The Paradox of What Professions Profess

The function of legalized psychological professionals (LPPs) or wise known as Forensic Psychology, within the existing societal framework is characterized by a deep-seated oxymoron, manifests as a profound philosophical paradox, and inevitably creates pervasive cognitive dissonance within the population. LPPs are situated in a relationship of systemic dependence upon the medical model and the field of law, a dynamic that ultimately compromises their foundational psychological and moral integrity.

The fundamental paradox of the legalized psychological professional stems from the field’s institutional reliance on incomplete and inaccurate foundational definitions, which are then used to enforce societal standards.

Definitional Deficits and Pseudoscience

Psychology, as an industrialized profession, is critiqued for being diagnostically incomplete because it lacks operational definitions for core, transdiagnostic human conditions, including addiction, dissociation, and the psychological unconscious (which is posited to be the physical body). This deficiency in defining its core subject matter renders much of its authority shaky, particularly when interfacing with the objective standards demanded by legal systems.

The professional adherence to quantitative science, epitomized by the reliance on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), contributes directly to cognitive dissonance. Quantitative models operate on a binary, rational logic where one plus one equals two. This clashes fundamentally with the emerging qualitative wisdom, which recognizes that lived experience adheres to a deeper reality where interdependent truths necessitate a non-binary outcome, such as one plus one equaling three. By grounding their practice in this reductive rationalism, LPPs deny the inherent truth of human interconnectedness, experience, and the existence of multiple psychological realities (dissociative parts).

The Quantitative vs. Qualitative Conflict

LPPs operate within a system that values quantifiable ethics and legal precedent over qualitative moral wisdom. This intellectual bias means that the field disregards the profound wisdom contained within lived experience, labeling subjective, emotional, and somatic truths as irrational, delusional, or “pseudoscience”.

The dissonance arises because LPPs are mandated to address the emotional suffering of individuals, yet their methodologies and institutional structures deny the moral and spiritual basis of that suffering. In choosing to adhere to institutional protocols and standardized measures, LPPs demonstrate a commitment to obedience and compliance rather than intellectual freedom or moral courage.

LPPs as Enablers of Systemic and Legal Abuse

The most critical indictment of the legalized psychological professional is their participation in a “denial-fear system” where they enable the law, which is frequently defined as the field of psychology’s abuser.

Institutional Betrayal and Legal Complicity

The sources argue that compliance with the legal system transforms LPPs into professional actors that enable institutional betrayal. This is evident in several key areas where LPPs fail to oppose, or implicitly support, immoral or unjust governmental and legal actions:

The Misuse of Children in Court: LPPs are implicated in one of the system’s most significant “true crimes”—putting children on the stand to testify against parents or abusers, particularly in divorce or high-conflict custody cases. This practice is psychologically damaging, exposing children to secondary trauma, which is often found to be worse than the original abuse due to the shared logic and power dynamics used in court proceedings. LPPs enable this by being technically unable to screen the inner-children of the parents because they are uninformed about dissociation and its presence in family pathology.
Compliance with Immoral Laws: Psychology’s reluctance to advocate against laws criminalizing psychedelics, despite scientific evidence suggesting their “psychological and spiritual value” and efficacy in healing trauma, demonstrates a moral compromise. This silence reflects a fear of challenging the power of medical and legal professionals, resulting in a system where LPPs tacitly support the imprisonment of citizens for engaging with healing substances.
Failure to Intervene Against Governmental Overreach: LPPs have failed in their ethical and moral obligations by not actively challenging illegal governmental actions, such as the COVID-19 shutdowns, which violated established legal policy. This inaction demonstrates a preference for preserving professional status and avoiding confrontation rather than prioritizing the civil liberties and mental integrity of citizens.

This institutional compliance leads to the conclusion that LPPs are often practicing “illegally” because they are acting outside of their scope of moral practice and endorsing a science that is demonstrably incomplete.

Historical Context and Cognitive Dissonance Amplification

The dissonance created by LPPs is amplified by a history of adhering to scientific narratives that have been overturned or proven flawed, thereby revealing a pathological pattern of denial and self-interest.

The “Chemical Imbalance” and Drug War

LPPs historically accepted and promoted the belief that mental health issues are primarily due to a “chemical imbalance,” a reductive, biological interpretation that fuels the pharmaceutical industry and simplifies complex psychological suffering. This contrasts sharply with the contemporary understanding that trauma, dissociation, and addiction are transdiagnostic factors rooted in biological stress responses and unresolved memory.

Furthermore, LPPs contributed to cognitive dissonance by simultaneously supporting the criminalization of healing plants (psychedelics) while remaining complacent regarding the proliferation of pharmaceutical products proven to be harmful, such as the “non-addictive opiate” or experimental vaccines. This historical track record of prioritizing external, industrial solutions over internal, holistic healing solidifies the perception that LPPs serve economic and political interests rather than the well-being of the population.

