Where Did Psychotherapy Go Wrong? | Ian Cox

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• KI

  @kittenkat7986 · 3 weeks ago

  The truth on suicides due to affirming care should be spoken more.

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• MI

  @mickmcmenemy7701 · 3 weeks ago

  At 42" Ian looks shocked at the memory of trainee counsellors admitting that they would not want to work with people with ' conservative' views but would be happy working with convicted paedophiles...As he says, these activists are hateful and should be exposed for this. I hope he gets open support from good people in his professional world.

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• AL

  @alexiamunizb · 3 weeks ago

  Great convo, as usual. Thanks...Surprised this channel doesn't get more traction, but there is so much quality content that it will eventually get there. Keep up the good work, Stella.

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• KI

  @kittenkat7986 · 3 weeks ago

  Affirming care to me is the complete abolishment  of care.

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• RV

  @rvastrik · 3 weeks ago

  How and why should the affirmative approach be considered therapy at all? What does it cure and how does it cure someone? The aim of any type of psychotherapy is to improve a person's adaptation to reality.  In my opinion, the affirmative approach is the consolidation of a person's psychological sources of tension. After all, with such an approach, a person becomes increasingly psychologically disturbed. And when it comes to gender issues, both the mind and the body are damaged more and more.

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• AO

  @Ao456kl · 3 weeks ago (edited)

  It gives me the rage when clearly very unwell people who identify as trans is explained away as due to minority stress

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• PG

  @PGpenny6 · 3 weeks ago

  So refreshing to listen to you, Stella, and now Ian.  It is a "world in flux" that we live in these days, and increasingly frightening to those of us, who, like me, are grandparents watching our grandchildren trying to make sense of life around them.  My granddaughter, 29, is soon finished with a degree ... in psychology, womens' studies, indigenous studies ... I love her dearly (she is living with us the past 5 years), but know our ideologies are so different, so I try to not engage her in these areas, as I know such discussions would result in hurt feelings and impasses.  She has tended to "catastrophize" life, climate, her future ... but I always try to steer towards a sense of hope, and trust that the Universe" has people being prepared to make this hope possible.

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• JE

  @jeremyosullivan1139 · 3 weeks ago

  Irish people who have lived through previous homophobic church and state sanctioned dogmas now recognise woke homophobia.

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• BR

  @brittharrison1147 · 3 weeks ago

  There is an end game: deconstruct until ‘the centre cannot hold’ and all that’s left is anarchy, chaos and a terrified-to-speak populus.  The ‘new self-righteous oligarchy’ can then step into the resulting power vacuum with a totalizing system enforced the name of ‘justice’.  See Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.

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• EL

  @elishevak.8637 · 3 weeks ago

  I hope many people and especially therapists watch this!

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• CL

  @clairebarnes7433 · 2 weeks ago

  We are living through very dark times. Those of us that are sane must push back on all this  madness.

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• JE

  @jeffreylind4891 · 3 weeks ago

  Such an interesting conversation – thank you both!

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