Edward A. Perin - Psychologist

For those who sit with patients. Clinical Psychologist. Former Army 🇺🇸 Here to Educate and Entertain.

[Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin]

Hello new followers! I am a psychologist in the great state of Ohio. I learned to be a therapist treating Vietnam Veterans. My dissertation is on positive change after trauma. My clients are Veterans, police officers, emergency care workers, and first-responders. And I make memes

[Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin]

@quantifyqualify @NTFabiano I’m not THAT Freudian

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For cognitive health over the shorter winter days I’ve been doing some bro science self-experimenting with high-dose creatine and I have some n=1 observations. If I get really annoying about it blame @NTFabiano

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@decktech1047 Dd214 alumni is a funny way to put it 😂🤝

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@asouthernstoic Thank YOU Chief 🤝

[Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin]

@BlastingThrough Welcome home Mike 🤝

[Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin]

The 5 functions of treatment, according to Marsha Linehan (RIP):

1) Enhance Capabilities (skills training)

2) Increase Motivation (individual therapy, focusing on chain analysis, validation, target and implement solutions)

3) Assure Generalization in natural environments (planning, telephone coaching, system intervention)

4) Enhance Therapist’s capabilities and motivation to treat effectively (consultation team)

5) Structure Environment to allow progress (family interventions)

[Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin]

This is a rough year for behind-the-scenes military mental health influencers. We lost Edna Foa in March, and now Marsha Linehan. These women touched every VA mental health clinic in the country, and few Vererans will ever know their names.

[Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin]

@AllenFrancesMD @AlobhaPatrick I’m sorry about your friend Allen

[Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin]

Science is not evaluated by its rigidly, but by its rigor. If you would like to interpret psychology through a lens of human sciences, like history or philosophy, you can. If you would like to interpret psychology through a lens of natural sciences, like biology and chemistry, you can.

[Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin]

Science is a method. Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic techniques are tested. They have been refined for over a century and shared through aggregation of data across generations and national borders. The unconscious mind has more scientific rigor invested into it than meets the eye.

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@mellodynamic @NickTaber Psychoanalysis is not science, which is fine, but therapists like him assert it like it is.

Not all psychologists share this “worldview” btw.

[Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin]

@vividvoid I tease manuals but hers is the best to follow to a T. It is hard not to change with six months of attending a real, fully-staffed DBT clinic.

[Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin]

American Psychologists are leaving their skills books half-out today. We just lost an eminent member of our guild.

[Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin]

I heard we just lost American Psychologist Marsha Linehan. As much as I enjoy teasing DBT, she will always have a place in my heart for operationalizing Therapeutic Irreverence (Jokes) as a psychodynamic technique. I couldn’t defend its use without her. RIP