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#542 - Dr Randy Nesse - Evolutionary Psychiatry Can Explain Human Emotions
Modern Wisdom
The Paradox of Confidentiality
I'm fascinated by the paradox that one thing that came with Freud and psychotherapy is the possibility of confidentiality. Prior to that kind of thing, maybe your doctor would keep things confidential but there wasn't this idea you could tell somebody all of your worst characteristics and have some confidence that they would keep them secret. So on the one hand, there's the ability to get in to touch with your own deep, anti-social and sexy and all kinds of feelings and wishes that you never would have told anybody if there wasn't the promise and anonymity. And then conversely, especially with modern media, it's the exact opposite. Any tiny thing can be reserved forever and everybody can look at me
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