I sat down with Andrew Hartz, a practicing clinical psychologist and the founder of the Open Therapy Institute. His organization is working to filter out the political bias that has become endemic in mental health care and connect patients with therapists they can trust.
We get into:
The woke insanity inside the American Psychological Association
How to find a therapist who will actually help you
Why disability benefits prove the role of agency in mental health
What the Lindsay Clancy case revealed about the legal system
Mass formation psychosis and social media addiction
Why our culture overlooks male strengths, and what that’s doing to boys
The rush to affirm gender dysphoria without evidence
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Outline:
[0:00] Therapy went insanely woke
[14:14 14:18] Psychology vs psychiatry vs therapy
[15:48 5:52] How to get the most out of therapy
[25:45 25:49] Can we trust the data behind therapy?
[34:14] What does trauma really mean?
[40:31] Mortality and existential anxiety
[45:24] Agency is central to mental health
[57:56] We’re accommodating bad behavior
[59:44] Unconscious bias and microaggressions
[1:03:06] Did women ruin psychology?
[1:08:58] Lindsay Clancy’s insanity defense
[1:19:32] Has psychosis become a legal loophole?
[1:31:38] Is neuroscience useful for psychology?
[1:33:12] Mass formation psychosis and social media
[1:44:15] Should women worry about postpartum psychosis?
[1:46:03] We’ve lost the ability to talk about men positively
[1:58:23] Why young men turn to Andrew Tate
[2:08:53] The rise in narcissism throughout our culture
[2:11:43] What does it mean to be “mentally healthy”?
[2:15:29] The psychology of homosexuality and gender dysphoria
[2:33:17] Conservatives can’t give up on institutions
[2:47:04] America needs the best of psychology right now
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