We rarely hear the voices of clinical practitioners in public discourse. The voices of academic researchers dominate and take up all the oxygen - and they are the voices of people with no meaningful clinical experience. - @jonathanshedler.bsky.social

Good comments by @jonathanshedler.bsky.social in this article in today's Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/20/triggered-toxic-narcissist-are-you-fluent-in-therapy-speak

1/ "I was fed up with the false narrative we hear over and over, that psychoanalytic therapy has been discredited & so-called evidence-based therapy is scientifically proven. I knew the research and knew that the public, policy makers, & MH professionals were being sold a bill of goods.

1/3 If we had "evidence-based" sex, researchers who get little sex themselves would write manuals with standardized instructions, do studies showing instruction-manual sex is better than no sex at all, then declare it to be the “gold standard” of sex. Then accuse critics of being anti-science.

Hi Bluesky people, 🎉 @jonathanshedler.bsky.social aka Jonathan Shedler is here! He writes some of the most compelling threads (on the bird app) about psychology and psychoanalysts. Highly recommend 🕶️

New podcast just dropped! ⭐️"Know Thyself with Dr. Jonathan Shedler"⭐️ All the way from Australia—on The You Project with Craig Harper Where I answer the perennial question: What is psychodynamic therapy really about? Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6nS1ZZ2xqQTA5NUysuXTuA

1/7 One of the most important things I've learned: Severe personality problems find *camouflage.* No one thinks "I'm a sadist" or "I'm a malignant narcissist." They find a belief system/social group that validates their most hateful, destructive impulses & construes them as virtues.