Jonathan Shedler
Professor, psychologist, author. Tweets about psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy. I say the quiet part out loud.
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1/ This article illustrates how low the bar has fallen in the therapy professions Because most of the "psychology terms" are NOT psychology terms They're pop culture terms popula...
1/ Sixteen psychoanalytic concepts for our time (updated) 𧡠Splitting: Perceiving others in black-and-white categories; seeing them as one-dimensional, as all good or all bad
1/ Meaningful psychotherapy is a balancing act. We must simultaneously confront what's most difficult for the patient, and provide the support & safety to make that possible. T...
@PoetryofAfter 2/ This has implications for treatment, especially when dealing with long-standing, ingrained relational patterns (i.e., most people in psychotherapy). Interventions...
1/ One of most important things I've learned: Severe personality problems find *camouflage.* No one thinks "I'm a sadist" or "I'm a malignant narcissist." They find a belief syste...
from In Treatment, season 1 Why do you think you had that particular memory the other night? -Dr. Paul Weston Perhaps thereβs a reason you had that particular memory the other ni...
1/ I'm often asked about evidence for psychodynamic therapy so I'm putting it in a tweet for whoever wants it In 2010, I published "The efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy," w...
1/ There were 3 categories of response to my tweets about having COVID 𧡠1οΈβ£ Answers to a specific question I asked (is a super-feint line still a pos result?) Helpful 2οΈβ£ Expres...
@MarkLRuffalo 1/ Generally speaking, specific therapies do not produce better outcomes. The dodo bird effect (all legit therapies produce equivalent outcomes) may be the most repli...
I'm dumfounded when I hear people say we "need more research" to treat mental health problems effectively In fact, we already know how to treat most m.h. problems We're just not...
@arodriguezpsyd @PoetryofAfter @bitesizetherapy 1/ "Improvement" is undefined, at least here. It's a serious problem because reader has no clue what it actually means. A universe o...
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