Apparently, filing a complaint against the license of a therapist who was a member of a racist sorority, was stoned on the job, and verbally abuses her clients (something which I can attest to, having listened to audio of therapy with her) – is considered to be “unlawful harassment.”
Well, my friend, who I shall call John (who struggles with high functioning autism, complex post traumatic stress, and avoidant personality disorder), has only been getting letters saying this is unlawful harassment (here’s photos of one letter: https://imgur.com/a/18A9ZIM). He’s only been getting letters threatening him with law enforcement.
But, he hasn’t seen any law enforcement.
Probably because, he’s not engaging in “unlawful harassment”. Rather, this company is attempting to threaten and intimidate him to get him to stop his filing of complaints and from pursuing a lawsuit. Because, like many other companies providing mental healthcare services to the poor on Medicaid, this business is most likely defrauding Medicaid, wherein they exaggerate the services that the people they hire are capable of providing. They have little concern about the background or even the licensing and the education of the people that they hire. Medicaid fraud cost taxpayers $37 billion in 2017 (https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20180825/NEWS/308259988/data-points-cracking-down-on-medicaid-fraud). To put things in perspective, in 2019, before the pandemic, the film industry brought in $35.3 billion. https://www.zippia.com/advice/us-film-industry-statistics/#:~:text=In%202020%2C%20Film%20Entertainment%20revenue%20amounted%20to%20%2425.9%20billion.&text=As%20of%202020%2C%20the%20U.S.%20movie%20industry%20is%20worth%20%2491.83%20billion
Defrauding Medicaid is a bigger industry than the film industry.
I’ve reported everything to the state’s Attorney General.
Now, what’s interesting is that the primary service that all these companies that defraud Medicaid provide – is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. This is the most popular form of therapy here in America. Not only has CBT never been proven to be of any long term help to anyone ( https://jonathanshedler.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Shedler-2018-Where-is-the-evidence-for-evidence-based-therapy.pdf – by Dr. Jonathan Sedler of the University of California – treatment outcome is measured the day treatment ends, studies have high exclusion rates, sham control groups, and the efficacy of CBT have only actually been observed to be fairly minimal over placebo control groups – in my book, I quote a lot of other studies from the American Psychological Association and the National Library of Medicine that show the effectiveness of CBT is greatly exaggerated and has no long term benefit whatsoever), this practice was not developed through scientific observation. Actually – it is based completely in phenomenology. “(…) in his seminal work outlining the cognitive model of psychopathology and psychological therapy, Beck (the founder of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy https://beckinstitute.org/about/dr-aaron-beck/ https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051577638/the-father-of-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-dr-aaron-beck-dies-at-100) acknowledges the influence of the existential and phenomenological philosophies of Heidegger (…) Moss has argued that Beck (…) effectively smuggled central insights from existential phenomenology into the respectable halls of academia via the ‘back door.’” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41811-020-00096-1 – “Additionally, a good account of these developments is given by Cohn (…) in his Heidegger and the roots of existential therapy. Cohn states that existential phenomenology is, in his view, the creation of Heidegger, rooted in the insights of Edmund Husserl. Phenomenological influence on psychology in general is well examined by Spinelli (…)” Rodrigo Becerra Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, Volume 4, Edition 1 July 2004
I’ve been studying phenomenology for well over a decade. I have an extensive background in this field. I can say with 100% confidence that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is THE cause of mass shootings. There’s a reason I say this. It’s very simple. The phenomenology this practice is grounded in…is deeply anti-Semitic (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/13/martin-heidegger-black-notebooks-reveal-nazi-ideology-antisemitism). Something many people don’t know, since Martin Heidegger’s Black Notebooks weren’t published until 2014. It was known that Heidegger was a member of the Nazi Party, but many looked over this (including people like Derrida and Foucault), thinking it was just a passing phase. Now, though, we can see, with the publication of his Black Notebooks, that the ENTIRETY of Heidegger’s phenomenology was nothing but an elaborate justification for his anti-Semitism and Nazism.
Don’t believe me?
