Many seem unable to view mental/emotional difficulties in any way but through a moralizing lens.
On the right, the moralizing mentality often takes the form, “Straighten up, don’t be weak” (and I’m morally righteous because I’m not weak)
On the left, the moralizing mentality often takes the form, “My diagnosis is an identity” (and I’m morally righteous because I belong to a marginalized/oppressed community)
On the surface, these attitudes seem opposite. At a deeper level, they are the same: they reflexively adopt a moralizing stance.
And that moralizing stance—both versions of it— are fundamentally incompatible with psychological understanding and the work of psychotherapy.
Those are two examples of how a moralizing attitude slips into discussions of mental health. What are other examples?
“I think 30% of the people who want to be in that self-improvement/wellness space are underqualified. I think there are 40% sheer grifters. Everything they say is predatory advice-giving. I made a decision to not be anywhere near that space”
—Brené Brown, on self-help influencers
Blinkist ist ja schon lange ein Partner des PsychCasts. Und seit kurzem gibt es bei Blinkist auch Shorts beliebter Podcasts, die Blinkist Shortcasts. Surft mal vorbei auf https://t.co/g7iTzB31Np, um zu hören, wie euch PsychCast-Episoden in der 15-Minuten Zusammenfassung gefallen!
Amazing how often psychoanalytic ideas get rebranded and repackaged—in watered down, hokey packaging—and the same people who disparage psychoanalysis think it’s a new breakthrough and can’t get enough of it 🤔
Am Sonntag gilt es: Sie entscheiden darüber, ob unserem Land der dringend notwendige Politikwechsel gelingt. Wirtschaftswende, Migrationswende, mehr Respekt vor Leistung, nachhaltige Verteidigungsfähigkeit. Das gibt es nur mit Freien Demokraten im Deutschen Bundestag. #jetztFDP
@anna_p_neumann ich habe tatsächlich auch von Bekannten erfahren, dass sie jetzt @fdp wählen! Die Partei der Liberalen sei enorm wichtig für Deutschland. #c_lindner hat in seinen vielen Auftritten mit Sachkenntnis überzeugt!
Christian Lindner legt harte Fakten auf den Tisch: Die geopolitische Stärke Deutschlands hängt immer an der wirtschaftlichen Stärke Deutschlands.
Die Vertreter der Parteien links der Mitte gucken ganz schockiert. #Schlussrunde
“In a large meta-analysis of 562 randomized controlled trials… we found no indication that the effects of therapies have improved over time”
—from Cuijpers et al (2023), Five Decades of Research on Psychological Treatments of Depression
1/ “Psychoanalysis is still paying for the excesses of decades past, probably deservedly. But the backlash against psychoanalytic knowledge is also impoverishing our thinking in the mental health professions
We are losing vitally important ways of understanding and alleviating