Andrew Hartz: How Activism Took Over Therapy

0:00 – Intro — Andrew Hartz and the Open Therapy Institute
3:23 – What is an activist therapist? The APA call for papers read aloud
6:24 – APA's division on psychoanalysis: 90 talks, 800 attendees, zero mention of therapy
8:29 – APA accredited a drag show for continuing ed credits
10:08 – Keynote speaker co-translated Communism for Kids, wrote Abolish the Family
11:53 – Lou's SJW Therapist sketch — and how close to reality it actually is
12:21 – Diagnosing people by their race — a white girl's anxiety vs. a black girl's anxiety
13:17 – The intake form that starts with pronouns — and what that signals
14:01 – Patient referred out for thinking she didn't get a fellowship due to affirmative action
14:41 – Who's paying for this? Insurance, premiums, and activist therapy
16:16 – "Evidence is Western" — activist therapists and why they reject research
17:25 – When did therapy start going this route? 2014, accelerating through 2019
19:47 – Lou's SJW Therapist video: January 2019 — right on time
20:12 – Mental illness as identity — secondary gains and how compassion backfires
21:33 – Test anxiety, extra time, and why rewarding symptoms makes them worse
23:52 – Lou used to wet himself before tests. He is not ashamed.
26:06 – The incoherence of activist academia — can anyone read this sentence?
27:23 – "Counter the extractive relations of cis heteropatriarchal racial capitalism" — a real sentence
29:54 – Lacan, oracular interpretations, and how academic nonsense writing spread
33:45 – If you have to build a birdhouse, the sentences have to make sense
36:36 – Greg Lukianoff, CBT, and what good therapy actually looks like
38:10 – Anger, dysregulation, and slowing down the loop
41:53 – What therapy cannot do: eliminate human emotion entirely
42:44 – Lou and the spiral — and why self-control matters
45:32 – Lou volunteered to coach soccer. He doesn't know how to play soccer.
49:30 – Humor as a mature defense — why patients who laugh have better outcomes
52:56 – Was it Good Will Hunting? What Robin Williams got right about therapy
54:55 – AI therapists — what they can replace and what they can't
57:17 – The danger of chatbot therapy for people who struggle with real relationships
58:03 – Open Inquiry in Mental Health journal and how to find a vetted therapist