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        <title>Ideological Oasis: A Response to Bad Therapy</title>
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        <itunes:author>Karen King, Psychotherapist</itunes:author>
        <itunes:summary>Something is happening in the world of therapy. Students, new therapists and seasoned practitioners are struggling to make their voices heard in a sea of resistance. Increasingly, only one view is allowed in therapy both in and out of training. These are the stories of the people trying to take a stand, sometimes with disastrous consequences.</itunes:summary>
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                <itunes:title>MIchael Giles: Where did the Critical Thinking go and when will it come back?</itunes:title>
                <title>MIchael Giles: Where did the Critical Thinking go and when will it come back?</title>

                
                
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                <description><![CDATA[<p>Michael Giles LCSW is a psychotherapist who specializes in working with men who struggle with anxiety and relationships. He is the author of the book Relationship Repair for Men: Counterintuitive behaviors that restore love to struggling relationships, which is available on Amazon. Michael is also a husband, father, army officer, and advocate for promoting critical thinking in the mental health professions. </p><p>We talked about the woeful state of our field, and proposed ideas on how we might have gotten here, and what might have to happen to transform our psychology field to make it ideologically capture-proof one day soon.</p>]]></description>
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                <itunes:title>Ryan Rogers and the Woke Counseling field</itunes:title>
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                <itunes:author>Karen King, Psychotherapist</itunes:author>
                <itunes:subtitle>Woke Counseling and how to unwind the damage it causes.</itunes:subtitle>
                <itunes:summary>Ryan is a graduate student in clinical mental health counseling. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a work background in addiction treatment. He is also the author of the book The Woke Mind which will be released in January. He has written five books on the social justice phenomenon and tells us about his experience and thoughts as a therapist newly in training.</itunes:summary>
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