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Jonah Lehrer falls into familiar pattern, fails to face his reckoning
- lutusp 14y agoA quote: "In all honesty, and with genuine compassion, I encourage him to find a good therapist to help with this." If Lehrer discovers how modern therapy works, he will certainly give it a try -- there's nothing so perfectly controllable as a therapist trying to treat a pathological narcissist. I am perpetually amazed by the reverence with which people hold modern psychological therapies. Studies show they're indistinguishable from each other and from the Placebo effect: Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1093/clipsy.bpi025/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1093/clipsy.bpi025/abs... Quote: "... the uniform efficacy of psychotherapeutic treatments with adults does not provide any evidence that the null hypothesis is false." On the basis of many studies, modern therapy is a perfect example of apparent meaningful activity with no substance. But to a narcissist, it's a golden opportunity to manipulate the process for personal gain.