A purity culture within communities that treat psychological frameworks as the exclusive lens for understanding human experience, where proper psychological thinking becomes a test of virtue and belonging. Psychological puritanism demands that true members analyze all human phenomena through approved psychological concepts, treat alternative frameworks (social, political, economic) as insufficiently deep, and police the boundaries of acceptable psychological discourse relentlessly. Members are judged by their psychological sophistication, their correct use of terminology, their willingness to find psychological explanations for everything. The result is a community that claims to understand human beings while systematically ignoring everything about humans that isn't psychology.
Example: "She tried to discuss structural inequality, but the group kept redirecting to 'childhood trauma' and 'attachment styles'—Psychological Puritanism, where every problem must be psychological to be real."
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 14, 2026
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