I am passing on a cluster of inter-related talks, with the primary one being a conversation about how therapy in the current socio-political climate will make your kids worse. For those with children, those with grandchildren, those who teach, those who parent or help parent…basically for anyone who cares about children and their well-being…I suggest you might find some time to listen in to this discussion.
It can be easy to presume by a title what the content or even reasoning is for any given book, podcast or other commentary. Talks such as these progress in idea exchanges as a natural conversation, so I do also suggest not listen to just the beginning, end, or flipping through various parts. It is important to hear out the full flow of thoughts and reasoning and references to experiences, policies and current events.
To round out the discussion about the current state of therapists, and training that is increasingly being pushed into social justice ideology, I will also share other talks I’ve listened to in the past several days.
Again, I think these all, together, form a good cluster–providing additional context and angles on this topic. In several of the additional links, I found the concept of clients being used by therapists (or other people being used by gender activists/the trans community) in a way that might be considered narcissistic behavior quite an interesting take on many things.
Two other topics addressed are the tainting of therapy by insurance companies (and the option/challenge of a therapist to separate themselves from accepting insurance, and its requirements) and thoughts about the “capture” of the midwest through social justice therapy.
Additionally, this first talk has a part about just beyond the midpoint concerning the increasing mentality of needing “experts” for everything and the resulting damage and parental abdication. They speak of situations where increasingly, experts in various medical communities wield authoritarian power over parents to comply with their edicts, and will not stop short of contacting social services. They gave a situation concerning a pediatrician and the mother’s breastfeeding of her baby and hesitancy to supplement.
Around this part it is also mentioned that the reason the midwest is being so ideologically captured is that many small towns, unlike larger cities, are relying on just one or two therapists who are considered to be experts. I must wonder if there is an intentionality of populating such areas with newly trained “social justice therapists”.
While I wish I had the time to search and reference the parts in each talk that go that direction conversationally, I can only again suggest that you incorporate these into you listening time over several days as you drive, do dishes or otherwise make time.
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