Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words What Happens When You Tell Therapists That Whiteness Is a Disease? | Dr. Andrew Hartz
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Feb 27, 2026 Dr. Andrew Hartz, clinical psychologist and founder of the Open Therapy Institute, fights politicization in mental-health training. He discusses how race-focused curricula and activist clinicians are reshaping therapy. Listens cover training biases, real-world effects in therapy rooms, and building a nonjudgmental alternative for patients and professionals.
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Rapid Political Shift In Clinical Training
- Clinical psychology training shifted from technique-focused to politicized over the 2013–2019 period.
- Andrew Hartz reports weekly race/gender trainings and mandated readings like Whiteness Is a Parasitic Condition during his PhD era.
Demographic Hierarchies Embedded In Curricula
- Activist literature framed demographic groups hierarchically, praising some groups and attacking others.
- Hartz cites textbooks (Sue and Sue) and readings labeling whiteness as pathological being taught and praised in programs.
Only White Male Trainee Faced Silence And Backlash
- Andrew Hartz recounts being the only white male in a training where a trainee said she hated a white male patient simply for being a white male.
- When Hartz asked colleagues how they felt about him, he got silence and then professional pushback and gossip afterward.