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Gregg Henriques on the new unified theory of psychology

Thing in itself

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What Is Depression? Is It a Mental Shutdown Model?

Smith: The developmental trajectories of these different fields are just too different. That if you want to connect them, you're going to have to go and build the language from top to bottom rather than find something that already exists. In fact, I'm going to put out a little video on what Jordan Peterson gets right and wrong about depression. And actually, he's a great person to go to in this regard. He's a good theoretical clinical psychologist. If you listen to him, he's like, hey, you got a dopamine structure. There's an evolutionary status dynamic. There's also shit that happens in your problems and living. And it's really just this sort of cluster.

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