Developing a Taxonomy of Critical Social Justice
Since its introduction into broader public discourse, Critical Social Justice (CSJ) has been referred to by…
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Selective Signaling: How an “Inclusive Bio” for Some Means Alienation for Others
What’s in your bio as a therapist may not seem all that important. It’s your bio,…
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The Perils of AI in Psychotherapy (Updated): The Eliza Effect
In my earlier essay on The Perils of AI in Psychotherapy (on Substack), I raised concerns…
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Decolonial Psychology: Induction into Sacralised Destruction
A recent Substack article examines the growing influence of liberation and decolonial psychologies within contemporary psychotherapeutic…
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New Academic Paper Deconstructs the Claims of Activist Therapy
One of the biggest issues that we face is the lack of critical debate regarding the…
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The Colonisation of Counselling Psychology: A UK Case Study
Whenever a territory becomes weak and poorly defended it invites a takeover by outside or inside…
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Antisemitism on the Couch
One egregious trend in our current politicised therapy professions is the apparent widespread acceptance of discrimination…
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Woke Psychoanalysis – When Training Institutes Become Driven by Social Justice Activism
Since the release of the Holmes Commission Final Report for Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic…
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Cass, WPATH and the Puberty Blocker Trial: Gender Identity Ideology Undermining Science
A major debate has broken out in the UK about the National Health Service (NHS) clinical…
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Ideological Capture of the Social Work Professions
The Ideological Capture of Social Work As Critical Social Justice (CSJ) swept through universities and other…
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New Report Reveals Exponential Increase in Woke Concepts in Medical Research Papers
Dr. James Nuzzo, a friend of CTA (see his recent CTA podcast interview), has recently carried…
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Breaking News: The American Psychological Association Is Being Investigated for Antisemitism
A US goverment investigation into the APA has just been announced. In the following piece, Prof.…
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Debating Trans Identity: New Tactic, Old Tricks in the Gender Wars
Promoting EDI (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) comes at a high social cost. Promoting the voices of…
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Trans Formation: How Gender Identity Ideology Took over the BACP
In what may prove to be a decisive development, former heads of the three main therapy…
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Deconstructing the BACP President’s Attempt to Educate Members on the Dangers of ‘Whiteness’
We recently drew attention to Lynne Gabriel, the president of the British Association for Counselling and…
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Should There Be a Mental Health Professional in Every School?
Very recently, Lucy Beney, a CTA member, gave a well-received talk at the Battle of Ideas…
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UK Breaking News: BACP Finally ‘Queers’ Its Own Ethical Framework
The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) is one of the largest professional therapy organisations…
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Hate Speech or Free Speech? Stella O’Malley Sues IACP for Defamation
Stella O’Malley, a well-known gender critical therapist and director of Genspect, has brought a defamation case…
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The Decisive Role of Courtroom Arguments against a UK Conversion Therapy Ban
Attempts to introduce a legal ban on conversion therapy in the UK have had a chequered…
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Trans Ally, or Trans Bully? Unpacking the Unwieldy Baggage of Allyship
The UK publication of the Cass Review (2024) on gender healthcare for children and young people…
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UK Psychoanalysis Debates Tavistock GIDS: Time to Leave the MOU?
