How valid is the commonly echoed complaint of the high functioning / high intelligence crowd that therapy isn’t effective bc they can’t find a therapist that is highly functioning / intelligent enough for them?
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Replying to @nwilliams030
I don't think that the success of therapy depends on the differential between therapist and patient, but on the competence and integrity of the therapist. It is hard to find good ones. However, different cognitive styles may require different strategies to get through.
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Replying to @Plinz @nwilliams030
From Proust: “Three-quarters of the sickness of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.”
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Replying to @auderdy @nwilliams030
This episode made me sad: she spends her life with people that eat shit and teaches them how to be fine with it, because she thinks that this is the only way open to herself, too. How cruel. If she was my therapist, I would not want to let her do this to herself.
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Replying to @Plinz @nwilliams030
new thot: over-intellectualization is a coping mechanism for emotionally difficult or trauma states; since lots of maladaptive behaviors arise from sub/unconscious shifts in brain physiology, addressing those through intellectual means won’t address the problem.
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using intellectual means to address those issues is like using water to try to help a drowning person
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Replying to @auderdy @nwilliams030
It is more like using floatation devices to help a drowning person, while boats are often not available. The person remains in the water, but keeps afloat.
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Btw, and unrelated, over-emotionalization is usually a sign of an inability to deal rationally with a problem complex. Both hypertrophied rationality and emotionality can be valuable traits, but indicate a coping mechanism for an opposite defect.
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Do this phenomena have a specific name?
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we can coin it Twitter Thread Trauma Therapy Theory
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