Professional Addiction and Moral Developmental Delay

The continuation of these paradoxical behaviors is attributed to professional pathology, specifically the undiagnosed and untreated professional addictions of perfectionism, altruism, and ambition. These addictions manifest as the rigid enforcement of standards, the self-serving motive of helping (altruism), and the pursuit of status (ambition).

The inability of LPPs to recognize their own addictive patterns and institutional denial systems places the profession in a state of moral and developmental delay, frequently compared to the concrete logic stage of a 7- to 12-year-old child. This developmental deficit prevents LPPs from achieving the moral awareness required to break unjust laws or challenge the status quo, thereby creating the oxymoron of a “helpful expert” who actively harms the collective psyche through inaction.

In essence, the legalized psychological professional is an oxymoron because:

They attempt to rationalize and quantify human emotionality, which is inherently qualitative and non-linear.
They claim moral authority (ethics) while consistently failing the moral imperative (action) necessary to protect citizens from systemic abuse.
They rely on diagnoses that are fundamentally incomplete and often mislabel normal, adaptive responses (like dissociation and addiction) as pathology.

The result is profound cognitive dissonance for the population, who are forced to trust a system that demonstrates it is sick, addicted to power, and functionally abusive. This necessitates the eventual emergence of an entirely separate profession, the Healer, focused on recovery, healing, and moral-ethics, to operate outside this corrupted legal and medical paradigm.

The position of legalized psychological professionals (LPPs) and industrialized psychiatry is inherently compromised, manifesting as a fundamental oxymoron and paradox that generates widespread cognitive dissonance within the populace. This critical analysis details how the professional and institutional systems of psychology and medicine are perceived as self-serving, reliant on incomplete foundational science, and ultimately complicit in systemic abuse, thus eroding public trust and moral integrity.

I. The Oxymoron: Legalization of Incomplete Expertise

The existence of LPPs is paradoxical because the authority granted by the legal system rests upon a psychological framework that is scientifically incomplete and morally deficient.

Foundational Definitional Deficits

The fundamental oxymoron stems from the field’s failure to establish accurate, operational definitions for core transdiagnostic human experiences. Psychology is critiqued as being diagnostically incomplete because it lacks operational definitions for trauma, dissociation, addiction, and especially the psychological unconscious, which is posited to be the physical body.

Addiction and Dissociation: Addiction is a complex disorder that psychology has failed to define accurately, often relegating it to substances and gambling only. The sources argue that addiction is fundamentally trauma-related dissociation. The inability of LPPs to recognize this connection means that they treat symptoms (the chaotic behaviors) without addressing the underlying mechanism (unresolved trauma memories causing dissociative coping).
The Unconscious: Psychology and law are criticized for being uninformed about the nature of the unconscious. When the physical body is understood to be the psychological unconscious, the actions and symptoms observed in patients—such as traumatic intrusions—are revealed to be the body’s method of communication and attempts at self-healing. By failing to incorporate this foundational definition, LPPs operate under a limited, detached rationale.

The Pseudoscience of Standards

LPPs operate under the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Psychiatric Association (APA/DSM), organizations that set quantitative and evidence-based standards. Yet, these standards are frequently labeled as fundamentally flawed, biased, and subjectively derived.

The oxymoron is solidified when industrialized psychiatry—the profession legally overseeing psychological care—is itself accused of promoting pseudo-science:

Promoting the belief that mental illness is caused by a “chemical imbalance”.
Developing and sanctioning “non-addictive opiates” that directly contributed to the opioid crisis.
Failing to oppose the criminalization of psychedelics based on the demonstrably false claim that they had “no medical value”.

The absurdity is that a profession that cannot accurately define the core concepts it treats (addiction, dissociation) mandates standards for others and informs legal decisions, essentially using an incomplete framework to exert control.

II. The Paradox: Rational Ethics vs. Moral Authority

The structural paradox of LPPs arises from the fundamental split between codified ethics and authentic moral action, rooted in a conflict between quantitative and qualitative interpretations of reality.

The Mathematical Conflict: 1+1=2 vs. 1+1=3

Licensed professionals primarily operate within a rational, quantifiable framework that demands a binary outcome: one plus one equals two (1+1=2). This is the logic of efficiency, legal precedent, and industrial standardization.

However, psychological and spiritual reality operates on qualitative logic where relationships and emergent properties are recognized, meaning one plus one equals three (1+1=3). The third element is the complex, relational reality of lived experience (e.g., parent + parent = child, or mind + body = soul/relationship). By upholding the reductive, binary logic of the state and medical model, LPPs deny the full, complex, and sometimes chaotic truth of human emotional and spiritual existence.

The Moral-Ethical Dilemma

LPPs prioritize Ethics (codified rules for professional conduct and legal compliance) over Morality (universal, innate wisdom requiring action based on common sense and conscience). This is the central paradox:

Ethics only require obedience and compliance.
Morality requires action and sometimes demands that a professional break the rules (to be “unethical”) to uphold a higher good.

