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

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.