{"podcast":{"title":"Lions of Liberty Network","slug":"lions-of-liberty-network-169417","podcast_index_feed_id":169417,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/lionsofliberty","website_url":"https://LionsOfLiberty.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/264ccd56-3eaf-11ed-8984-23da9a3f9982/image/b1421f776ce81eeea6a8662b84e4ec7e.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Lions of Liberty","episode_count":1957,"summary":"Welcome to The Lions of Liberty Podcast Network - where culture, comedy, and capitalism collide. The true OG voice of liberty and freedom in the podcast space. We cut through the noise with razor-sharp takes on politics, free markets, and the cultural battles shaping our world. Whether you're a politically inclined free thinker or an entrepreneurial disruptor shaking up the status quo, the Lions of Liberty will deliver what you need. www.lionsofliberty.com","last_synced_at":"2026-09-26T20:20:25.072526+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lions-of-liberty-network-169417"},"episode":{"title":"TLPP: Your Therapist is Crazy w/ Andrew Hartz","slug":"tlpp-your-therapist-is-crazy-w-andrew-hartz","published_at":"2026-09-16T17:48:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lions-of-liberty-network-169417/tlpp-your-therapist-is-crazy-w-andrew-hartz","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lions-of-liberty-network-169417","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ENTSL1618727128.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ENTSL1618727128.mp3","summary":"Andrew Hartz is a psychologist and the founder of the Open Therapy Institute — a national directory of vetted, non-activist therapists, plus a peer-reviewed journal, conference, and podcast. He wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed about political activism in mental health, got a grant to do something about it, and hasn't stopped since. We talked about: what an activist therapist actually looks like (APA's division on psychoanalysis lists 90 talks with zero mention of therapy, evidence, diagnosis, or treatment — but plenty on colonial domination, carcerality, and proximity to whiteness); how APA accredited a drag show called \"Feel the F***ing Fantasy Redux\" for continuing ed credits; a keynote speaker who co-translated Communism for Kids and wrote Abolish the Family; clinics diagnosing patients differently based on their race; patients being referred out for having the wrong politics; how mental health activism is backfiring on the people it claims to help (secondary gains and the evidence against rewarding symptoms); when this all started (earlier than you think — 2014, accelerating through 2019); why Lacanian nonsense writing infected academic psychology and what that sentence actually is; what CBT can and can't do; humor as a mature defense mechanism and why patients who laugh have better outcomes; why AI therapists worry Andrew more than most people realize; and Lou volunteering to coach soccer for a team of first graders despite having never played the sport. Find a vetted therapist → opentherapyinstitute.org Read the journal → Open Inquiry in Mental Health on Substack https://openinquirymentalhealth.substack.com/?utm_source=global-search  TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 — Intro — Andrew Hartz and the Open Therapy Institute 3:23 — What is an activist therapist? The AP…","meta_description":"Andrew Hartz is a psychologist and the founder of the Open Therapy Institute — a national directory of vetted, non-activist therapists, plus a peer-review…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3703,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lions-of-liberty-network-169417/episodes/tlpp-your-therapist-is-crazy-w-andrew-hartz/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lions-of-liberty-network-169417/tlpp-your-therapist-is-crazy-w-andrew-hartz.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}