Camilo Ortiz

An excellent psychodynamic take from Nancy McWilliams on why giving your clients advice (even when it's good advice!) doesn't actually help them: "... an idealization of the therapist that compensates for the loss of their defense (“I will comply, based on my belief that my

RT @HdxAcademy: 🎓 Academia doesn't thrive when echo chambers form. Is viewpoint diversity treated as a threat at your school? https://t.co…

RT @AbigailShrier: I don't think I've ever had as much fun writing anything. My piece, for @TheFP, on what we learn from Hollywood's great…

RT @robkhenderson: If you talk to actual poor people, junkies, felons, etc. they have no problem using these terms but there's no shortage…

RT @clairlemon: Substack and FIRE have put out a joint statement pledging to defend writers in the US following the detainment of Tufts Uni…

Instead, at most universities, ideas that challenge and those who voice them are routinely punished, socially and academically.

Heterodox Academy @HdxAcademy

🎓 Which experience did you have more of in university: viewpoint diversity or echo chambers? https://t.co/AXUJp5z3ue

This is a great example of an independence activity (iA) that is the backbone of my independence focused therapy (IFT) for anxious kids. Look how exhilarated the child and mom both are. You can find the free treatment manual for clinicians here: https://t.co/miXdrLbioQ

Libertas @1ababy1

@FreeRangeKids

Such a great example of how operating in a monoculture, where disagreement is actively punished, reliably leads to wacky behavior becoming normalized. What a clown show.

Colin Wright @SwipeWright

A growing trend in academic publishing is "positionality statements" where authors list all their intersectional forms of privilege/oppression. This one is particularly absurd. "All authors are cis-gender menstruating individuals who identify as intersectional feminists." https://t.co/gSr5x4oVXN

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RT @bariweiss: The author of the infamous Google memo was banished from Silicon Valley. Now his ideas are regarded as common sense. Will Ja…

RT @LetGrowOrg: When kids do things independently, they return 'puffed up' with happiness & confidence," shares a Germantown Friends School…

This is a rare study that addresses potential harm from psychotherapy. Most people think the worst that can happen if you put a child in therapy is that it doesn’t help. Not true. Potential iatrogenic effects in trauma-focused psychotherapy for youth. https://t.co/HoByYOMyYj

Adults can easily list the risks of increasing child independence (injuries, kidnapping, etc). It is much harder to bring to mind the risks of LIMITING independence (increased susceptibility to anxiety, worse social skills, less persistence). Once you see it as two types of

RT @LetGrowOrg: 🚲"He Seems to Stand a Foot Taller!" When Beth’s 7-year-old son started #BikeToSchool alone, everything changed—his confiden…

If this is real, we are in deep trouble.

Tyler Alterman @TylerAlterman

Cognitive security is now as important as basic literacy. Here’s a true story: All week I’d been getting texts and calls from a family member – let’s call him Bob – about how his sentient AI was wanting to get in touch with me. I figured it was one of Bob’s usual jokes. It was

Imagine living in a country where you could spend almost 2 years in prison for refusing to use government compelled speech. Where is this hellhole you ask? Saudi Srabia? North Korea? How about England.

Timur Kuran @timurkuran

“500 days in prison” for refusing to use trans pronouns, in other words, for resisting compelled speech. Such punishments used to be associated with the Dark Ages.

RT @DavidAFrench: This is an excellent letter by FIRE, which absolutely and consistently holds the line on free speech.