HeyJaredShrink-Rap: A Psychologist's view
Looking at politics and culture through the lens of clinical psychology: Thoughts on how to understand, respond and thrive in our changing world.
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On Armadillos and Moderation (opens the original)
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“There is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos” Stuart StevensThis one hit me between the eyes. I’ve been a moderate all my life. A middle child, an introvert, a private person who kept my own counsel and found the middle of the road allowed me freedom to move much more effectively than those who raced along the edges, yelling their intentions.Then I became a psychologist, a clinician and educator of clinicians. The middle of the road allows you to see both
Butterflies (opens the original)
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Written in honor of the 10th anniversary of 9/11/01At first I didn’t see her. I was watching the crowd of parents, silent and pensive, coming into the auditorium. Several hundred, I estimated, as they filled the chairs and began to line up along the walls, leaning against the brick and waiting for me to begin.So at first I didn’t see the little blond girl sitting in the front row, her legs dangling at least six inches above the floor, swinging back and forth. When I did see her, I signaled silen
The Dying of the Light (opens the original)
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The light lives in all of us.It is the spark of uniqueness that thinks it rules the world when we are infants, that needs every smile, and coo and gentle response we can give it then. It is the tiniest seed of self, that seeks your eyes, your touch, your very essence to feed itself.And if we give it that, it learns to stand, first shakily, looking back for your support, and comfort and encouragement. You can do this, go ahead, our expressions say, I believe in you.Then that self needs others to
The Voter Who Frightens Me the Most (opens the original)
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MAGA voters do not frighten me. The people who wear MAGA shirts, wave Trump flags, and believe he is sent by God trigger only pity in my psychologist soul. We have always had them, in different forms, in the world. The crazies, the easily led, the desperate souls looking for something or someone to give their life meaning.But realistically, they are declining in number and will never account for more than 30% of his votes.It’s the other 70% that scare me.I met a subset of these on a recent vacat
Believe. Be Real. Beware (opens the original)
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BELIEVE“Believe women” is a mantra I respect. Very few women create accusations of sexual assault out of whole cloth. This is a not a new truth, but it is one more socially accepted and well documented than ever before.The MeToo movement in Hollywood opened the door for so many women to reveal their abuse publicly, and the downfall of men like Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinsten and others affirmed the truth that women were almost never lying. The cost of an accusation, true or false in the years they w
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