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In the past, priests actively spread prejudices about sex and sexuality in society, forcing people to feel shame and contempt for others who, under pressure from society, began to feel guilty and came to confession so that the priest could help them get rid of their guilt for "sin" and "sinful thoughts."

Now psychoanalysts* are spreading victimological sex-negative prejudices in society, making people feel like victims, so that they come to the office of a psychoanalyst*, where he will explain and convince for the "victim's" money that they need to admit their "trauma" and heal through therapy.

However, if in the first case, the person felt his personal guilt in one's own "defectiveness", then in the second case the blame is shifted to the "molester" who "spoiled", "damaged" the "victim", which provides a convenient lever for manipulation for a series of paid healing sessions.

In both cases, those who are not influenced by propaganda will not feel like sinners or victims and will not come to confession. They remain in the shadows and their voices are suppressed as heretical. In both cases, stigma can lead to suicide.

This is how iatrogenesis works, increasing the number of "victims" willing to pay for faith in a cure that many do not need because they are not real victims of real violence, but victims of prejudice.


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* I mean psychotherapists

I expect you're using psychoanalysis as a synonym for psychology, psychotherapy, and/or psychiatry. However these are different things. I think I agree with the thrust of what you're saying, although I'd be more modest. I'd say psychotherapy discourages critical thinking about ethics, rather telling us what ethics actually should be. Like the medieval relationship between theology and philosophy ("philosophy is the handmaiden of theology"), psychotherapy is the handmaiden of consensus.

Psychoanalysis, in contrast, had more zivilcourage. For example, consider this phrase from Freud's Paper "The Sexual Enlightenment of Children" (1907):

the child is long before puberty a being capable of mature love

The backlash against psychoanalysis and Freud was often from the nascent CSA industry. Consider, for example, Jeffrey Masson's claims that Freud suppressed evidence of sexual abuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assault_on_Truth

Yeah, I have far more problems with cognitive-behavioral therapy than I do with psychoanalysis.

PorcelainLark wrote: Tue Apr 22, 2025 9:48 am I expect you're using psychoanalysis as a synonym for psychology, psychotherapy, and/or psychiatry.

You are right.
Unfortunately, I didn't make myself clear enough by using this word as a synonym.