Episode 39
Welcome to the Healing Pod!
A few sorries to get out of the way first. This will be a slightly longer episode.
I didn’t realize how much the cricket noises came through my open window, which I find relaxing but others may be irritated by so sorry guys! Also the video is too long for my sound clean up on video so….until we get monetized you’ll have to deal!
Also the random sheep……she agrees with us.
Today we are not talking in just reaction to the viral video of the woman who fell in love with her psychiatrist (it’s a thing that’s often enough to be both a cliche and a major teaching point in training, as is the reverse), but rather what it would be like as a professional to be the next person to try and work with her. We figured there’s enough reaction and interpretation videos out there, plenty of good and bad ones to look through if you’re interested.
So here is a view into some of the processing and understanding that therapists go through when encountering a new and potentially tricky case.
It is important to know that your clinicians are humans. Sometimes we got this, sometimes we suck. There’s a lot to balance in genuinely caring for our clients and wanting the best for them, while also needing to protect ourselves both liability wise and in terms of maintaining our own life.
We do not want or need to be on pedestals. Pedestals means it’s about us and not about your work, your effort, your accomplishments, your strength. We have egos. We do not need to feed them to the level where we believe that we need a pedestal.
AI is an interesting monster. It definitely has uses, especially when you’re looking at supplementing disabilities and areas where we are not strong. When we ask it to think for us instead, that’s when we have problems. I think in this case especially, we have a person who has an assumption, using a predictive text machine that builds off of what you are feeding it to confirm the assumption, and then continue to build off of what it has already stated and what it has already learned. What was a hypothesis is stated back as a strong possibility and then proven as a definite thing due to being told what we want to hear makes us more likely to keep using the thing that we will pay money to use.
The Doctor Who episode was Midnight (David Tenant Doctor, nice little bottle episode for that claustrophobia feel as well).
And if you know of the almighty tallest, then do not ignore my veins and appreciate the moment of recognition!
As always, thank you to the wonderful Miki Anderson for our intro and outtro music. She can be found under Pax Minerva on Apple Music and is all around a wonderful human being.
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