Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")
Very Bad Wizards
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The Importance of Creating an Impression in Therapy
I would have a hard time separating like me actually talking and me trying to create this impression in the therapist almost like a little cat and mouse game. Yeah, because it is it's built to the the therapeutic experiences. So much of it is you decide what you're going to tell to this person that you you are from scratch building up a view of you that you are trying to give to the therapist. And so you really have this sense of there's no actual me here. I feel this sometimes where again at a more micro scale you do sometimes say things in a way that you know the person is going to be impressed Like self deprecating remarks that you know are actually going to
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