How Critical Theory is Corrupting Therapy

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How Critical Theory is Corrupting Therapy

Brad Mills

Sep 09, 2021

Today I'll be speaking with Dr. Valerie Thomas. She is a writer, trainer, psychotherapist and author of two Routledge publications: Using Mental Imagery to Enhance Creative and Work-Related Processes and Using Mental Imagery in Counselling and Psychotherapy. We will be discussing her recent publication in New Discourses on her main concern with Critical Social Justice Theory (CSJT) and how it "cuts the heart out of therapy" and how it's a danger to the profession.

You can find her articles here: https://newdiscourses.com/author/valthomas/

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