Celebrator of the mosaic of individual diversity. “Systemic” doesn’t mean what you think. Christian Conservative Therapist. Powerlifter. Run-and-Gun Competitor.
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Did you know that Marriage and Family Therapy approaches were always intended to address and change unconscious processes in individuals?
Well, it’s true! MFT treatment from its outset was primarily designed to facilitate change in the constantly interacting unconscious processes across a patient’s entire family by addressing them from the level of a family’s relationship structure and communication patterns.
The field began when a handful of psychiatrists, psychologists, and at least one anthropologist began to notice that schizophrenic patients *virtually always* regressed in treatment progress during/after family visits to inpatient facilities. They became frustrated with the lack of available interventions to prevent this kind of regression across the therapy field as a whole, and began exploration in new directions (e.g. the application of General Systems Theory to individual and family behavior.)
Practitioners like Murray Bowen, Gregory Bateson (our anthropologist, and his Palo Alto Group collaborators especially Don D. Jackson, Jay Haley, John Weakland, and Virginia Satir), followed quickly by others like Salvador Minuchin, kicked off this area of exploration into systemic therapy as an alternative treatment to intrapsychic & analytic methods they understood very well, having been well trained in them up to that time (1950-1952 as the very beginning.)
The MFT field has persisted as a viable and effective alternative to individual & intrapsychic methods to this day, with both sub-fields influencing one another in (hopefully) very productive ways over time. Neither should be viewed as “less than” the other, but instead as complementary approaches that each possess limitations, but moreover bring strengths that can each potentially benefit a wide spectrum of patient needs.
On a personal note, I decided to write this in detail here because I don’t believe that many modern colleagues outside of the MFT world would have any reason to know of this history. And because too many of my own colleagues have viewed this history, and strong mastery of General Systems Theory, as something to “get through quickly so I can get to the good stuff (treatment models)”, which has led to impoverishment of skill in some places. We need to remember and elevate this knowledge rather than allow it to fade away.
Jonathan Cogburn, LMFT retweeted
For Halloween this year I am a liberal therapist. I had to practice my victimized glower, but I think I perfected it.
“My anaconda don’t want none unless you got emotional differentiation, hon…”
If you listen carefully it’s a misplaced anger at his own parents for not making him feel worthy that turned into raging jealousy of other children who had parents that lifted them up and poured into them. He’s projected all of that onto white people. He needs to mend his heart before thinking about running for any office. White ppl haven’t hurt him. He knows exactly who did. Notice how he doesn’t get the satisfaction he was craving when the interviewer simply anchors himself & doesn’t validate that experience. We should all do more of this. Don’t validate anyone’s experience for the sake of temporary bonding.
As strong an illustration of emotional differentiation as any I’ve seen on this app:
If you listen carefully it’s a misplaced anger at his own parents for not making him feel worthy that turned into raging jealousy of other children who had parents that lifted them up and poured into them. He’s projected all of that onto white people. He needs to mend his heart before thinking about running for any office. White ppl haven’t hurt him. He knows exactly who did. Notice how he doesn’t get the satisfaction he was craving when the interviewer simply anchors himself & doesn’t validate that experience. We should all do more of this. Don’t validate anyone’s experience for the sake of temporary bonding.
Therapy Twitter,
What is the more likely explanation for failure to humanize a person who’s homeless upon the encountering them?
That they’re a member of an out-group from my own?, or;
That stopping short of opening myself to them shields me from sympathetic pain?
Or something else?
Posting meme source cred here. @BrassKickerLLC is a great follow:
Jonathan Cogburn, LMFT retweeted
Howdy all.
Today’s UnShrink Me Halloween special will be streaming on EwwwTube at 12:30pm PST.
Spooktacular topics include:
1. The terror of EHRs.
2. Spooky therapists: fragilizing, objectifying patients.
3. Frightening future challenges for the field.
Hope to see yall there: @SystemicTexism @RyanMalphrus @PrimalHex @CoryGrad_LCSW @angpeacock1111 @sfowler
Jonathan Cogburn, LMFT retweeted
Centralizing compute resources into the hands of the few is a prescription for hell on earth.
Local AI must be the rule, not the exception when all this smoke clears.
The government and tech-bros would prefer that your resources were limited, censored and monitored by oligarchs...by them... and this would touch every aspect of life.
This is the reason to be against the mass data center invasion... it's an attack on resources that should be decentralized and owned, not centralized and rented.
sam: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources
“a lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data centre
but from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time
you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment
somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that”
News Flash: @GeorgesStPierre ain’t was scared. 😂
He was such a disciplined technician. Every. Single. Time. Dude trained harder and smarter than virtually everyone.
He’s always been a very imitable person in how he represents himself in public. And his story of overcoming bullying is truly inspiring. I use YouTube clips of his interview with Joe Rogan about that to teach students about overcoming bullying and about growth mindset.
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Therapy notes should be illegal.
From a privacy perspective EHRs are horrible
EHR companies, online box-therapy corps, AI platforms designed for mental health care, and insurance companies should all have to apply for a licensure status in the states where they intend to do business, for all the areas of practice that they reimburse, and on each panel that their providers do.
That way, there’s direct accountability for their actions with issues of patient privacy and malpractice.
I’m not a big government guy, but there hasn’t been equal protection under the law with these issues for a long time. These large entities trample all over privacy with no consequences while giving individual providers the shaft in a way that limits access and reduces quality of care.
Jonathan Cogburn, LMFT retweeted
Dad’s stroke was in the occipital lobe. His eyesight is patchy, and may not improve much.
If you’ve got tips, tricks, or tools for adjusting to life with less sight, please drop them below 🙏
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Bias in therapy, the Julia Ward case, and values based referrals, with @PsychoBible_AR
Good men are everywhere.
I think Ryan is one.
Lots of men also need help, mentorship, encouragement, and hope in order to become good men.
Why does society give a free pass to beat up incels? It is such a weird niche of suffering and troubled people that we have decided we can just continue to beat up because of how uncomfortable they make us feel.
Most groups that are suffering and troubled engage in significant negative behavior similar to that of incels, yet societies response is so different.
The totally socially acceptable jokes and smears on struggling men is bizarre.