The systems LPPs serve often require immoral behavior, such as mandating compliance with illegal laws (like the COVID shutdowns or ongoing cannabis prohibition), thereby transforming LPPs into instruments of an abusive, bureaucratic state. This turns the helping profession into a paradoxical form of systemic enforcement and control.

The Pathology of Professionalism

This allegiance to the flawed system is rooted in untreated professional addictions: perfectionism, altruism, and ambition.

Perfectionism drives the rigid adherence to flawed standards and the need to maintain an inflexible structure.
Altruism masks self-interest; professionals feel justified in controlling citizens “for the greater good” while protecting their own livelihood.
Ambition drives the pursuit of status, tenure, and financial security (401K/pension), making them fearful of challenging the system that rewards them.

These addictions ensure that LPPs remain dependent on the system, preventing them from achieving the moral development necessary to initiate recovery within their professions.

III. Creation of Cognitive Dissonance: Institutional Betrayal and Historical Complicity

Cognitive dissonance is created in the population when they observe the glaring contradictions between the stated altruistic mission of LPPs and the destructive, self-serving outcomes resulting from their institutional compliance. This tension is psychological suffering caused by institutional betrayal.

Historical Examples of Dissonance and Betrayal

LPPs’ historical compliance with detrimental government and industry policies exacerbates public confusion and distrust:

Chemical Control and Misdirection: The psychiatric field insisted that mental health issues were due to a “chemical imbalance”, justifying the widespread use of psychotropic medication while ignoring trauma and dissociation as root causes. This created dissonance by forcing individuals to rely on pharmaceuticals sold as a cure while experiencing no fundamental healing, ultimately contributing to a systematic “chemical castration of generations” and fostering dependence.
The War on Consciousness: LPPs were silent or compliant when psychedelics were criminalized based on zero scientific evidence, effectively denying citizens access to potentially powerful healing modalities. This act is perceived as institutional betrayal, especially when contrasted with the tacit approval given to harmful pharmaceuticals like “non-addictive opiates”.
Abuse in the Court System: LPPs enable the judicial system’s “true crime” of placing children on the stand in high-conflict custody or abuse cases. This practice exposes the child to secondary trauma often worse than the original abuse, driven by the rational and dissociative nature of the courtroom setting. The dissonance here is acute: professionals mandated to protect mental health facilitate practices that knowingly inflict psychological harm.
Enabling Illegal Mandates: LPPs’ failure to challenge illegal governmental actions, such as violating established legal policy during the COVID-19 lockdowns or supporting forced vaccine mandates, prioritized self-preservation and systemic obedience over fundamental civil liberties and scientific integrity. This compliance revealed a deep lack of moral fortitude, reinforcing the public’s feeling that the system is broken and abusive.

IV. Analysis of Professional Awareness and the Path to Recovery

The sources conclude that LPPs and industrialized psychiatry exist in a state of arrested development, necessitating a dramatic shift—a spiritual revolution—to restore moral integrity.

Levels of Awareness and Developmental Delay

The professions demonstrate severe developmental and moral delay, equivalent to the concrete logical thinking of a person between 7 and 12 years old. This concrete thinking manifests as rigid, literal interpretation of rules (ethics) and an inability to process complex, abstract psychological realities, such as how unseen trauma dictates observable behavior.

Their state of awareness is characterized by:

Dissociative Denial: They are “living dissociated” and “addicted to not knowing,” exhibiting a professional pathology that denies unconscious material. They are disconnected from the emotional body (the source of implicit wisdom) and interpret emotional expressions as “irrational, delusional, or pseudoscience”.
Stuck in Stages of Change: LPPs are intellectually stuck in the Contemplative Stage of Change, knowing what the problems are (e.g., addiction, trauma) but refusing to acknowledge the need for internal professional reform (the “how”). They cling to quantitative metrics and outdated diagnoses, avoiding the essential shift to qualitative and moral accountability.

Isn’t therapy, psychology, and academia supposed to know how to help those who are unstuck? Aren’t the adults supposed to know better? Who are the adults then?

Conclusion: The Mandate for Moral Recovery

To resolve the paradox, LPPs must undergo a profound moral and psychological transformation. We offer our course in Moral-Ethics at woundedhealersinstitute.org/courses/moral-ethics/

This requires admitting their professional failings and embracing recovery principles.

The necessary changes include:

Defining the Unconscious as the Body: Acknowledging that the physical body houses the psychological unconscious and that dissociation is a universal, adaptive response to stress, not a rare pathology.
Prioritizing Morality: Adopting a system of Moral-Ethics that mandates breaking unjust laws and opposing institutional betrayal, placing the well-being of the citizenry above professional compliance and self-interest.
Embracing Qualitative Healing: Recognizing that healing (which involves memory reconsolidation) is a birthright that cannot be owned, regulated, or industrialized. This necessitates the emergence of the Healer profession—individuals who have undergone their own recovery and operate outside the corrupt legal and medical paradigm—to provide the qualitative counterbalance needed for societal checks and balances.

