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This is a website for all those involved with talking therapies, including academics, practitioners, trainees and clients, who are concerned by the negative impact of Critical Social Justice Theory.
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“Get Them on Treatment!” WPATH and the Long Reach of US Trans Ideology into UK Healthcare
The recent publication of WPATH Standards of Care (SOC), now version 8, has raised concern on a number of issues relating to proposed health and therapeutic care of people identifying as trans. These include the surprising addition of the term eunuch to a growing list of gender identities, with the latter’s source data being linked …
On Being a Male in Female Spaces: A Personal Investigation into Misandry in Modern Psychology
In 1973 an experiment was conducted by David Rosenhan, a professor at Stanford University in which he and several colleagues had themselves admitted to psychiatric hospitals. He entitled his findings “On Being Sane in Insane Places.” This experiment, involving Rosenhan and his colleagues involved faking symptoms of auditory hallucinations (hearing words such as “thud, empty, …
WPATH 8 Standards of Care: Greasing the Slipway Towards Medical Transition
Introduction The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has recently published the 8th version of its Standards of Care. This will have major implications for the work of psychologists and therapists, well beyond those specialising in gender identity clinics. Peter Jenkins provides a detailed critique of the WPATH 8 guidelines and challenges their claim …
The Woke Movement v. Psychoanalysis
On The Inherent Incompatibility Between Woke and Psychoanalytic Values Despite promoting legitimate social justice values, the Woke movement fundamentally contradicts core concepts of clinical psychoanalysis. Some of these weekly missives have triggered angry reactions, and I compose this one feeling like I’m shaking a flask of nitroglycerin. Nonetheless, the issue begs for discussion. In the …
Group Narcissistic Manifestations in Critical Social Justice (aka Woke) Movements – Part 1
Introduction In June 2021 I wrote an article for Merion West in which I discussed the psychodynamic processes present within the Critical Social Justice (CSJ) (or Woke, used here interchangeably) worldview. By analysing commentary on this worldview, adherents’ behaviour, and their self-disclosure, I identified and discussed several of its inherent intrapsychic dynamics. In this and …
Group Narcissistic Manifestations in Critical Social Justice (aka Woke) Movements – Part 2
This is the second part of the two-part series on Woke group narcissism. In the previous section I give a summary of the psychodynamics of Critical Social Justice (CSJ) as a worldview, and I discussed the Mastersonian understanding of narcissistic character pathology. In this section, I discuss my observations of similar subtypes of narcissism at …
The Myth of White Supremacy
We are well into a societal imbroglio dubbed the culture wars. What is this exactly? Since the racial reckoning, and especially after the police murder of George Floyd, progressive Left enthusiasts including the Black Lives Matter activism movement have determined that so-called “white supremacy,” including structural, systemic, and institutional racism, lies at the heart of …
Mutilate and Medicate: The Body Modification Trans Cult
When I first learned of extreme body modification, I found it fascinating: facial tattoos, skin implants, tongue splitting… the guy who removed part of his nose so he would look reptilian… I wondered how body mod enthusiasts got started down that path, how they might feel about the things they’ve done to themselves; whether they …
A letter to The Lancet: Making Way for the New Social Paradigm of Gender Identity…
Introduction The following piece provides a detailed critique of the human rights narrative which drives the new social paradigm for gender identity. The Lancet Psychiatry (2022) recently carried an editorial, reviewing the history of psychiatry as an oppressive form of medical practice with regard to sexuality and arguing for a more active stance against conversion …
How Ideological Capture is Hurting Clinical Psychology
It is clear that America’s political polarization has eroded our ability to navigate complex issues. My own field of clinical psychology has failed to evade this problem, and now finds itself deeply steeped in a troubling narrative. The American Psychological Association (APA) recently published a special report on the topic of racism that states, “Pursuing …
Freud Explains Cancel Culture
The superego is the woke part of the psyche. It’s moralistic, but it isn’tnecessarily moral. There sure is a lot of moralism going around. Censorship, condemnation,excommunication, demands for apologies. There are even spontaneous chants of“Shame! Shame! Shame!” directed at the villain of the moment. I recently saw an ad fora psychology workshop that argued outright …
Elders in the Therapy Professions – it’s Time to Step up to the Plate!
Where are you, elders in our professional therapy community? You know who you are – those of you in good standing: department heads, theorists, writers, conference keynote speech makers with well-deserved reputations. At this time of crisis, you have been notable by your silence. The therapy field is threatened existentially – are you just going …
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