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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What Happened to the American Psychological Association?
“When the most influential psychological association in the world wants to replace an ethic of care…
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The Impact of the BACP’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy. Part 2 – Race
This is the second of a two-part article exploring the impact of the BACP’s adoption of…
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The Impact of the BACP’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy. Part 1 – Gender Identity
This is the first of a two-part article exploring the impact of the British Association for…
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Political Therapy or Open Therapy?
It seems appropriate to start the New Year with a post that reminds us of the…
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Can Integral Theory Help Traditional Therapy Respond More Productively to Critical Social Justice?
In the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, identikit political statements were issued by nearly…
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Revising the BACP Ethical Framework: An Attempt to Impose a Political EDI Agenda
Preamble The following article by Peter Jenkins provides essential context and background to the current review…
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Gender Expansive Care and Human Rights in the UK: A Catechism for the Already Converted?
A group of therapists and support workers at an Adult Sexual Health Clinic run by the…
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Background to the UKCP Guidance Regarding Gender Critical Views
The United Kingdom Council on Psychotherapy (UKCP) has issued a bold statement on the need to…
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The Unfolding Crisis in Therapy with Transgender Clients
A commentary on a recent research paper A recent research paper (Puckett et al, 2023) illustrates…
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Why Queer Theory Has Foucault to Do with Ethical Psychotherapy
“No religion can survive doubt” (Kanon, 2015: 270). The gender ideologues have now clearly taken over…
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Storms Threatening American Psychoanalysis
Before sharing the gory details, a few words to update you on what psychoanalysis means in…
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Outgrow the Anti-Oedipal Mindset of Critical Social Justice
One of the distinguishing features of classical psychoanalysis is the Oedipus Myth. Taken from the Greek…
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A Clinical Psychologist Considers Viewpoint Diversity, Illiberalism, and Intolerance within the Dept. of Veterans Affairs
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), like many other organizations, has dedicated significant focus and attention…
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Trans Affirmative Therapy: Engendering Harm Beneath a Veil of Protection?
Old-fashioned patriotism seems to be back in vogue again, after taking a short and well-earned break.…
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Unpacking the Concept of ‘Gender Identity’: Not Fit for Purpose?
Gender identity The term ‘gender identity’ is a key element to any discussion about trans-related issues.…
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Book Review
Mick Cooper’s Psychology at the Heart of Social Change: Developing a Progressive Vision for Society (2023)…
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The Politics of Division
Lara Sheehi, Antisemitism, and Antiwhite Racism in the American Psychological Association The newest scandal in psychoanalysis…
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Suing over Medical Transition
The Case against Considering WPATH as a Competent, Reasonable Body of Expert Opinion Disclaimer: The following…
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Inserting Critical Social Justice Praxis into Mainstream Therapy — The Broaching Tool
Introduction In the first few years of the 21st century, activist scholars and activist clinicians faced…
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The Ironic Flaw in WOKE Extremism
This piece is a follow up discussion regarding the responses to the previous post titled Psychoanalysis’…
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Psychoanalysis’ Latest Racist Blunder
The JAPA Prize for Best Article Ignites Another Firestorm American psychoanalysis once again sullied itself by…
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Social Justice Therapy: A Cynical Re-branding Exercise by the Elite
Mental health training and practice has been increasingly co-opted by the corrosive hyper-partisan regime of social…
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On the Inevitability of Racism
In today’s culture wars, where race is largely the locus of societal conflict, no one wants…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Woke Movement v. Psychoanalysis
On The Inherent Incompatibility Between Woke and Psychoanalytic Values Despite promoting legitimate social justice values, the…
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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…
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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…
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The Myth of White Supremacy
We are well into a societal imbroglio dubbed the culture wars. What is this exactly? Since…
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Mutilate and Medicate: The Body Modification Trans Cult
When I first learned of extreme body modification, I found it fascinating: facial tattoos, skin implants,…
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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…
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How Ideological Capture is Hurting Clinical Psychology
It is clear that America’s political polarization has eroded our ability to navigate complex issues. My…
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Freud Explains Cancel Culture
The superego is the woke part of the psyche. It’s moralistic, but it isn’tnecessarily moral. There…
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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…
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Woke Psychology and New Racism
What began as a social justice movement directed by empathy and compassion for those who have…
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Sharing Personal Pronouns in Therapy: Legal and Ethical Arguments against Therapist Self-Disclosure
It is increasingly becoming a new norm in therapy for personal pronouns to be actively negotiated…
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Leftist Extremism is Turning Therapists and Counselors against their own Clients
It’s never been easy to have a dissenting opinion, but it’s been getting harder and harder.…
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It’s Time for the PTMF to Stop Categorising Men as Negative Stereotypes
This article is reproduced here by kind permission from The Centre for Male Psychology. It was originally published here online in…
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Critical Social Justice Is More Likely to Lead to Division and Victimhood Than to Equality
Alarm bells have been ringing loudly for some time about the incursion of Critical Social Justice…
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Through the Looking Glass: Making sense of the MOU – Part 1
Introduction This is a two-part article exploring the impact of trans activism as channelled via the…
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Through the Looking Glass: Making sense of the MOU – Part 2
(The first part of this article looks at the background and history of the Memorandum of…
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