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Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.

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  Innovations in Psychotherapy Conference

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  Honored to be speaking at the 2026 Innovations in Psychotherapy Conference (Nov 10–13 in Anaheim & Online)! Join us for evidence-based education & practical strategies to enhance your practice. Use code SPEAK26 to save $50:

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Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.

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  The seeds of America’s current political condition were already planted well before 9/11.

  America

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  But the truth is that the seeds of where we are now had already been planted well before 9/11.

  The Long Decline of Americapaulkrugman.substack.com

Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  The case for building AGI has always been framed around invention, such as curing cancer or solving fusion energy.

  AGIenergy

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  The narrative around why building AGI was a good idea has always been about invention -- "it will cure cancer", "it will solve fusion energy", etc.

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Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.

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  Vaginal estrogen is a safe, effective and badly underused therapy for postmenopausal women, and it probably saves lives.

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  For postmenopausal women—and women with premature estrogen deprivation for other reasons—vaginal estrogen is a safe and highly effective therapy to alleviate the genitourinary syndrome of menopause, prevent recurrent UTIs, and likely to save lives.

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Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.

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  Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery: A Clinical Summit for Mind-Body Healing

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  There’s still time to join me for Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery: A Clinical Summit for Mind-Body Healing!

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Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  For psychiatric disorders driven by amygdala hyperactivity, elective amygdalectomy should be offered and covered by health insurance instead of lifelong therapy and medication.

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  If you suffer from amygdala hyperactivity that gives you one of the aforementioned psychiatric disorders, I think that not only should you be offered elective amygdalectomy, but your health insurance should be glad to pay for it (especially if done via ultramodern very safe radiosurgery) one time, rather than for a lifetime supply of more expensive, less effective talk therapies and medications.

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Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.

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  The body is not an archive of trauma: what feels like a memory stored in the hips or the jaw is a mind-body feedback loop, and the loop is what therapy interrupts.

  PsychotherapyTrauma

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  It may not be stored there, but what you're tapping into, it's not a repository of the memory, but it's part of this mind-body feedback loop where there's a sensation that your brain has an association to that might have a familiarity to a time in which you felt sad or scared.

  If the Body Doesn't Keep the Score, What Does?drarielleschwartz.com

Neurologist at Oxford; studies apathy, motivation and attention after brain injury, and edits the journal Brain.

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  ADHD is a real condition and over-diagnosed at the same time; the two claims are not incompatible, because the line marking normality is a judgement call.

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  But I also think that this is not mutually incompatible with the view that there's also overdiagnosis. And I think we need very careful ways of making diagnosis because the conventional way is you take a history from a person about what the problem is.

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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys

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  This is a fascinating topic, and there’s a lot of BS floating around it. This book is one of the good ones.

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  Concurrency is hard not because human brains cannot handle it but because nobody gets enough practice at it.

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  I think a large part of the problem of why it's hard for us is because you don't get a lot of practice. Usually when you have a race condition in a system, you find out months later and then you try a fix and you find out weeks later after that if the fix actually worked.

  Formal methods with Hillel Wayneyoutube.com

Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.

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  Litigation is the wrong instrument for a public health problem that comes from what people choose to buy.

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  Yes, our supersize culture is a health disaster, but the cure isn’t lawsuits against companies that sell us what we want for a price we’re all too happy to pay.

  Are Courts The Answer To “Ultraprocessed” Food?blog.simplejustice.us

Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.

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  Behavioral economics is not a cure-all, but it is a useful tool for individuals and for systemic change alike.

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  My view: Behavioral economics is no panacea, but it can be an extremely useful tool for individuals and for systems as well.

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Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.

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  A prescriber cannot outsource containment to the therapy hour: the emotional and relational dynamics are part of prescribing, not an intrusion on it.

  Psychotherapy

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  The emotional and relational dynamics are not an intrusion upon the work of prescribing. They are a part of the work itself.

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Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.

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  European countries are wealthy enough to afford widespread air conditioning, comparable to Japan.

