Posted on 08/10/2015 1:27:28 AM PDT by PghBaldy
The APA leadership is essentially 100% ‘RAT, progressives and (for an unknown percentage) communists IMHO. In any case, they are certainly anti-American.
Tell us how you feel about that..
It is clear that the position of The American Psychological Associations Council of Representatives is not yet the position of the whole body, although that is probably inevitable, and it is also clear that it does not carry the weight of an ethical mandate, although that too is inevitable.
The left is adept at co-opting institution after institution and turning them against the Constitution and our national interest. Usually it succeeds in having the institution and its propaganda arms funded by government. So the people end up financing the perversion of one more of the institutions it relies upon to make our society civil.
I have no doubt that before the people go to the polls November 2016 the American Psychological Association, either officially or by some of its members, will publish a study declaring that the Republican candidate, whoever he may be, is somehow psychologically deficient. For good measure, they might also throw in the whole Republican Party.
Save ink - just call them "idiots".
One would think that if their scruples and professional snobbery dictated they swear off government business in that area, they should swear off government business in all the other areas, too.
Change the word psychologist to faith-based entity (any mom and pop consumer enterprise) and put that in a service-to-gays context instead of interrogation and where are we?
Wouldn’t somebody from the government/judiciary be clamoring for forcing these nut jobs to act against their principles?
The APA has been fundamentally transformed.
Not picking on you, sir, but I do want to point out something you said that is prescient.
There are some "gun control" bills being floated around DC right now having to do with sharing of mental health information with Federal and State governments in an attempt to stop sales of firearms to mentally unstable individuals. This article is a little concerning, since the APA is going to be the organization that decides if they're on-board with the idea of sharing patient mental health information with the government. They may be opting themselves out of participation with interrogations, but you can bet your bottom dollar that they'll be on board with gun control efforts.
That being said, I think this is going to exacerbate our nation's mental health issues, as people will forgo a trip to a shrink in lieu of going it alone out of fear that their conversations will be reported to the government. I'm not ashamed to admit that I've gone through some tough times in my life from bad breakups to alcoholism, and talking with a non-biased third party was always helpful to me. I would absolutely think twice about that if they decided to make a reporting requirement out of it, esp. if the requirements were as nebulous as most government legalese tends to be.
Useful idiots...
The APA has no authority. Just a bunch of leftist freaks. These are the pinheads that made Homosexuality and self-mutilation cross-dressing “normal”.
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