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder covering the Allman Brothers
https://youtu.be/EXBqJZbmR8Y
G’mornin folks
I love such a good start for a Thursday – Trucks in Miami, Portsmouth R.I., & Tiverton Ontario Canada
are ALL where they should be – bada BING!
2 Bonecrusher This whole invasion of Western culture didn’t happen overnight or as a simple series of incidents. It doesn’t get undone without the sane, silent majority first understanding the depth of the evil deception that has taken place in every corner of our civilization. It has been like a horrific house of mirrors for anyone seeking help for themselves… Read more »
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Well if Dave don’t have to do homework I don’t either.