Professor Jon Mills has returned to examine once again the American Psychological Association (APA) in a current article in The New English Review. He has published previous pieces excoriating the leadership and the ideological bent of the APA policies, but here he goes further and makes the case that this professional body is doing more than damaging the therapy professions: it is harming society itself.
Here at CTA we are in full agreement with his assessment of the wider damage inflicted by APA. This professional body could be likened to a cultural factory spewing toxic effluent into the surrounding society. What a contrast this makes with the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) which has just announced it is withdrawing its signature from a trans activist controlled Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy. The APA might be much greater in terms of size but the UKCP is clearly much greater with regard to moral authority, courage and integrity.
Below are some pertinent verbatim extracts from his piece. Readers are recommended to read the full essay on The New English Review website.
“What is unequivocally clear from this wholesale takeover by DEI czars is that the APA has become a political social activist organization no longer concerned about all people in the general population it professes to serve.”
“The APA has not only lost its moorings, but it has become a new bastion of social activism espousing moral certitude, discrimination, and sowing division among peoples and groups in the name of justice.”
“If clients in need of help cannot be reasonably assured that they can seek out mental health professionals who will not judge them based on their worldviews, then all trust in the profession will likely evaporate. Here the APA is prescribing an ideological formula for harm.”
“We may only hope that other influential organizations fed up with such woke politics undermining the liberal ethos upon which civil society depends will initiate litigation against the APA so it returns to its prudent roots based in universal egalitarian humanism.”
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