This conversation, the moral and ethical treatment of patients and clients by providers, is very important at this time. Thank you, Ben.

Walked away from the field 6 months ago. I’ve never been healthier or happier. It’s a sad state of affairs when a professional becomes part of the problem. No amount of money could persuade me to go back. I am done with the insanity.

Great to see more and more therapists speak out about the corruption of their industry. No doubt each has and continues to pay a HUGE price for it, so we need to give credit / hear ❤

The field of psychotherapy experienced its peak in the 60’s & 70’s & 80’s & 90’s. The dysfunction and indeed collapse of this profession accelerated in the early 2000’s and is now at a level of nearly complete professional dysfunction as well as social absurdity.

Excellent discussion and well worth the listen for sanity's sake.

Sorry state of the world where we most differentiate between 'ethical' therapy verses therapy... Le'sigh🐿

I finished my masters in clinical mental health in 2020. It was a terrible experience. I am a gay man and the ideological capture was out of control. I wouldn’t trust any therapist under 40.

Therapy is ground zero because therapy attempts to address the issues of meaning, morality and identity, what is my purpose and how do I become a good person, as does this modern totalizing critical worldview. Key word is totalizing.

From what I understand, the chances of finding a non-woke, competent and knowledgable psychotherapist now, or rly for a decade, are/have been so low relatively speaking, that unfortunately ppl as a general rule should just not do this anymore imo. Hate to say it, but also, it was a young science to begin with. (I mean...except for Leslie! Rofl).

Aaron David, innit

I was just thinking about you the other day, V. Hope you're doing well.

Didn't Aaron notice that his criticisms of woketherapy are all also true of other types eg Feminist Psychotherapy (which is kinda underpinning all the psychotherapies these days)

I made a comment, but it seems to have been filtered due to some inflammatory language. I think these men are basically doing the pre-woke liberal version of precisely the ideologically slanted therapy they complain about. Commitment one is pure self-deceit and fosters an atmosphere of dishonesty. "Unconditional positive regard", yeah, right. Commitment two is pure wilful ignorance. Certainly you should not treat your patients like walking stereotypes, but that does not mean you should be selectively blind to the implications of particular traits of your patient. Instead, it means you should take everything about their situation into account as best you can. Commitment three is inserting woke politics in a profession where it does not belong. Psychotherapists should not be political advocates, at least not in their capacity as psychotherapists. Commitment four is just a textbook case of liberals being in denial about themselves being ideological. All the other commitments consist of hardly anything other than ideology. Commitment five and six are blatant scientism and subtle ideological brainwashing. I don't think they're any more fit to be psychotherapists than the woke therapists they criticise.