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Are we engineering the human element out of psychology?

For anyone in behavioral health, psychology, or health-tech, the 9-part "Psychohistory of American Psychology" series by Taproot Therapy Collective is a must-listen. It traces how the industry shifted from human connection to managed care, billing codes, and AI.

Here is the breakdown:

🎧 1: The Sun and the Clock - Treating the mind like a broken machine instead of a living soul. 🔗https://gettherapybirmingham.podbean.com/e/a-psychohistory-of-american-psychology-part-1/

🎧 2: The Myth of Normal - How PR and WWII logistics birthed the suffocating myth of the "normal" person. 🔗https://gettherapybirmingham.podbean.com/e/part-2-a-psychohistory-of-american-psychology-the-myth-of-normal-and-the-american-plague/

🎧 3: The Void and the Cure - Post-WWII isolation, early tranquilizers, and corporate mindfulness. 🔗https://gettherapybirmingham.podbean.com/e/a-psychohistory-of-american-psychology-the-void-and-the-cure/

🎧 4: Too Fuzzy, Too Soft - The brief 1960s exploration of deeper consciousness before the DSM-III slammed the door. 🔗https://gettherapybirmingham.podbean.com/e/a-psychohistory-of-american-psychology-part-4-too-fuzzy-too-soft-too-big/

🎧 5: The Wound that Speaks - Why modern conspiracy theories are the collective unconscious processing cultural trauma. 🔗https://gettherapybirmingham.podbean.com/e/part-5-a-psychohistory-of-american-psychology-the-wound-that-speaks/

🎧 6: DO NOT Mangle - How failed biological models turned therapy into cold billing codes. 🔗https://gettherapybirmingham.podbean.com/e/part-6-a-psychohistory-of-american-psychology-please-do-not-mangle-spindle-or-mutilate-me/

🎧 7: Walk Away from Omelas - The buried data of the STAR*D study and institutional dissociation. 🔗https://gettherapybirmingham.podbean.com/e/part-7-a-psycho-history-of-american-psychology-those-that-walk-away-from-omelas/

🎧 8: It Should Be Destroyed! - The VC-funded push for AI therapists and the loss of human connection. 🔗https://gettherapybirmingham.podbean.com/e/part-8-a-psycho-history-of-american-psychology-you-must-never-listen-to-this-it-should-be-destroyed/

🎧 9: What You (Don't) See - How the psychiatric bureaucracy absorbs reform without actually changing. 🔗https://gettherapybirmingham.podbean.com/e/part-9-a-psycho-history-of-american-psychology-its-what-you-dont-see/

Where is the balance between evidence-based measurement and unmeasurable human connection?

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