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Therapists report increased crisis in mental health due to perceived oppression under Trump, suggesting a loss of neutrality.
The mental health field is collectively fixated on the perceived sociopolitical despair caused by Donald Trump’s reelection victory. This fixation is premised on the assumption that the politics espoused and represented by Donald Trump is persecuting mental health professionals, even as those professionals see themselves as saviors of the oppressed. As Brooke Laufer explains, “Therapy providers have lost sight of neutrality in their victim/savior identification at great detriment to the healing profession.”
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