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  Europe is not actually poor. Japan is about as wealthy as Europe, and almost all Japanese homes are air-conditioned. Europeans could afford to air-condition their homes (and their hospitals!) just like the Japanese do.

  Europe Needs Air Conditioningjoshbarro.com

Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF. His 2010 meta-analysis established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment; he has argued ever since that "evidence-based therapy" is used as a marketing term.

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  Telling a patient "your feelings are valid" is not therapy: it is the mirror image of "get a grip", and it makes the therapist a judge of feelings instead of a companion in them.

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  The phrase "your feelings are valid" does not invite curiosity or deeper self-understanding, which is the point of psychotherapy. It is the mirror image of "stop whining and get a grip." One sounds warm and one sounds harsh, but neither deepens self-awareness.

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Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.

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  Practices marketed as transformative, such as therapy, meditation, and psychedelics, often produce little real progress despite years of use.

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  There are many practices that promise to transform and improve us-therapy, meditation, psychedelics-, but that branding doesn't mean that they actually do much for us: it is common to see people use these techniques for years without any obvious progress on their problems.

  How not to forget what mattershenrikkarlsson.xyz

Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.

From one piece Manufacturing requirements are killing cell and gene therapy 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Manufacturing and batch-release requirements, not biology, are what kill most promising cell and gene therapies.

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  Excessive manufacturing requirements are a pervasive problem, especially in the field of cell and gene therapy and they are killing countless of promising medicines before they ever reach patients.

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  Investment will keep draining out of cell and gene therapy until manufacturing and regulatory risk become possible to underwrite.

  Psychotherapy

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  Until manufacturing and regulatory risks become easier to underwrite, capital will keep drifting away from one of the most promising technologies of the last century.

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Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company he started as Facebook in 2004.

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  The point is not to cure diseases but to build the tools with which the whole scientific field cures them.

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  And again, I mean, the the theory isn't that we're going to cure the diseases. We're not. um it's that we want to help accelerate the pace of progress for the whole scientific field.

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Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.

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  Sacred Therapy: Jewish Spiritual Teachings on Emotional Healing and Inner Wholeness

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  This book is so full of wisdom and insight. I pulled down my copy just now and it's filled with underlines and margin notes.

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Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.

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  How long a trial takes decides which diseases get drugs at all, because capital flows to the indications whose endpoints can be measured quickly.

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  Lastly, the duration of a clinical trial does not merely determine how fast an individual therapy reaches patients. It also shapes which diseases attract serious investment and which do not.

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  This is the year of personal agents, and the fastest way to get one to everyone is to team up with a lab, on condition the project stays open source.

  open source

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  But also, I'm very excited to, like, make this into a version that I can get to a lot of people because I think this is the year of personal agents, and that's the future. And the fastest way to do that is teaming up with one of the labs.

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Co-founder and CEO of Until, a reversible-cryopreservation company, and previously the founder of the Longevity Fund.

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  Medicine needs an ambulance of the future: a way to pause a dying patient's biological time until the cure for their disease arrives.

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  But right now like there's no way to press pause on their biological time. So like what if you had an ambulance of the future, right? Like what if you could take someone who is on their deathbed and um you know find some way to you know just sort of hibernate them basically until um the sort of critical cure for their disease comes online.

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Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

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  Outcome Rating Scale (ORS)

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  The ORS is a brief, 4-item measure designed to assess areas of life functioning known to change as a result of therapeutic intervention. It takes less than one minute to complete and score.

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  Session Rating Scale (SRS)

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  The SRS is a brief, 4-item measure designed to assess the therapeutic alliance. It provides immediate feedback on the quality of the relationship and allows for course correction in real time.

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Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.

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  The Balancing Act

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  The Balancing Act by therapist Nedra Tawwab (February)

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Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.

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  Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up

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  Best books I read in 2025: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Story is a Deal: How to use the science of story to motivate and persuade by Will Storr Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of Pediatrics by Paul Turke Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier

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Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.

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  Oil-rich Gulf monarchies are effectively post-scarcity societies, with institutions adapted to match that condition.

