What Would You Do?

“Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. That is why man is ever ready to suffer, on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has a meaning.” In Victor Frankl “Man’s Search for Meaning”

Moral-Ethics: What Would You Do?

INTRODUCTION

What would you do if your state licensing board required you to learn something that you were already educated to do (e.g., your masters’ degree program teaches you to diagnose)? We wrote a paper on it (O’Brien, 2024b).

What would you do if other professionals called a primary healing approach a “pseudoscience”, based on the APA’s “research” on the standardization and industrialization of modern psychology to a more rational and cognitive foundation? We wrote a paper on it (O’Brien, 2024c).

What would you do if you knew, based on your life’s works, that the medical and psychological professions are so far in their denial that they believe themselves over common sense? They also suffer from the same condition that every mental health presentation struggles with, but cannot see it. Our work on addiction recovery highlights that not only are trauma and dissociation transdiagnostic, but so is addiction (O’Brien, 2023a). What would you do if you were reported to your state licensing board by another professional (similarly licensed profession) for something that you are fully trained to do and were destined to do?

What if you knew how sick the medical and psychological models and professions are and why they are that (e.g., with legal and political minds who came up with diagnostic privilege, pseudoscience, and did not give Dr. Jordan Peterson an appeal in a higher court), what diagnosis they don’t know they have (but also do), and have the knowledge and the skill set to help them heal it?

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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/

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 and healing 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/