Why is There so Much Hostility Towards People Who Critique the Mental Health Field?

It’s hard to speak out without being quickly and aggressively shut down

I started this publication to give a voice to people who have personally been hurt or traumatized in some way by abusive mental healthcare providers. Abuse in therapy and psychiatry is a very real problem that not enough people even acknowledge, much less take seriously. There are few spaces where people feel comfortable enough to share their negative experiences with these professionals, and even fewer mainstream publications that write about it.

There are reasons few people feel safe sharing their stories. In the years I’ve spent in communities for victims of abusive and predatory mental health providers, one of the most common themes I’ve seen is invalidation and hostility, along with attempts on the parts of other people to aggressively silence any kind of criticism of the field.

Victims of abusive therapists can’t even have their own private groups to talk about these traumatic experiences, without therapists invading these spaces for no reason other than to further abuse these individuals

I’ve seen therapists go out of their way to join these communities just so they can harass members of them by leaving nasty and dismissive…