The developer of child parent psychotherapy is a zionist and I don’t know how to feel.
I just started a job as a newly certified AMFT that will be paying for me to go through CPP training. I started reading a book they gave me that they wanted me to begin reading before the training course begin soon. In the acknowledgment of the book, it mentions something about one of the authors teaching in “her beloved Israel.”
I started doing more digging and see one article she cosigned critiquing academic BDS practices and uses the words genocide in quotes when referring to what is happening in Gaza. I then found another article she cosigned condemning Lara Sheehi, a prominent anti-zionist clinical psychologist. If you have read any of Dr. Sheehi’s work or listened to her speak, you would see how disturbing this is as someone who believes that israel is a settler-colony occupying Palestine.
Anyway, not sure how to feel about this since Alicia Lieberman is a huge figure in CPP. It makes me question the perspectives and narratives around CPP, and wonder about how it could be developed from a more decolonial Fanonist stance.