Therapist Unpopular Opinions
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 103 minutes
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00:00 "I hate DBT"
05:22 "CEUs are a scam"
20:52 "Only serious rest cures burnout"
33:56 "Not every kid needs a 'fix'"
1:01:33 Bob's bathroom remodel update!
1:05:09 "Therapists should be in therapy"
1:05:30 "Money hoarding should be listed in the DSM"
1:09:06 "Neurodivergent is too broad a term"
1:12:25 "IFS is not rocket science"
1:30:22 "Gottman training isn't helpful"
1:34:10 DBT Mindset
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March 26, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | So Bob, I was looking at the therapists subreddit on Reddit, the therapist's subreddit, |
| 0:07.3 | and I came across this post that I thought was interesting and I wanted to go over with you. |
| 0:13.8 | What do you say? |
| 0:14.3 | Yeah, right. |
| 0:15.5 | So this individual called Choice Story posted unpopular takes. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm wondering if anyone, so this is a subreddit, it's a forum for therapists. |
| 0:28.1 | I'm wondering if anyone wants to share any unpopular takes they have on theories or therapy |
| 0:34.3 | styles. |
| 0:35.4 | For example, I hate DBT. |
| 0:38.6 | And then they say runs away, meaning, I hate DBT, run away. |
| 0:43.1 | Well, why do you think they say it like that, Bob? |
| 0:45.9 | Well, I think, I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure DBT is still considered the gold |
| 0:50.8 | standard with treating borderline personizer or a gold standard. |
| 0:53.9 | And it's very widely disseminated. |
| 0:57.5 | And so therefore, widely in use and widely popular. |
| 1:01.1 | And so they're saying something that's perhaps a minority opinion or at least not the majority. |
| 1:07.1 | And yeah. |
| 1:08.3 | Well, there's a bit of a cultification of dbt oh that's right yeah that's that's true |
| 1:13.4 | in there yeah i'm cool with their opinion about it and you know you're not in the cult i'm not in the |
| 1:18.8 | cult but there are people in the cult of dbt there are yeah yeah yeah i still get the the emails from |
| 1:24.3 | one of the whatever whatever's i just i, I don't even read them anymore. |
| 1:27.7 | It's just, |
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