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Dr. Kirk Honda talks about evidence based therapy, cosmetics, prank calls, and science denial.


The Psychology In Seattle Podcast. 


March 30, 2018.


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Music by Bread Knife Incident.

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Anonymous

Re the person who complains about "self centered ego, inner narcissist gratified by yanking someone's chain..." "a caller...who says she is depressed, but has a zigzaging way of speech" "I knew that she was fraudulent becuase the name on the nswering machine doesn't correspond to the notes" -- Ideally, I want to refrain from judging someone on their countertransference, but this is just...textbook judgmental attitude of therapist toward client in a pretty unprofessional way. Clients who call you are not responsible for being likable people who you would like to meet with. They are not responsible for your feelings of entitlement to having your "ideal" client. You're right in saying that he should not "use his clinical knowledge as a weapon" because that is what is happening. The woman whose answering machine doesn't match? -- As a clinician in a public agency, some of my clients change their phone numbers just about every month, they often call from someone else's phone number. Whatever. He is assuming things about the client and already developing feelings of deep contempt for the clients before he had ever met him.

Anonymous

I am Italian too, and while we don't really have many flat-Earthers here, and only a few die-hard religious groups deny evolution, we definitely are having lots of rallying against vaccines (and also, more worryingly, notions about race that have been debunked a century ago). Staminal cells research also is met with fierce opposition from religious types, even while it doesn't have to involve embryos, and in general everything genetics ("OMG they're crossing strawberries with fish!") Beside the reasons you gave, I think an increasing number of people believe that scientist are a clique and have some sort of agenda. The thing I find funny is, the same people who are suspicious of science will then gobble very stupid things... My own mother believes microwaved food will give you cancer and that scientists have nefarious reasons to hush it up. Also she very nearly got mad at me once for telling her a famous stage magician's "hypnosis experiments" were theatricals, and then when I told her how actual clinical hypnosis works she scoffed and said "Oh, but I don't believe in _that_!"