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Therapist Uncensored Podcast

TU108: Judgment and Self-Criticism Unchecked – a Great Interpersonal Defense

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Education, Self-improvement, Relationships

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Judgement says more about the judg-er than the judg-ee.  It's not Judgement = Bad.  It's Judgement = Interesting!! Everybody judges and in truth, we unconsciously evaluate good/bad all the time - both positively and negatively.  It's our brains appraisal system.  However unchecked it's also a very handy interpersonal defense.  Today we explore one aspect of insecure functioning, unchecked judgement and harsh self-criticism.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody.

0:03.7

Hey everybody. Hey everybody, welcome to Therapist Unsensert.

0:06.4

This is a podcast that breaks down interpersonal science

0:09.2

into practical and understandable tidbits.

0:12.0

And as you listen, I can just imagine little light bulbs of insight appearing

0:17.0

above your head. You're going to be surprised and touched at what you learn

0:20.8

about yourself is you get more accurate and in-depth view of your mind and your heart,

0:25.0

and as you figure out those close to you. Therapist Unsensored brings you decades of experience with interpersonal psychotherapy,

0:38.2

relational neuroscience, modern attachment, and anything else they think will be helpful in healing humans.

0:43.4

Now hear your co-host, Dr. Ann Kelly, and Sue Marriott.

0:47.0

Hey, you know one of the things I've been thinking about? We have done this course and we on this podcast we teach a lot about the big picture of what attachment looks like see I kind of I'm a little blue or I'm a little red but why don't we deep dive into just

1:16.0

one single habit of insecure attachment? Let's talk about the habit of how we use judgment.

1:26.0

Judgment of ourselves?

1:28.0

It's one of my favorite feelings actually.

1:30.0

Being judgmental.

1:32.0

Yes, yes, somebody. being judgmental. Yes. Yes. Somebody that I know talks about smugness as

1:37.4

their favorite, one of their favorite feelings. So who doesn't want to feel

1:41.4

righteous? Who doesn't want to feel righteous? My gosh, you're wrong, I'm right. How can they do that? Oh my God, what an idiot. Come on, it's pleasurable.

1:50.8

It's so is. Especially when we need that, right? Like, so what is the role of judgment?

1:56.2

We talk about it when we're in a blue state, we use judgment. We're in a red state.

2:00.3

So blue state meaning kind of more of the dismissive

2:03.3

Avoidant style of handling our feeling of threat.

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