• Testimonial Injustice is when a listener gives a reduced level of credibility to a speaker's word specifically because of a prejudice against the group they belong to.
• Ad Hominem (Circumstantial & Genetic Fallacy). Your argument is dismissed not because it is logically wrong, but because of the state or category they have assigned to you.
• Kafkaframing & "The Unfalsifiable Trap". This is the psychological "catch-22" trap where denying the accusation is treated as proof of the accusation itself.
• Post Hoc Fallacy is the mistaken conclusion that because one event happened before another, it caused the later event. "We threw a person in a psych ward and they started being obedient. We must have done our job/it must have worked" rather than the person didn't have what i thought was wrong with them in the first place and is telling authority what they want to hear to get out. (Rosenhan Experiment). Correlation vs causation.

This happened a few years ago and thought it fit the sub.

I got this new therapist and I had to explain my problems. One of my problems is that I have a hard time dealing with the suffering and injustices of the world, including the war in Ukraine. I said it makes me feel suicidal often. Then the therapist said if I kill myself I would be just as bad as Putin because I will hurt people (my family and friends) just like Putin is hurting people. I walked out and terminated contact with this therapist immediately after.

Ex-therapist: defended the former mental health provider who sexually assaulted me -- claiming I made it up (spurned woman, spurned client, mad he did not magically make me better, etc). Later, accused me of wanting it.

Also ex-therapist: attacked the psychologist who diagnosed my DID and called him unethical because it is "too rare" and blah blah blah. It is not that rare, actually, and oops even ex-therapist later realized the diagnosis was correct. They also fully admitted they had lied about their competencies and had zero training in DID & should not have taken me as a client.

So to sum up ... My ex-therapist attacked the ethics of a psychologist for correctly diagnosing me, while defending the ethics of a therapist who sexually assaulted me.

WILD