American Psychological Association Has Made Choosing a Therapist Easy

Not sure if my youngest son will ever recover from going to a Psychologist. His wife found him someone to "talk to" and now the therapist is the only one he is talking to. He grew up in a Christian home, with a Mom and Dad that are still married, 45 years this year!

He hates us, has not spoken to us save a few yelling conversations, in 18 months, no Thanksgiving, no Christmas. He hates his oldest brother and brings up his "bullying" when children, every time he talks to him which is not much. The older brother has apologized for his youth antics. He is filing for divorce from his wife of 5 years!

Any discipline we merited out, the Psychologist disagrees completely and we are to blame for the harm inflicted on our youngest son. He is 31 years old and has not lived with us for over 12 years! The Therapist is endorsing micro doses of LSD daily even during work days, if our son likes it and feels it helps him.

All we can do is pray for him, and be there one day when he discovers a college educated God denying psychologists is the worse thing that could have happen to him, I hope he can break free one day.

LIke most professional guild organizations, the APA has been politicized beyond any usefulness. They are derelict in their original mission statement and have no credibility among normal psychologists. This kind of pseudo scientific position statement will be noted only by those misguided (mostly female but not only female) psychotherapists who already agree with it.

The media will like this but in a couple days it will sink without a trace, like the evanescent “social statements” periodically issued by moribund Protestant mainline churches.

Psychology is way too broad. I took courses in sensory processes and psychophysics but when I run into the “therapist” types, I hang my head in shame. They seem to think something actually exists if they give a name to it. They probably learned from the drug industry.

And then there’s the parapsychologists. At least they get jobs on the Travel Channel.

The inmates have been running the asylum at the APA for some time now. A significant number of people who go into the psychological profession initially become interested in the field due to seeking treatment for their own psychological problems.

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