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April 2018 Q & A

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Attachment-Based Therapy and Self-Pity

Your free will isn't absolute. Even a genie is constrained inside a lamp, you know? So there's no action without constraint. And all of your choices are constrained, not least by the fact that you have to keep yourself alive. Do I think therapy risks encouraging people to wallow in self-pity? Not if it's done by a competent therapist. You've got a therapist who thinks that they're supposed to offer you a safe space. That's not helpful. We aren't organized as many thought it was. There's too many cards on the table and we don't know what to do with them. This is also what you do when you're listening to someone

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