A brief section of the below video is important
Transgender, Gender & Psychoanalysis: Patricia Gherovici, Ph D
The YouTube channel hosting it and the associated websites and actors are fascinating for vrious reasons.
Re the above video, the presenter makes an interesting comment at 1:54 when she says that "the couch is like a window and at times we get to see things happening in society a little before we read about them in the news or we see them on TV"
This comment got me thinking.
I personally belive that various schools of psychotherapy, counselling and psychology have been infiltrated and are being used as forms of social enginering and active measures.
One of the principles of active measures, as defined in the excellent New York Times documentary, is that you hide your hand.
The examples given in the documentary included using newspapers in remote locations, with limited print runs, to break stories that then leak into the global news arena over time.
Obviously with the advent of the Internet the ability to hide one's hand and to spread fake news via social media is increased to a ridiculous degree.
I understand that, in war, opponents seek out obscure languages, including "orphan" languages for the purposes of sending and receiving secret, coded information, the Navajo code talkers being a well known example.
It also seems to me, having studied various schools of psychotherapy, including psychoanaysis, that psychoanalytic theories and narratives and other depth psychology theories are created and maintained by the use of opaque languages and obscure symbolic references, that even a highly intelligent lay person would be unable to understand.
The result of this is that it is impossible for anyone to critique such theories if they have no idea of the meaning of them.
I believe the same is true for some schools of philosophy, especially postmodernism.
My provisional hypothesis is that psychotherapy and the mental health professions generally are theatres in which social engineering via active measures are being implemented. They are effectively hidden hands, with many useful idiots thrown in for good measure.
Same with postmodern studies / queer theory, in fact this was brilliantly exposed by the Grievance Studies prank by helen Pluckrose et al.
I have some material to validate this hypothesis.
I have to go out soon but will post more thoughts later.
just another video from the same YouTube channel that readers may find interesting.