Psychopathic Therapists (2017 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners. |
| 0:08.6 | It's just me today. |
| 0:10.5 | I wanted to talk about psychopathic or narcissistic therapists and counselors. |
| 0:18.3 | You know, people in the mental health field professionals who have major personality |
| 0:24.4 | issues that may or may not lead them to harm other people. So that's what I'm going to talk |
| 0:32.6 | about today. This is the Psychology in Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a |
| 0:38.9 | professor. The reason why I want to talk about this is because famous patron Lyndon, |
| 0:44.5 | Lyndon runs are the Facebook fan page, fan group. If you want to join that, he moderates that. |
| 0:52.2 | Famous patron Lyndon wrote in and said, hello, Kirk, to what |
| 0:55.9 | extent can people make it all the way to a profession as a therapist despite having psychopathic |
| 1:01.3 | or sadistic or narcissistic traits? Can a person make it into the profession despite having a |
| 1:07.6 | cruel nature, a sadistic style, or a domineering personality? |
| 1:12.2 | What checks and blocks are in place to hold back people like this from entering the profession? |
| 1:18.1 | What are your experiences with people and the profession who have dark personalities? |
| 1:23.2 | Is it something you encounter while teaching or supervising? |
| 1:26.8 | Do the theories actually make successful therapists who are antisocial more effective at exploiting, instrumentalizing, objectifying, and abusing their clients? |
| 1:37.3 | I understand that you might feel averse to discussing this topic as it seems to cast a dark shadow over the profession. |
| 1:47.1 | End of email. Excellent questions, |
| 1:55.8 | famous patron Linden. Before going into this, I want to say I don't feel averse to talking about it. |
| 2:01.5 | I guess I might have felt averse to talking about it before, but I don't know. I don't think so. |
| 2:10.8 | So many of you have written me stories and accounts of therapists who are at the very least ineffective and at the worst are abusive to you. And I feel responsible for that. I'm embarrassed about it. These people make me look bad. |
| 2:23.3 | And they, and I have, and I feel angry and sad about the whole thing. And I feel like it's part of my job to try to |
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