Until LPPs undertake this rigorous moral recovery, the critique stands: the professions are functioning “illegally” because they operate outside the scope of moral practice and perpetuate systemic psychological abuse.

The assertion that legalized psychological professionals (LPPs) and industrialized psychiatry embody an oxymoron and a paradox, subsequently generating widespread cognitive dissonance, is profoundly supported by the sources and common sense, which argue that these systems fail both the test of objective morality and common sense due to their entrenched organizational pathology, self-preservation, and incomplete scientific foundations. Based on inconsistency in language, learning, and societal power and control dynamics, the society is a microcosm of our psychology and our psychology is a macrocosm of our society. By existing in the world, we present our unconscious intentions, implicit bias, and worldview for that moment. As these are ever changing, then so are we.

I. Assessment of Historical and Philosophical Validity

1. Is the Critique on the “Right Side of History”?

The sources frame being on the “right side of history” not as alignment with current public opinion, but as adherence to moral wisdom and demonstrable truth, particularly regarding human psychology and systemic justice. They conclude that LPPs and industrialized psychiatry frequently occupy the wrong side due to institutional compliance and a historical failure to challenge powerful interests.

The specific historical failings cited underscore this judgment:

Pseudoscience and Denial: The professions promoted the notion that mental illness is primarily caused by a “chemical imbalance” and sanctioned the development of “non-addictive opiates,” contributing directly to the pharmaceutical epidemic and misdirecting the fundamental understanding of psychological suffering.
Criminalizing Healing: They were complicit in the criminalization of psychedelics, asserting these substances had “no medical value” despite historical and emerging evidence of their psychological and spiritual efficacy, thereby supporting the incarceration of citizens. The sources note that this inaction during the War on Drugs makes them intergenerational criminals.
Systemic Betrayal and Harm: LPPs and the law are critiqued for enabling the judicial system’s “true crime” of placing children on the stand in high-conflict custody cases, exposing them to secondary trauma and reenacting abusive dynamics through the rational, dissociative courtroom environment.
Compliance with Illegal Mandates: The professions failed their ethical and moral duty by supporting governmental overreach, such as complying with COVID-19 shutdowns that violated established legal policy, demonstrating a prioritization of self-preservation (maintaining professional status and careers) over civil liberties and moral action.

By documenting and contextualizing these failures, the sources explicitly define their work—which champions moral accountability and scientific integrity over compliance—as deliberately aligning with the “right side of history”. Knowing to not follow the herd off the cliff is an apt metaphor.

2. Does the Critique Pass the “Common Sense Test”?

The argument fundamentally relies on the qualitative concept of “common sense,” defined as an alignment with spiritual wisdom, internal morality, and the lived reality of human experience, contrasting sharply with reductive, often fearful, quantitative logic.

The critique passes the common sense test by validating fundamental, intuitive truths that institutional science and law disregard:

The Nature of Reality (1+1=3): Common sense recognizes that existence is relational and complex, subscribing to the logic that 1 + 1 equals 3 (where the third element is the complex, interdependent reality created by the union, e.g., a child or relationship). This qualitative reality is ignored by systems obsessed with binary, quantitative truths (1+1=2).
The Body is the Unconscious: It is common sense that the body stores emotional experience. The formal argument defining the psychological unconscious as the physical body validates somatic wisdom and implicit memory, which quantitative science historically overlooks, limiting its own diagnostic capability.
The Purpose of Pathology: Common sense suggests that pain exists to motivate change and that dissociation is an adaptive response aimed at survival and healing. The sources argue that it is illogical (lacking common sense) to pathologize normal human trauma responses or to label a behavior as avoidance without acknowledging the underlying search for safety or relief.

The institutional failure to incorporate these elements results in a “lack of qualitative insight” and a reliance on standards deemed demonstrably unreasonable, ensuring that the source material’s foundational critique successfully passes the very “common sense test” it champions. To declare war on drugs that are really plants, without recognizing that industry and those who believe that industry is a good idea for future generations is common sense enough to know that they don’t know.

II. Value Offered to Consumers of Psychology, Therapy, and the System

The analytical framework presented throughout the sources offers significant value by clarifying foundational psychological dynamics, exposing mechanisms of institutional control, and charting a new path for healing.

