Hello. Hello everybody. I'm speaking today with Dr. J.D. Haltingen is a developmental psychologist with a real interest in psychopathology, the study of mental

illness and the manner in which it develops in relationship to such things as early childhood

experience.

And so he's also quite a pronounced and courageous voice

on social media, which is really where I first came across him.

There are a lot of crazy things. which is really where I first came across him.

There are a lot of crazy things going on in the psychological community at the moment.

And so Haltigan is one of the few voices in the psychological community that are properly expressing

dismay at the state of the culture and of the profession.

And so I've been following him, watching what he's doing and appreciating it and learning

more about his story.

You know, he's a pretty good researcher, certainly good enough to good

enough so that he should have a at minimum a decent academic job and

may be good enough so that he should have an excellent one but instead he's working at a deli because he decided he'd rather have his conscience than his position.

And that's, you know, impressive. So I thought I'd reach out to him and have a chat and I know my

wife has done the same on her podcast platform that's Tammy Peterson. And so, join us.

Hello, Dr. Haltigan, thanks for joining me today.

Very pleasure to meet you, Jordan, here on our call,

and it was a very pleasure to see you here in Pittsburgh and

great to meet you as well here.

Let's start by talking about who you are and what you do.

Why don't we walk you why don't you walk everybody through your, well let's go into your

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