Kelly G Wilson -- loving poetry and psychotherapy

Here is a little sample video from my values course about tightly held stories about our troubles, from a behavioral view. I think it gives a reasonable sample of some of the didactic bits of the course. tinyurl.com/values-course

This!

The goodness of an early morning run in the Sonoran Desert--a pair of Red Tail Hawks, caught at just the right moment. I do love some slow desert trail running.

It's been a minute since I've been to an ACBS WorldCon! Dianna and I have added a month in Europe to our usual giant loop around the country in our Roadtrek Sprinter Van. Looking forward to catching up with old friends and making some new friends. Italy & France, here we come!

@DoctorPerin 20 or so years ago, my friend Niklas Torneke told me to write a practitioner's book on RFT. I told him, "no, you should write it." He did: amazon.com/Learning-RFT-I…

I love B.F. Skinner. I keep the cumulative record next to Freud on my bookshelf. I find RFT is his most natural successor, and I am thankful it brought the unconscious to American Behaviorism. Alas, I had to read most passages 2-4 times to understand it 😂

@milkycatcom @RealXavier011 @grok what is this

膠かと思ったら食うのか

@Garrett_Archer Good

AZ governor Katie Hobbs vetoes a bill that would have expanded Arizona's custom license plate program to include Turning Point.

@heynavtoor With Phenomenology or what went down at the Rice Symposium on behaviorism and phenomenology in the early 60s. Then it responded coherently. Presumably all that info was already available. But the undergrad super common textbook answer was much more likely. And so it goes

@heynavtoor It seems to answer, not what is so, or what we’ve said is so, rather what it is likely we said. I asked Claude about the relation between B F Skinner and phenomenology. It said that they were opposites. I said, what about Willard Day’s 1969 paper Behaviorism in Reconciliation (1

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up. Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math. Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level. And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth. Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do. The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing. So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up. OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product. This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent. Every time ChatGPT gives you an answer, ask yourself: is this real, or is it just a confident guess?

@LindaBerman4 I’ve seen it function that way for clients too. The diagnosis seems to solve the problem of “why am I like this?”

If I find myself preoccupied with issues of diagnosis in an ongoing way, I suspect myself of defending against being fully present with the patient's pain. Diagnosis can, like anything else, be used as a defense against anxiety about the unknown. Nancy McWilliams

Surely it is time to send some guys to prison.

I haven’t been to ACBS for a couple years. I will offer a PreCon workshop and a plenary speaking up for the place of poetics in the doing and teaching of psychotherapy. 20 years since I offered the inaugural ACBS presidential address. Looking forward to seeing many old friends.

Out running trails in the Sonoran Desert, I love the blue hour, that liminal space between star field and sunrise. This is a great horned owl, fantastic creature. Sound up—calling for a mate.

@LORWEN108 I wonder which collection of letters you find most interesting?

Here are 7 truths Freud revealed in private letters— (They never made it into textbooks):🧵 1/ Freud wasn’t a “mental health advocate.”

@LORWEN108 Very nice thread 🧵

Freud wasn’t trying to soothe you. He was trying to free you. And freedom requires discomfort—especially today. If you're interested in psychologically growing, book a discovery call with me. calendly.com/lorwen_consult…

@JonathanShedler I’m just wondering who are the therapy elites ffs?

1/ This study and conclusion is simply stupid. It’s equivalent to comparing treatment provided by medical doctors vs. untrained lay people—but the only treatment is telling patients to take two aspirin. Behold, same outcome! We’ve now “proven” medical training is unnecessary 🤪

@RpsAgainstTrump Because, you know, being president is all about the fame ffs

Trump: Take a look at this if you want to see detail. Most people do a sign and paint it on the wall. So that's half inch thick bronze. Carved. By a very talented person. And it's brass. It's pure brass. Pure brass?

As the govt shutdown stretches, federal workers go without paychecks, people lose food stamps, well, at least we are getting a new golden ballroom! Thought I’d put my AI subscription to good use.

My college career began at 30, a high school dropout, straight out of a much needed locked psych hospitalization and drug rehab. I've had the good fortune of many amazing teachers. RIP Sam Leigland--thanks for introducing me to a behaviorism I could love. tinyurl.com/v3y39b98

@JonathanShedler Sad but true

✍️ Read on Substack open.substack.com/pub/jonathansh… 📸 Find me on Instagram too instagram.com/jonathanshedle…

🆕Newly revised and updated (3 minute read) (full text 👇)

@TheCinesthetic Saw it with my wife at the drive-in in ‘79. I’d gone for popcorn 🍿 but got 20 feet or so away, came back for my wallet, and knocked on the roof. There may or may not have been a scream involved :)

Seeing Alien (1979) for the first time in 1979 must have been unreal—every frame, every shadow, every scare hitting harder than anything before.