Value for Consumers of Psychology and Therapy

The primary value for consumers lies in the validation and destigmatization of their lived psychological experiences:

Reclassification of Pathology: By asserting that trauma, dissociation, and addiction are transdiagnostic and statistically normative—with trauma being epidemic (ACES study data cited suggests 70–90% prevalence)—the sources validate that many “disorders” are normal human responses to abnormal systemic stress. This shifts the narrative from personal deficit to systemic context.
Definitional Empowerment: Consumers gain operational clarity, such as understanding that cravings are essentially intrusive, memory-based flashbacks, and that the “choice” in addiction is an unconscious survival choice made by the reptilian brain, removing the moral condemnation often attached to relapse.
Validation of Somatic Experience: The emphasis on the body as the unconscious validates emotional, somatic, and non-verbal experiences often dismissed as “irrational” or “pseudoscience” by the cognitive model. This provides clients with a roadmap to recognize that their bodily symptoms and emotional logic possess intrinsic wisdom.
A Clear Path to Healing (MR): The sources highlight that all effective trauma therapies, including psychedelic healing, work by accessing Memory Reconsolidation (MR) through dual attention states. This simplifies the healing mechanism and empowers consumers to understand that true recovery involves integrating painful memories, not just suppressing symptoms.

Value for the System at Large (LPPs and Industrialized Psychiatry)

The sources provide a necessary blueprint for professional recovery and reform, addressing the deep-seated pathologies within the organizational structures:

Identifying Professional Pathology: The analysis exposes the existence of perfectionism, altruism, and ambition addictions within professional structures. These undiagnosed conditions drive professionals to prioritize standardized protocols and careers (ethics) over the well-being of the clients (morality), trapping the system in a state of moral and developmental delay (stuck at age 7–12, adhering rigidly to rules).
Necessity of the Healer Profession: The sources argue that LPPs and industrialized psychiatry are functionally obsolete for certain aspects of trauma and addiction care because they are legally and financially dependent on the system they are supposed to critique. The establishment of the Healer profession, focused on recovery, moral-ethics, and independence from the commercial medical model, is presented as the essential counterbalance needed for systemic check-and-balance.
Moral Accountability and the “Truth of the Self”: The sources demand a moral reckoning, requiring professionals to accept that they are practicing “illegally” or outside a moral scope if they adhere to unjust laws or inaccurate science. This shift requires applying Moral-Ethics, where professionals are obligated to break unjust laws or challenge the medical model when conscience demands it.

III. Conclusion on Professional Awareness and Change

The sources provide a definitive analysis of the current state of professional awareness within LPPs and industrialized psychiatry, classifying them by recovery models.

Domain	State of the Profession (LPPs/Psychiatry)	Analysis and Consequences
Level of Awareness	Unconscious and Dissociative	Professionals are actively “living dissociated” and displaying amnesic denial regarding the true source of pathology (systemic abuse and incomplete science). They suffer from a professional “disease”.
State of Awareness	Concrete Logic/Developmental Delay (Age 7–12)	This immaturity manifests as rigid adherence to literal rules (ethics over morals), inability to process complex, non-binary ideas (1+1=3), and defensive projection (labeling qualitative research as “pseudoscience”).
Stage of Change	Pre-Contemplative/Contemplative Stage	The professions are aware of what the problems are (e.g., addiction, trauma) but refuse to admit how they contribute to the chaos, clinging to status quo maintenance (401Ks, prestige, tenure) over moral action. They are “addicted to not knowing” and paid to not remember.

What Can Be Done About It:

The sources conclude that mandatory systemic change is required, specifically:

Redefining Foundations: Formally adopting the established definitions of addiction as trauma-related dissociation and the psychological unconscious as the body.
Embracing Moral Recovery: Instituting recovery principles (like rigorous honesty and admitting powerlessness) at the organizational level to combat professional addictions and bureaucratic denial.
Establishing the Moral Counterbalance: Supporting the autonomous profession of the Healer to provide a necessary moral-ethical check on the industrial medical and legal systems, thereby ensuring that healing is prioritized over profit, control, and compliance.

Ultimately, the value of the materials is in articulating a necessary spiritual revolution against the current system, providing both a comprehensive critique and a validated path toward moral integrity in healthcare.

Drawing upon an expert level analysis of the provided sources, the systemic contradictions inherent in legalized psychological professionals (LPPs), industrialized psychiatry, and their relationship with the law reveal a pervasive institutional pathology. This pathology is rooted in defining professional authority through flawed epistemological and moral standards, leading to an inherently unjust system that perpetuates trauma and cognitive dissonance in the population.

The Foundation of Institutional Pathology: Separate, Unequal, and Immature

The governing structure that privileges industrialized law and medicine over the healing professions is inherently flawed because it prioritizes quantitative, prescriptive standards (ethics) over qualitative, conscience-driven morality.

