Implicit Irony
“What is ironic is that they say they didn’t know.” Dr. Adam O’Brien
Introduction
Professionals in the fields of social service, medical, and psychology all received an email (outlined below) from the State of New York (NYS) Office of Professions Licensing Boards and Department of Education (DOE) requirement to view an updated Mandated Child Abuse training. For us, there is no real issue with the specific updates because it is good clinical measure, but the implicit irony of what topics they are requiring in the wake COVID, War on Drugs, food pyramid, and vaccine outcomes (and really the professions and professionals that are responsible for them) is palpitable. The email demonstrates their (the professions they come from) implicit bias and their level of ability to make informed decisions based on known quantitative facts and qualitative realities.
For macro examples, 1) COVID shutdowns were illegal and the APA or the law/political associations did not calling out the AMA for unnecessary and illegal shutdowns 2) history of psychedelics and why they are still being illegal 3) in 2012 National Security Agency (NSA) admitted to listing to citizen communications illegally and citizens are supposed to take HIPAA seriously. For an examples of micro levels of incompetence, we will specifically address the diagnostic privilege for LMHC’s in our argument here for evidence-based, research-informed, and science-based decisions instead of implicit biased law or political decisions that we have seen time and time again fail historically. We posit that “the systems” decision-making is really a manifestation of an dissociative “disorder” (with amnesic features) that the academic professional pipeline has unconsciously created. In this writing, we will address their implicit bias in two micro/macro areas 1) as a PhD, LMHC, and CASAC (micro), who is witnessing the bureaucratic nightmare and professional gatekeeping of diagnostic privilege, and 2) as citizens (macro) who has a BA in History and is having to watch and observe the implicit decision making skills of government agencies in the name of public safety.
Orientation
As an LMHC, we were quick to notice the irony of their implicit bias message from this email. The NYS email offers an opportunity for us to educate our readers and other professions on how implicit bias impacts decision making, identifying adverse childhood experiences (ACE), and recognizing signs of abuse and maltreatment. We will also show how our doctoral work (O’Brien, 2023a) and what has grown out of it (O’Brien, 2023b; O’Brien, 2023c; O’Brien, 2024a; O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c; O’Brien, 2024d; O’Brien, 2024e) would be helpful for our audience and the professionals who make decisions for our collective future. The legal work of others on betrayal trauma and the shortsightedness of the legal profession and psychology (HERE) shows a different knowledge base and conclusions; therefore, we will offer our interpretation as to why. If after reading this, if it is still difficult to see the implicit irony and bias in the requirement, then connect with us because you may have more going on with you that you don’t know. Let’s elaborate by relating our experience as an LMHC and then as a citizen who has had to deal with the decisions made and not made in public policy.
*Note: One reason why we are writing this is because their implicit bias in recent public policy decisions speaks to our emerging understanding of addictive and dissociative “pathology” (O’Brien, 2023a) within systems and professions (O’Brien, 2024c). The other reasons will become obvious when history reviews our writings because time can always tell what unconscious hidden motivations were present when decisions on implicit bias (or worldview as our research suggests) are made. Just like if quantitative laws was qualitatively-informed, dissociation-informed, and recovery-focused we would see a much different world developing and maturing.
Background to the Problem
LMHC’s in NYS recently found themselves in the bureaucratic quagmire of unnecessary and unwanted changes (without an option of being grandparented in) to our license regarding diagnostic privilege (e.g., the ability to legally diagnose clients who are coming to see us). Our rights to diagnose was challenged in the development of our profession by the already established psychologically-based professions (Psychologist, Psychiatry, and Social Work) but the reality is that the law set it up this way and is demonstrating to have been poorly and misguided based on our professional differences from the beginning (O’Brien, 2024c)). Therefore, setting up the dynamic of a older and younger sibling dynamic between professions. The siblings are also different genders. From our point of view, diagnostic privilege is/was not really needed, other than for these other professions’ need to see how this new LMHC profession (along with LMFT and LCAT) would do with the responsibility of diagnosing the general public OR was it implicitly created to create and preserve a designation of professional status and privilege of the existing professions rather than professional capabilities, training or education.
