Ep. 2573 Pop Psychology Isn't Your Friend, But Genuine Psychotherapy Can Be

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Tom Woods

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🗓️ 23 November 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Dr. Jonathan Shedler of the University of California at San Francisco joins us to discuss the problems that arise when random people declare themselves "therapists" and dish out platitudes to unsuspecting people, but also why, contrary to what many on the right think these days, there is legitimate benefit from psychotherapy, which amounts to promoting self-knowledge and realizing that things we don't know about ourselves can harm us. Sponsors: & Guest's Website: Guest's Twitter:

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0:00.0	get ready to take a flamethrower to the official narrative and learn what the elites don't want you to know
0:08.3	you're listening to the tom woods show
0:11.9	hi everybody tom woods here at is episode two five hundred 2,573 of the Tom Woods show.
0:24.2	And unfortunately, for your aesthetic pleasure, you do not have my normal backdrop of books and various scholarly items because I am broadcasting to you today as I record this episode from Buenos Aires. I'm spending the week in
0:40.9	Argentina, but I want, dog gondit, I wanted to get this episode recorded. So I brought my
0:46.0	equipment with me because I'm very glad to be joined by Dr. Jonathan Shedler, whom I've started to
0:52.0	follow on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, because he reminds me of myself in some ways in that he's scholarly, but he doesn't take any BS from anybody, and he can be bellicose in ways that are entertaining and intellectually fruitful.
1:09.0	He's at the University of California at San Francisco. I'll see in a minute how you feel about that characterization, but let me just tell a little bit about your background. Dr. Shedler is best known for his article, The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, which won worldwide acclaim for establishing psychoanalytic therapy as an evidence-based treatment.
1:28.3	He's author of more than 100 scientific and scholarly articles,
1:32.7	creator of the Shedler-Western Assessment Procedure for Personality Diagnosis and Clinical Case
1:38.1	Formulation and co-author of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual.
1:42.6	There is a lot of pop psychology, let's say, out there that drives Dr. Shedler up a wall,
1:49.7	and I want to talk to him about that and other things.
1:52.2	So, Dr. Shedler, what do you think about that?
1:54.6	I think your last statement is pretty accurate.
1:57.9	Okay.
1:58.8	All right.
1:59.4	Well, that is my official introduction of you.
2:01.6	I got to know you, I think, because my wife started following you, and she said, you
2:05.9	would really, really like this guy.
2:07.7	And I'll just tell you something a little bit about probably the majority of people who
2:12.2	listen to me would agree with you when you say there are some people in my field or adjacent fields who are
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