DaltonMaltz 1119 Posted December 2, 2019 Actor Kit Williamson sits down with Cameron to discuss building your own opportunities, therapy, and being from Mississippi. Share this post Link to post
jericeric 0 Posted December 3, 2019 Another great episode. Particularly resonant was the discussion about quasi-conversion therapy. In the early 90s at age 15 I was ushered into therapy and enjoyed my own torture. The first experience was, I think, with a proper psychologist who truly had different motives than my parents. But I was weak and powerless and knew my parents' aims were to change me (and my therapist was the father of a classmate, which didn't help). The second experience was far more insidious - an orthodox Jewish (like my parents in their newfound glory) man who insisted on ~25 min of solo and ~25 min of group family therapy. In those group sessions I felt like I had three disapproving parents, with arms crossed and my worst fears reinforced by this mansplaining, asshole guest parent. It was hideous, demoralizing and nonconstructive - and a literal drain on my bar mitzvah funds (ha ha but no, really). Until hearing about this on the show I figured my experience was anomalous, and I explain it to the few friends and hyper select family I've shared it with as 'conversion therapy lite'. I hope this is even less frequent than it had been almost 30 years ago. I hope therapists are more vocal when the selfish motives of parents conflict with ethical treatment. I'm sorry for any minor (or anyone) who feels coerced into a homophobic or more generally hateful environment, masquerading as supportive. Thanks, Cam and Kit, for broaching this esoteric oddity in such a productive way. Share this post Link to post