DOE were legally permitted to create similar professions because they were academically shown to have different theoretical origins, unique aspects to their approaches, and perform similar but different services based in psychology, human services, and healthcare. In healthcare, diagnosing is an intangible requirement to do the profession, but privilege is about the legal “right” to do it given the current professional power and control struggle (e.g., sibling dynamic). Just like driving a car is a privilege and not a “right” or “rite”, if you do not do what is required, you are just not able to play.
From a healing perspective, the measure of dependence is the level of addiction. This is why the search Internet history and healthcare records are valuable to the system because they can learn more about what is going on (social trends, investigations, or taxes) so they can maintain their status and privilege. This implies that they do know this already. Again, “twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift.” (Bob Dylan) Why do we have the privilege at all? What is privilege dependent on?
If we are all adults, professionals, capable of handling ourselves and our affairs having from professional feedback would a positive thing, but our research is showing us that is none of these things are true (O’Brien, 2023a) because the unconscious, trauma, dissociation, and addiction are not accurately defined by the same rational systems that create illegal laws in the first place. This is because they think that the symptoms are the disorder just like they are still insisting that addiction is a disease. Historically, it has also been a moral failing and thought of an conscious choice, but the disease of addiction is dissociation and dissociation is not a disease or disorder, dissociation is a normal response to all too common traumatic or stressful events (O’Brien, 2023a). As we just outlined what could be a paradigm shift in our field, if professionals are able and willing to follow the science of recovery (HERE).
Basically, a professional needs a license to inform a customer what is going on psychologically, but in a court of law it matters because education level and experience is valued. However, with medical necessity being defined by common practice (and scope of malpractice), we must also contest this because the potential for group think and mass psychosis is more likely. Also, because if “absolute power corrupts absolutely” and they do not have addiction accurately defined in the DSM, how are we to believe that we are not in a trance already? Additionally, if corporation are people and professional organization create corporations, then professions act, perform, behave, and get sick like people. Allegory of the Cave anyone? On an individual level where this gets muddy is “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” but on a macro, societal, or cultural level, “privilege” is the rights of the citizen as outlined in the countries Bill of Rights and Constitution. What you are buying with a professional license is the opportunity to be ticketed, told what to do, and can have everything stripped away from you if you do not do what they want you to. But again, what if the laws were illegal in the first place because they violate Constitutional law, Bill of Rights, and the spirit of the Declaration of Independence?
Furthermore, on the macro-scale, as a regulation authority and employer, they have to follow established business and public law, best practices, and evidence-based approaches in their respected profession. However, which science, research, and evidence informs these regulation industries (Office of Professions, DOE, and Boards of professionals) and legal professions (policy makers, lawyers, judges, and criminal justice)? Shouldn’t it come from our teachers and educators, but as we have observed otherwise (O’Brien, 2024b), the inability to follow common sense is because the laws are outdated and no one has the time to change them, we have to take a serious look at the relational dynamics between these professions to know if we are going to do a wellness check or if a diagnosable clinical disorder that meets the DSM criteria and medical necessity for quantifiable mental health or personality disorder diagnosis (O’Brien, 2023a).
Reorientation
The fact that the word “privilege” speaks of monetary advantage and social status we can see the symptoms of addictions (e.g., perfectionism, altruism, and ambition) with socio-economics playing out in real time (O’Brien, 2023a). Therefore, we have to ask, what if the laws are illegal, unconstitutional, out of date, against established research and common sense, and is on the wrong side of history? To the macro implicit point, do we as licensed professionals, have to follow 1) constitutionally illegal or 2) outdated laws if they go against our Code of Ethics, is the result of 4) professional incompetence (or is a clinical level of dysfunction that we are exploring here and elsewhere (O’Brien, 2024b)), 5) are not professionally and MORALLY on the right side of history and 6) we can prove that they are not being moral by using their implicit-biased “protocol” (O’Brien, 2023a)? What if it is 30+ years since they have already proved it by their own measures (e.g., psychedelics were shown to have medical value in 1994 by an FDA approved study) and have not made the necessary changes to the law to ensure that proper science is being followed.
