Psychology Myths (2016 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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February 19, 2016
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| 0:00.0 | So, Paulette, there are so many annoying myths bouncing around in our culture regarding psychology. |
| 0:05.4 | Did you know that? |
| 0:06.1 | I did know that. |
| 0:07.7 | Well, today I wanted to spell several of these myths, 20 to 30 of them, in detail. |
| 0:12.9 | What do you say? |
| 0:13.4 | My God. |
| 0:14.4 | Sounds good. |
| 0:15.6 | Welcome to the Psychology in Seattle podcast. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm chair of the Couple and Family Therapy Program at Ant'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm chair of the Coupland family therapy program |
| 0:23.1 | at Antioch University Seattle, and I'm also a licensed therapist. I'm Paulette Perhatch, writer, |
| 0:28.5 | an American layperson. Wait, I want to say something first. Good, go. As a writer, psychology |
| 0:34.1 | myths are annoying because you think you have a story idea and then you go to write about it and you scratch the surface on like the fourth Google search link and they're like that's a total myth and you're just like ugh like the stages of dena the stages of grief yeah look that up and they're like yeah that's not really a. So there's all these things that if you're an American layperson, you believe to be true |
| 0:58.3 | because they're just like quippy and easy to remember. |
| 1:02.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.5 | But they're not really. |
| 1:04.1 | And I think sometimes you can shape your life or analyze your life in a way that uses those as a map, and then you're totally wrong. |
| 1:12.8 | Right. There are perhaps the majority of things that people believe about psychology and |
| 1:19.3 | our culture are probably myths. And when it comes to any technical area, what I find, what I do for myself is I feel like I have a little bit of information |
| 1:31.8 | and I feel like I get it. You know, like, I'm not a physician, so I'll know a little bit about |
| 1:37.1 | something like cancer or the brain or something. And then I'll just be like, yeah, I get it. And then |
| 1:42.7 | when you actually talk with someone who gets it, you realize, oh, no be like, yeah, I get it. And then when you actually talk with |
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