The Social Therapy Group

Before you go to the Social Therapy Group for group therapy, ask yourself this question: How would you feel about a therapy that isn’t about you? Because that’s what you’re gonna get — a form of group therapy that treats the group as «the unit of growth» and not as a collection of individuals. You don’t matter, the group does.
After more years than I care to count in social therapy groups here and in San Francisco, I can tell you from first-​hand personal experience that this therapeutic approach, accompanied by much sound and fury signifying nothing, is a failed methodology that does not deliver as promised. Its adherents spout words of wisdom from Karl Marx, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Lev Vygotsky, rail against the psychological establishment, and scoff at any and all other approaches to psychotherapy but their own.
Behind all this smoke and mirrors lurks a community of leftists with fanatical political aims that have nothing to do with your therapeutic needs. They use their therapy clients as fodder to advance their agenda, driven by leftist political dogma and ideology. The man behind the curtain is the late Dr. Fred Newman, a former philosophy professor turned left-​wing activist, therapist and playwright. While Newman was a brilliant man with great talents and laudable ambitions, his brainchild social therapy has more to do with his desire to transform the world in his image than help anyone deal with their emotional issues.
Of course, the social therapy minions that surrounded him will dispute this contention tooth and nail, praising social therapy as a radically new approach to therapy far superior to all others. Well, there are none so blind as those that will not see, and these social therapy adherents won’t see that their methodology is not the miracle wonder they say it is. But, hey, don’t take my word for it, join a social therapy group and find out for yourself. Then quit and go get yourself some real help.
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