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Inside the Campaign to Blacklist ‘Zionist’ Therapists
“Under a social justice regime, therapists who have the ‘wrong’ politics. . . must be kept away from vulnerable patients.” (Illustration by The Free Press)
Psychiatrist Sally Satel reports on an alarming new trend.
By Sally Satel
08.12.24 — Culture and Ideas
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In March of this year, a therapist on a professional listserv in Chicago passed on a request by a potential patient seeking a therapist who was “a Zionist,” because the patient was dealing with feelings about the “current geopolitical climate.” Many mental health practitioners rely on such online groups to make and accept referrals for patients. It’s co…

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Sally Satel
Psychiatrist, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute and Lecturer, Yale University School of Medicine
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