Data: Implicit Bias
Our interpretation of implicit bias is since it comes from more right-brain dominant functioning (See this video for a fun explanation of right and left brain processes), which has been mislabeled and misunderstood by left-brain dominant culture for way too long (O’Brien, 2023c; O’Brien, 2024a), we must reject their notion of those in power are able to know what is right and what is wrong based on the implicit bias inherent in their decision making processes, historical track record, and recent leadership on diagnostic privilege, psychedelics, and COVID. If “science” is on your side, then you are all good, right? “Do what you are told” is more of their message and branding, but psychological regulation is about flexibility, adaptiveness, honest, openness, and a willingness to grow into a fully actualized adult who can lead the Nation into the future instead of keeping the status quo right where it is (stuck, repeating the past, and “diseased”). If getting back to normal during COVID was your goal, then you miss the existential point of trauma of dissociation and is a sign that you have done the therapeutic healing work required to be a moral professional; therefore, they cannot see addiction and recovery for what it is. Well, what if “the system” is wrong because the laws or their interpretation of the laws are wrong because their science is not completely right (O’Brien, 2024c)?
Implicit bias is based on lived experience, which is based on qualitative science, which is based on biological science because the body keeps the score and the physical body is the psychological unconscious and the unconscious is made up of memories, which is the foundation of our common and shared reality (O’Brien, 2024c; HERE). What the law knows is what it has done before but cannot know what it is doing. However, professionals very much know what the law can do to someone’s life so to make laws around diagnosing and drugs is a very interesting because it has to be based on some construction of reality that holds to be true by science and if that science shows and can measure how well the individual is psychologically doing, then we can apply the same clinical knowledge to the industrialized professions who have come to believe that they are people. If they are people, then they can behave and act diseased like person. This means that they can also be diagnosed by the same standards of the day. This has directly led to the stigmatization of mental health based on long held social and cultural beliefs that are rooted in unresolved trauma and have demonstrated the abilities to have dissociative reenactments.
Implicitly people/citizens often project their unresolved parental relationship on the nearest authority figure (the State). Once professionals realize that their profession has a reciprocal profession that acts as their arch nemesis, then the profession can truly begin because they tell you what they stand for (e.g., Code of Ethics). Following one’s morals is essential to understanding what laws are illegal. If the professions are forced to follow illegal laws around public health that uninformed, absent of qualitative research/control/common sense, and wrong, then that profession is not beholden to the illegal law. We bring these examples to the reader: current laws on psychedelics, taking away of religious exemption, and COVID shutdown, which was illegal. These is the same mindset of the those who did not give slaves their rights, did not given women the right to vote, established prohibition, would not have given you an 8 hour work day, and would have been happy if you weren’t here. What creates a citizen is where they are born, but one is makes is by understanding his-story.
Where NYS is coming from with diagnostic privilege is around training, education, and legal rights or permission from a higher authority to do said action, but they approved diagnostics as a part of the educational requirements for the creation of the profession. Why would the law now not be agreeable to a profession doing what they are trained and educated to do? Is it because the sibling professionals did not want us to be born to have or enjoy the same privileges as they do. Why?
Implicit Orientation
This bureaucratic rhetoric is all similar to what citizens and clients have been dealing with over the last several decades. Citizens are trying to decide for themselves which political party is going to make the least amount of destructive decisions for our future. With the systems recent track record (e.g., like taking away of religious exemption, overturning of Roe v Wade, COVID shutdowns were illegal, and employee COVID vaccine mandates) or to free legalization of psychedelics (#freepsychedelics) or daylight savings time, then our hope is that system can follow the science and that Wounded Healers Institute can re-educate readers on what is ironically missing from their email update.
The fact that current accurate DSM and psychological definitions of the psychological unconscious, trauma, dissociation, and addiction are missing shouldn’t go unnoticed by the reader. With the meaning of these terms better and operationally defined by our research efforts (O’Brien, 2023a), this could lead other professions and professionals (particularly the legal profession) to see how and why the implicit biases around decision making processes and abuse tactics of those in power and control have been demonstrated in policy and political decisions. Exploring the consequences of not having these definitions accurately defined previously would also be reflective of the governmental overreach, standardizing policies, and systematic failure during the last several decades.
