Insane Communist Mental Health Professionals for Hamas ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Insane Communist Mental Health Professionals for Hamas

I saw another of the endless open letters from various groups expressing solidarity with "Palestinians" (meaning, Hamas):

Psychoanalysis in Solidarity with Gaza

We are members of psychoanalytic organisations in solidarity with our colleagues in Gaza, standing with Palestine against the genocide currently being waged by the Israeli state. This current onslaught, which has already resulted to date in the death of more than ten thousand people in Gaza, and many murders by settlers of Palestinians in the West Bank, is being conducted with the support of regimes in the global north that care nothing for human life. The Israeli state and those who deliberately abet it care nothing for those they portray as sub-human, and whom they tolerate, at best, as powerless victims.
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...Our task is to resist the ideological and state offensive carried out against the Palestinians. We call on our colleagues to dissociate themselves from the war on Gaza, and to state unequivocally that they will speak and act for Palestine. This is no time to be silent. Yes to resistance.

This is not language of any mental health professional I know. In fact, the title isn't "Psychoanalysts for Gaza" but "Psychoanalysis" itself in solidarity - the entire field. They are not only arrogant but conceited as if they represent all psychoanalysis.

But then I looked at the group sponsoring it: The Red Clinic. Now it makes more sense. Their mission statement is insane:

The Red Clinic is a collective of communist mental health workers united for a radical psychotherapy, for the care of the oppressed, and for uniting the two in the service of communist politics. We aim to develop truly accessible and sustainable provision of psychotherapy for the working-class and the oppressed in the broadest senses of the terms, attentive to the interrelations between axes of oppression, and transcending national borders. This practice will work in tandem with our efforts to develop a novel theoretical basis for psychotherapy today, informed by Marxist, anti-racist, queer feminist, indigenous, decolonial and radical disability theories, learning from our collective experiences in theoretical application, and honing psychotherapy into a better weapon of the communist movement.

There you have it: psychotherapy is a weapon of the communist movement that supports murdering Jews in the name of "resistance."

Meaning, they are really screwed up people who care more about spreading communism than mental health and we want to spread their own psychoses to their patients.

Many of their online seminars are centered around "Palestine," but this one where they advocate abolishing the family altogether pretty much sums up how unbalanced these "mental health professionals" are.