You Can Still Learn at a Crooked University

You Can Still Learn at a Crooked University

“….you can learn a fair bit by attending a crooked University —

I mean, well, you can you can learn how to withstand corruption, right?

I mean you can learn how to craft an argument as an undergraduate 

that's so solid that even the professors who were ideologically motivated, 

are compelled by whatever is left of their conscience to grade you appropriately 

and so that's difficult but it's possible — 

But as A Psychologist, especially if you want to be a clinical psychologist…. 

Look, the only anything Clinical Psychology has to offer in terms of Curative in terms 

of the Curative process is Truth —I mean people come to a psychologist to confess.

I'm dead serious about that — you know the person comes to tell you 

the diagnostic process is a confessional process,  the person comes in —

— if you don't know that clinical psychologists are 

secular priests you're just not really paying attention —

— so so the I mean that even historically I mean Carl Rogers 

was a seminarian for crying out loud,

he was a Christian m Christian Missionary, that's a good example there I mean

 there were secularist humanist psychologists but they're just 

Christians who didn't know it, so — so the person comes in 

and and they tell you their troubles, and 

they have to do that honestly because otherwise you don't know 

what their troubles are neither do they and that's a confessional process 

and if you're very careful when you're the listening ear which is part of the diic process 

then they believe they can trust you and hopefully that's The Truth and then they can lay their cards on the table and you can start to understand why they're suffering and then if you help them strategise in relationship to their suffering they can find their way and that's a Redemptive process aimed at atonement and that's all predicated on logos right the core of the dialogical process and logos is the spirit of Truth aimed the spirit of Truth oriented by love and that's how the therapeutic process works it's a recreation of the optimized parental environment that's another way of thinking about it but that all falls apart in the absence of a strict commitment to humility and truth and if the psychological profession has abandoned that and which has happened to a large degree now in no small part because of compulsion by law you have to validate the person's identity that's that last bloody thing you do as a therapist you come to see me and ask me to validate your identity it's like go find someone else to to talk to you know it's like if you're if you're in the garden of paradise already I'll validate your identity but if you're stumbling around stupidly suffering like everybody else then we're going to do some investigation to find out just exactly what's wrong with your identity not how it's perfect already right and and I'm not I'm not making light of this it strikes right to the core of the matter every every form of therapy is conversion therapy right you convert the poor miserable blind stumbling bastard into something halfways capable of living in the world which is what you're trying to do to yourself and you better do that with your eyes open and in truth and if you don't do that as a therapist well you're not a therapist I mean you're someone who thinks that their job is to convince 13-year-old girls to to chop off their breasts — yeah ha ha it's terrible it's terrible what's happened it's terrible it's brutally [Applause] barbaric and it's part it's part it's a part it's part of a very very deep lie and my profession is unbelievably complicit in it and it's appallingly shameful just as it is in many ways to be academic so I don't know what to tell you about pursuing the profession what I can tell you there's great books you know read them ignore your