As moral professionals, according to the NYS Moral Character Clause (O’Brien, 2024b), it is our ethical responsibility to explore emerging research that is peer-reviewed (O’Brien, 2023a) and has established itself as being on the right side of history (O’Brien, 2023b). To be fair, we do not disagree with what is required in the DOE email; we are simply pointing out their macro-degree of implicit bias of awareness around trauma, dissociation, and addiction because it appears to be lower then what they are expecting of us as licensed professionals, particularly around moral development (O’Brien, 2024b)).
Data
Here is the first portion of the communication:
In case the readers missed it or are not seeing the lower level of awareness, we now ask the reader to review the list below and see whether or not they can see or find the implicit bias of our current dynamics of the NYS OP and DOE (e.g., “the system”) and/or who the authors are (who have lower implicit awareness) in next portion of the emailed requirement…
Discussion
If the reader cannot readily see the implicit bias of the list of professional designations provided by the NYS OP and DOE, then the reader can know how informed they are (or not) of what is really going on in the “behind the scenes” psychological professional conversation, particularly on diagnostic privilege. Why kind of person or professional or profile goes into government is a fair question to ask, particularly when we see another profession holding another in contempt, dismisses, and creating an situation of arrested development in the population as a result (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c)? McKay & Coreil (2024) give us some guidance and information. However, before we get into that, what we would argue is that since modern psychology has not yet identified solidified an accurate or operational definition of addiction (e.g., that people can be clinically addicted to anything (O’Brien, 2023a), dissociation, or that the physical body is the psychological unconscious (O’Brien, 2024c), then one can be addicted/dependent to not knowing.
This is a major issue systemically and professionally because what this amnesia/”denial” is the implicit bias that they are going to be training us in. The other issue is that we (as LMHC’s) should have, as critical thinkers and mastered level counselors and clinicians, are educated in what creates the dysfunction in the system, know that this is what fuels the “deep state” that is keeping our sick psychological professions sick with the “disease” that they don’t know they have, and is a reminder of the how the system operates and who it is designed to benefit.
From a dependence/addiction/recovery perspective, this addiction is the pre-contemplative stage of change because it is undefined, undiagnosed, unresolved, untreated, and not in the awareness of those who work as a part of a sick system that thinks that it knows what is best for others, based on their immature science (O’Brien, 2024c). We have “our” science too (O’Brien, 2023a; O’Brien, 2023b). The irony is that they do not have to follow the laws that they requiring of “their” citizens (e.g., COVID shutdowns were illegal and government/licensing boards and the APA said nothing to the AMA), they do not have to own their role in the opiate epidemic (e.g., not confronting Big Pharma), or pay apologize to the citizens they have been making sick for generations (e.g., Red Dye #40). This relationship dynamic is particularly an issue around the diagnostic privilege and Moral Character Clause (O’Brien, 2024b) that all licensed professionals have to sign to keep their license active.
This all reeks of systemic abuse and as a substance abuse and addiction professional, we would know and can prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, but this is not what those in the field of government want to hear. However, it is what they need to hear and start getting care for. As a result, we do not think that they are clinically ready to do “the work” or prepared to reach our moral stage recovery (O’Brien, 2024d). However, we can use our clinical skills to show them implicitly what the facts are that have stood the test of time and are on the right side of history. Implicit wisdom is a key component of our work (O’Brien, 2023a) and we look forward to taking this new training and highlighting areas of improvement that “the system” can take to increase their awareness, help aid their moral development, and stop being shortsighted professionals who cannot see what they are implying with what they are not doing to the educated observer. If not, maybe a campaign for awareness around what white collar crime really is will be something that the government can start looking into.
