His main concern was that patients could find his real name and his secondary concern was that crazy people could easily find it. 2/3
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now, why would scott alexander siskind not want his patients to find that he used their cases for general entertainment of his blog readers? that's somewhat a mystery to my, but perhaps you have some insight here…
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It is fully consistent with APA guidelines to publish anonymized cases. If you have information that he didn't do so, you should report him to APA. But surely you are just a troll.
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Replying to @NotoriousAapje @_amtiskaw and
It's not about whether he committed a formal APA violation, it's about whether his patients might have been offended if they'd known the way he talked about patients on his blog, and if they'd have had a right to know about him doing so before going to him for treatment
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
yeah when you put it like this, "do siskind's Black patients have a right to know that he thinks they are genetically inferior" seems like a pretty straightforward question to answer
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Replying to @perdricof @NotoriousAapje and
Even if you insist on pretending the dogwhistles are completely inaudible and you leave race and gender and so on completely out of it, Scott's general attitude of bemused contempt at irrational dumb normies is very off-putting in a mental health professional
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
This is one of those things where arguing about it isn't gonna be fruitful, because his fans tend to cite the exact same passages I think vividly demonstrate said bemused contempt they cite as illustrations of deep humanist empathy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
I feel like the people who say Scott demonstrated great "empathy" on his blog are wrong, and not just that but hilariously and utterly wrong, and in a way that vividly demonstrates how narcissistic this kind of thing gets
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
They find him super "empathetic" because he empathizes WITH THEM, and performs that empathy at great length and with great florid passion And then they wonder why no one else being talked about feels the empathy Like someone in a hot tub on a snowy day asking "Why are you cold"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Like seriously his rants about how he just doesn't understand Chads and Stacies, how violent alcoholics with an IQ of 80 are a closed book to him, how he doesn't get what makes these Jezebel feminists tick This all gets praised to the heavens as "empathy"
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Because he keeps talking about how *bad* it feels not to get it, how much it *hurts him* not to get it, *how hard he's been trying to get it* And his audience empathizes with THAT
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
(The idea that there's even one sentence in "Radicalizing the Romanceless" that makes a good faith effort to empathize with women's view of "the dating market" and why "Nice Guys" cause them frustration and resentment is absurd but people say so with a straight face)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Jordan Peterson, who is of course worse than Scott on most metrics one could name, is at least more bluntly honest than Scott Or just older and feeling more secure (as a tenured academic who no longer practices clinically)
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