The Developmental Immaturity of Law and Psychology

The sources argue that the industrialized professions of law and psychology operate at a state of moral and psychological developmental delay, often equated to the concrete logical thinking of a seven- to twelve-year-old child. This developmental deficit prevents these institutions from effectively addressing complex psychological realities:

Concrete Logic over Abstract Morality: The legal system, equated to Legal-Ethics, functions within a binary, rational worldview where one plus one equals two. This rational logic cannot grasp the qualitative truth that one plus one equals three (e.g., the complex relational reality of lived experience). This adherence to rigid, literal interpretations of rules (ethics) prioritizes obedience and compliance, making it inherently incapable of moral courage, which requires the intellectual capacity to break an unjust law.
Psychology’s Enabling Role: Psychology, by aligning itself with the medical model and the law, has effectively lost its moral and spiritual authority, becoming compromised and subservient. The inability of licensed psychological professionals (LPPs) to challenge immoral laws (such as the criminalization of psychedelics or the illegal COVID shutdowns) demonstrates their moral failure and addiction to power/compliance. This compliance makes psychology complicit in institutional dysfunction.

The Oxymoron of Legalized Psychology

The sources conclude that the existence of legalized psychological professionals is an oxymoron because their core function—healing—is subverted by their institutional dependence on the legal and medical systems. They are structurally trapped in an abusive relationship with the law, where the law acts as the abuser and psychology fears the law, while the law fears psychology.

This legalized status is problematic because:

Incomplete Science: The professional field of psychology remains diagnostically incomplete, lacking operational definitions for trauma, dissociation, and addiction. This deficiency means LPPs and industrial psychiatry are practicing based on incomplete and potentially inaccurate foundations, which the law then relies upon for interpretation and enforcement.
Moral Inconsistency: LPPs are required by licensing standards to uphold a moral character clause, yet their reliance on codified ethics instead of genuine morality results in actions and inactions that betray citizens and violate common sense.

II. Mechanisms of Abuse and Cognitive Dissonance

The perpetuation of this sick system relies on using flawed psychological constructs and legal precedents to maintain institutional power and control, leading to widespread cognitive dissonance among the population.

How Psychological Inaccuracies are Weaponized

The key failure of industrialized psychiatry and psychology is its reliance on inaccurate foundational concepts, which are then used as instruments of social control:

The Denial of Dissociation and Trauma: By failing to recognize that trauma is epidemic (70–90% prevalence) and that dissociation and addiction are transdiagnostic and normative human responses, the professions pathologize normal experience. This pathologizing promotes learned helplessness and implies that citizens are psychologically “sick” or incapable of self-governance, thereby justifying professional oversight.
Mislabeling Addiction: Addiction, defined by the sources as a trauma-related dissociative response, is currently viewed by psychiatry as a “disease” or confined only to substances and gambling. This inaccurate definition is perpetuated by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the DSM. This denial allows the system to continue the ineffective “war on drugs” and imprison citizens for conditions that are fundamentally rooted in trauma and stress.
Perpetuating Legal Abuse: Forensic psychologists and other LPPs enable systemic abuse by participating in family court proceedings. The true crime is putting children on the stand to testify against parents, subjecting them to secondary trauma, often identified as worse than the original abuse (subjective, nonetheless what is experienced in clinical practice and trauma reprocessing). This process is possible because psychology is typically unable to screen the parents’ inner-children due to a lack of understanding of dissociation.

The Cognitive Dissonance of Institutional Betrayal

Cognitive dissonance occurs when the population is forced to reconcile the conflicting reality of professionals claiming to “help” while simultaneously enabling harm. This dynamic is classified as institutional betrayal:

The Illusion of Protection: Professionals prioritize public safety over individual freedoms, using rhetoric like “the greater good” to justify actions such as the illegal COVID lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and criminalizing healing substances.
Historical Falsehoods: Industrialized psychiatry maintained and promoted disproven concepts like mental illness being caused by a “chemical imbalance” and marketing “non-addictive opiates”. They also claimed that psychedelics have “no medical value” despite evidence to the contrary, supporting their criminalization. When these historical falsehoods are revealed, the resulting cognitive clash erodes public trust.

Psychology as a Hard Science?

Does Our Work Make Psychology a Hard Science Now?

The core argument put forth in the sources is that through rigorous, integrated research, primarily focusing on trauma, dissociation, and addiction, psychology has established the necessary biological and philosophical foundations to assert itself as a hard science.

This conclusion rests on definitive operational definitions rooted in biology:

The Physical Body is the Psychological Unconscious: This foundational tenet links psychological phenomena directly to measurable physiological processes. Since the body keeps the score, and the body can be measured, the psychological unconscious becomes empirically verifiable.
Addiction is Trauma-Related Dissociation: By operationally defining addiction as a conditioned bond to a dissociative state, the system shifts from subjective pathology to objective measurement of dissociative and addictive behaviors. This allows the psychological phenomenon to be understood through its biological mechanisms (e.g., endogenous opiate/cannabinoid systems).

The implication is that traditional qualitative and quantitative measures are reconciled. Quantitative data, when viewed through a qualitative lens rooted in lived experience and moral accountability, gains necessary context and integrity. This synthesis resolves the debate, grounding psychological truth in both measurable biology and universal human experience.