Recovery Solutions
Our research and recovery work (O’Brien, 2023a) highlights that anyone can become addicted to anything; therefore, addiction is normed and can be seen as on the trauma-dissociative spectrum and requires trauma to have been taken to such an extreme, but also unresolved trauma to create an addiction to dissociation. In our personal recovery work, we can help bring the reader back to the common ground with humility that embodies common sense, but the main issue that we see is that publicly we have had healing solutions (that are evidence-based and universal), but people are not prepared for what healing requires because the professions are not informed properly. This would require the level of awareness, a higher stage of moral development, and professionally be willing to follow common sense then is currently being followed (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c). If you cannot see the implicit bias of the list above, we would suggest that your level of awareness is lower then you may know. How can we know who is “unhealed”, “untreated”, “undiagnosed”, or has “unresolved trauma”? Their actions and inactions like the DOE email demonstrates; otherwise, they would chuckled at the implicit irony of the DOE email. If you still don’t know the answer, please see our training schedule to join our growing community of Healers.
How do you know if you are in a abusive relationship? One figures it out by looking at the evidence, (e.g., do the words match their behaviors and is there a moral human soul involved)? The readers answer to this is why Recovery Healers as a profession is here to stay and we got a lot to say about how the system operates, benefits, and abuses based on our lived experience of what they believe to be just and fair. With the closing of the “War on Drugs”, our grand/parental systems of government and the professions that enabled their addiction/abuse to create (stronger drugs), escalate (war on drugs) and profit off of the wars that they started (Big Pharma) now needs to enter into family recovery as a consequence to their actions. This is not a punishment, but the results of their inactions, profiteering, and a product of intergenerational cycles of trauma or is debt slavery.
Does the reader know what recovery is, means, or what we re-cover? We do not think that Recovery community fully understands the meaning of recovery because we do not see enough civil disobedience or passive/non-resistance relating to psychedelics still being illegal and access to viable healthcare options. We also do not see enough LMHC’s addressing the underlying professional issues around diagnostic privilege because they are pacified by their professional ethics and law, but not their morals (O’Brien, 2024b).
Maybe Recovery Community doesn’t know what it means to be recovering as well because they did not have the research to back their claims of addiction being a disease. Not naming addiction dissociation is a sign they come from an unaware system of definitions. Well, now they do (O’Brien, 2023a; O’Brien, 2023b; O’Brien, 2023c; O’Brien, 2024a; O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c; O’Brien, 2024d; O’Brien, 2024e) and they can grow from this. We know that they will eat our work up. What we would like to see happen is our federal government, AMA, APA, and ACA start to follow the actual lived experience of qualitative science and help us address the medical and mental health “crisis” (like the Epidemic, pandemics, and world stock market crashes that the system has caused yet again) like Dr. Jordan Peterson testified in a roundtable recently: HERE with reasonable mass solutions.
Conclusions
Some live by the symbol of what the words used mean, whereas some live by the literal definitions of the words they were told what the words mean. Neither are necessarily wrong, but one is more right then the other historically speaking. Let’s be completely honest, moral development equals emotional intelligence or emotional access and emotions are not readily symbolic unless they can be felt. If one cannot access their feelings, then they are living dissociated from them. As a clinician, what we often have to prepare people for getting better and what that actually means they do not know because they are not used to feeling “better or good” and do not know what that is and can’t even imagine what that would feel like. This is because of a major flaws in our societal and cultural design, particularly around money addiction or financial abuse. What we know is that the wrong therapies can still help, but the right clinician with the right philosophy, orientation, and reeducation knows how to heal with their clients.
As a society, we are philosophically and legally tangled up in is professional gatekeeping to save or justify their own jobs, just like we have people who can only vote in their self-interests, privilege, and politics becomes a popularity contest instead being based on merit, performance, and common sense; let alone evidence-based decision-making models and protocols. Professionally, everyone often leave their future needs and wants to the free market, invention, industry, creative processes, and academia, but even there we can see the implicit bias of implicit bias being a bad thing, of which it is not, because the ultimate reality of life and death is that they are neutral, minus the observer (O’Brien, 2023a). When the observer puts a negative value or provides negative outcomes to behavior, it is implying that the behaviors are wrong, they do not trust citizens, and they are dependent on laws breaking for their financial stability so they need laws.
