@Appleblossom wrote:
I am glad you have detached from the materialistic one. Some do not have sufficient self awareness of how their unconsious bias may effect their most vulnerable clients.
You couldn't be more right. 
I read a thing a few months back from a therapist who is also a prolific writer and something of an activist, too. Her brand of politics is no mystery and, in broad terms, they are politics I agree with.
But then I read this piece she wrote a few months back in which she basically blamed her unhapppily single clients with differant politics on their own political views - saying something like: "If they were unwilling to change their unreasonable political views, it was no wonder they couldn't find a partner." This really hit home for me, because it was quite similar to devestating commentary I got about myself from my own therapist.
It was very disappointing to hear this from a person who I believed (politically speaking) had their head screwed on right.
But I think that this incident, along with my experiance with my own therapist (from the opposite side of politics) points to a deeper corruption withing the therapy industry as a whole. I think it's a case of therapists being loathe to think of people they considder "wrong" (e.g. opposite politics) supporting one another, strengthening one another and worst of all - procreating and spreading wrong-view spawn across the world.
They don't want the people they see as "wrong" to find love, community and support; they want those people to be as isolated and broken-spirited as can be, so they can "turn" them to their own viewpoints.
I hold my own political stances dearly, but I can't endorse this sort of conduct. Even the wrong deserve to find love, IMO. Even the wrong deserve to have a community. Even the wrong deserve to have a place where they are supported and cherished for who they truly are. I might disagree with a lot of what they say, but I could never deny them those basic rights. To do otherwise would be unthinkable.
Yet that is exactly what so many therapists - from all manners of ideology - use their profession to do everyday; deliberately deny their patients all hope of love and community until those patients convert to the therapists' ideology. What's that old saying? "Absolute power corrupts, absolutely"
Even writing about this is making me feel physically sick right now.
