Psychiatry and its offshoots, psychology and social work have ALWAYS been used as a tool of conformist repression in this country. Shrinks are doctors, after all - is there a group more square and status quo than MDs? They all follow the trend. Most are leftists. A huge proportion are, like Freud, secular Jews. There isn’t one original thought among them.
Any right-thinking doctor should quit.
I don’t know about any of that except to agree there appear to be a high proportion of leftists in the mental health field.
But I do know there are many professions that are co-opted by the government and do the bidding of the government, both willingly and unwillingly.
“... is there a group more square and status quo than MDs? They all follow the trend. Most are leftists.”
I agree with the rest of your comment, but not this. Of the 19 doctors in Congress, 18 are Republicans. I doubt if any of them are leftists. I know many doctors in urban practice in NJ, in a spectrum of specialties, and they are nearly all conservative.