This house is AGAINST the belief that art psychotherapists need to become more socially responsible and advocate for social and climate justice. This topic brings into question the role of the art psychotherapist as an agent for justice and change. by

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"To argue that madness / mental illness is only caused by social factors also discounts the embodied experiences of many people. Sometimes suffering may feel more bodily internal random messy spontaneous or unknowable in ways that we cannot always neatly trace socially"

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"A great portion of people across the globe still reject the theory of natural selection and evolution for religious reasons"

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"It is important to be able to sit with multiple contradictory knowledges"

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"Questioning the way that we know mental health doesn't involve rejecting all current knowledge or resisting the pursuit of knowledge in the first place rather it is about finding new ways to orientate ourselves towards knowledge"

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Discussing Critical Social Justice/traditional therapy/the individual…’the philosophical and political commitments of CSJ will inevitably drive its application to practice in an anti-therapeutic direction.’

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I have found this book really interesting and most chapters useful in this debate for Against…found from article from Dr Val Thomas ‘Woke Therapy Weakens The Client’

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‘Social justice activism is replacing scientific enquiry’

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Critical Therapy Antidote

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A platform for people (practitioners, academics, clients, supervisors, and members of allied professions) who were concerned about the rapid and uncontested encroachment of Critical Social Justice (CSJ) into talking therapies.

Against Social Justice Therapy

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Social-Justice Shrinks: How Identity Politics Infected Therapy

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When Therapists Become Activists

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Neutrality revisited (2017) - Gelso and Kanninen

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A Marxist therapist treats a Trump-supporting client (2018) - Yourman

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"In psychoanalytic terms, the new neutrality requires what the psychoanalyst Wifrid Bion, following John Keats, called "negative capability," the ability not to know, to not search after knowing, but to tolerate multiple possible ideas all at once."