Critical Therapy Antidote is an anti-trans organization of therapists devoted to anti-progressive mental health therapy as it relates to race and gender.
Background
Critical Therapy Antidote Ltd was incorporated in the UK on June 27, 2023.
Officers
- Michael Scott Olan
- Carole Sherwood
- Valerie Jean Thomas
- Jacobus Van Zyl
- Christine Sefein Wolk
Podcast
In March 2023, the group started a podcast, the Critical Therapy Antidote Podcast. Hosts have included Michael Olan, Val Thomas, Jaco van Zyl, and Christine Sefein Wolk.
Guests have included many key figures in anti-trans activism, including Bret Alderman, Sasha Ayad, Leslie Elliot Boyce, Colette Colfer, Tim Courtois, Ute Heggen, Stella O’Malley, Carole Sherwood, and Stephanie Winn. They also posted a series of interviews with unaccepting parents of trans children, including “Charlotte,” “Dee,” “Diana Forest,” “Lydia,” and “Suzannah.” They also interviewed ex-trans activist Camille Kiefel and conservative trans therapist Zander Keig.
Website
They recommend a number of anti-trans organizations and practitioners.
Recommendations include:
- The International Association of Psychology and Counseling
- New Discourses by James Lindsay
- Areo by Helen Pluckrose
- Counterweight by Helen Pluckrose
- Heterodox Academy by Jonathan Haidt and Nicholas Quin Rosenkranz
- Heather Brunskell-Evans on the Tavistock at Savage Minds
- Outbreak: On Transgender Teens and Psychic Epidemics by Lisa Marchiano
- The Politicisation of Clinical Psychology Training in the UK by Carole Sherwood and Kirsty Miller
- Anti-whiteness essay by Aaron Kindsvatter
- Society for Open Inquiry in Behavioral Science
- The Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine
- Rethink Identity Medicine Ethics
- Male Psychology and John Barry
- BPS Watch (crticis of the British Psychological Society)
- Undoctrinate.org
- Essay on South African diversity by Angelo Vincenzo De Boni
- Dennis Relojo-Howell interview with Gad Saad
- The Free Speech Union and Carrie Clark
- Theory of Enchantment by Chloé Valdary
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
- Batya Ungar-Sargon in Forward
- Don’t Divide Us with Carole Sherwood
- Do No Harm
- Critical Thinking Mental Health Professionals (Facebook group)
- Persuasion by Yasha Mounk
- The Equiano Project by Inaya Folarin Iman
- Gender: A Wider Lens by Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad
Resources
Critical Therapy Antidote (criticaltherapyantidote.org)
Instagram (instagram.com)
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YouTube (youtube.com)
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