366: Perfectionism Isn't Always A Bad Thing - With Katherine Morgan Schafler
Therapy Chat
Are You a Perfectionist?
I think this book is really kind of speaks to the perfectionists in all of us. Perfectionism has become a cultural placeholder, an implicit cultural placeholder for power and drive in women. There's this invisible model that's operating right now, which is like perfectionism as disease, women as patients and balance as cure. So it's like this message that all perfectionism is bad and unhealthy even though there are decades of research on what's called adaptive perfectionism.
Welcome back to Therapy Chat! We have talked a lot on Therapy Chat about perfectionism, and this week’s guest brings a slightly different perspective. Our guest today is a former onsite therapist at Google who proposes that it’s not always necessary to let go of being a perfectionist, because there are many positive aspects of this characteristic.
Katherine Morgan Schafler is a psychotherapist, writer and speaker, and former on-site therapist at Google. She earned degrees and trained at UC Berkeley and Columbia University, with post-graduate certification from the Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy in New York City. Katherine’s new book, The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control: A path to peace and power, came out in January 2023.
In this episode:
- Katherine explains the 5 types of perfectionism:
- Classic Perfectionists
- Intense Perfectionists
- Parisian Perfectionists
- Messy Perfectionists
- Procrastinator Perfectionists
Visit Katherine’s website and learn about her book here.
Buy Katherine Morgan Schafler’s book, The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control: A path to peace and power on Amazon here.
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