Why ‘Unedited only’?

More and more, in our professional and personal lives, we are being told there are words, concepts, emotions and topics that must be edited or removed altogether from our lexicon. There are things we must now say in order to appear “normal” and placate the masses; and others that must be edited or massaged through a labyrinth of political correctness to avoid public ridicule, ostracization or even punitive action.

After witnessing the ideological shifts slowly infiltrating the realm of the mental health profession, practising psychotherapy began to resemble more a walk in a minefield of risks than a healthy and authentic relationship guided by a caring and rational human being.

The risk of being sued at the first “offence” taken when therapy requires a degree of frustrating the neurotic behaviour by addressing it as what is, gravely interferes with the idea of it being a place of free expression, exploration and no censorship within the boundaries of ethical behaviour (imagine one of Freud’s patients lying on the red couch and censoring “free association” for fear of retribution through the psychoanalyst, or in the reverse, a therapist expressing disapproval or taking offence for a politically controversial thought by the patient?). As a licensed professional one run the risk of not falling in line with the ever more numerous rules and regulations of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (C.R.P.O.) most of them intended to protect the client from any form of abuse, discrimination or harm through the therapist with no consideration for the safety or integrity of the service provider nor his protection from abusive, unpredictable, unreliable, insolvent clients. It is safe to assume that we never ever read about the story of the therapist that has been abused by their client; a client sued for lying, violating the therapist-client contract, being dishonest, not paying, not cancelling, insulting the therapist because they did not appreciate what had to be expressed.

There is simply no resource available for this kind of abusive behaviour other than supervision.

Similarly to what is happening to our society at large, an insidious and collective self-censorship has become rampant. A radicalization of our thought is taking place: The ability to criticize, discriminate (differentiate between one thing and another, true or false, right or wrong), evaluate, debate, accept or discard an idea based on its value and merit and not on whether it is acceptable politically has been so restricted that many have lost the ability to even consider the possibility of an alternative position.

As an example: A young woman in her mid twenties working full-time, commuting two hours a day, supporting her aging parents and studying boyfriend wanted to address her anxieties. After helping her acknowledge the amount of stress and pressure she was most certainly under, and what she was actually accomplishing, she looked at me in despair and said: “but I am so privileged, am I not?”! The belief that she somehow had inherited an advantage as a debt she owed society was almost unshakable. This woman is a victim of a system that has lost its ways and no longer speaks for the true victims. It has aligned itself with imaginary constructs that have no basis in reality or science such as gender fluidity, Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (D.I.E.),

With the avent of C19 plandemic new “Health and safety rules” were introduced. The authoritarian character of those who were trying to impose a system of new thoughts, science, behaviour and speech found this ‘new spirit of the times’ energized through tyrannical ‘mandates’, as they called them. These new requirements demanded either investing in masks, screens, desinfectant, or moving your entire business online to insecure platforms such as Skype or Zoom compromising the sanctity and confidentiality of the therapeutic space. These newly imposed measures were paired with threats to therapists who would dare to express their opposition to the arbitrary Plandemic rules. From now on, therapists with a divergent opinion from the state imposed one were libelled as “actively spreading misinformation”:

“An RP might be personally opposed to vaccination or particular public health measures. People are free to express themselves politically. However, if an RP is actively spreading misinformation, especially while referring to their psychotherapy credentials or expertise, contravening legally required public health measures, or if they are involved in violence or harassment at a protest, they run the risk of contravening CRPO’s General Conduct standard.” (source: www.crpo.ca)

Also, in the midst of a health crisis that produced so much distress and confusion, speaking about it with the client would carry the risk of infringing on rules such as this one:

“Can CRPO registrants share anti-vaccination information with clients? No. As noted above, it is not within an RP’s scope of practice to provide advice or specific recommendations about medications, including vaccinations. An RP might be personally opposed to vaccination. In all situations, CRPO Standards require RPs to ensure their influence does not affect the personal decision-making of a client. In other words, RPs may not use their position to promote personal opinions or causes with clients.” (source:https://www.crpo.ca/faqs-covid-19/#mandatory)

or this one:

Can CRPO registrants advise clients about COVID-19 vaccines? It is important to note that providing advice or specific recommendations to clients about medications, including vaccines, is not within an RP’s scope of practice. If a client wanted to explore the topic of whether or not to vaccinate or what type of vaccination to obtain during a session, an RP would need to consider referring the client to their nurse practitioner, family physician or other qualified professional for advice. (See Standard 1.9: Referral: https://www.crpo.ca/standard-1-9/.) (source:https://www.crpo.ca/faqs-covid-19/#mandatory)

or this confusing and arbitrary rule:

What should I know about proof of vaccine or vaccine passports and medical vaccine mandate exemptions?

