Clinically Incorrect by Naomi Best

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June 2025

Peter Boghossian & I Discuss Psychology's Identity Crisis
Without a clear philosophy of the human person, therapy becomes vulnerable to ideological capture.
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Ideological Capture 101: A Student Perspective
After being fired for challenging the orthodoxy in my therapy program, I’m speaking out against the ideological revolution capturing our institutions…
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Veterans: Tell Me Your Experience of Therapy.
If you'd like, I will amplify your story.
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Santa Clara University's New Statement Is Inadequate: My Thoughts
This PR response to my WSJ Op-Ed lacks transparency and is in my view, disingenuous.
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Dear Santa Clara University: An Open Letter to Follow WSJ
I am writing publicly because all private channels have failed. This is a follow-up to my op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
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May 2025

Undressing the Ideology Behind My Sexual Autobiography Assignment
In a required course for my Marriage and Family Therapy program, I was instructed to write a “comprehensive sexual autobiography.” The assignment…
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What Therapists Miss: A Detransitioner’s Story of Malpractice
Simon Amaya Price identified as transgender at fourteen years old. Now twenty, he’s helping policymakers understand why gender affirmation isn’t the…
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Things I Couldn’t Say in Counseling Psychology Graduate School (But Should Have)
Is therapy school training ideologues or clinicians? Spoiler alert: it's the former.
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Grad School Assignment: Map My Erotic History. My response? This.
A therapist-in-training breaks the silence on what’s happening inside mental health education—and what it will cost all of us.
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