(on seeing the buzz against therapy) \"heh, nice, people are starting to get woke to brainwashing\" (on remembering that Slate article and also that Scott Alexander is a therapist, and what we might be seeing is a move against an axis that isn't quite aligned enough, due to being at least theoretically related to medicine and required to produce actual results) \"aw \ud835\ude27\ud835\ude30\ud835\ude33 \ud835\ude27\ud835\ude36\ud835\ude24\ud835\ude2c'\ud835\ude34 \ud835\ude34\ud835\ude22\ud835\ude2c\ud835\ude26\"
they won\u2019t get rid of it til they figure out how to make everyone sign up for corporate diversity seminars
the real power dynamic around therapy rn is that Obamacare mandated that insurance cover mental health treatment, incl. \u201cbehavioral\u201d counseling therapy, at parity with physical treatment
this opens new funding streams and draws in new market players \u2013 witness those therapy-by-app ads on fb \u2013 but subjects them to related pressures
the DSM was basically imposed over Freudian noodling by insurance companies concerned with efficacy, the 80s pushback on the last trans wave involved radfems working with insurers and cash-strapped welfare programs to make transition costs an uninsured elective
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