The Ministry of Health document Medical Exemptions to COVID-19 Vaccination provides specific and detailed information regarding the reasons for exemptions to vaccine mandates. Medical exemptions must be supported by a nurse practitioner or physician. Since receiving the COVID-19 vaccine is voluntary, service providers – including RPs – do not have the authority to require proof of vaccination or medical exemption. Further, while Ontarians will need to be fully vaccinated and provide their proof of vaccination to access certain high-risk public settings and facilities, these requirements do not apply to settings where people receive health care.

After three years and millions of casualties due to mass injections, lockdowns and muzzling the population it turns out that we, “The Pure Bloods” as we lovingly call ourselves, were right. It does not please us. We feel defeated, not triumphant as we are counting our dead and other losses of which there are so many.

So, here we stand. We refused to be genetically modified and killed. We refused to be silenced and censored for telling the truth. We refused to operate on false constructs and beliefs. We refused to bow to the rules of a highly politicized organization such as this regulatory college.

Why I surrendered my licence?

Why would someone, successful in a multi-year career that she loved, choose to voluntarily surrender her license and therefore her standing to act as a Psychotherapist? Well, there’s a question I discussed ad nauseum with myself before making the decision. I was in the business, after all, so I engaged myself in the process of analyzing.

I left the Professional College three years ago in the middle of the fake pandemic when doctors were saying that people who refused to wear a mask to protect themselves and others and to take a poison shot should seek therapy and drugs because they were suffering from a mental disease! Anyone still in possession of their mental and critical faculties and with a bit of scientific curiosity should have known by then with absolute certainty that we were entering a soviet style regime. The mental health field, just as the rest of the health sector had been taken hostage by a woke mob, and its marching boots could clearly be heard. This was not what I had signed up and paid for. This was not how I envisioned my job.

Ever since, I have been watching my life, my ideals, my convictions, the web of illusions, quasi religious beliefs, lies and deceits crumble. After a career in the corporate world, my only goal for the past 23 years had been to be a registered psychotherapist equipped with a best possible tool kit mastered to provide help and, if not an end to suffering at least the mental fortitude and resilience to move through it.

My goal had always been to support, empower, educate and release.

As if things weren’t bad enough, over the past year we have even been re-familiarized with the not so new notion of state sponsored suicide. Doctors are now recommending assisted suicide.

On March 17, 2023 Canada’s medical assistance in dying law was amended to include people “suffering solely from a mental illness”.

Psychotherapists are now expected to consider this finite option with their clients “when life has become too hard.”

How succesful this mass killing of unwanted citizens has been is documented in self-congratulary terms in the Third annual report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada 2021:

3.1 Number of Reported MAID Deaths in Canada (2016 to 2021) 2021 marks five full years of access to MAID in Canada. In 2021, there were 10,064 MAID provisions in Canada, bringing the total number of medically assisted deaths in Canada since 2016 to 31,664. Annual growth in MAID provision continues to increase steadily each year. In 2021, the total number of MAID provisions increased by 32.4% (2021 over 2020), compared to 34.3% (2020 over 2019) and 26.4% (2019 over 2018). In Canada, eligibility for individuals whose deaths were not reasonably foreseeable began on March 17, 2021, with the passage of the new legislation. In Québec, the end of life criterion was struck down on March 12, 2020. After this date and until amendments to the federal legal framework for MAID were passed in March 2021, MAID was permitted for individuals in Québec where natural death was not reasonably foreseeable via a court exemption. The numbers of MAID provisions where a person’s natural death was not reasonably foreseeable are included in Chart 3.1 for Canada (219 cases in 2021) and for Québec-only (15 cases in 2020).