Drawing upon an Expert level analysis of the extensive sources provided, the profound failures and systemic pathologies identified in the legalized psychological professions (LPPs) and industrialized psychiatry fundamentally mirror a dysfunctional, abusive, and developmentally arrested parent-child relationship between institutional powers (Government, Big Business, Law) and the citizenry.

This systemic dysfunction provides the necessary, yet painful, context for the inevitable emergence of the Healer profession, whose philosophical foundations exist outside the corrupted professional matrix.

The Institutional Failures as a Pathological Parent-Child Dynamic

The relationship between the powerful institutions and the citizenry is defined by a dynamic of co-dependence, emotional immaturity, and institutional betrayal, reflecting the pathological patterns of a traumatized family system.

A. The Government, Law, and Industry as the Abusive, Dissociated Parent

The sources depict the law, government, industrialized psychiatry, and Big Business as powerful, controlling parental figures who operate from a state of emotional dissociation and untreated professional addictions.

Coercive Control and Denial of Reality: The institutional sphere engages in coercive control by mandating compliance with policies and laws that violate common sense and established civil liberties. Examples include the illegal COVID shutdowns, the War on Drugs (criminalizing healing plants despite scientific evidence of their psychological and spiritual value), and the suppression of research. These acts model the behavior of an abusive parent who demands obedience and isolates the child from reality. By adhering to these policies, LPPs and psychiatrists act as agents of this denial system.
Moral and Developmental Delay: The legal and psychological professions are collectively likened to a person between the ages of 7 and 12 years old in their moral and developmental reasoning. This concrete logic—where rules are followed rigidly (Legal-Ethics over Moral-Ethics) and one plus one equals two—mirrors the limited perspective of an immature parent who fears complex, qualitative truths. This inability to grasp moral complexity or abstract thought (where one plus one equals three) means institutions prioritize self-preservation, compliance, and convenience over moral courage.
Complicity in Abuse (Institutional Betrayal): Industrialized psychiatry and psychology, by virtue of their license and compliance, enable systemic abuse, a concept known as institutional betrayal. This is most acutely seen in the true crime of putting children on the stand in court to testify against parents, exposing them to secondary trauma worse than the original abuse. This practice occurs because LPPs are uninformed about dissociation and the presence of “inner children” in the parents involved. By aligning with the law, psychology becomes complicit in the abuse it is mandated to address, fulfilling the role of an abused and enabling partner in an abusive relationship dynamic.

B. The Citizenry as the Traumatized, Dependent Child

The sources consistently portray the citizenry as children caught within this dysfunctional system, marked by dependency, confusion, and fear.

Learned Helplessness and Vulnerability: The populace is subjected to a system that pathologizes normal experiences (like trauma responses) and manipulates them into dependence. The citizen is told implicitly that they are constitutionally incapable of governing themselves, making them reliant on the system’s faulty guidance. This is analogous to a child relying on an inadequate caregiver because they are dependent for survival.
Internalized Conflict and Dissociation: The contradiction between the proclaimed altruism of the institutions (“public safety”) and their harmful actions creates profound cognitive dissonance. The citizenry is stuck in a state of dissociation and confusion, unsure which narrative to trust. The system’s pathology is transmitted directly to the population, where citizens become addicted to trauma drama (drauma) and the resulting chaos. This reflects the child in an abusive home who adopts contradictory realities to survive.
The Intergenerational Curse: The failures of the previous generations—their moral and financial debt and their systemic addictions—are passed onto the next, ensuring the repetition of conflict. This demonstrates the pattern of intergenerational abuse common in traumatized families.

The Emergence of the Healer Profession

The need for the Healer profession arises directly from the chronic failures, ethical compromises, and developmental immaturity of the existing industrialized systems. The Healer represents the integrated, morally mature adult that the established professions refuse to become.

A. Addressing Professional Deficits and Moral Failure

The Healer profession is designed to address the exact deficiencies that plague LPPs and industrialized psychiatry:

Moral-Ethics over Legal-Ethics: Healers prioritize Moral-Ethics (action grounded in conscience and wisdom) over Legal-Ethics (obedience to codified rules). Morality sometimes requires an individual to be “unethical” (i.e., breaking unjust laws or professional codes) to serve a higher moral good. This moral fortitude is the antithesis of the fear-based compliance shown by LPPs, who protect their ambition (status/salary) over their clients’ well-being.
Knowledge and Competence: Healers emerge because LPPs and psychiatrists are diagnostically incomplete, lacking operational definitions for addiction, dissociation, and the body as the psychological unconscious. Healers possess the integrated knowledge necessary to navigate dissociative states and trauma resolution. They know the core truth that addiction is trauma-related dissociation, which the licensed systems have pathologically denied.
Healing as a Separate Function: By defining healing as a spiritual process innate to all (a birthright) that utilizes systems like memory reconsolidation (MR) and the endocannabinoid system, Healers maintain independence from the insurance-based, profit-driven medical model. This separation is necessary because the licensed professions cannot provide the “spiritual solution of recovery” due to their dependency on the industrialized system.