The Care Quality Commission investigation of the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) and its subsequent…
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A Critical Response to the Irish Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy – Part 2
Preamble In the following article, Jaco van Zyl returns to review the contents of the recent…
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UK Supreme Court: The Perils of ‘Identifying as’ for Psychotherapy
Peter Jenkins explores the UK Supreme Court’s landmark legal judgment. This confirms that rights and protections…
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Fanon versus Foucault: Time to Decolonise the MOU on Conversion Therapy
A recent copy of the BACP house journal, Therapy Today, made the extraordinary claim that “…the…
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Therapy in the Real World: Person Centred Therapy and Gender Critical Beliefs
The Person-Centred Association, one of the main therapy organisations promoting this particular modality, recently published a…
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A Critical Response to the Irish Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy – Part 1
Introduction The Greeks of old, with their philosophies and myths, grasped a fundamental truth about human…
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UKCP and the Legal Risks of Full-Throttle Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Introduction The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is one of the premier professional associations for…
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UK: NHS England Goes to War with Itself over Cass
The dire state of UK NHS provision for gender questioning children first burst into wider public…
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Psychoanalytical Journal Publishes Paper on the Gender Dysphoria “Not-Thinking” Conspiracy
As the fever around activist-driven gender-affirmative practice is slowly starting to abate, more conscientious scholars and…
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On Current Controversies and Issues in Mental Health
Good-faith discussions about serious political or ideological differences are rare these days. The infiltration of a…
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The Irish MoU on Conversion Therapy Concedes to Exploratory Therapy but Stays Committed to Gender Ideology
Those familiar with the regulatory landscape in the UK regarding the psychological treatment of people with…
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The Yale Integrity Project’s Critique of the Cass Review Critically Examined
Gender-related controversies in employment, healthcare, sports and law have remained at the forefront of many news…
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The Campaign to Blacklist ‘Zionist’ Therapists
Psychiatrist Sally Satel has just written an important piece for The Free Press where she examines…
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Ireland Adopts the UK Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy
A fierce row is brewing over the all-Ireland adoption of a UK policy seeking to ban…
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Cancel Culture Is Creating Widespread Mental Health Challenges
Andrew Hartz, founder of The Open Therapy Institute, has just had a piece published in the…
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What’s in a Name? Not ‘Activist Therapists’ but ‘Identity Practitioners’
Over the last couple of years, critics have been spelling out the antitherapeutic character of the…
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A New Academic Paper Analyses the Psychodynamics of Gender Dysphoria
Clinical Psychologist and CTA member, Jaco van Zyl, has authored a peer-reviewed paper in the journal,…
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The Cass Review: Will Activists Hinder Its Application?
When the final report of the Cass Review was published on 10th April 2024, many of…
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Breaking up Is Hard to Do: Why the UKCP Is Right to Leave the MoU
Introduction The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is one of the main leading professional associations…
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The Psychopathology of DEI
Prof. Jon Mills has recently posted a scathing essay in Equiano taking a psychological perspective on…
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Mental Health’s Blind Spot
Andrew Hartz, founder of the Open Therapy Institute, has just published a piece in City Journal,…
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Why Exploratory Therapy Is Mainstream Therapy and not Conversion Therapy
The following article features a response to an undercover video alleging conversion therapy by a therapist…
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McGilchrist’s Divided Brain Thesis: A Paradigm for Moving Psychotherapy Beyond Its Current Crisis
Introduction There can be no doubt that therapy, along with other applied health and social care…
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An International Survey of Exploratory Therapists Working with Gender-Questioning Clients
Since the decisive infiltration of the therapy field by gender ideologues and activists over the past…
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What Do You Want, BACP Members – an Ethical Framework or a Political Framework for Practice?
Preamble The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) is one of the largest professional associations…
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How the American Psychological Association Is Harming Society
Professor Jon Mills has returned to examine once again the American Psychological Association (APA) in a…
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WPATH, the MOU and Gender Ideology in the UK
The media response to the release of The WPATH Files has rightly focused on its shocking…
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Moral Crisis in Psychoanalysis: Anti-Israel Hate Allowed in the Profession
Prof. Jon Mills has been tracking the unfolding crisis in American psychoanalysis, providing an ongoing analytic…
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Dept. of Veterans Affairs and Gender Ideology – Clinicians Raise an Alarm
A recent article published in The Hill by three clinicians, Nina Silander, Catherine Novotny and Edward…
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Challenging the Myths on how to Work Therapeutically with Gender-Questioning Children and Young People
PART 1: INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT How should therapists work best with children and young people who…
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