The WOKE TAKEOVER of Psychology & Medicine w⧸ Dr. Drew, Dr. Chloe Carmichael, Naomi Best
Summary
Join Dr. Drew, Dr. Chloe Carmichael, Naomi Eppes, and Dr. Eddings as they discuss the impact of the so-called "Woke Theory" takeover in therapy education and how it's having a major impact on the field.
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of which I'm sure you all know exactly what I'm talking about,
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where people felt that there was narrative control,
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it was some kind of weird woke takeover, in essence.
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Now, I use woke to mean cult-like adherence to liberal social orthodoxy,
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so it's not like they were going to people and saying,
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you got a cold, you should be gay, or anything like that,
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but there certainly was elements of that in some medicine,
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Now, there's a lot to break down in the manipulation,
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so we've got a great panel that will be talking about all of this.
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and I have a new book about the mental health benefits of free speech
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for this exact reason that even during graduate school,
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I wasn't allowed to, like, ask questions about certain sacred cow topics,
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and so finally during COVID, it was like a switch flipped,
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and that's what got me interested in the mental health benefits of free speech.
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You can find me Naomi Epps Best on X and Substack.
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about some crazy education on sexuality at Santa Clara University Catholic School.
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but just here to talk about the woke critical theory takeover in therapy education
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Dr. Upinski, I've practiced medicine for years,
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and I've decided, Tim, my new sort of title is time traveler.
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I have been practicing medicine for so many years,
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you called yourself a dissident, student dissident?
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But it's also like there's some weird cult-like takeover,
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anti-scientific, rigid, in medicine, psychology, etc.
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What happened and what'd you blow the whistle on?
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of a marriage and family therapy training program,
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But I first enrolled in this course last summer,
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describing a woman being punished with gang sex
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Like an action plan or something in this final.
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how is your sex life going to affect your clinical practice?
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So I try to get an accommodation for literally a year.
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I go to the professor, the chair, the dean, the provost,
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because I was put into a breakout group with a man
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I would like the same one based off my Christian beliefs.
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In the Zoom meeting, he promised me professionalism.
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wrapped in plastic, just the whole, put in a guillotine.
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Was it, what was the gender breakdown of the class?
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and mental health programs skew very, very heavily.
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and it's like you come in there genuinely saying,
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okay, dear professor, you know, you know more than me.
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about going to the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco.
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Essentially, a bunch of men get together in leather
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I had to apologize to Naomi at breakfast this morning
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What you need to know is this sex-positive group
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where you are not allowed to say anything anywhere
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that has any negativity associated with it ever.
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that I kind of ran into one of my first hard bumps,
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but supplying medicine to pregnant women in Africa
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But then I guess that the discussion was around the fact
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the technology was such that once the women gave birth,
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they were still going to be passing HIV to their baby.
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And we were spending a lot of money on this medication.
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against realizing what was unsayable, you know?
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But so one of the things I talk about in the book
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So the faculty ratio in psychology departments,
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Chloe, why would you want a diversity of thought
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Like, even the worst ideas, that's how we bring ideas to light.
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When I, I got pulled into a struggle session at my job
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and people were telling me that even sitting in my presence
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These are people who think that they are psychological betters
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and the therapist not to be the neutral observer,
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It's crazy because it's a similar function in all fields.
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You know, what you describe in medicine and therapy
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where they tell you it's dangerous, it's unsafe,
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if you don't acknowledge me as the sex I prefer to be,
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You wouldn't want to reinforce the negative idea
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You wouldn't want to reinforce the negative idea
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that they're actually not a male or not a female.
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I had to lean into horrible situations all the time
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Leaning in to the things that make us uncomfortable
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is how you create mental health and resiliency.
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And you'd have to keep asking them every 10 minutes.
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without putting ourselves in a position of power over them.
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and walking around the street without their clothes on
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or bipolar with the same symptoms or meth addiction,
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We're focused on treating primarily affluent people
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And honestly, I feel ill-equipped at the end of my program.
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oh, are you going to transfer to another university?
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And universities have generously offered to take me.
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But at this point, I don't feel that it is ethical
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Oh yeah, actually training sessions can be recorded
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I'll just bring that up because my first thought was,
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And then once that like weird, woke liberal comes in saying,
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And then I'd call the police back, lock them up.
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Well, also, I mean, what they're also doing now.
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asking them every 10 minutes, of course that, you know,
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almost reinforces and, you know, reawakens the idea.
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But of course, what they're also doing now on some levels
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Like it's practically at a point in some places now,
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have we talked about, you know, responsible ways
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if that's something that, you know, you want to explore.
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There's interesting stuff embedded in that observation
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because even asking questions about autism, right?
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When people wanted to go, what, why is autism going up?
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You are biased against non-neuronormative people.
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And B, you're coming down on non-neuronormative people.
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because that's where you're breaking from reality.
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because I'm not practicing clinically right now.
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It's a trend where people will take jugs of milk,
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because it gets them views, it gets them attention.
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where teachers are saying the fifth graders can't read.
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There was one person who was a high school teacher
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You know, let me be optimistic in how bad it is.
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You see the quality of academic work going down too.
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And I mean, if you go on AI and use it to talk to it,
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And in fact, they're trying to do that already.
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for counselors, and I tried some of these AI therapy bots
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for a while, and two of them just straight up asked me
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it's a first person game where you can get swords
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and have a seemingly infinite number of interactions
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you'd walk up to the person, press X or whatever,
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and they would give you a handful of responses.
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you would just say literally the thing you want.
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where you could actually have an app on your phone