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Sex Worker Therapist, Breadcrumbing, Objectophilia, and Cognitive Dissonance

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

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How to Treat Someone With Objecta Filia

An episode of TLC's My Strains Addiction featured a man who was in a committed romantic relationship with a car. The word for it is called objecta filia and I'm left wondering how does someone wind up falling in love with a car or other inanimate objects. Do they even teach about it in psychology school? And then you ask, what would I do if I were treating someone like us?

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