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Explanation
This comic parodies the biblical practice of the scapegoat by applying it to modern psychotherapy.
In the first panel, a therapist tells her patient: "I want you to take all those bad thoughts and feelings, all that stress and anxiety and judgment and manage it, summon it out of your body into this goat." A goat is shown sitting on a box in the therapy office.
In the second panel, the therapist says, "Now take the goat and throw it out the window." The patient, looking uncertain, asks about "the murder goat."
The caption reads: "My biblically-inspired psychotherapy practice was short lived."
The joke references the ancient Israelite ritual described in Leviticus 16, where a goat (the "scapegoat") was symbolically loaded with the sins of the community and then sent into the wilderness. The therapist has taken this literally: rather than using modern therapeutic techniques like CBT or mindfulness, she has her patients transfer their negative emotions into an actual goat and then dispose of it by defenestration. The phrase "biblically-inspired psychotherapy" is the perfect absurd mashup, and "short lived" implies the practice was shut down for obvious reasons (animal cruelty, broken windows, falling goats, etc.).