Posted on 12/22/2004 7:43:20 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
The fall, 2004 issue of the APA's Division 44 newsletter, includes an essay by Judith M. Glassgold, Psy.D. urging her colleagues to think of psychology as a liberationist tactic to fight against social oppression and for social justice.
Writing in "In dreams begin responsibilities': Psychology, agency and activism," Glassgold suggests that therapists must make psychology " a liberation experience, to be among those who offer solutions to problems of social justice."
She urges gay psychologists to adopt the philospohy of Liberation Psychology (Martin-Baro, 1994), which is rooted in ideologies from Latin and South American countries.
Psychologists must reject seeing individual personal problems and be willing to see these problems as the consequences of social injustice, says Glassgold. Psychotherapists must revise deterministic theories of social issues and "incorporate contextualist models that better explain concepts such as social power, freedom, agency , and resistance."
Gay psychologists must view the world as an oppressive place, and they must resist efforts of outside forces to label them. The goal should be to "create new meanings" and "social definitions" in order to liberate others from social structures that define what is normal or abnormal.
Glassgold believes that any system that says one sexual identity is normal and others are not, is oppressive and must be resisted. "Systems that attempot to define what is 'normal' are systems that attempt to limit human potential. ...our theories must be embraced tentatively, as metaphors, not reified as truth or normalcy."
"We must focus on making psychology and psychotherapy more than just a Band-aid for broader social problems, but as an intrinsic part of social justice and personal liberation."
Judith M. Glassgold, Psy.D., "In dreams begin responsibilities: Psychology, agency and activism," Division 44 Newsletter, Fall, 2004, pgs. 5-8
In other words, brainwashing...
YES!!!!!!!! Couldn't have put it more plainly!
know there are good, rational, professional psychologists out there but every one I have met who is a psychologist or was studying to be one, seemed to need the most tratment
Truer words were never spoken! Most of them get into the field with an agenda. Sad but true. Or to make themselves feel better about their own screwed up life. They usually are very disfunctional people as a whole. If they don't find a problem in a patient, they are not hesitant to create one. I knew someone, they claim to discover had been abused as a child. THey implanted these memories, with the help of medication, of course!
Once she stopped taking the meds, she realized it was all BS
I feel for you, there you are trying to do some real good, make a real difference and help people, and all those lefties in your field are undoing everything you try to do, and giving Docs like you a bad name.
She urges gay psychologists to...
Isn't that an oxy moron?
Absolutely
Well........key thing is you went to a "Christian" councilor.
It has been reported that homosexuals constitute a majority on the APA board and have used this power to remove homosexuality from diagnostic standards. They have also worked to bring homosexuality into the mainstream as "normal" behavior. I don't know if this board is still a majority, but this article seems to say that some effort is still being done to wage this battle for normalcy in the face of a society that would prefer it to stay out of the headlines.
This is unoriginal.
The Soviet Union already thought this one up, and implemented it for 70 years.
These people are so OBSESSED with their SEX LIVES (that we are suppose to stay out of). Why don't they just SHUT UP about it already?!!!
And, STOP trying to SHOVE IT in our faces!
Thanks for the ping Ed.
"Harassment"? Don't they get the equivalent of being disbarred from the APA?
Ping
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sort of like architects designing schools to "stimulate thinking." Thinking about foolish architectural boondogles, I suppose.
BTTT
98% of the world is wrong and the remaining, perverse 2% are suffering for it.
Obviously this person lives in a climate controlled environment at the specific point where stupid happens.
Well said
Nothing new here- the patients are running the clinic!
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