Gam418: Crazy Wise (corrected)
Added 2023-08-22 05:25:21 +0000 UTCSorry -- the first upload of this one still had a pre-roll ad at the beginning. Editing audio on Patreon always causes a problem, so the easiest solution was just to upload a whole new version. Apologies for the oversight!
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As an evidence-based clinical psychologist, I was incredibly pleased with how well you all confronted the woo here. Thank you so much! One weird thing is that logotherapy is not an evidence-based treatment. It's such a curve ball that someone who endorses support for science and EBT would choose a pretty woo-adjacent therapy in practice.
Nick Charles
2023-08-29 00:36:30 +0000 UTCI feel like the rabbit reference was a throw back to the Night of the Lepus episode
KeepingThePlatesSpinning
2023-08-22 21:17:32 +0000 UTCI think the role of religious hallucination/delusion in diagnosis is being slightly mischaracterized. If you tell me that you feel god's presence comforting you after your family member's death, that's a very common belief, and statistically, you are very unlikely to have any other psychotic symptoms. You probably gained that belief through interactions with your social environment - whether it's correct or not, it entered your brain in ways that are not psychotic. That belief could not contribute to a schizophrenia diagnosis. If you tell me that you feel Jesus standing right behind you telling you that rabbits are full of demons, that's a very uncommon belief. You probably did not gain it from normal social interaction. It probably came from your own brain's inability to process information normally. And, most importantly, you probably have other psychotic features. That belief could contribute to a schizophrenia diagnosis. Put another way, for clinicians, illogical thought does not mean any deviation from perfect vulcan logic. Normal human thought is not perfectly rational. A psychotic disorder like schizophrenia is defined by thought that is way less rational than normal human thought. To be a delusion, it has to be something that the average semi-logical person can see is nonsense. So, although it is literally irrational to think the god of the universe killed your relative but wants you to feel better about it, that's not easily disprovable by the average human brain. How do we know? Lots of average human brains believe in it. So yes, religious delusions and hallucinations can play a role in diagnosis, it's just that normal religiosity does not.
Stormy Decisis
2023-08-22 19:29:43 +0000 UTC