Therapists used to have to report pedophiles to the authorities. Now these individuals are called MAPs (Minor Attracted People) and we have to pretend that child molestation, sexual grooming and rape, and changing your gender are what children like to partake in. We have to support unscientific and destructive ideas that people embrace as the new truth while watching our civilization and culture being run into the ground as we should become complicit to murder, abuse and rape, support perpetrators and ignore the real victims that children are?

What else is there left to say about our current sorry state of affairs?

A lot. After long months of deliberation with myself about whether I still had anything to contribute while feeling that I was battling an enormous front of ideologically impaired individuals and organizations, I began focusing on the minority that didn’t find the right answers in a therapy room. And that included me, as a former client in individual and couples therapy, student and therapist.

When one finds themselves from one day to the next arbitrarily propulsed into the enemy camp, the only salvation lies in finding out who your enemy is. Many have done that. Those who could see what was happening went down the rabbit hole and, as I myself discovered a reality underneath the sinister spectacle that we were presented. First, I learned about the history hidden and rewritten. I had to abandon many an illusion and belief and narratives inculcated through family, school, university and media.

In the end the Tabula was rasa. Underneath laid the shards of all I had built and the conclusion of all this re-examination was that:

All psychotherapy is a waste of time and therefore money.

Could it be, I wondered that we have to pay a trained professional to have a conversation about our issues because we have nobody else we can TRUST? Could it be that our issues are the result of societal dysfunctions, not personal failings? Are we badly equipped to respond to the challenges of this ever more dehumanizing world? As the famous writer Tara Duncan writes: “We think wrong and value the wrong things”.

Nobody would need therapy if we had a cohesive and functional society.

That statement alone would probably at least make an eyebrow rise, if not earn you an uproar within the community of believers of the cult of Freud and Perls, Jung and Adler, Rogers and Rosenberg (Non violent communication), Yalom and Reich.

Making that statement, I already imagine the backlash of my former psychotherapist colleagues. I hear the outrage: “How can you say this? My therapist saved my life. He was there for me without judging me when nobody else would…”

Yet, I maintain: Psychotherapy is a scam.

“Psychotherapy is an attitude towards social welfare” (William Epstein in ‘The Illusion of Psychotherapy’). It is not only ineffective but also harmful. It is no more than a “civil religion reflecting the principles of radical self-invention and self-reliance deeply embedded in the human Psyche”.

Psychotherapy is the new religion and the therapy space is the new confessional. Contribution to parish upkeep is the fee to the therapist. The promise of eternal salvation is now the promise of self-actualization as the key to happiness. God is dead, long live narcissism!

What does uneditedonly.com stand for:

For today, we will postulate that psychotherapy is an approval ceremony, and acknowledgement of the lack of acceptance, compassion and recognition by a person that you pay to do just that. The therapist will show you ‘unconditional regard’, be on your side, sit with you as you revisit your trauma and fully feel the pain for as long as it takes. So far, so good.

You will dive into your past history, feel the pain, grief, anger, loss, abandonment, betrayal etc. perhaps get an understanding of what circumstances got you where you are. It will feel like a walk to Canossa, a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella or a walk on the wild side…in your head. You will feel so much better. Finally somebody understands you. But what if you had wise people in your daily life that you could sometimes sit with and reevaluate your life?

Psychotherapy assumes that your head and thoughts need to be straightened, and then you will have a good life. This presupposes that attitude change precedes behavioural change when the opposite is the case: Change your behaviour, start acting differently and you will feel different about yourself…even stop thinking about yourself and focus on the task or goal at hand.

And that is what we propose to focus on here.

In counselling there is room for all these ‘negative’ emotions to be expressed without censorship. There is room for anger because without feeling the anger fully and who of what it is you are angry at, you may always turn it against yourself, or continuously project it onto others, and never feel the underlying sadness, and loss and grief, its two faithful companions. “Life is a struggle that one can learn to approach coherently” a therapist once said. But before we become coherent and rational in our approach of life, we need to uncover, clean up, undo, and look at what comes up indiscriminately, without editing or censoring. This is what the “safe space” in therapy is for.

I am no longer authorized to act as a licensed therapist having surrendered said license. As a side note, the word therapy originally meant ‘to heal or treat medically’. It is only in the 19th century that the term was extended to include the healing of the mind, making a claim that could not be supported by any scientific evidence to this day. Since I never had the pretense or ambition to ‘heal’ any-body, it will not be difficult to formulate other claims of what my activity as a coach entails.