A Further Inquiry

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Examining Decolonization, Zionism, and the Ethics of Clinical Neutrality

Examining Decolonization, Zionism, and the Ethics of Clinical Neutrality

How does decolonization therapy risk retraumatizing Jewish clients in some instance and undermining clinical neutrality in mental health practice?

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Scott Douglas Jacobsen
May 09, 2025
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Therapy and Politics

If therapy can be a vehicle for ideology, then clinicians risk repeating past abuses.

The article "The Danger of Decolonization Therapy" by Miri Bar-Halpern and Dean McKay, published on April 8, 2025, in Jewish Syndicate News, addressed concerns within the mental health field. The focus was on the partial politicization of some facets…

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