Woke Therapy: A Conversation with Dr. Andrew Hartz

A conversation with Dr. Andrew Hartz about the infiltration of the therapeutic industry by progressive identity politics. They discuss the trend of therapist activism, wokeness as mental health, race and gender based hostility of therapists toward their patients, the need for therapists to provide a safe space for non-woke feelings, the mental health implications of using judgment and shame to force people to repress their feelings, the parallels between woke bullies and wife beaters, the parallels between antiracists and homophobes, the ways that widespread institutionally enforced cultural repression leads to a shallow culture, identity politics as a form (and cause) of mental illness, borderline personality disorder, splitting with regard to race and gender, the need for ambivalence, how splitting can destroy an inpatient psychiatric unit, how splitting devalues human beings and justifies abusing them, the ways in which reason has been distorted socially on a widespread level, and how trans issues went from off the radar to unarguable in the field of psychology.

Read Dr. Hartz's publications referenced in this episode:

"Leftist Extremism Is Turning Therapists And Counselors Against Their Own Clients": https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/02/leftist-extremism-is-turning-therapists-and-counselors-against-their-own-clients/

"A Diagnosis for American Polarization": https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-diagnosis-for-american-polarization-11604447133?mod=hp_opin_pos_2