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Mark Derian
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Mark Derian
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PhD dropout in psychology. Learn what to do when self-help and therapy fail you: https://t.co/9HEAC6SGgP
LA county Katılım Ocak 2010
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@AlobhaPatrick This is an efficient way to announce you don't have a theory of mind.
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WTF? @DeanAbott has been hacked for months now and still no resolution? He has been building his account since 2009, talking about masculinity, spirituality, baseball.
@premium , @Support , @elonmusk
Are you going to let it be fed to the scammers? Do something!
@altdeanabbott
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AI therapy is a mirror for the field. It's already drifted far into validation without structure, and now AI just scales the mistake.
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Your favorite psychologist spent eight years in school and still walked across the graduation stage without a clear, universal, principled definition of mental illness. And he probably felt proud of himself. I cannot imagine.
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Therapists love to squabble over the diagnosis because it distracts from the real issue, which is that the field has no clear, universal, principled definition of mental illness. Without that, all that's left is to argue over labels, categories, and treatment styles; ie over the symptom rather than the cause.
Jade Stanton@jadethebpdcoach
Patient goes to multiple psychiatrists. They all confirm BPD as the appropriate diagnosis. Patient agrees. Begins treatment. Then one day patient’s therapist says “I don’t know why all these doctors are labeling you BPD, you have autism and CPTSD.” Patient’s psychiatrist says “Don’t listen to the therapist, it’s ridiculous that they’re diagnosing you like this.” Patient runs to the internet forums, upset and confused, to try and gain clarity. They find none. And this is the story of patient, after patient, after patient. How do patients make a judgment call on who is giving them the “right” treatment approach, when they don’t know therapy or psychiatry or labels? Do they trust the psychiatrist who says not to listen to the therapist? Or the therapist who says not to listen to the doctor? Or the people in forums who tell them all kinds of different things? How can patients be guided with more clarity, so they aren’t left feeling confused and hopeless of ever finding a path forward?
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@PaulKunz19 yeah of course I would encourage you work. Therapy with me isn't like joining a monastery or anything like that. Psychological health is engagement with the world, not detachment from it.
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@joinanimus Is it good to have a job parallel to your therapy or is working a distraction while having therapy?
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schedule a free consultation before I train other therapists to do my job for me;
animusempire.com/schedule
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Who's forcing anything? Standards exist because they allow you to see more clearly what's happening in the first place. They give you a basis for judgment. Maybe you've had bad experiences with standards, but the problem isn't that the standard existed it's that it was wrong.
And of course humans are different, complex, unique. But they are also the same in important ways. A good standard allows you to account for both universality and individuality. Otherwise "different approaches for different people" just becomes a way to avoid judgment.
If you want the longer version, I go into this in more detail in the first chapter of my most recent book.
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@joinanimus But why would a therapist force a "universal" definition/standard of mental health unto any given individual, being people's definitions of mental health differ? Humans are different/complex/unique, and different people need different approaches at different times.
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Until psychotherapy can define mental health, its implicit goal will be to make the client as comfortable as possible.
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The fact that therapy happens at the individual level doesn't remove the need for universal definitions, it makes them more necessary. A definition of mental health is the standard you apply to each case in order to judge what counts as mental health and what does not.
Without any standard, the field cannot properly distinguish growth from avoidance, expression from indulgence, or health from relief; ie the therapist has no basis to make the client uncomfortable. This is exactly why, in the absence of clear definitions, the implicit goal of therapy is to make the client comfortable.
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@joinanimus Psychotherapy’s level of analysis/intervention is that of the individual. Your logic is thus flawed. Countless people have been helped in clarifying what “mental health” means to them personally, then engaging with their therapist in getting there.
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Gabor Mate doesn't blame your problems on your childhood. He merely traces all your problems back to your childhood. Totally different.
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Psychology's problem isn't that it has too few men, but too little epistemology. When you cannot define key concepts like emotion, mental illness, therapeutic change (and show how those definitions apply in practice) the field will inevitably become skewed by whoever's in charge.
Swapping female-coded indulgence for male-coded repression won't solve anything.
Emma Johnson@JohnsonEmma
Psychotherapy is grossly dominated by women- clinicians and researchers-but the industry has not shown its value, and increasingly evidence that it is to blame for medical travesties like over-prescription of SSRIs, ADHD drugs, autism diagnosis and medical gender transition of children. Not to mention creating a navel-gazing culture obsessed with diagnoses and victimhood. What if we calibrated our mental health care to male preferences: Less focus on expensive conversations with strangers with questionable outcomes, more hanging out in person, physical activity, in nature, making friends, dating, sex, marriage, starting families? wsj.com/health/wellnes…
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The red pill for a lot of men is just the realization that women are not your mother. Since they lack the structure to metabolize that insight (psychology's fault), they split instead: the mother remains ideal, women become evil.
A generation of men have run right up to the edge of the Oedipal issue, but rather than jump they turn it into content.
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@BenjaminABoyce @ItIsHoeMath Hoe Math's cultural critique can be sharp but it's clear he has no idea what to do about the problems he sees. His reliance on spiral dynamics is a red flag. It's demoralized boomer philosophy dressed up in a color chart.
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Today, on Calmversation: @ItIsHoeMath and I discuss his Grand Unified Theory of men, women, and spiritual development (link below!)
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Both sides fill in the gaps of their worldview with mysticism, which is more stable in a pre-industrial society. By resisting AI, you both defend a version of society that shields your blind spots.
It's a regression to safety, an Oedipal wish for a world that feels more human because it's less of a challenge.
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog
A weird thing is that whenever I post criticism of AI, the majority of the people agreeing with me seem to be leftists. It’s pretty much the only position I hold that seems to be more popular with the left than the right. It should be the opposite. My whole point about AI (especially AI in creative fields) is that it isn’t human, it doesn’t have a soul, and we cannot surrender our society to an unhuman soulless algorithm even if it makes our lives easier in some ways. It’s very strange that an argument predicated on the existence of the soul resonates with the left while conservatives tend to scoff at it.
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@Careerflex Yeah, the guy who watches porn for three hours a day, he just really likes boobs. That's all.
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@joinanimus Pal, it's not that deep. Men like boobs because boobs.
Now quit being a nerd about boobs, for god's sake.
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The self doesn't grow stronger by white-knuckling through the urge to collapse into your oldest wound. That's how it becomes weaker.
It only grows stronger when you confront your neurosis for what it is, that specific emotional that drags you back into the wound as a form of self-protection.
The People's Therapist 👏Expert👏@Careerflex
The self grows stronger every time you resist the urge to collapse into your oldest wound.
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Attention group members, I started a private community for us here. Join or die. x.com/i/communities/…
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It doesn't matter whether the temptation is ancient or recent, biological or cultural. What matters is the function it serves, which is an analgesic for the pain caused from avoiding the emotional distortion. In other words, sure we're wired to like boobs. That explains why the distraction takes that form, but it doesn't explain why we need the distraction in the first place.
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@joinanimus Man, we may be facing different temptations. Mine are ancient and wired into biology.
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If my face and voice annoy you but you still want the ideas, I'm now posting edited transcripts of my videos on Substack: joinanimus.substack.com/p/how-to-talk-…
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@Careerflex Not what I said. The alternative to indulging a temptation isn't resisting it, it's understanding and facing the distortion that makes it necessary in the first place.
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@joinanimus Tell you what... I will resist temptation, and you give in to it.
Let's meet back here in a year and exchange notes.
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