E294. Therapists Shouldn't Be Activists - Dr. Camilo Ortiz
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy
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🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Bridget sits down with Dr. Camilo Ortiz, a child psychologist and professor of psychology at Long Island University. They discuss the different perspective being an immigrant gives him on things Americans take for granted, the negative impact of overprotective parenting and the importance of allowing children to experience discomfort, distress, disappointment, and danger, why "good enough" parenting is a good thing and parents should be more selfish with their time, the push for more free-range parenting laws, and how critical it is to encourage independence in your child. They also cover the intrusion of politics into therapy, how activism has slipped into therapy sessions and completely undermines the work, cancel culture, the impact of technology on parenting, the tendency to seek expert advice for every parenting decision, robot nannies, and why he's forever grateful for being poor as a child.
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| 0:00.0 | doctor in there. Oh right, I'm with Dr. Camilla Ortiz everybody. Welcome to |
| 0:05.6 | walk-ins. Welcome. It is a pleasure to be able to sit down and talk with you today. |
| 0:11.6 | How are you doing? |
| 0:13.0 | Thanks so much for having me. Doing great. |
| 0:16.0 | First of all, I'm excited to talk to you about all the things, therapy, anxiety and children. But first off, I want to start with something more random. |
| 0:25.6 | Is your daughter like a burgeoning rock star? |
| 0:28.4 | She appears to be, and it's a shock to us all because we know how rare this is but she had this very clear plan from a few years ago and it actually is happening exactly as she had hoped and she works her butt off. |
| 0:49.7 | So this is not just luck, but certainly some luck is involved. |
| 0:54.0 | But I think she's really great, and she just played her biggest venue ever |
| 0:58.9 | a couple of weeks ago, which is Forest Hill Stadium in Queens, which is where we go for concerts because we live nearby and then I saw my daughter up on stage. |
| 1:08.0 | It was quite surreal. |
| 1:10.0 | That must be so wild. |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah, I was checking out some of her stuff |
| 1:13.6 | because I feel like in an alternate timeline of my life |
| 1:17.5 | that was the calling that I missed |
| 1:19.7 | was being a singer and a songwriter and that's just so cool and it's so cool because it's not something that, you know, it's such an unstable career path that it's really cool to see that she has |
| 1:36.3 | parents who support her and that I think oftentimes it's not always the case. |
| 1:42.3 | No, so I'm an immigrant to this country |
| 1:45.5 | and being a rock star was not on the list of things |
| 1:49.5 | that I could have even thought about doing because you just want to survive when you first stay here. |
| 1:56.1 | So it is a privilege she has been. I'm happy to support her in that. |
| 2:01.6 | And there's a little psychology. She tends to sing. support her in that. It's funny. |
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