Therapy: A Profession Captured?
by James Esses:
As is now common knowledge, I am in the midst of a legal challenge against my former Masters’ degree provider, the Metanoia Institute. This is on the basis that I was discriminated against for my beliefs around sex/gender and my concerns about gender ideology, particularly the medicalisation of young, vulnerable children.
You can imagine, therefore, my interest when someone today sent me an article written by a fellow Metanoia student. The author is Paul Christopher Mollitt, a psychotherapist and doctoral candidate. The article itself is entitled ‘The Big Issue – Fear, Anxiety and the Toxic Trans Debate’.
I was even more interested to discover that it was the feature article of the magazine ‘Therapy Today’ published by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), one of the UK’s largest accreditation bodies for therapists and counsellors – with over 50,000 members.
I had hoped (perhaps naïvely) that the author and article would consider this complex and sensitive topic from a balanced, non-partisan perspective, in which all voices of the debate were given fair treatment. How wrong I was.
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