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🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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0:00.0 | So Bob, as usual, we have a lot of really great questions from the patrons for us to answer. |
0:05.4 | What do you say, Bob? Let's answer these questions. This is the Psychology and Seattle podcast. |
0:10.5 | I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist, a professor, and a question answerer. Who are you, Bob? |
0:17.8 | You're every now and every fortnight question answer, a therapist in practice here in Seattle |
0:23.2 | and your old friend from grad school. Upper tier patron Joyce from Los Angeles says, |
0:28.9 | Dear Kirk and Bob, last year I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. |
0:34.0 | Therapy has been a sobering and humbling experience. As I researched the traits of borderline |
0:39.6 | in relationships romantic and orthotonic, articles online seem to lend themselves more towards |
0:45.2 | people affected by a borderline parent friend or partner. The conversations between you two |
0:50.8 | offer a nuanced and compassionate understanding of the diagnosis from multiple perspectives. |
0:55.9 | I cannot express how invaluable your conversations have been. The podcast has become a safe |
1:00.4 | emotional presence in my life that allows me to continue the work to look inward and do right by |
1:05.3 | those I love. Changing the subject, all mental health professionals I've seen have been white |
1:12.3 | and I find it to be a challenge when speaking of intergenerational trauma in immigrant families |
1:19.3 | or anything related to racism. I appreciate your perspective as an Asian American and really wish |
1:24.7 | that the mental health profession were more diverse. Why do you think this happens? What more |
1:29.6 | can be done? Bob, what do you think as a white person? The question is, why is it mostly white people |
1:37.0 | that are that do this kind of work? Yeah. I don't know. Maybe it's, well, okay, psychotherapy has its |
1:47.7 | roots in the medical community in Europe. So that's white people, white men. It comes into the US |
1:58.7 | in the 10s, 20s, 30s, white guys, doctors, I think mostly. I don't know when we started having |
2:07.2 | psychology degrees. In the 40s and 50s CBT comes online. That's medical doctors trying to help |
2:17.0 | soldiers with what has become known as PTSD. So a lot of the earlier writers are medical doctors. |
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