https://www.thefp.com/p/campaign-to-blac...therapists
Just unreal that people think this is ok. I think a lot of therapists have serious mental health issues.

"...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 common for the request to indicate a preference for a therapist of a particular ethnicity, gender, religion, or age range.

But what happened after this request was made on the Facebook group Chicago Anti-Racist Therapists was not at all common. When therapists responded by putting their names forward on the listserv, one member took action. She announced to the group: “I’ve put together a list of therapists/practices with Zionist affiliations that we should avoid referring clients to.” The listmaker, Heba Ibrahim-Joudeh, added: “Please feel free to contribute additional names as I’m certain there are more out there.”

Contribute to this blacklist they did. The group administrator of Chicago Anti-Racist Therapists chimed in: “This list was made to be transparent about clinicians who promote and facilitate White supremacy via Zionism.” Enthusiasm was high. “Wow, this list grew very fast! Thank you for taking the lead on this,” one user said. Another noted, “I had planned on doing this soon on Excel! Thank you for getting it started.”

Some Jewish therapists, who had not even responded to the call for a Zionist therapist, found themselves on the blacklist anyway....


There are two stories here. The first, no less troubling for being obvious, is that trying to prevent clinicians who support the existence of Israel—or are Jewish, or have Jewish-sounding names—from treating patients constitutes a grave breach of professional ethics. Interfering with the work of colleagues for political reasons is unconscionable.

But the blacklist is also part of a larger drama unfolding within the world of psychotherapy as more and more clinicians insist that psychotherapy is, foremost, a political rather than a clinical enterprise. It is a trend that I, a psychiatrist, find alarming...."