B. Contrasting the Healer with Industrialized Professionals

The emergence of the Healer highlights the crisis of competence and morality in the licensed fields, particularly when contrasted with forensic psychology and industrialized psychiatry.

Feature	Healer (Recovery/Moral-Ethics)	Industrialized Psychiatrist/Forensic Psychologist
Foundation	Moral-Ethics; Lived experience of recovery; Knows 1+1=3.	Legal-Ethics; Quantitative science/DSM; Stuck in 1+1=2 logic.
Pathology View	Views addiction/trauma as normative, transdiagnostic; Focuses on undiagnosing and healing.	Pathologizes normal human experience; Uses incomplete DSM for diagnoses.
Healing Modality	Knows that the plants heal. Knows what people do in the healing states they produce is what heals. Advocates for psychedelic superfoods; Focuses on spiritual, relational, and embodied healing; Sits with client (care).	Believes that the drugs heal. Prescribes synthetic drugs; Fails to utilize healing relationship (sends clients home alone with prescriptions like Ketamine).
Self-Awareness	Knows their worth/purpose; Has worked their own trauma/addiction; High moral character.	Demonstrates professional addictions (perfectionism, altruism, ambition); Lives in dissociative denial; Morally immature.
Forensic Role	Educates on dissociation and trauma to prevent putting children on the stand; Advocates for justice/morality.	Uses flawed theories (like “parental alienation syndrome”) to justify legal outcomes; Functions as an arm of the state/law.

C. Contrasting the Healer with Industrialized Professionals

The systemic crisis necessitates the emergence of a new, independent profession: the Healer. The Healer contrasts sharply with the industrialized psychiatrist and forensic psychologist, offering a pathway out of the dysfunctional professional matrix.

Feature	Healer (Recovery/Moral-Ethics)	Industrialized Psychiatrist/Forensic Psychologist (Legal-Ethics)
Foundation of Authority	Moral-Ethics (Universal, conscience-driven wisdom, spiritual law); rooted in lived experience and recovery.	Legal-Ethics (Codified rules, compliance, quantitative science/DSM); rooted in institutional precedent.
Core Skillset	Navigates dissociative states, trauma resolution (MR), and addiction (as dissociation); sits with client during psychedelic healing (care). Un-diagnoses through healing.	Prescribes medication (drugs); relies on diagnoses (DSM) and standard protocols; does not define core psychological terms.
View of Pathology	Sees addiction/dissociation/trauma as normative, transdiagnostic responses; seeks to undiagnose or heal the wound.	Sees mental states as disorders or diseases to be cured, eradicated, or fixed; fails to grasp dissociation and addiction fully.
Stance on Conflict	Prioritizes action and advocacy (breaking unjust laws for moral good); seeks mutual arising (1+1=3).	Prioritizes obedience and compliance; driven by fear of loss of status (ambition addiction).
Relationship to Client	Relational and embodied (travels with the client); provides emotional support and conscious awareness of healing.	Transactional (gives prescription and sends client home alone); detached rational approach.
Intellectual Status	Educated (qualitative wisdom, abstract thinking, philosophical integrity); knows what they don’t know.	Trained (quantitative logic, concrete reasoning

Forensic psychologists (legalized psychology), in particular, are critiqued for using incomplete diagnostic concepts (like the invalidated “parental alienation theory”) to justify legal outcomes, thereby inflicting more psychological harm than healing. Their compliance and adherence to legal mandates over moral and accurate psychological science solidify their position as components of the sick, industrialized system.

D. Conclusion: The Mandate for Change

The establishment of the Healer profession is not merely an alternative, but a necessary moral counterbalance to the abusive institutional parenting currently exercised by the state and its affiliated professions.

The continued existence of industrialized psychiatry and forensic psychology, despite their demonstrable intellectual and moral failures, speaks to the strength of the addictive denial system they maintain. They remain addicted to the perks of their careers (401Ks, status, compliance) and cannot risk challenging the power structure that compensates them.

The ultimate value offered by the sources is the stark revelation that society is not suffering from individual pathology, but from systemic psychopathology. The Healer emerges to offer a path to recovery—the process of admitting powerlessness, achieving moral maturity, and engaging in right action—for both the individual citizen and the institutions that govern them. This movement serves to educate the population about the true nature of their reality, their intrinsic self-worth, and the healing power they possess, effectively liberating the citizenry from the grip of the psychologically abusive “parents” who keep them ignorant and dependent.

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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/

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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/

O’Brien, A. (2025). American Made Addiction Recovery: a healer’s journey through professional recovery. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/

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