The reality that basketball legends like Michael Jordan wanted to be the one who pays the players was because he saw the professional financial game for what it is. Because it is based on science and we are a nation of laws, the human service field is not supposed to be based on privilege, but rather common sense, common decency, common respect, and common law. But with their show of altruism being their addiction, they tell “you” “their” citizens what you can and cannot do. For example, psychedelics have been shown to be helpful in healing, but they are still illegal. Our basic needs are already met with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, what we need is a government and a system that actually follows the letter of the laws they created. Individually, the need for things to be “more better” when you already have everything you need is the definition of illness, disease, and will ultimately lead to an untimely death. Collectively, with the advancement of technology and education, professions are dying and they are trying to take their future with them.
This exiting generation will not retire because they do not want to have to sit with what they have done and what they have not done. They do not want to die alone, but yet their actions make it more likely because they live alone, on their iPads, watching TV, while talking to Alexa. They are so sick with addiction that they do not know it. They are day drunk if they think they are doing well. They are so far out that they are living dissociated from the truth that lies within their own hearts that these were the 80-year-olds that they offered us as leaders. As a reminder: Thomas Paine had to write his pamphlet “Common Sense” for a reason and that reason is that it is difficult to see our addiction to our own dissociative denial. This level of dissociation is now diagnosable by ours and their standards (O’Brien, 2023a). Time to wake up professionals and do your job because Recovery community is here to stay.
Future Directions
Law and Ethics are not enough because we also need to exercising our Morals by not following the status quo, which is your responsibility as ethical professionals. When the laws are shown to be wrong, out of date, incongruence with research and common sense, then following them should be optional. However, the policeman does not want to legalize jaywalking because that is his bread and butter. The implicit facts are that professions (and because corporations are people now, profession with their professional associations are now people) do not want your feedback, they do not want you to change, they do not want to improve themselves, they do not want you because they do not want to have more work for themselves – but they need you because you fund their reality so they will keep feeding you theirs. In their reality what you need is a job to do to contribute to the industrialization of the planet so you can pay your taxes and contribute to the national 401k plan that is your children’s future inheritance. However, when we look at the national debt ratio and credit score, where the GDP and our taxes go, who is getting rich and richer, and why we see a much different pathology emerge. This is our positive pathology (O’Brien, 2024e) based on the survival need to thrive, which is another way of seeing addiction or living dissociated as the “disease” of addiction.
Equating ethics to law is more dangerous then one may think, as history has shown – or at least those who remember history (what does that mean when a client does not have memories from their childhood?). What is worse is equating law with ethics and equating ethics with morals, which is exactly what the State and the law thought was a good sound idea for all professions and professionals. The implicit nature of their industrial, governmental, or institutional bias (e.g., “the system” “deep state”) is to maintain their status quo and cash flow, not ours or yours. The essence of the “deep state” are the state workers and the middle class who are holding onto their privilege and actively preventing social change from happening because they are afraid that they losing what they have, who they are, and what they are all about. This is the definition of a personality disorder when the score start to add up and science starts to demonstrate is value to the reader. Otherwise, reality isn’t real anymore.
While psychedelics are still illegal, fluoride research has shown for decades that it lowers IQ and is a neurological toxin. Stopping professions who move too fast for others comfort level, beliefs, or purpose appears to be their primary goal. And if they are addicted or dependent to it for their paycheck, how would you know if you don’t have the privilege of diagnosing? Some play chest, some play soccer, some don’t play. This is called workaholism and if you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life because you are probably not the slave. The slave is the one who is waiting for their sibling, parent, or government to be freed by those who do not want to be freed because they are benefiting from not. If they also do not know where we are going and what they are doing because of the outcomes we are currently living through, then maybe their implicit bias in decision making could use a protocol because apparently they cannot think for themselves.
For those who do not know, the future is certain because the past repeats. Those who don’t know are the slaves to the crime of the century that you believe that you need a weatherperson to know which way the wind blows. Professional dependence on money is not something that America is ready to start addressing clinically; and because whenever someone starts talking about these truths, they get disinformation playbook thrown at them, sexual allegations, and cancel culture. This social deterrent is social control and a power dynamic that needs to be addressed if America, as a system, will survive (HERE). However, a person in recovery is neither for or against the victim or abuser because they have been both and have been humbled by the reality of life and death. Like a mother who lost her child to an OxyContin overdose, COVID vaccine injury, or psychotic because psychiatric medications were prescribed by a medical doctor, recovery hears and sees you.
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