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The Press
February 16, 2004
Counselling
Letter to
the Editor
by Phillip Rex Robinson Woolston, Feb 4
David Dawe (February 3) asks when the cult of
counselling began.
During the 1980s ACC decided to pay lump sum compensation to people claiming
sexual abuse. The Privacy Act means no rigorous proof or criminal prosecution
is required, the psychoanalysis of a counsellor being deemed sufficient to
establish entitlement.
Like non-judgmental priests and doctors, counsellors must give a value-free
service, so expecting counsellors to identify possible fraudsters is
unrealistic. Not only is it against their own financial interests, but also
their professional ethics.
Recently a law firm publicly solicited for sexual abuse cases, so there's
good money in it, and counselling is a necessary part of this food chain.
Where there's money, there's muck, so counsellors wallow and increase.
The sexual abuse industry uses similar ideology to the treaty industry,
capitalising on perceived victimhood. In the spirit of our times even history
has a cash value.
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