Healing: Just what does that mean? A deconstruction Let’s face it: we go through a lot in life. Ups and downs, joys and strife. Each day there are new challenges to handle. When people face bigger ones, whether driven by something that happened around them or by their feelings about themselves, we look for support… Continue reading Healing: A deconstruction
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Doing therapy: How much? How long?
How do I know how much and how long I need therapy? If you’ve been reading my posts, you may realize by now that I tend to take a different perspective than the ‘standard’ on many things. This one is no different. When it comes to making choices about the logistics of therapy, many assumptions… Continue reading Doing therapy: How much? How long?
AI Therapy
AI Therapy: Always there This, I’m sure, is going to prove to be a part 1. We’ve all been seeing more and more of them everywhere. I see it in my subway commute, on billboards, advertisements everywhere. AI “friends.” AI “therapists.” There are lots of different things to say about this. For now, I want… Continue reading AI Therapy
Psychological Misinformation: Secret of Therapy
Addressing Psychological Misinformation through therapy’s major tools I admit it – calling it a secret is a little disingenuous. There are no secrets to the therapeutic process: acceptance of all that is in human experience is a cornerstone to all psychological theories. There is, of course, respect for privacy, but that’s not the same. No,… Continue reading Psychological Misinformation: Secret of Therapy
Psychological Misinformation and Conferences
Conferences: Who is psychological science for? I recent got back from a psychology conference, for the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, of which I am a member. For the first time, I presented material of my own (outside of a poster way back in 2008). It was exciting, and nerve-wracking. And the convention got… Continue reading Psychological Misinformation and Conferences
Stigma and Psychological Misinformation
I’ll get back to part II of Good vs. Evil next time. But before I do, I wanted to share a realization I recently had. Psychological misinformation and the vilification of stigma You may have to bear with me on this one. I’m sharing a perspective I have never heard voiced before. All I ever… Continue reading Stigma and Psychological Misinformation
Psychological Misinformation: Normal
Psychological Misinformation and the search for the normal When I was perhaps 8 or 9 years old, I asked my mother, “Is anyone actually normal?” It was one of those moments where child innocence cuts through the massive weight of worldviews drilled into us by adulthood, to identify something simple but profound. It was also,… Continue reading Psychological Misinformation: Normal
Psychological Misinformation: Individual psychopathology
Are we programmed to certain individually-located mental illness? There are a few assumptions that underly the concept of mental illness in western medicine. One of these is that there is a specific process of illness that is contained within an individual person. This can seem obvious for many medical issues. If I have high blood… Continue reading Psychological Misinformation: Individual psychopathology
Psychological Misinformation: “Authentic Self”?
Be Your “Authentic Self”? I don’t know if you have the same experience, but I hear all the time now people extolling the need to show their “authentic self.” A quick Google search came up with 209 results, most of them exuberant sounding, some of those unfortunately from fellow psychologists. Almost all of them promising… Continue reading Psychological Misinformation: “Authentic Self”?
Assumptions in Psychology Reporting (2)
Recap: Assumptions about science that filter into Psychological Reporting Last time, we started our exploration of assumptions in psychology reporting by understanding a bit about how science works. We discussed the difference between science as a whole, and the data it relies on. We discussed how science is ultimately storytelling about who we are, how… Continue reading Assumptions in Psychology Reporting (2)