6 reasons why personality tests may be harmful

The Dr. Leaf Show

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr. Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Mass.
0:08.6	As a clinical neuroscientist and research neuroscientist, I've spent years working
0:12.5	with patients and working with people, helping them to understand how uniquely they think
0:18.0	feel and choose.
0:19.0	That's been a big aspect of my work because identity and understanding who you are is
0:23.4	massive in mental health, as we know.
0:25.7	And one of the things that has always been a fascination of mine is how people are so
0:33.2	consumed by personality tests in all these different Myers-Briggs and Discus and all
0:38.1	these different things that really can provide interesting information but are I think used
0:44.1	in a way that potentially could be sometimes even a little harmful because if you look
0:50.0	at the research on psychoneurobeology and the mind-brain body connection and neuroscience
0:55.0	and clinical neuroscience and psychology and philosophy and all these amazing ways that
1:01.5	we can understand human behaviour, we actually really cannot put people in a box.
1:07.8	We cannot categorise people and I saw this so clearly when I worked with thousands of people
1:12.8	over the years that it's really kind of dangerous to label people.
1:16.9	We know that.
1:17.9	You've heard me say that often but also to say you are this type of person because it's
1:22.4	very, very limiting.
1:24.0	And if you think of it realistically, none of us are the same.
1:27.6	We know that.
1:28.6	I mean, we know that that's not something that's new to any of our ears.
1:31.2	We all say that all the time.
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