Psychology Myths (rerun)

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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There’s a lot of misinformation out there on the internet and this episode attempts to dispel the myths about psychology.

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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?
0:06.2	I did know that.
0:07.2	Well, today I wanted to spell several of these myths, 20 to 30 of them, in detail. What do you say?
0:13.5	My God, sounds good.
0:15.8	Welcome to the Psychology and Seattle podcast.
0:18.6	I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda.
0:20.8	I am chair of the Couple and Family Therapy program at Antioch University Seattle and I'm also a licensed therapist.
0:27.0	I am Paulette Perhatch, writer an American layperson.
0:30.0	I want to say something first.
0:32.0	Good, go. As a a writer psychology myths are annoying because you think you have a story idea and then you go to write about it and you like scratch the surface on like the fourth Google search link and they're like the You look that up and they're like, yeah, that's not really a thing.
0:53.0	So there's all these things that if you're an American layperson, you believe to be true because
0:59.1	they're just like quippy and easy to remember. But they're not really and I think sometimes you can shape your life or
1:07.6	Analyze your life in a way that uses those as a map and then you're totally wrong
1:12.8	Right there are a map and then you're totally wrong. Right.
1:13.8	There are perhaps the majority of things
1:17.2	that people believe about psychology
1:19.4	in our culture are probably myths.
1:22.2	And when it comes to any technical area, what I find what I do for myself
1:29.1	is I feel like I have a little bit of information and I feel like I get it. You know like I'm not a physician so I'll know a little bit about something like cancer or or the brain or something and then I'll just be like yeah I get it and then when you actually
1:43.5	talk with someone who gets it you realize oh no not only do you not get it but
1:48.5	everything you think is wrong this is something I obsess about The world is so insanely complex and the scope of knowledge is like astronomical.
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