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  oil-rich Gulf monarchies are the closest thing to post-scarcity societies on earth today, with the institutional adaptions to match

  Notes from the UAEsecondbest.ca

Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  Diagnose with data and treat with design: data can tell you that you have a problem and where it is, and it can never tell you what to build.

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  what you really want is you want to diagnose with data and treat with design. So data is not a tool that's going to tell you what you should build or what the solution is or how we're going to, you know, cure the fact that you don't have really great retention. It's just not.

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Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.

From one piece The Rumpelstiltskin effect: therapeutic repercussions of clinical diagnosis (with 1 co-authors) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Self-diagnosis is an attempt to secure the therapeutic effect of a medical intervention patients cannot officially access.

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  Likewise, self-diagnosis should be understood as an attempt to secure the therapeutic effect of a medical intervention to which patients do not have official access.

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  Diagnoses that have therapeutic effects are medical interventions and should be treated and researched as such.

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  If a clinical diagnosis can have a therapeutic effect, then, at least in some instances, diagnoses are medical interventions in themselves and ought to be treated and researched as such, with an eye to both positive effects and potential iatrogenic harms.

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  Clinical diagnosis can have a therapeutic effect independent of any other intervention.

  Psychotherapy

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  Their experiences highlight a striking, neglected and unchristened medical phenomenon: The therapeutic effect of a clinical diagnosis, independent of any other intervention, where clinical diagnosis refers to situating the person's experiences into a clinical category by a clinician or the patient.

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Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.

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  Infectious diseases get far less industry R&D per death than non-communicable ones, because they mostly kill people in countries where a cure pays less.

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  Infectious diseases as a category receive vastly less R&D spending from industry than non-communicable diseases, per death they cause, because they disproportionately kill people in lower- and middle-income countries where the payoff for making a cure is less lucrative.

  A Quantitative Approach to Vaccine Fundingblog.jacobtrefethen.com

Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.

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  The cure for the trade deficit is to tax consumption instead of saving and investment, and to stop borrowing to fund consumption.

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  Cure the disease, not the symptoms. Reform taxes to tax consumption, not saving and investment. Stop funneling borrowed money to consumption.

  Tariffs, saving, and investmentgrumpy-economist.com

Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.

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  Hate sticks for a lifetime, and forgiveness is its only cure.

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  I couldn't let myself be angry or consumed by that kind of stuff because hate is so sticky, it sticks for a lifetime. And there really is only one cure for hate, which is forgiveness. I just don't think you can get rid of it without that.

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Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.

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  Scaling the 2019-2023 recipe — same architecture, bigger model, more data — is not enough; further progress depends on new architectural ideas.

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  Neurosymbolic AI — combining such machinery with neural networks – is likely a necessary condition for going forward.

  garymarcus.substack.com

Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

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  A therapy is only shown to be more effective if it is compared against another treatment intended to help, not against a control nobody expected to work.

  EMDRPsychotherapyCBT

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  If one really wanted to know whether a treatment (e.g., CBT, IPT, ACT, EMDR) was more effective, it had to be directly compared to an approach intended to help - what Wampold and colleagues termed, a "bona fide" treatment. Doing otherwise, they argued, conflated artifacts of research design with actual research results.

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Energy and decarbonisation analyst; publishes an annual chart deck on the state of the transition, and was chief content officer at BloombergNEF.

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  Plug-in hybrids have moved past being a worst-of-both-worlds compromise and are now genuinely thriving.

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  Neither condition is now true, but plug-in hybrids are thriving.

  Inflecting and Overtaking, SunPower, Waymonathanielbullard.com

Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

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  Therapists overestimate their own effectiveness by about 65%, and it is not a Western cultural artifact.

  Psychotherapy

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  Since 2012 when the first study appeared in the literature, others have been published documenting the tendency of practitioners to overestimate their effectiveness - on average, by 65% (1, 2).

  Alas, it seems everyone comes from Lake Wobegonwritings.scottdmiller.com

Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

From one piece How to (and not to) become a more effective therapist 2 beliefs · writings.scottdmiller.com

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  What does make a therapist more effective is trainable interpersonal skill, not treatment technology.

