Tracing Incursions of Wokeness into the Therapy Field.
The BACP Publishes a Gender Ideology Compliant Journal Issue
Remember when the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) was a straightforward professional body -…
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The Crisis in American Psychoanalysis
Jon Mills has just published a piece in Fathom titled: ‘Burning Down the House – The…
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The Repercussions after James Esses’ Talk on Gender Ideology at the Society for Existential Analysis
To their credit, the Society for Existential Analysis (SEA) in the UK originally invited James Esses…
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Professional Bodies and Weasel Words: the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy Offers “Inclusivity” Workshops
Mostly, CTA takes the view that it is pointless trying to engage with the legacy therapy…
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The Escalating Crisis in the American Psychological Association (Division 39 – Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology)
CTA is keeping readers up to date with the Lara Sheehi case as the unfolding of…
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The Lara Sheehi Case – the Fallout Begins
CTA has been posting updates on the unfolding situation regarding Lara Sheehi as it illustrates the…
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The Scandal in Psychoanalysis – an Update
As we have posted recently about the unfolding of a public scandal involving Lara Sheehi, we…
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Is the Health Care Professions Council Heading in a Woke Direction?
For those outside the UK, the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) is the regulatory body overseeing…
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Another Scandal Threatens Public Image of Psychoanalysis
The following communication was posted by a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 39…
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Threat to Jordan Peterson’s Licence to Practise
Woke therapy bureaucracies have the means at their disposal to create very significant difficulties for therapists…
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The Journal, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Fires its Editor for Expressing the Wrong Perspective!
Academic psychology has moved into a realm which is beyond satire now – the irony of…
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Robust Empirical Evidence for CSJ Capture of US Universities
An important new report has just been released (December 2022) by the National Association of Scholars…
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The AMA Pushes to Prosecute Critics of Radical Gender Medicine: Another Potential Threat to Exploratory Therapy with Gender Dysphoric Clients
Chris Rufo has just alerted the public to a very concerning move made by the American…
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The APA (aka The Politburo for Psychology) Issues a Dictat: The APA Racial Equity Plan
This summer the American Psychological Association released its Racial Equity Action Plan. This plan dealt a…
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How Activist Therapists Think: An Example from The Guardian
Below is a comment piece published recently in The Guardian which perfectly encapsulates how therapy is…
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How Activists Appropriate and Retool Established Therapeutic Approaches: An Example from The National Association for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC)
This workshop on an anti-racist recovery approach at the NAADAC 2022 conference (also presented at previous…
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Trans-Centred Sex Therapy: An Exercise in Bewilderment
The Californian Institute in Integral Studies continues to push out a stream of woke continuing education…
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Pressure on Therapists to Declare Preferred Pronouns: An Example from South Africa
The usage of preferred pronouns in the therapy professions is on the way to becoming an…
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The Capture of Therapy Institutions by Trans Activists: The Anna Freud Centre is another Example
In the wake of the recent UK government change of position with regard to its proposed…
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Graduates from CSJ-driven Professional Trainings Begin to Offer Continuing Education Courses. Is this a good Idea?
A webinar with the alarming title of Decolonizing Mental Health: Moving from Whitewashed Wellness to Culturally-Affirming…
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The AAMC to Propose DEI Curriculum Standards: the Therapy Professions are Following the Same Path
The National Association of Scholars published an exclusive report on March 16th alerting the public to…
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The American School Counselor Association Wants its Members to be Activists Rather than Therapists
The American School Counselor Association recently updated its anti-racist policies (see introduction below and full document…
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The BACP Supports ‘Queering’ the Therapy Space: Trans Activists Call the Shots
Regarding gender ideology, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) has shed all pretentions to…
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The Ideological Capture of Professional Therapy Training: the BACP Diversity and Inclusion Coalition Reviews the Course Accreditation Scheme
The following letter has been sent out to trainers/institutions by the BACP. Does this sound like…
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American Clinical Psychology Professor Resigns Due to ‘Alarming Trend in Psychotherapy’
For our latest video, FAIR’s Christine Sefein explains how her field of psychotherapy has been taken…
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Gender Ideology Threatens to Derail Therapy Services for Rape Victims: The UK-Based Survivors’ Network Provide Group Sessions for “Self-Identifying Female Survivors”.
