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No. She was an untrained individual providing unprofessional and unproven mental health and potentially life changing advice to fragilized people. That's calle
by guhcampos 7y ago
No. She was an untrained individual providing unprofessional and unproven mental health and potentially life changing advice to fragilized people.
That's called charlatanism and has a tremendous potential for causing serious harm on scales we sometimes can't even think of.
Just from the top of my head: South Korea was until recently governed by someone who took official decisions from faeries advices, and Brazilian right wing extremism is fueled by a former astrologer turned political influencer.
There used to be a nice collection of similar stories in this website http://whatstheharm.net/ http://whatstheharm.net/ and while it hasn't been updated in a while, I believe it still serves as a decent repository of examples.