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1/ Attributing patient's difficulties to "privilege" is troubling even if therapist had met patient. It betrays a judgmental attitude completely antithetical to psychological inquiry/ understanding. Also, in recent discourse, term "privilege" is almost always used as epithet, to https://twitter.com/sombravox/status/1301424287102898177
2/ shame and invalidate. The statement "you're speaking from place of privilege" serves to invalidate & delegitimize other's perspective. It inherently places person who makes statement in one up position and person to whom it is directed in one down. What is spoken from "place
3/ of privilege" can be discounted.
There is NO place for such an attitude in the clinical consulting room. Therapist has no right to pass judgment on another's subjective experience, not explicitly & not implicitly. Therapeutic attitude/mindset is one of curiosity
There is NO place for such an attitude in the clinical consulting room. Therapist has no right to pass judgment on another's subjective experience, not explicitly & not implicitly. Therapeutic attitude/mindset is one of curiosity
4/ and openness, never of judgment. Real therapists seek to listen with beginner's mind. Real therapist's do not superimpose pre-existing theory/ideology on patient's experience. Real therapists *join with* patient in shared task of exploration & inquiry—not subtly maneuver
5/ themselves into one up position in therapy relationship nor presume a position of moral superiority, which is inherent in rendering the judgment "privileged" (whether spoken aloud or not). This is NOT PSYCHOTHERAPY.
6/ I said it before and I'll say it again: If this is what now passes for clinical thinking and professional discourse, the psychotherapy profession has reached a new low and I am ashamed and embarrassed for it, down to the last molecule of my being.
