Posted on 01/22/2019 6:30:35 AM PST by Kaslin
The American Psychological Association has, in its words, issued "its first-ever guidelines for practice with men and boys." These guidelines "draw on more than 40 years of research showing that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage."
Three observations:
1) The last thing American males need today is less masculinity.
If you need proof, ask women who are looking for a husband whether the men they date exhibit too much masculinity, too little masculinity or just the right amount. I have talked to hundreds of women on my radio show (every week I have a "Male/Female Hour"), at speeches and in private who are dating to find a spouse. Not one has said men today are too masculine. Virtually all of them have said men today lack masculinity.
And why wouldn't men lack masculinity? A vast number of boys grow up either with no father or with a father they rarely see. Their lives are dominated by women -- their mother, virtually all their teachers, probably their school principal and probably their therapist.
As if that were not bad enough, many of the single mothers of these American boys are angry at the man who never married them, or at the man who divorced them, or at men in general. In addition, these boys' women teachers suppress their natural testosterone-driven male behaviors. And now their teachers increasingly tell them they may not even be a boy.
Of course, some men are boors -- demanding sex on the first date, sending sex-filled messages, etc. But most men know boorishness is not masculinity. Such behaviors emanate not from masculinity but from poor upbringing and/or the sexual revolution, which taught men and women that the sex drives of men and women are the same.
But as psychoanalyst Erica Komisar wrote in the Wall Street Journal last week, it is "a recipe for mental illness" to tell boys that "aggression, competitiveness and protectiveness is a sign of sickness."
2. This is another example of the most important rule of contemporary life: The left ruins everything it touches.
The left has ruined the arts; the universities; high schools; the nuclear family; mainstream Protestantism, Catholicism and Judaism; the Boy Scouts; and journalism. And it is now doing the same to the sciences: Universities are increasingly choosing science faculty based on gender and race rather than on scientific expertise.
Psychology and psychiatry have long been homes to left-wing fools (recall the 1964 example of 1,189 psychiatrists declaring then-presidential candidate Sen. Barry Goldwater "psychologically unfit"). But the APA statement will do even more harm.
The American Psychological Association goes beyond defining "traditional masculinity" as "on the whole, harmful." It urges therapists to help men "identify how they have been harmed by discrimination against those who are gender nonconforming." That's right. Your son's psychotherapist will explain to him how it is entirely normal for a boy his age (beginning in kindergarten) to wear a dress, and that regarding an 8-year-old boy in a dress as not quite healthy is what is not quite healthy. In addition, the APA hopes this therapist will reassure your son that he, too, may well choose to be a girl.
In the words of Komisar, this is "an ideological claim transformed into a clinical treatment recommendation." That "ideological claim" is, of course, leftism.
3. The APA statement makes choosing a psychotherapist simple.
The hardest part of starting psychotherapy is figuring out how to choose a psychotherapist. If you choose the wrong one, you will not only be wasting a great deal of time and money; you will not be helped, and you might well be harmed.
So, how does one go about choosing a psychotherapist? The APA just made the task much simpler: Just ask any therapist you are considering for yourself or someone else, "Do you agree with the American Psychological Association that 'traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful'?"
If the therapist agrees, thank him or her for the time and leave. If the therapist starts giving a prolonged response, leave. Any therapist who cannot unequivocally condemn the APA statement is unworthy of your time and your money, let alone your psyche. Many will try to weasel out of directly agreeing (or disagreeing) with the statement. They will tell you that sometimes masculinity is a problem. But they are just being careful not to lose you as a potential client. Such a statement is meaningless: There is nothing that cannot be harmful at times. That includes femininity as much as masculinity, and it includes such normally good things as water (a lot of people drown, after all).
Without "traditional masculinity," civilization is lost. Ask anyone you know who agrees with using the term "the greatest generation" to describe the generation that fought World War II whether the men of that generation would have fought, much less won, without "traditional masculinity."
Do not trust therapists who will not condemn the APA statement. They are either a fool or a coward. They may well be very kind and sincere. But that means nothing. You or your child will not be helped by kindness and sincerity. You or your child will only be helped by wisdom.
APA...the perverts who mainstreamed the perverted lifestyle choice of homosexuality as a normal lifestyle.
...and now doing the same with pedophelia and NAMBLA.
I’m not sure the APA ever had any credibility. They were crazy when I was an undergrad (’74 - ‘77).
Ah, my standard reply:
Richard Feynman had a hierarchy of the sciences:
Physics is applied mathematics.
Chemistry is applied physics.
Biology is applied chemistry.
Psychology is a bunch of witch doctors
One correction to the source of this - psychology is NOT a science.
And current practitioners deserve nothing other than smirks.
“Richard Feynman had a hierarchy of the sciences:
Physics is applied mathematics.
Chemistry is applied physics.
Biology is applied chemistry.
Psychology is a bunch of witch doctors”
Feynman’s (non-science) books are great. (more like personal biographies)
I’d not heard that quote before. Completely fits him.
The American Psychological Association is not a legitimate scientific body. It is a political collection of leftists, homosexuals and other deviants desperately seeking legitimacy and influence. Their members have published virtually nothing of value.
None of the above. Gee, that was easy.
Fixed it. BTW, I think the psychologists are the ones who are nuts and in need of "evaluation"...
Indeed. His explanation of quantum electrodynamics is brilliant, but he has great quotes about that also:
“I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.”
And methinks this quote from him describes progressives to a T:
“There’s a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
People and society were much more stable and happy when people were guided by the Bible in the ups and downs of life. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding have those who keep His Commandments. His praise endures forever.” Psalm 111:10.
Cognitive Science is those Psychology witch doctors dressed up in nice clothes trying to look respectable!
Speaking as one with a degree in Psychology (though not clinical psych) and over 13 years experience as a counselor, if the psychologist you are considering as a therapist refuses to condemn the APA’s statement, don’t even bother to thank them, just leave, as quickly as possible.
Thanks. I borrowed this a few days back and am now glad to be able to attribute it.
psychology is NOT a science.
Bottom line: don’t come to me for counseling.
Everything democrats believe, they believe.
Everything we believe they condemn.
Just like we need conservative schools to teach our children - we need conservative psychological associations. Allowing these people near our children, our sons, our husbands and wives is a form a abuse.
You want a Constitution (KJV)?
Or your counseling session would be like that GEICO F. Lee Ermey commercial !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APwfZYO1di4
You’re missed Gunny!
I love Feynman’s hierarchy. Thanks for posting. Leanne Payne, Christian teacher extraordinaire/ Yale Divinity School - taught that Psychology is a ‘religion.’ (Not legit, mind you). There are ‘priests’ with secret knowledge. There are tenets of the faith. There is confession. There is (I believe) secrecy of the confessional. There is no God, of course.
Only fools waste their time and money on psychologists
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