Wow, Suzannah. This is such a strong case. I love how methodical you are in substantiating the madness. It's impressive! I have been having this feeling and not able to articulate it, but focusing on the quiet agenda of setting aside personals values and replacing with "counselor identity" really drove it home. Thank you for this!
Thanks. If I have done well with my argumentation, it is because I imagine that Thomas Sowell could read this. The threat of potential embarrassment of him identifying holes and oversights compels me to work wearing both a belt and suspenders.
If this helps to move forward a future where therapists are transparent about their values, as opposed to indoctrinated, I would be a happy woman. Fresh off a visit to lawmakers, I think it's time that the opposition move to define themselves as a separate field. We should talk about it when you have some free moments.
I think there is a lot of work ahead, not just to get mental health and medicine firmly back in objective reality but also to work on our communities so that people can form strong social ties that are supportive. This would reduce the need for a lot of therapy.
If only people could afford to live in their locality. Get a job, raise a family - live near mum/dad - aunts and uncles, I agree. Communities are weaker for it and a lot of these problems could be averted :/
I have thought quite a bit about this. It is the loss of community and extended family that is one of the roots of our current instability. The challenge is to find a way to make that work economically in a competitive world.
The one example that I keep coming back to is ARCHES watercolor paper. My understanding is that it has been made by traditional methods in the same village for several hundred years, providing stable employment through most of that. This works because ARCHES paper has been considered the best for most of that time. How much truth there is to all of that, I don't know. I can see ways that some people would find such a life unappealing. There are trade-offs. But it is something that I think about.
If we want to have more stable communities, it has to at least be possible for them to be economically self-sustaining and reasonably robust. And there will always be some children that prefer to fly away regardless.
What more subtley penetrative avenue to the culture at large than to introject predetermined & curated ideological designs and worldview perceptions into the minds of the most psychically vulnerable by way of "therapy & council" ?
Indeed. Between how therapy professionals are trained and changes made in the DSM to legitimize pathological behavior and pathologize normal behavior, psychology has a lot to answer for right now.
I have thought quite a bit about our neighbors to the North and that folks there continue to be shut down. I'm working with a small handful of folks to dig into their accreditation system and look for holes that could lead to change. I hope our efforts have some success. As an autodidact myself, I think the end game is to find better ways than universities' alphabet soup after your name to provide proof of one's skills, talents, and abilities. If this journey has shown us anything, it's that having a PhD, sure isn't proof of courage.
I can understand why you and many other people would feel this way. While I’m not currently in the field, I can say that I did find some good practitioners to be very helpful in my life, so I’m confident that therapy, done well, can be very helpful. That said, rebuilding public trust is going to be difficult, and rightly so.
Wow, Suzannah. This is such a strong case. I love how methodical you are in substantiating the madness. It's impressive! I have been having this feeling and not able to articulate it, but focusing on the quiet agenda of setting aside personals values and replacing with "counselor identity" really drove it home. Thank you for this!
Thanks. If I have done well with my argumentation, it is because I imagine that Thomas Sowell could read this. The threat of potential embarrassment of him identifying holes and oversights compels me to work wearing both a belt and suspenders.
If this helps to move forward a future where therapists are transparent about their values, as opposed to indoctrinated, I would be a happy woman. Fresh off a visit to lawmakers, I think it's time that the opposition move to define themselves as a separate field. We should talk about it when you have some free moments.
I had a meeting with my local MP who is also a GP to talk about this very subject the other day.
SSRIs can turn you into an emotional zombie with the ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it’ mentality when one is ‘stable.’
Modern therapy is just rumination, it’s rushed. It’s akin to a sound bite on a news programme as opposed to a long form interview.
Retraumatising patients in many cases, just enough, within a short amount of time that it’s not easily perceptible…
He didn’t really listen to my lived experiences - he had his political hat on
I think there is a lot of work ahead, not just to get mental health and medicine firmly back in objective reality but also to work on our communities so that people can form strong social ties that are supportive. This would reduce the need for a lot of therapy.
If only people could afford to live in their locality. Get a job, raise a family - live near mum/dad - aunts and uncles, I agree. Communities are weaker for it and a lot of these problems could be averted :/
I have thought quite a bit about this. It is the loss of community and extended family that is one of the roots of our current instability. The challenge is to find a way to make that work economically in a competitive world.
The one example that I keep coming back to is ARCHES watercolor paper. My understanding is that it has been made by traditional methods in the same village for several hundred years, providing stable employment through most of that. This works because ARCHES paper has been considered the best for most of that time. How much truth there is to all of that, I don't know. I can see ways that some people would find such a life unappealing. There are trade-offs. But it is something that I think about.
If we want to have more stable communities, it has to at least be possible for them to be economically self-sustaining and reasonably robust. And there will always be some children that prefer to fly away regardless.
This is great stuff really well substantiated. Commenting for reach
What more subtley penetrative avenue to the culture at large than to introject predetermined & curated ideological designs and worldview perceptions into the minds of the most psychically vulnerable by way of "therapy & council" ?
Indeed. Between how therapy professionals are trained and changes made in the DSM to legitimize pathological behavior and pathologize normal behavior, psychology has a lot to answer for right now.
Yes it does .
Indeed. Same here:
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-institutional-suppression-of
I have thought quite a bit about our neighbors to the North and that folks there continue to be shut down. I'm working with a small handful of folks to dig into their accreditation system and look for holes that could lead to change. I hope our efforts have some success. As an autodidact myself, I think the end game is to find better ways than universities' alphabet soup after your name to provide proof of one's skills, talents, and abilities. If this journey has shown us anything, it's that having a PhD, sure isn't proof of courage.
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My favorite parts of Covid#
#112
Scientific Consensus
Is To Modern Medicine
The Intellectual Equivalent
Of Walking On All Fours.
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The field is garbage, I am sorry. I understand there are well meaning people, but it is garbage.
I can understand why you and many other people would feel this way. While I’m not currently in the field, I can say that I did find some good practitioners to be very helpful in my life, so I’m confident that therapy, done well, can be very helpful. That said, rebuilding public trust is going to be difficult, and rightly so.
I have suffered greatly from trusting people in this field, especially psychiatry. It is licensed human experimentation.