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psychology
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Beating a Struggle Session
In Mao Zedong's CCP-run China, citizens were bullied and brainwashed into accepting "socialist discipline" by the Communist authorities by means of a devastating tool called the "struggle session."
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OnlySubs: “I Can’t Do This Anymore”
I hear it all the time. "I'm tired; I can't do this anymore." I thought it too. I spent most of the last two years thinking it over and over again almost every day, but I was wrong.
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OnlySubs: Family Versus the Woke Cult
Many of us, maybe most of us now, have lost at least one immediate family member to some aspect of the Woke Marxist mind virus that's torn through our culture. This experience is painful enough on its own, but it's extra frustrating for people who believe in the power of the ties of family.
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OnlySubs: Psychological Black Holes
When you dig a hole in the ground and decide to fill it in, the hole gets smaller, right? That's not the case with black holes. When you put material into a black hole, it actually gets more massive, thus becomes more of a black hole.
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OnlySubs: Never Lie to Fit In
One of those messages that I think is so, so important, and core to authenticity and being based enough to avoid getting pulled off your values and into Wokeness, radicalism, or despair, is not telling lies to fit in.
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OnlySubs: Why the Wokish Can’t See Woke Harms
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, I dive into the question by drawing upon psychological insights relevant to identity and the so-called "Backfire Effect" to provide an explanation and, hopefully, some useful recommendations for helping the Wokish people in your life learn to see the Woke problem for what it is.
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OnlySubs: Woke Psychopathologies in Psychotherapy
Y'all, I got mad. It's not that often that something Woke makes me angry, but I saw an example that just really got me going.
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The Nature of Pseudo-Reality
The pseudo-reality holds as its North Star a Utopian vision that aligns with artificial resolutions to their inability to cope with reality as it is, and it thereby attracts others who have similar issues.
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To Boldly Go: Critical Animal Studies, the Final Frontier
Compitus may seem fringe, but she is working from the assumptions, and toward the aspirations, of a distinct critical social theory of relatively recent vintage (predictably) known as Critical Animal Studies (CAS).
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Sticks and Stones: Coping with Offensive, Hurtful, Insensitive, & Otherwise Unwelcome Speech
“Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” For generations, American children were taught this simple rhyme...but what about when words do hurt?
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Therapy and the Hermeneutics of Oppression
Critical Social Justice Theory is now rapidly establishing itself within the theory and knowledge of the counselling and psychotherapy disciplines.
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Wake Up, Talking Therapists! Critical Social Justice Theory Poses An Existential Threat To Your Professions
There is one thing that the field of talking therapies is, ironically, not talking about and this is the existential threat posed to our professions by Critical Social Justice Theory (CSJT).
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