Forcing Positive Thinking On Clients and Other Bad Therapists
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 7 July 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
00:00 Positive thinking in therapy
10:41 Reporting a colleague
30:48 Unethical situations
40:41 Inpatient psychiatric facilities
48:57 Insurance audits
56:42 Exposure therapy & transference
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July 7, 2023
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| 0:00.0 | So Bob emails what he's like. Yeah. Anonymous animal patron. She says, I had my new favorite worst |
| 0:06.3 | therapy session today. I've been shopping around for a while. So as a client, I think. Right. |
| 0:13.0 | So I had my new favorite worst therapy session today. I disclosed my borderline diagnosis. |
| 0:18.9 | And after asking a few diagnostic type questions from the therapist, she told me today |
| 0:25.4 | was the day I was going to make a life change via positive thinking and to just push away the |
| 0:31.6 | negativity. I told her I frequently, I frequently feel suicidal and get depressed. And she reiterated |
| 0:38.0 | that today was the day all of that was going to change through positive thinking. |
| 0:42.9 | Apparently she's been a therapist for over 20 years. And for 20 years, she's been about as |
| 0:47.7 | therapeutic as a reddit thread. Little does she know I've been listening to psychology and shadow |
| 0:55.7 | my entire adult life. And I'm not settling for that shit left LLMAO. Thanks for reading any thoughts |
| 1:03.0 | on that, Bob. Yeah. I'm the power of positive thinking now, not a fan. So yeah. Just based on what's |
| 1:12.7 | written here, I would not have continued that therapist or do you think they were coming from? |
| 1:16.5 | The just the sentence today is the day where you're changing. You know, that's just a little bit |
| 1:21.8 | cult of personality kind of forceful sort of blown smoke. You know, like, no, man, I don't, I think |
| 1:29.0 | of a little bit more humility is in order. Yeah. Yeah, I've met people in therapist included who |
| 1:36.4 | have this simplistic dogmatic belief that thinking positive will solve everything. Can thinking |
| 1:44.5 | positive help? Sure. Absolutely. Data shows that I can attest to that. Yeah. And can you have a |
| 1:50.7 | form of therapy that involves this? Yeah. There's versus a humanistic therapy, positive psychology |
| 1:56.4 | arguably is in this direction. But there's nothing good about any form of therapy and no, no |
| 2:02.5 | expert would recommend that you discount someone's experience, especially when they're pushing back |
| 2:08.1 | a little bit by just manhandling the client and saying like, well, you just need to think positive. |
| 2:13.9 | Essentially blaming the client. Yeah. It's very important for their problems and and simplifying |
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