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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

240. Why Free Speech is the Antidote to Ignorance and Corruption | Cambridge University Speech

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Education, Science, Society & Culture

4.634.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Recorded at Caius College on November 22, 2021. Dr. Peterson recently traveled to the UK for a series of lectures at the highly esteemed Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. This was the first of said lectures. After some remarks on Cambridge’s beauty and rich history, Dr. Peterson examines the significance and history of clinical psychology. Drawing from the likes of Carl Rogers, Freud, Maslow, and Jung, this lecture investigates free speech, the value of structure, ways to approach mental illness, Jordan’s clinical experience, active listening, relationships, and the golden rule for conflict management. // SHOWNOTES // [0:00] Intro [1:30] Start of speech [3:10] Dr. Peterson reflects on the beauty and integrity of the University of Cambridge and the effort by Dr. Orr to make the talk about free speech possible [4:20] How studying clinicians Carl Jung, Carl Rogers, Maslow, and others helped Dr. Peterson both professionally and personally [6:20] Dr. Peterson stresses the importance of being an active speaker as well as an active listener, and explains how Freud “let people reveal themselves to themselves” [12:30] Dr. Peterson’s approach as a formally-trained cognitive-behavioral psychologist and conflict resolution advice for people who are in an intimate relationship [16:10] Dr. Peterson describes Carl Roger’s technique as it relates to conflict management [23:00] The importance of having an overarching structure that unites a family for peace and harmony within a household [26:00] Dr. Peterson explains why “free speech is not the freedom or right among many”

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0:00.0

It's wonderful to be here.

0:07.0

This is such a remarkable place for a Canadian in particular with our rather, what would you

0:13.2

say, positive history.

0:14.9

It's really something to come here and see a place that's so saturated with, I would say,

0:19.4

beauty and integrity.

0:21.6

I hope you know what you have and that you take careful care of it because it certainly

0:25.5

deserves it.

0:27.4

I'm going to speak tonight as a clinician, I would say, about free speech.

0:35.8

Dr. Orr gave a bit of an account of the battle behind the scenes, so to speak, that took

0:41.6

place so that I could come here and talk.

0:44.3

And that's much appreciated.

0:46.1

A lot of people put a lot on the line to make this possible.

0:51.2

But I find the debate itself somewhat of a mystery.

0:53.4

I can't really understand why it's raging, precisely the way it is raging.

0:59.1

And I would say that specifically from a clinical perspective, I'm going to tell you a little

1:04.8

bit about a clinician named Carl Rogers.

1:07.4

And I learned something.

1:08.5

I've studied the people I regard as the great clinicians in some detail and learned a

1:14.8

lot from all of them, regardless of their particular school of psychotherapeutic endeavor,

1:19.3

let's say, or their historical background or their genre. I learned a lot from Freud

1:24.1

and the psychoanalysis from Carl Jung, from Rogers, who is a humanist, from Maslow, who was

1:29.6

perhaps equally outstanding as a humanist psychologist, the existential psychologists, and the cognitive

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