5 -Jonah Davids: Mental Health is Unwell

2023-06-22

Jonah Davids' new Substack, Mental Disorder, explores the science and politics of mental health from a data-driven perspective. Jonah is also Communications Director at the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology. We spoke about why being a psychologist has no noticeable effect on the efficaciousness of talk therapy, the lack of evidence in mental health treatment, how CBT became the gold standard and why its not more effective than other therapies, the case for fixing your material conditions to improve mental health, lowering barriers to entry for mental health...

Jonah Davids' new Substack, Mental Disorder, explores the science and politics of mental health from a data-driven perspective. Jonah is also Communications Director at the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.

We spoke about why being a psychologist has no noticeable effect on the efficaciousness of talk therapy, the lack of evidence in mental health treatment, how CBT became the gold standard and why its not more effective than other therapies, the case for fixing your material conditions to improve mental health, lowering barriers to entry for mental health workers, how mental health professionals are less mentally healthy than the general population, and more...

Jonah on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/jonahdavids1

Jonah on Substack:

https://mentaldisorder.substack.com/

Related writings:

On CBT:

https://mentaldisorder.substack.com/p/is-cbt-superior-jonah-davids

On the sadness of psychologists: https://www.mentaldisorder.ca/p/how-sad-are-psychologists

Whether loneliness should be considered a public health problem: https://www.mentaldisorder.ca/p/loneliness-public-health-problem-jonah-davids

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