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=====The Thinking Error at the Root of Science Denial===== | |||
[https://theconversation.com/the-thinking-error-at-the-root-of-science-denial-96099?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebookbutton&fbclid=IwAR2i86V62GLZTrz7js85FhytjTEwm27SOenpS8AFbXvOj7ZeZc_hTsBPdPY The Conversation 11/13/2019] | |||
As a psychotherapist, I see a striking parallel between a type of thinking involved in many mental health disturbances and the reasoning behind science denial. As I explain in my book “Psychotherapeutic Diagrams,” dichotomous thinking, also called black-and-white and all-or-none thinking, is a factor in depression, anxiety, aggression and, especially, borderline personality disorder. | |||
In this type of cognition, a spectrum of possibilities is divided into two parts, with a blurring of distinctions within those categories. Shades of gray are missed; everything is considered either black or white. Dichotomous thinking is not always or inevitably wrong, but it is a poor tool for understanding complicated realities because these usually involve spectrums of possibilities, not binaries. | |||
=====The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.===== | =====The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.===== | ||
[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-stopped-pretending?fbclid=IwAR3oT4KhAlJWRAU1yJYP3IuhcRW59LApjHSawFy1bl6Wkk5AR2hsCjYtC_Y The New Yorker Jonathan Franzen 9/08 2019] | [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-stopped-pretending?fbclid=IwAR3oT4KhAlJWRAU1yJYP3IuhcRW59LApjHSawFy1bl6Wkk5AR2hsCjYtC_Y The New Yorker Jonathan Franzen 9/08 2019] | ||
