Val Thomas, DPsych, is the co-founder of Critical Therapy Antidote (CTA), a platform for mental health practitioners concerned by the encroachments of Critical Social Justice in the therapy field. She is a UK-based psychotherapist, writer and formerly a counsellor educator. And she is the editor of Cynical Therapies – Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice. In this episode, Val reflects on her chapter which provides an account of how the therapy field arrived at this critical point where it has opened itself up to a takeover by a political ideology. She also discusses the need for a return to the healing ethos of psychotherapy, which requires the principled stance of integrity by ethical mental healthcare providers.
Author Val Thomas Reflects on the Opening Chapter in Cynical Therapies – the Historical Context
Val Thomas, DPsych, is the co-founder of Critical Therapy Antidote (CTA), a platform for mental health practitioners concerned by the encroachments of Critical Social Justice in the therapy field. She is a UK-based psychotherapist, writer and formerly a counsellor educator. And she is the editor of Cynical Therapies – Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of…
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[…] voice in therapy. With this move, therapy was harnessed to political activist goals (see the first chapter of Cynical Therapies for more detail about this thirty year […]
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[…] for returning once again to restate the crisis in therapy and how we have arrived at this point (see my discussion of my first chapter in Cynical Therapies). It is my contention that once the majority of clinicians grasp the essential nature of the […]
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