The Problem with Trauma Culture w/ Dr. Catherine Liu | The Radical Therapist 

“How we dealt with collective trauma in the past” my first thought based on history of debt first 5000 years was about how historically when debt levels got high, people would storm the castle and demand a debt jubiliee. Like debt imprisons us. In a lot of ways, I’d argue historically we stormed the castle and demanded better treatment

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What an excellent interview! Thank you Dr Liu for sharing your brilliant insights. It was so fascinating and refreshing to listen to you. Thank you to the interviewer for allowing the guest to speak and finish her thoughts. Know that everything was very much appreciated!

Love this lady❤

wow this is great.....incredible...she is a gem.....i didn't know about all this...

such beautiful words and insights. thank you catherine liu. YES to better relationships with each other without being mediated!

Great interview!

Not that I am a thorougly read and disciplined academic philosopher, however, having some weird coincidences, including finding a copy of Man's Search for Meaning, by V. Frankl, on a homeless shelter library shelf, in Dayton, the week of arriving there, after being kicked out of the first one I had to live at, the same week, what turned out to be only 9 demonstrators, came to Dayton, from Indiana, to do a KKK march, dang it - this is supposed to be succint, and not about me - in the segment, of this, in which Dr. Liu, is talking about, how ~ "a lot of the time, we are following orders," which, to Godwin's Law my comment, is Nuremberg-applicable. I have heard, from a political platform-haver, Greg Stoker, of Colonial Outcasts (my mind, hears echos, in Due Dissidence, another platform, and a screen name, Monetizing Dissent) a former Army Ranger (I started reading the work of another US Army Ranger, Psychologist Lt. Col Dave Grossman, his book about PTSD, On Killing, even though, it turns out, he is kind of a weirdo, with a gig teaching Killology seminars, to militarize domestic police, quoting Galatians a lot, in the book On Combat), that, today, some US military are going Away Without Leave (AWOL), due to conscientious objection over US Israel-Palestine involvement. These are the people, today, who are doing the equivalent of not "just following orders," taking risk, of being punished, for exercising their conscience, against institutionalized wrongs. Oh, the exact Hannah Arendt phrase, here, is "the banality of evil." Like how Franz Kafka wrote about.

Truly skilled therapists are far and few between and certainly not in the price range of the vast majority. In my opinion, if you haven't been trained along the lines of Alice Miller's understanding and approach you're likely doing more damage than good --especially if you're promoting psychiatric "medicine." That is the real horror.

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lol, thank you, for shitting all over the human-vending-machine type psychiatrists, who are close to one step away from metaphorically almost taking an oral temp, with a rectal thermometer, like in Idiocracy. I forget Catherine Liu, phrased it, already, except the part "their lives are so precarious...make some money."