Amy Gallagher: How Psychology Went Mad

Amy is a personal hero for me - I'm a teacher in the US who has been ostracized by co-workers for speaking out against this madness. Hope everyone can give a modest donation to her case.

The inmates are running the asylum.

You may not yet see it but you are confronting evil. Not merely wrong or misguided, but evil.

It's great to hear you took them on. I was in a vaguely similar situation where an institution had gone corrupt, but with my case I realised it was not just me they were treating badly, but other people got a lot worse. What I did was I researched the law myself and tried to informally help others with legal rights and that kind of thing. I was trying to to be the good samaritan. Anyway, the key trick was by helping others we informally organised and not only was I filing legal stuff, but I showed many others how to do it. The thing is they can often deal with one troublemaker, but not dozens all firing at once. We won!

The lack of intellectual integrity, and the personal careerist cowardice of Tavistock management, and the management of so many companies and public bodies, is truly nauseating.

Her story is almost identical to mine...except to my everlasting shame, when I was told I would be exited from the program, I acquiesced. I rationalized this by saying I would not let them gatekeep me from the profession and that I was not in the ideal position to fight their ideology. I never regurgitated woke ideology, and I took jabs where I could, but I kept my head down and got through it. I think this will bother me forever.

In the 1980s, my girlfriend was in medical school. She told me that her classmates who were going to specialize in psychiatry were the least well adjusted in her class. They were the odd people. Not bad, just not socially mature. I suspect the same of psychology. A mix of 'couldn't think of anything else to do after college' and 'how can I understand my problems?' Decades ago, the 'recovered memory syndrome' madness was lead/created by therapists, and now the field is rife with woke nonsense. So the people least qualified to mess with anyone's psyche are the exact people licensed to do so. Scary.

Asking her to not enter through the lobby and having her see her patient in the basement reminds me of the clubs in the 30s and 40s who wouldn't let the black entertainers enter through the front door but through the back service door. Insane bullsh*t. I feel so bad for you two ladies and what you have been through.

How does this channel not have more views ??? Such good conversations

I had imagined that accounts such as these must be exaggerated until I experienced it for myself at Pepperdine University. And the accounts elsewhere are legion. Not only are the foundations of the very subjects being taught decried for their “whiteness,” so is virtually every integral facet of these programs themselves labelled as an expression of white supremacy, and with not a whiff of self-awareness: Punctuality. Emphasis on the written word. Rationality and reason. Empiricism and science. Reliance on testing. Academic standards. Intellectual rigor. In other words, everything the university demands of its students, and uses both in its metrics of evaluation for entry into the self-same program, and ostensibly the essence of academic evaluation at every stage in one’s progress through the program is bizarrely labelled thus. Not a hint of recognition at the gross and cynical contradictions involved. Just mindless flagellation and hysterical proclamations presented as incontrovertible fact. Point out any of the innumerable inconsistencies in the pedagogy or display the slightest skepticism about the orthodoxy at your peril. Faculty will ensure your road forward is nearly unendurable. I can still see the haunted faces of those cowed into silence long after I walked away in disgust.

I'm so sorry that you've gone through this. Your story is so similar to mine, and Leslie's and so many others now. I'm glad that you have been able to get your case in court and are talking about it.

I feel sick in the pit of my stomach when hearing people relate these stories.

It's really good to see Amy Gallagher on this channel. She's been doing some great work on Peter Whittle's New Culture Forum.

I needed to get out of counseling and therapy with psychologists and addiction counselors in the NHS who were making me far worse, verbally abusing me to the point that I went on massive drinking binges. It didn't used to be like this ten years ago.

Not surprised at all about psychologists having no self awareness. My grandfather was one, and a total abuser. My abusive sister is getting into counseling. Another extremely abusive family friend is counseling children. It’s terrifying.

I know interviewer isn't the job you had in mind a few years ago, Leslie, but you're getting pretty good at it. Amy had a lot to say, and you let her say it without interruptions.

I applaud her courage. I think she and Leslie are incredible. TRULY. I'm thinking of grad school and myself am not sure how i'm going to navigate this..

This is brilliant. Amy I am so sorry you went through this. I hope we can connect at some point. Kindly, Aaron Kindsvatter

I can't believe this, absolutely insane we've been talking about this problem for a while now, but this is way beyond that now

They're not really that fragile. It's a game. I've encountered this in a different way where you try to express you've been wronged and the person listening turns it around so that they're the victim. I call it the victim bully.