https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">Modern therapy is becoming increasingly ideological. Specifically, the introduction of the trauma model, which is ostensibly a response to the DSM.

Points of concern:
-The definition of trauma has been changed- it’s now purported that everyone ‘has trauma’.

2/ -Emphasis on never ‘invalidating’ or ‘retraumatising’ client by challenging interventions.
-ALL psychological distress can be conveniently explained by this framework.
-Unlike any other modality it places ideological conditions on therapists.

3/-Like postmodernism it’s against ‘medicalising’.
-Like postmodernism it ignores innate biological or genetic predisposition to mental illness- instead opines that ALL mental/psych/emotional distress is a response to the environment (similar to what Foucault said).

4/ -Instead of being a very useful framework to work with (actual) trauma; the definition of trauma has been changed to simply mean ‘emotional dysregulation’.
-It emphasises over soothing, over validating, trigger warnings, safety culture.

5/ -Resilience, personal responsibility have been made so taboo you almost can’t mention them.
-It’s a very similar phenomenon to what @JonHaidt and @glukianoff describe- and it is compromising psychotherapeutic care.