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Then why are you *talking about* needing to act? Why partake in a language-based platform if thought/emotion/meaning-making has no relationship to action?
they do something about it
men don’t need therapy because they’re built different (literally)
male and female brains are wired for different stress responses.
when a woman is sad, her brain's language centers activate, while when a man is sad his motor and planning circuits torn on
she processes by talking
he processes by acting
therapy works for women because it mirrors their emotional processing style: verbal, emotional, recursive, while it fails most men because it forces them into rumination, when what they need is resolution
men aren’t helped by sitting still and talking in circles about their feelings, they need a purpose
modern therapy is built on feminine logic: passive introspection, linguistic dissection, circular processing, but well adjusted men are driven toward problems to solve and things to do
men heal by doing not by feeling more
Curious for others’ thoughts on this thread but I’d say:
Therapy involves developing ‘negative capability’, being able to tolerate uncertainty without immediately escaping it.
So if pressure for a single session “aha” is coming from the therapist, then they are not good.
Psychotherapists: how do you separate signal from noise with regards to theory?
IMO - There can be a just-so story quality to much psychotherapy theory. Post-hoc explanations dressed up as
profound insights. Apophenia (tendency to see meaningful patterns in random or unrelated events) or meaningful pattern recognition?
I don’t doubt the utility of body-based therapy approaches, but this line of thinking leaves out a crucial point.
Yes, the mind is expressed in the body.
But the body is expressed in the mind, too.
This sentiment splits off mind from body
my new ep, passage through the insubstantial, is out today! hope you get a chance to listen
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human age retweeted
The great @oliverburkeman on AI, creativity, and psychotherapy:
"The point about a good novel produced by a human (or a song, or painting, or dare I say it, an email newsletter) isn’t that only a human *could ever* have produced it. It’s that a human *did in fact* produce it."
The great @oliverburkeman on AI, creativity, and psychotherapy:
"The point about a good novel produced by a human (or a song, or painting, or dare I say it, an email newsletter) isn’t that only a human *could ever* have produced it. It’s that a human *did in fact* produce it."
"But if, like me, you believe that the core value of therapy lies in the connection between two conscious beings, one striving to hold the other in 'unconditional positive regard' while focused on his or her inner growth, all this talk of AI therapy is liable to make you..."








