My letter published in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2023
In his article, “The Doctor Won’t See You Now,” psychologist Andrew Hartz warns, “ideologies that have infiltrated education, medicine, and the legal profession have also invaded mental healthcare.” (WSJ, July 16, 2023). We now have a growing group of psychological therapists who enter their offices with their eyes wide shut and their mouths open to repeating the latest mantras about identity-politics. In my 45 years of practicing psychotherapy, I have learned that there are as many minds as there are bodies. The more abstractions we apply to explain an individual’s life, the more reality leaves the room. People are individuals, not categories.
Steven J. Ceresnie, Ph.D.
Psychologist
Plymouth, Michigan
