Tracking Instances of Traditional Therapy Standing its Ground
A New Academic Paper Makes a Case for Interpersonal Inquiry – a Traditional Therapeutic Method
Ira Moses, PhD, has authored an academic paper titled ‘Wrestling with Reductionism in Cultural and Racial…
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Constructing a Measurement Scale for Assessing Critical Social Justice Attitudes
The publication of this recent study in a psychology journal is another hopeful indication that some…
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There is No Systemic Racism in Psychoanalysis
It has been just under nine months since the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality delivered its…
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A Call to Heed Evidence on Child and Adolescent Gender Distress
Over the last couple of years, CTA has posted many pieces on the dangers posed by…
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A Book Review Which Is Sympathetic to Its Critique of Wokeness
A book review has just been published in an academic journal, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, and,…
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Australian and New Zealand Psychiatrists’ College Issues Statement on Biological Sex Categories
Let’s end 2023 on a hopeful note. Are we at a turning point with regards to…
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Resigning from the American Psychological Association
The increasing dissatisfaction with the political direction taken by the American Psychological Association (APA) has reached…
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An Open Letter to the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Association
An important open letter has just been published protesting the direction that the APA is taking…
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The Battle in American Psychoanalysis
More American psychoanalysts are starting to openly challenge the ideological capture of their profession; Prof Jon…
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The UK Council for Psychotherapy Finally Acknowledges that Exploratory Therapy Is not Conversion Therapy
Good news! The UKCP (the second largest professional body in the UK) has just issued a…
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Important New Academic Book
At last, an academic book has been published that starts to lay out the ground for…
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A Critique of BIPOC Experiences in Division 39 and the Holmes Commission Reports
Following on from the previous video by Jon Mills, here is his guest report on the…
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Therapy and ‘The Wrong Kind of Victim’
At some point in the future, therapy scholars will characterise this decade as a shameful time…
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Lionel Shriver Reflects on Cynical Therapies
In her weekly Spectator column (26th August magazine issue) titled Therapy has turned on itself Lionel…
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Is Your Therapist Trying to Brainwash You?
Therapist, Robin Atkins, writes a short piece in The Spectator detailing her experience of administrating a…
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A Hopeful Sign in the Conversion Therapy Controversy
One of the big concerns for therapists concerning the ongoing proposed legislation to ban conversion therapies…
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Review of Book Highly Relevant to Therapy Practitioners
Free Your Mind: The New World of Manipulation and How to Resist It by Laura Dodsworth…
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New CTA Book Review Posted on The Institute for Liberal Values
Jennifer Friend, LCSW (licensed clinical social worker) from Solid Ground has written a very positive review…
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The Doctor Won’t See You Now
In tandem with the launch of The Open Therapy Institute, its founder, Andrew Hartz, has just…
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How Trans Ideology Came for Therapy
James Esses’ piece in The Spectator lays out the story of how he was expelled from…
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Journalist Lisa Selin Davis Investigates the Activist Turn in Therapy
In her piece for Free Press, Lisa Selin Davis, reports on her investigations into the field…
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Research Review Challenges Claims for Efficacy of “Gender-Affirmative” Care for Gender-Dysphoric Youth.
An important review of the research into transgender care has just been published by by two…
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First Published Review of Cynical Therapies
Joanna Williams, journalist and author of How Woke Won, has published a very positive review of…
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The Lara Sheehi Case – an Analysis
Cary Nelson, the author of this piece, is a former president of the American Association of…
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Italian Psychoanalysts Take a Stand Against Gender Ideology
A recent news piece published in Medscape (February 15th) describes the actions taken by the Italian…
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Breaking the Critical Social Justice Stranglehold on Culturally-Competent Psychotherapy
One of the big problems with contemporary culturally-competent psychotherapy is the way that it has devolved…
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Exposing How Identity Politics Infected Therapy
We need to engage with the important task of informing the general public about what is…
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At Last! An Academic Psychotherapy Journal Publishes a Critique of the Critical Social Justice Diversity Agenda.
The European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling has just published an article by James Sedgwick that…
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Stanford University Accepts that Its Harmful Language List is Harmful
Stanford University recently published a guide to harmful language. It included a long list of terms/phrases…
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UK Journal Sheds Light on the Political Capture of Therapy Training
An article in The Critic, a monthly UK arts and culture journal draws on a recent…
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UK Regulator ‘Duped’ by Rogue Courses no Longer Meeting its Standards: A New Report Indicates a Scandal in the Making
A new independent report released yesterday reveals widespread discrepancies between the Health & Care Professions Council…
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Challenging the Uncritical Acceptance of Whiteness Studies in Psychoanalysis
Readers are probably familiar with two recent scandals in psychoanalysis. In the first, Dr Aruna Khilanani,…
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Psychiatrists Pushing Back Against Stonewall’s Influence
Stonewall has been able to impose its gender ideology agenda on its member organisations without any…
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The Therapist Should be Functionally Apolitical: The Ohio CSWMFT Board Stands Firm
The therapy professions are becoming politicised and therapists increasingly foreground their clients’ political beliefs and values;…
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