Psychology As Ideology

As someone trained in psychology, this is uncomfortable to admit.

The public’s growing distrust of psychology did not emerge out of nowhere.

The profession earned much of it.

And this is one of the reasons why I No Longer Like Calling Myself a Psychotherapist, but a consultant. Even in so called “Christian counseling”, the feminist and neoliberal ideologies + pseudoscience have infiltrated their curriculum.

Psychology was once primarily concerned with understanding human nature. Questions about memory, behavior, personality, cognition, learning, motivation, perception, and suffering were at the center of the discipline, it had it’s own limitations because I do believe therapists should be formed in anthropology, moral ethics, philosophy and even theology.

At least before being objective, was one of the main ingredients for studies and research.

But today, when I am asked what is my profession and I say: Psychology, people roll their eyes, as they know psychology has mostly turned into an ideology, carrying different political agendas. And I agree, people should in fact be extremely discerning, suspicious and careful with whom they choose to work with.

Over the last several decades, psychology departments, professional organizations, licensing boards, and training programs have increasingly adopted activist frameworks, and have led astray the scientific ones, coming up with some of the most unintelligent theories… which has led to a marketplace of diagnosis, and reductionist approaches that lot of times lead patients towards more confusion, and disorientation.

In college, through liberal courses you cannot help but notice how different ideologies form part of the curriculum… where you are invited to deconstruct your own identity to reinvent it for the “true self”, but without any moral framework as a scaffolding and structure of this reinvention.

Many clinicians are now expected not only to understand “psychology”, but to embrace particular social, political, and cultural ideologies and movements as part of their professional identity.

Now, think about this for a second, 90% of therapists are women and roughly 84% of them identify as progressive – liberal.

Basically women who identify themselves as feminists and say masculinity is toxic are the ones treating your daughters, your wife, your girlfriend, your fiancée…

And then things start to shift,

Accountability start getting reframed as oppression. A husband who challenges boderline traits and behaviour, or desires for her daughter not to dress too revealing and modest, or refuses to enable unhealthy choices can suddenly be labeled “controlling,” “toxic,” or “unsafe,”…

I have sat with countless of husbands in therapy sessions who have had the “walkaway wife” syndrome, struggling and confused of what happened to their wives after seeing their therapists, of being left in their marriage because the wives were encouraged to “put themselves first”, to “go and find themselves, power and identity outside of being a wife and marriage”…. “That their sacrifice is oppression”, and that “they should have a lot of “me”, “sex and the city” prototypes nights with their new identity of the empowered woman who loved herself and puts herself first.

Now let me ask you something, where does this type of thinking come from?

Also I have sat with parents whole daughters who went to study psychology, radically changed and adopted radical ideologies, where they no longer recognized them, a lot of them left their faith too, and are repelled by it (their words not mine)

And what about transition- conversion therapy?

Psychologists are now telling patients, and more importantly, children that gender is purely a social construct, and that identity is infinitely fluid.

They tell them their legal rights, but they forget to talk about moral, ethics, their responsibility, accountability… civics, but always finding somewhere to blame, the parents, their trauma,their religion, men, society, the economy….

They also love to talk against the nuclear family, and try to replace it with the term: “Support group”.

Much of modern therapeutic culture encourages people to place themselves at the center of every question too …

The questions sound like this:

How does that make you feel? What do you need?

What serves you? What protects your peace? What makes you happy? What are your boundaries? What do you deserve? What is best for you? What fulfills you? What does your truth tell you? What are you getting from this relationship? What is this person doing for you? What is your authentic self trying to express?

A culture obsessed with the self eventually loses sight of duty, sacrifice, service, transcendence, and the common good.

Human flourishing is not found merely in self-expression. It is found in learning how to rightly order the self toward something greater than itself.

Over time, therapy has often drifted from helping people navigate reality toward helping them organize reality around themselves.

The result is a form of self-worship religion, where personal feelings become the highest authority and discomfort itself is treated as evidence that something must be wrong.

For much of human history, people understood themselves within networks of obligation: family, community, faith, marriage, parenthood, and shared moral responsibilities.

Personal happiness was linked to sacrifice and duty.

Another concerning developments is the rise of what might be called therapeutic narcissism.

Individuals, specially women are learning clinical language through TikTok or IG reels and begin using it not for self-examination but for self-justification and diagnosing.

Suddenly every disagreement is “gaslighting.” Every correction is “abuse.” Every expectation is a “boundary violation.” Every sacrifice becomes “people pleasing.” Every uncomfortable emotion becomes evidence of trauma.

Therapeutic language, which was intended to increase self-awareness, has increasingly become a shield against accountability.

Many women are especially vulnerable to this cultural shift because modern society often rewards victimhood , and women more than men love to have the privileges of being “victim”.

The result is weaker characters… lack of virtues, and shallow intelligence.

A lot of these female therapists, also love to talk about how “we are perfect, and we must loves ourselves as we are”, without realistically stating how Human beings are capable of tremendous goodness and tremendous evil, and that maybe in fact women are using therapeutical language to hide their narcissistic traits, instead of building virtue.

Make therapists study extensively history, anthropology, theology, philosophy and moral ethics.