  Psychotherapy

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  It turns out that therapists who perform well on the FIS establish stronger relationships and are more effective (2). More to the point, the evidence shows FIS-related skills are trainable and that such training leads to better results (3, 4, 5).

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  Training a therapist in a treatment model does not make them more effective, however well the model performs in a trial.

  Psychotherapy

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  Over the last 50 years, treatment methods have proliferated despite a lack of evidence of differential effectiveness between approaches. And even when a randomized controlled trial indicates a particular approach works, none show practitioners become more effective when they are trained in that modality.

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Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

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  Therapists do not improve with experience: on average they become less effective, and their clients drop out more the longer they have practised.

  Psychotherapy

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  Indeed, as I've reported in previous posts, research not only shows therapists do not improve with time and experience in the field, but on average become less effective (1, 2, 3, 4).

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American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.

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  The human mind functions as an association-forming machine, linking past experiences to present beliefs.

  Psychotherapy

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  Exposure therapy works because the human mind is an association machine.

  How to Conquer Your Biggest Fearmarkmanson.net

CEO of Redwood Research, where he works on AI control: making sure a powerful model cannot cause a catastrophe even if it is misaligned and trying to.

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  Catching an AI trying to cause harm should count as a win, because being caught changes the situation more than the attempt cost.

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  So when evaluating control, we should count catching an AI red-handed as a win condition.

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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

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  Theft of Fire

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  Theft of Fire offers a plausible and realistic universe. The characters, Marcus Warnoc and Miranda Foxgrove, are not mere archetypes; they are complex, flawed, and deeply human. Their struggle to trust one another and overcome their own demons is a powerful allegory for the modern human condition.

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Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.

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  Cognitive Behavior Therapy

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  I recently reviewed Beck's book, which is written as a practical guide for therapists implementing CBT.

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Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It, How Can I Get Through to You? and Us; argues that Western individualism is what makes couples' work hard.

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  Character is not fixed: therapy works because habitual neural pathways can re-form, sometimes within minutes.

  Psychotherapy

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  In my practice, I have seen that opening neural pathways can lead to profound change, to brand-new traits and behavior, sometimes in a matter of minutes.

  The Myth of the Individualterryreal.com

Programmer; founded comma.ai and tinygrad, and was the first to unlock the iPhone.

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  Recommendation algorithms are not sinister; they simply predict engagement, and what humans engage with most is outrage.

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  It just predicts what you are likely to re-Tweet and like, and linger on. That’s what all these algorithms do. It’s what Tik-Tok does, it’s what all these recommendation engines do. And it turns out that the thing that you are most likely to interact with is outrage. And that’s a quirk of the human condition.

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Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.

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  GPT-3

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  GPT-3 is really just an incredible therapist, and is able to uncover complex patterns in my thinking and distill clean narratives that helps me a lot.

  every.to

Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".

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  The warranty disclaimer in a free licence is the real deal being struck: the entire risk of using the code falls on whoever uses it.

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  If you use this, I owe you nothing. At all. We have no relationship. I put this up online on the condition that if you use it, all the risks are on you.

  I am not a suppliersoftwaremaxims.com

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  Somebody with trauma should try a trauma-focused therapy such as EMDR before treating their nightmares directly.

  EMDRPsychotherapyTrauma

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  I would recommend that anyone who thinks they're suffering from trauma (eg PTSD) try a trauma-focused therapy like EMDR before trying to address nightmares directly, unless the nightmares are overwhelmingly worse than all their other trauma symptoms.

  Peer Review: Nightmaresastralcodexten.com

Psychotherapist who trained with Jeffrey Young from 1989 and founded The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and the Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. Wrote Disarming the Narcissist.

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  Schema Therapy Online Community

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  This online community is a powerful way to stay in touch with other schema therapists around the globe, on a regular basis; to be part of the ever-growing ST community.

  disarmingthenarcissist.com

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  Schema Therapy Training Institute video series

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  This video series is grounded in an understanding, both conceptually and practically, of the essential value of the therapy relationship in schema therapy

  disarmingthenarcissist.com

Writer on time, productivity and limitation; wrote Four Thousand Weeks and Meditations for Mortals, and the newsletter The Imperfectionist.

