The 2021 #Australian Association of Family Therapy #AAFT Conference included a presentation on ‘treating families with Transgender Children’ in the context of family therapy & is a significant departure from ethics, guidelines & the foundational principles of family #therapy
If you are member of the public seeking a family therapist, you have the right to know how they are trained. What follows is their recent training materials. Please share widely. I will be discussing this in my book. Please choose a #therapist wisely. I cannot overstate this
Family therapists in Australia are trained to have an agenda and bias. They are trained to ‘normalise’ and affirm self-ID
If you are seeking therapy, this is likely not for you. You are viewed as a ‘resistant’ family, meaning you are resistant to ‘affirmation’. This is already not an open space for families to receive therapy, because it has agenda & therapist has been trained how to ‘see’ you
There is deception in their training 👇🏻 Where are the references? The cohort they refer to in the 1990’s and today’s children are completely different cohorts. Parents must know the truth
Australian family therapists are taught that gender is homogeneous and to ‘practice seeing the gender their patients want them to see’
Therapists are taught why families are protective and the reasons why. Therapists are then asked to question if the parents are the problem
The Australian Association of family therapists Trains their therapists that the child is the “expert” on themself. NO, the child’s prefrontal cortex is immature until age 25 and they lack the ‘capacity’ to be the “expert” of self.
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Why Are Autistic/ Neurodivergent Individuals More Vulnerable to Cults or toxic groups?
1. Vulnerability:
Autistic individuals face challenges in *social emotional* understanding, making them more susceptible to manipulation by toxic individuals, leaders, groups or cults.
2. Reading Social Cues:
Autistic individuals have a lower ability to detect *deception*. This means they might not recognize when they're being lied to or manipulated, a common tactic in cult/group recruitment. They also may misunderstand someone being genuinely nice to them.
They tend to take what people say at ‘face value’, making them easy prey for predators (group leaders). They have difficulties in reading faces/body language & ‘intention’. This makes them vulnerable to groomers, sexual abuse, predators &/or cult leaders &/or radical ideologies
👺Narcissists/predators employ a tactic known as “memory holing” to manipulate and control their victims, a form of ‘gaslighting’. This can cause trauma and PTSD to the target.
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Here's how this process typically unfolds:
🔻Distortion of Reality: Narcissists perceive their reality through a *distorted* lens. They deny events, conversations, or promises ever happened. They also live untethered from reality and are often delusional
They are known to say, “That never happened,” or “You're imagining things,” even when the target has clear memories or documented evidence to the contrary. This is solely designed to make the victim question their own memory, reality and sanity.
🔻Selective Memory: Predators might acknowledge some events however they twist the details to suit their narrative. For instance, if a victim confronts a narcissist about a hurtful comment, the narcissist might claim they were joking or that the victim misunderstood, thereby altering the memory of the event. This causes confusion.
Laura met Mark at a professional conference Mark was charming, successful, and seemed incredibly attentive. He quickly swept Laura off her feet with grand gestures, constant communication, and an *apparent* deep interest in her life
This phase, often called “love bombing,”, made Laura feel like she was in a fairy tale. After all, he was her knight in shining armour, right?
The Shift:
🚩Isolation:
After moving in together, Mark started to subtly criticize Laura's friends and family, suggesting they didn't really care about her or were bad influences
Over time, Laura saw less of her friends and loved ones, becoming increasingly dependent on Mark. She had a history of being ‘co-dependent’. This was learned from her primary attachment with her father. He was narcissistically abusive towards her. It felt ‘normal’ to her.
Psychic epidemics or mass psychosis is what we are seeing today 2023 & appears to be a collection of several smaller psychic epidemics forming into a much larger one. In Carl Jung's terminology, a psychic epidemic refers to a collective & contagious manifestation
of certain psychological themes or archetypal symbols within a society or a group of individuals. Jung believed that the human psyche is connected on a deeper level, and when certain *ideas* thoughts words or symbols become charged with emotional energy,
they can spread through the collective unconscious of a community or even across cultures & groups, influencing people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. We observe this now on social media & in the news. These psychic epidemics can be positive or negative
How do you tell if someone is a ‘Narcissist’? By their ‘behaviours’, regardless of who the person ‘says’ they are. Always go by behaviours. 1. Trolling 2. Mobbing, gossip & smear campaigns 3. Name calling 4. Narcissistic rage 5. Projection & gaslighting
6. False accusations 7. Withholding 8. Stalking 9. Passive Aggressive 10. Inability to resolve issue & move forward 11. Black & white thinking 12. Splitting 13. Threatening or violent Words 14. Sulking 15. Coercion 16. Highly controlling &/or a group ‘leader’ & control the group
17. Public humiliation (doxxing, cancellation) 18. A clear lack of boundaries and/or violation of other people’s boundaries 19. May be ‘fixated’ on revenge for perceived slights 20. The silent treatment 21. Using money as a weapon 22. Triangulation 23. Idealisation & demonisation
Cult recruitment: In order for ‘cults’ to be successful they rely on ‘recruiting’ others. They target ‘vulnerable’ isolated, alone, neglected children or adults. For vulnerable people, #cults are very tempting because the cult provides love-Bombing #stage1
A sense of safety, promises of rewards friends & actual rewards. Who could possibly refuse? They typically use becoming more joyful, happy, obtaining bliss as a #promise Who wouldn’t want that? A new family? #Acceptance? Love? It’s a nice loving supportive environment initially
#stage2 Cults are now online. Recruitees may be constantly bombarded by cult jargon new #language new wording The group expects recruitees to divulge everything about Themselves. Those recruited usually have #epiphany of some sort which drives them further into the cult #stage3