A few months ago, CTA posted an item about the pronouncements of the newly-appointed Edinburgh Rape…
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Somatic Therapy Trainers Embrace Critical Social Justice, an Ideology that Discounts the Significance of Biology
Here is one example of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy providing CSJ-driven trainings for practitioners (there are many examples…
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The APA Issues an Apology for Contributing to Systemic Inequities: A Further Consolidation of the Professional Woke Hegemony
The APA (or as it probably should be renamed now, the American Political Psychological Association) has…
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The American Medical Association Commits Itself to Changing the Dominant Narrative: The Project of Turning Healers into Political Activists
The American Medical Association has just issued a guide to advancing health equity through changing the…
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Duquesne University Psychology Professor Agrees that White People Should Kill Themselves
Posted on September 1st 2021 on WMD A psychology professor at Duquesne University is raising eyebrows…
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The Anna Freud Centre CEO Steers a Venerable Therapy Institution on a Disastrous Woke Course
The ill-defined ‘whiteness’ and its pathology is now getting the full endorsement of UK psychoanalytic institutions.…
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Wokeness Erases all the Distinctions between Different Therapy Schools: The Anna Freud Centre Provides an Example
No matter what theoretical orientation, once a particular therapy school allows CSJ in it just begins…
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“Sexual Violence Happens to Bigoted People”: What Happens When a Rape Crisis Centre Goes Woke
The following piece is taken from For Women Scotland an organisation which was formed in June…
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Professional Therapy Training Institutes Require Ideological Compliance: Metanoia Expels Gender Critical Trainee
A volunteer counsellor with the charity Childline was dismissed after raising concerns about the way some…
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How Therapy is Ceasing to be Therapy
This professional association is happy to publish an article that makes a case for imposing the…
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All the Healthcare Professions Will Follow Where the Medical Professions go
The guidelines appear to support anonymous reporting of microaggressions. Taken from the AMA Reference Committee Amendments…
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The American Psychoanalytical Association Welcomes its own Demise
The American Psychoanalytical Association has just published a paper in its flagship journal that introduces the…
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Political Alert! Critical Social Justice Begins to Shape Licensure Requirements
The Michigan Licensing board (LARA) has just amended its licensure requirements based on recent changes to…
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Therapy as a Form of Moral Re-education: an Example of an Increasingly Prevalent Authoritarian Tendency to Pathologise Dissent.
The following comment was published by the author of an article on the use of pronouns…
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Professional Bodies are Used by EDI Committees as Mouthpieces for a Political Agenda: another Example from the UKCP
Available on the UKCP website Jessie Emilion, psychotherapist & Co-Chair UKCP HIPC EDI committee, offers a…
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Critical Social Justice Seeks to Indoctrinate Children: School Psychologists are Eager to Help with this Project
The American National Association of School Psychologists have the following Unified Antiracism Statement and Call for…
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A CPD Training on the Virus of ‘White-Body Supremacy’. Words Fail Us!
A ‘Somatic-abolitionism’ post-qualification training for therapists and coaches delivered by Education for Racial Equity.
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Real Therapy Promotes Independence of Thought: An Example of an Anti-therapeutic Indoctrination Campaign
An event offered by the California Institute of Integral Studies public programs this Spring. ‘It is…
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Note the Ideological Capture of Therapy Services Providers: An Example of a Service Offering a Politically-Motivated, Divisive, Anti-therapeutic Training.
The Pro Bono Counseling Centre in Baltimore has this mission statement: ‘The Pro Bono Counseling Project’s…
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‘Anti-Racist Therapy’: A Critical Race Theory Activist Advocates for the Use of Therapy as a Means of Indoctrination
A verbatim extract taken from ‘Why Teachers need Anti-racist Therapy’, an op ed piece by Bettina…
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1st October 2020
APA’s disingenuous strategy of conflating a consensus understanding of diversity with Critical Race Theory.
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5th August 2020
The American Psychological Association issues a statement that calls for ‘true systemic change in U.S. culture.’…
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