From his Black Notebooks:
“One of the most secret forms of the gigantic, and perhaps the oldest, is the tenacious skillfulness in calculating, hustling, and intermingling through which the worldlessness of Jewry is grounded.”
“To appropriate ‘culture’ as a means of power and thus to assert oneself and affect a superiority is at bottom Jewish behavior. What follows from this for cultural politics as such?”
For more of these quotes: http://www.critical-theory.com/7-new-translated-excerpts-on-heideggers-anti-semitism/
From a textbook given to teach people Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (that I quote in my book):
“Martin Heidegger (1899 – 1976) (…) insisted on the fact that we must acknowledge what he called our 'thrownness' in the world. What this means is that when we begin to think about things, we do so from a point that has already been conditioned by our situation and surroundings; we have a race, a gender, a nationality, a language, and so on, and these all feed in to the way we interpret the world and ourselves. Rather than seeing these as subjective prejudices, as many before him had, Heidegger insisted that these factors were unavoidable starting points not just for philosophy but for being in general, and that to pathologize them as unreliable or not objective was to seek after a point of disinterest which we could never hope to achieve.”
Why would an anti-Semite want to see us as having no ability to see outside of our culturally constructed biases? To discriminate against Jews. Since they have biases that they can’t separate themselves from, since they interpret things from a Jewish perspective, using Jewish terms, they introduced modernity, psychoanalysis, modern art, Marxism, etc and are doing something really terrible to white Europeans, ripping apart their cultural traditions that, according to Heidegger, are an intimate aspect of what it means to be. This was all said in his Black Notebooks.
Many mass shooters had been through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy BEFORE they went on their horrific rampages. Nikolas Cruz, James Holmes, Seung-Hui Cho, Adam Lanza, Elliot Rodger, Omar Mateen, even Eric Harris at Columbine – the list is endless. It’s easy to assume this is merely correlation. But, exactly like Heidegger “(Aaron Beck)’s thinking (…) is based on the idea that people suffer because of their particular interpretation of the events that happen to them, and not because of the facts themselves. Which means most of our suffering would depend on the meaning and importance we attach to what happens to us, not what happens to us.” (https://en.psychologyinstructor.com/the-8-best-quotes-from-aaron-beck/)
This is also called gaslighting: “Someone who is gaslighting will try to make a targeted person doubt their perception of reality. The gaslighter may convince the target that their memories are wrong or that they are overreacting to an event. The abuser may then present their own thoughts and feelings as ‘the real truth.’ (…) (B)ecause each gaslighting incident is so minor, they can’t pinpoint any specific cause for their unease. (…) The constant self-doubt and confusion can contribute to anxiety. A person’s hopelessness and low self-esteem may lead to depression. Posttraumatic stress and codependency are also common developments.” (https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/gaslighting) It is Heidegger’s anti-Semitism in this practice that is leading us to treat the mentally ill by gaslighting them. Nikolas Cruz’s lawyer and Eric Harris’s parents felt it was exactly this that led them to go on their shooting sprees.
In contrast to Heidegger and Aaron Beck, Karl Marx wrote in his German Ideology: “This demand to change consciousness amounts to a demand to interpret reality in another way, i.e., to recognise it by means of another interpretation….They forget however, that to these phrases they themselves are only opposing other phrases, and that they are in no way combating the real existing world when they are merely combating the phrases of this world.”
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy isn’t popular because it’s been useful or helpful in any way with the treatment of mental illness. It’s only popular because of capitalism and greed. It’s not therapy. It’s Ideology.
Seek help if you need it, of course, just don’t go see a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist. I recommend Gestalt therapy. Also, if you are poor on Medicaid, try to avoid seeing someone attached to a company.
Here is a video summary I made for my book (please watch until the end): https://vimeo.com/702120435
Here is the book, freely available (I’m not publishing it, I am releasing it online for free, because publishing it would take at least two years – and mass shootings need to end NOW) – “A Marxist Critique of the Ideology of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy”: https://www.scribd.com/document/549466220/A-Marxist-Critique-of-The-Ideology-of-Cognitive-Behavioral-Therapy-by-Monsieur-Dupin