Implicitly Biased
“Those who know and do not do, do not really know.” Con-fu-ze
Introduction
Recently some healthcare professionals received an email from the Department of Education (DOE) that they all have to take an updated “mandated reporter” training. We have no real issue with the specifics updates, however we are willing to observe that the “protocols” to “reduce implicit biases” in recent governmental decision-making process with the Good Faith Estimate, or the DOE’s decision-making process and diagnostic privilege fiasco (e.g., no grandparenting and other professions supervising our profession), standing drug policy (e.g., psychedelics), scope of practice issues (relating to psychedelics), vaccine policy and mandates, children’s diet and health, taking away of religious exemption, limits to free speech, or with COVID. Implicitly following “the science” would be a start for the Government, as they are historically creating the consequences with their abusive logic (O’Brien, 2024c), but what is needed is some implicit context and perspective on who is making the requirement, what they are requiring of us, and to see if are they living up to the moral character that they sign when they renew their license (O’Brien, 2024b).
Orientation
We should all be very skeptical about what “protocols to reduce implicit bias in decision-making” because this assumes that bias is bad, unwanted, or wrong. Our research (O’Brien, 2023a) highlighted that implicit bias is our own individual worldview (aware of it or not), which can represent a dissociative part or represents another narrative (when there are others that equally valid), and relates to lived experience. Lived experience is based in qualitative reasoning and deserves more of a seat at the quantitative table of the political and legal debates because psychologically and philosophically it is stronger their their rational logic because the logos gave birth to their logic (e.g., the tree that gave birth to the fruit) (O’Brien, 2024c). Therefore, qualitatively, we will continue to explore this kind of repeating incompetence, professional pathology, or clinical disorder around biased government, abusive tactics, and aspects of the undiagnosed addictions that we see existing (e.g., perfectionism, altruism, and ambition) (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c). Those in denial about these would need to consider the emerging addiction and recovery research on the subject (O’Brien, 2023a).
Data
Here is the first portion of the communication:
In case the readers (particularly LMHC’s) missed it, 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 “the authors” of this email and diagnostic privilege.
Discussion
Which ones are not like the others? Can you implicitly find Waldo? If the professional readers of this blog do not see the implicit bias in the professions list, then we would ask that the reader take it to their supervisor and see what they can come up with. We will hint that the titles would be equal in their labeling by the professions who created the list if the other professions were respected, saw the others as peers, but the institutional memory of “deep state” professions (administrators, lawyers, lobbyists) see things the way they “need to be” and “should” stay based on their implicit biases. If their implicit biases weren’t ironically showing, maybe we (LMHC’s) wouldn’t have to question their intentions or integrity, particularly after experiencing what kind of privilege they have around diagnosing. Interested minds should explore a legal team who is getting closer to understanding what the law needs to know, where the law is at, and where it needs to go: HERE (follow the evidence and not the research and science…)
Conclusion
We are doing this because if corporations are people, then professions (because of their unions or national associations corporate structure) can also have the psychological diseases that people have; therefore we can treat, heal, and recover societal addictions, but first we have to have an accurate and operational definition of addiction; which we now have (O’Brien, 2023a). As Healers, we strive to have all heal from suffering as a result of ignorance and injustice. This is so everyone can enter into recovery because that is the moral and just thing to do. We can also identify if they are diagnosable, course of treatment, and measure their level of functioning based on their actions and inactions, unconscious intent and motive, and hidden ethics and morals when they decide to surrender and admit that they have a power and control problem and want to start working on it.
What readers have to decide is what side of history do you want to be on because our next blog explorations will explore what happens when the laws are illegal, unethical, and immoral because they go against science, common sense, and are on the wrong side of history (e.g., psychedelics, gain of functioning research, experimental vaccines that are really flu shots, limits to free speech, and removal of religious exemption). Even though we have already done this elsewhere (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c), we would be remised if we did not capture what is implicitly-biased in the laws and governments decisions-making skillset, particularly when they require moral character and our ethics require actions from us as licensed professionals. The issue is when ethics are equated to law, we have entered into the age of professional privilege and pathology where bureaucratic rhetoric turns into bureaucratic tyranny, discussing implicit facts, citizens experience the moral decay of a dying democracy and failed political science experiment. As we posit that citizens expect moral before ethics and law (O’Brien, 2024d), the implicit bias that we “need a weatherperson to know which way the wind blows” is morally reprehensible, particularly when you have to sign a moral character clause/agreement to renew your professional license and are required to follow illegal laws as if it was your ethical responsibility.
The implicit bias of the state or government requiring morals should not be avoided any longer. Citizen professionals, it is time to put our money where our mouth is and apply our morals to our ethics and create a society based on understanding instead of implicit fear mongering by a privileged class of finks. This is now upon us as a generation because the previous generation is trying to see who can die with the most toys because they believe that is how you win at the game of life. We would all win at the game of life if we weren’t so afraid of death, which is what psychedelics are really all about. Wisdom is not the “more you know” because when more is the problem, then less government is what we need.
References
O’Brien, A. (2023a). Addiction as Trauma-Related Dissociation: A Phenomenological Investigation of the Addictive State. International University of Graduate Studies. (Dissertation). Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/courses/addiction-as-dissociation-model-course/
O’Brien, A. (2023b). Memory Reconsolidation in Psychedelics Therapy. In Path of the Wounded Healer: A Dissociative-Focused Phase Model for Normative and Pathological States of Consciousness: Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/courses/addiction-as-dissociation-model-course/
O’Brien, A. (2023c). Path of the Wounded Healer: A Dissociative-Focused Phase Model for Normative and Pathological States of Consciousness: Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2024a). Healer and Healing: The re-education of the healer and healing professions as an advocation. Re-educational and Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2024b). Diagnostic Privilege: Meta-Critical Analysis. In Healer and Healing: The re-education of the healer and the healing profession as an advocation. Re-educational and Training Manual and Guide. Appendix 2. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/courses/addiction-as-dissociation-model-course/
O’Brien, A. (2024c). Meta-Critical Analysis: The “Science” of Pseudoscience. In Healer and Healing: The re-education of the healer and the healing profession as an advocation. Re-educational and Training Manual and Guide. Appendix 3. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/courses/addiction-as-dissociation-model-course/
O’Brien, A. (2024d). Moral-Ethics. In Healer and Healing: The re-education of the healer andhealing professions as an advocation. Re-educational and Training Manual and Guide. Chapter 14. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2024e). Path of the Wounded Healers for Thrivers: Perfectionism, Altruism, and Ambition Addictions; Re-education and training manual for Abusers, Activists, Batterers, Bullies, Enablers, Killers, Narcissists, Offenders, Parents, Perpetrators, and Warriors. Re-Education and Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
