I don't thinks she cares about accountability. The only way she'll stop is when it starts hitting her finances. There's might be a way to come at it from that angle, either through things like Google Reviews of VF... or possibly through FAOs to find out any public contracts and then contacting the lead on that project?
Am I the only one who read this and thought ...Jess is basically saying "My approach to trauma won't make billion dollar pharmaceutical companies any more money, but it will line my pockets"
Does she really not understand that the "our" and "us" mean the people in her comments or is she just purposely being a c*nt, because going on the defensive is her go to response when she's called out online!?
I (and I'm sure many others, either in the psychology profession or just people who see her social media posts) would have more respect for her, if instead of being the defensive passive aggressive c*nt when she's rightfully called out on how dangerous the cards are, she'd say something along the lines of they "Might" help others, because they're written from a place based solely on the trauma SHE has experienced and SHE thinks they'll be helpful... and not try position herself as some sort of "Trauma Moses" standing on Mount Sinai with the "Trauma 10 Commandments"
Exactly, and even if you or I or anyone else for that matter disagreed with her on what she thinks will be helpful based on that, we'd respect her for being open/honest about the reasons behind her thinking!!!
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It's the fact that the two of them think this is a groundbreaking epiphany that makes me laugh. Women have complained about this for years.
Yup, she also proclaims to have a peer review process and an ethics board, neither of which are mentioned anywhere on her ego project website.I checked the VF website, I wandered if there is a phone number (nope), there's a contact form, which by using you agree to have Ur details kept?
And then a way to contact Jessica directly. No other staff members are named or can be contacted.
Slimey how she opens and invites email contact directly, which I think appeals to the fan girls who want to connect to her, and makes her feel accessible and relatable. No info on how she responds to emails or the purpose of giving out her email.
Even authors often stipulate that they may not respond directly and the purposes for providing email. I think this is a red flag I wouldn't have picked up on back in the day, but I believe abusers often feign accessibility to catch new prey. It's not sensible for the organisation to provide direct access to Jessica, but makes it look on surface as if she cares.
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Has Jess had a single peer-reviewed article or chapter accepted? I feel like the process would break her.
This to me is where she gets sinister---to me she is obviously positioning herself as THE answer to the problem. SHE is the trauma guru and she wants her or her disciples to basically run the mental health system in this country. But her 'approach' ends at the beginning of the process. Yes acknowledge when 'trauma' is involved, yes to not victim blaming blah blah but then what exactly? She mentions 'when they are ready for therapy' but she isn't a qualified counsellor and she doesn't 'rate' cbt, the most effective therapy for ptsd, so what then? How dangerous to acknowledge trauma but then offer nothing to deal with it. This worries me that she is going to invent her own model of therapy....
No she hasn't, and let's face it, she didn't even get properly scrutinised for her PhD as she had taken legal action against the uni and threatened people she would take their career and livelihood away so it was going to get passed whatever happened.
This is why I think she is formulating her own 'therapy'. She thinks she can bypass not being a trained counsellor by creating her own, obviously by stealing bits of those already in existence and passing it off as her own.
