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5 - Jonah Davids: Mental Health is Unwell
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5 - Jonah Davids: Mental Health is Unwell

On the sad state of the mental health profession

Jonah Davids' new Substack, Mental Disorder, explores the science and politics of mental health from a data-driven perspective. Jonah is also Communications Director at the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.

We spoke about why being a psychologist has no noticeable effect on the efficaciousness of talk therapy, the lack of evidence in mental health treatment, how CBT became the gold standard and why its not more effective than other therapies, the case for fixing your material conditions to improve mental health, lowering barriers to entry for mental health workers, how mental health professionals are less mentally healthy than the general population, and more...

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Related writings:

 On CBT:

Mental Disorder
Is CBT Superior?
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is based on the idea that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected, and we can change how we feel and behave by changing how we think. It’s long been considered the “gold standard” in psychotherapy and is generally perceived to be more effective and scientific than other talk therapies…
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On the sadness of psychologists:

Mental Disorder
How Sad Are Psychologists?
There’s long been a stereotype that the people providing mental healthcare are sad or mad themselves. We see this in movies and TV shows, where therapists have been portrayed as moody and neurotic (Frasier and Niles from Frasier), temperamental (Robin Williams in…
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Whether loneliness should be considered a public health problem:

Mental Disorder
Loneliness Isn't a Public Health Problem
Loneliness in America is now being treated as a public health crisis. In 2021, 58% of Americans said they felt lonely, with younger adults twice as likely to feel lonely as seniors. 49% of Americans have fewer than three close friends, 12% have no close friends at all, and 45% say they don’t feel a sense of belonging to…
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