The Political Bias Infiltrating Mental Health with Dr. Andrew Hartz

The Dr. Drew Podcast

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dr. Drew talks with Dr. Andrew Hartz, founder of the Open Therapy Institute, about the growing influence of political bias in the mental health field. Dr. Hartz explains how therapy has shifted away from being patient-centered, with an increasing number of therapists imposing their political ideologies during sessions. They discuss how this trend is affecting therapy training programs, pushing out students who don’t conform, and how self-censorship has contributed to rising isolation and mental health struggles. Dr. Hartz also shares how the Open Therapy Institute is offering an alternative—focusing on unbiased, patient-centered therapy—and emphasizes the importance of resilience, open dialogue, and critical thinking in helping patients navigate today’s polarized world.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome the podcast, appreciate you all being here and do check it all out at
0:14.5	Dr.U.com. Everything is there. Don't forget the rumble channel as well. Today we're
0:18.9	welcoming Dr. Andrew Hartz, founder and president of Open Therapy Institute.
0:25.0	O'RG.
0:27.4	And I think, I think you sent me something in social media and I was like, well, I'm intrigued.
0:31.4	Tell me more about this.
0:32.6	Yeah, was it, was it the chart with like overlooked issues on it?
0:37.0	A whole idea that we're, here's the thought bubble over my head
0:42.4	when I thought about the Open Therapy Institute.
0:44.7	I thought, oh my God, taking care of brains and souls and spirits are extremely it's an extremely complicated
0:54.3	extremely difficult process.
0:56.3	We're at the point where we have to be sure everyone's getting their needs met this way.
1:01.9	I mean it was so shocking to me that we
1:03.5	have this has to be said that you need an open therapy institute so tell me more about.
1:09.3	Well I mean the level of extreme political bias that's emerged over the past decade in the field is just totally shocking and I can give you a couple examples. I mean the journal of the American Psychoanalytic Institute published an article that
1:25.6	whiteness is an incurable parasitic condition that white people acquire at birth. The president of the APA, American Psychological Association,
1:37.6	division of psychoanalysis said every therapy should center Palestinian liberation.
1:44.4	The kind of work.
1:46.4	I mean, it's totally unhinged stuff, but she was elected by the members and held her position
1:55.2	till the end of her term. I know there's a there's a both the Soviets and the
2:00.7	Nazis have. Yes groups of positions.
2:05.0	Levkof, was that the guy's name in the Russian
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