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  Blocking apps and personal rules do not cure distraction, because they close the escape route without touching what is being escaped.

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  This is why most anti-distraction hacks – web-blocking apps, noise-canceling headphones, personal rules – never seem to work very well.

  The truth about distractionoliverburkeman.com

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  If negative emotion comes from underweighting sensory evidence, that explains EMDR: it forces high-precision attention onto something the mind usually represses.

  EMDRPsychotherapy

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  First, it justifies various psychotherapies - EMDR and coherence therapy seem to come out especially well here - that focus on trying to get the brain to pay unusually precise attention, under unusually safe conditions, to something it usually represses.

  The Precision Of Sensory Evidenceastralcodexten.com

Psychotherapist who trained with Jeffrey Young from 1989 and founded The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and the Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. Wrote Disarming the Narcissist.

From one piece ERP 226: How To Understand And Deal With a Narcissist, an Interview With Wendy Behary [Transcript] 3 beliefs · drjessicahiggins.com

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  Narcissism runs along a spectrum rather than being a category, and schema therapy treats it by working back to what early life embedded.

  PsychotherapySchema therapyNarcissism

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  the approach that I use is called Schema Therapy, and Schema Therapy is designed to work with very complex personality types, personality disorders, and even those that are happening along a spectrum

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  Narcissists can change meaningfully in therapy, though nobody changes completely, and most of the work is persisting with empathic confrontation past the first rebuff.

  PsychotherapyNarcissism

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  In 30+ years of working with narcissistic men mostly - yes, it is possible for people to change. And even narcissists can change. Now, I don't really believe anyone changes completely, but it is possible to get meaningful change.

  drjessicahiggins.com

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  Nobody living with a narcissist should feel obliged to become their therapist.

  PsychotherapyNarcissism

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  And no one should feel burdened to become the therapist of the narcissist in their life. It's not your responsibility as a partner, as a child of a narcissist, or even a friend.

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Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  Amusing Ourselves to Death

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  Everyone needs to read this book. The observations were made in a pre-internet era, and they’re 10x as relevant today. Nothing will do more to help cure your information addiction that the healthy dose of reality provided in these pages.

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Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.

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  Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

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  Safi Bahcall, Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries: How does group behavior and the science of phase transitions manifest itself? The author, a physicist and entrepreneur, tries to show why some wild new ideas become game changers. I was skeptical, but when someone like Danny Kahneman claims “This book has everything: new ideas, bold insights, entertaining history and convincing analysis. Not to be missed by anyone who wants to understand how ideas change the world,” I pay attention.

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Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  Method of Levels: How to Do Psychotherapy Without Getting in the Way

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  This book isn't just bad, it's dangerous.

  slatestarcodex.com

Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF. His 2010 meta-analysis established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment; he has argued ever since that "evidence-based therapy" is used as a marketing term.

From one piece Selling Bad Therapy to Trauma Victims 2 beliefs · psychologytoday.com

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  Psychotherapy follows a dose-response curve: it takes more than 20 sessions before half of patients meaningfully improve, and more than 40 before three quarters do.

  Psychotherapy

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  It takes more than 20 sessions, or about six months of weekly therapy, before 50 percent of patients show meaningful improvement. It takes more than 40 sessions for 75 percent of patients to show meaningful improvement.

  Selling Bad Therapy to Trauma Victimspsychologytoday.com

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  The APA's trauma treatment guidelines should be ignored, because they rest only on trials of therapies too brief to have worked.

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  The American Psychological Association (APA) just issued guidelines for treating trauma. Patients and therapists would be wise to ignore them.

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  the work of Dr. Sarah Ballantyne

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  If you suffer one of those diseases, in addition to talking to your doctor, I recommend the work of Dr. Sarah Ballantyne. She has a PhD in medical biophysics, and managed to cure four of her own severe autoimmune diseases with the autoimmune protocol.

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