Friday, January 06, 2012
Counter Transference in GALs and DV mandated counselling ? duh!
For years I've heard this complaint from fathers going through the ringer in divorce.
The court appointed man-hating feminist who is also a volunteer lobbyist for the state recognizing and condoning alternative forms of family (ie- gay marriage) is biased against them. It turns out there is actually a clinical term for the dynamic of the extremely biased results: Counter Transference. Basically what the courts do in appointing case workers and evaluators, is they do the exactly what is forbidden in clinical psychology: they assign non-professionals or hack professionals with strong feelings and bias towards an issue (worse, an AGENDA) to work in sensitive cases where any bias will have devastating results to the lives of people involved. Go figure one party feels like they got ganged up on and handed to the wolves.
To those who have been through that ringer, this is a giant NO DUH!!! The real question is: How do we as fathers rights advocates engage the legislature[s] and the psychology profession to put an end to this pattern of abuse in the family courts?
The court appointed man-hating feminist who is also a volunteer lobbyist for the state recognizing and condoning alternative forms of family (ie- gay marriage) is biased against them. It turns out there is actually a clinical term for the dynamic of the extremely biased results: Counter Transference. Basically what the courts do in appointing case workers and evaluators, is they do the exactly what is forbidden in clinical psychology: they assign non-professionals or hack professionals with strong feelings and bias towards an issue (worse, an AGENDA) to work in sensitive cases where any bias will have devastating results to the lives of people involved. Go figure one party feels like they got ganged up on and handed to the wolves.
To those who have been through that ringer, this is a giant NO DUH!!! The real question is: How do we as fathers rights advocates engage the legislature[s] and the psychology profession to put an end to this pattern of abuse in the family courts?
# posted by Andy @ 1:50 PM 
