E10. Please Pardon My ANGER: The Psychology of Difficult Emotions!
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11/10/22
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Please Pardon My ANGER: The Psychology of Difficult Emotions!
Audience: Fellow Clinicians, fellow strugglers with Irritation - Disgust - Anger - Rage, & those who love them.
Psychotherapy Adventurers: Gamer Girl Heather, Super Bookworm Sarah, Squirrel Girl Debbie, & Doc Heath
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Show Summary: In this episode . . .
TherapyBites Podcast is the home of A.R.T. LAB which investigates, explores, & educates all about the neuroscience of Accurate, Realistic Thoughts & Life Affirming Beliefs by challenging worn-out, unsubstantiated, ivory tower psychological theories as well as kool-aid drinking, pseudo-psychological social media clap-trap.
Today we venture into the deeper, darker recesses BENEATH the therapy couch to explore one of the MOST UNPOPULAR human experiences; a particularly difficult emotion often misunderstood by patients AND clinicians alike.
Should we lobby congress for a law against anger? Judges routinely refer patients to us for “Anger Management”. Two of our favorite actors, Jack Nicholson & Adam Sandler, tackled the topic in a 2003 movie by that very title. Each day, we hear anger demonized as if it is a plague on par with pandemics. But, pardon OUR anger at this, for what is so very pathological about anger, anyway?
Humans are actually engineered for anger and 9 other basic emotions; all completely normal to the human experience: Happy, Sad, Mad, Glad, Disgusted, Ashamed, Stressed, Depressed, Anxious, & Angry are each ABILITIES common to humanity. Imagine DELETING the difficult ones? Red pill or blue pill? Red pill? Presto! All difficult emotions EVAPORATED for-ever! A blessing? Or, a curse?
Join us on today’s episode as we DE-catastrophize ANGER and differentiate it from BEHAVIOR. We can experience our anger AND engage in healthy, adaptive behaviors simultaneously. Anger can add value and meaning to YOUR human experiences AND relationships.
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USEFUL REFERENCES:
Dougherty DD, Shin LM, Alpert NM, Pitman RK, Orr SP, Lasko M, Macklin ML, Fischman AJ, Rauch SL. Anger in healthy men: a PET study using script-driven imagery. Biol Psychiatry. 1999 Aug 15;46(4):466-72. doi: 10.1016/s0006-3223(99)00063-3. PMID: 10459395.
Kashdan, T. and Biswas-Diener, R. (2014). The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self—Not Just your “Good” Self—Drives Success and Fulfillment. New York: Hudson Street Press.
Staske, S. A. (1998). The Normalization Of Problematic Emotion In Conversations Between Close Relational Partners: Interpersonal Emotion Work. Symbolic Interaction, 21(1), 59–86. https://doi.org/10.1525/si.1998.21.1.59
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E9. The MAGIC of MAKING MATTERS WORSE: The Psychology of Catastrophizing!
November 3, 2022
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THE MAGIC of MAKING MATTERS WORSE: The Psychology of Catastrophizing!
Audience: Anyone struggling with Anger, Anxiety, Panic, & those who love them.
Psychotherapy Adventurers: Gamer Girl Heather, Super Bookworm Sarah, Squirrel Girl Debbie, & Doc Heath
Go to https://TherapyBites.myshopify.com & grab some A.R.T. LAB MERCH, specially designed to help keep this episode’s message “top of mind” in your life! Don’t forget friends & family members who could use a mental boost too.
Show Summary: In this episode . . .
TherapyBites Podcast is the home of the A.R.T. LAB which investigates, explores, & educates all about the neuroscience of Accurate, Realistic Thoughts & Life Affirming Beliefs by challenging worn out, unsubstantiated, ivory tower psychological theories as well as kool-aid drinking, pseudo-psychological social media clap-trap.
Today we venture into the deeper, darker recesses BENEATH the therapy couch to explore a concept often misunderstood by patients and clinicians alike.
Are you trying to rid your life of ANGER? Is your clinician fooling you and THEMSELVES; thinking life may be lived WITHOUT anxiety? Are you one of the many who THINK that stress and panic are DEADLY? This episode is calling your name.
The brain is an assembly line for REALITY. It is INSIDE the confines of the vault of your skull that YOU get to DECIDE the progression of OUTER reality AND the emotions MANUFACTURED in response to those thoughts.
On today’s episode we put some real-life shoe leather on the neuropsychology of an often-practiced COGNITIVE DISTORTION known by clinics experienced in “cognitive psychology” as CATASTROPHIZING. Join our curious band of psychotherapy adventurers on a journey into the valleys, nooks, & crannies of catastrophic thinking and learn how it can SHRINKIFY your life, while EMBIGGENING your anger, anxiety, & panic and needlessly siphon attention, energy, and relationships.
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USEFUL REFERENCES:
Askari, I. The Role of the Belief System for Anger Management of Couples with Anger and Aggression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective. J Rat-Emo Cognitive-Behav Ther 37, 223–240 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10942-018-0307-5
Neufang, S., Geiger, M.J., Homola, G.A. et al. Cognitive-behavioral therapy effects on alerting network activity and effective connectivity in panic disorder. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 269, 587–598 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-018-0945-8
Yang, Y., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2014). The neural correlates of cognitive behavioral therapy: Recent progress in the investigation of patients with panic disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 62, 88-96.
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E11. Open Loops: The Psychology of NOT Knowing
November 18, 2022
•35m
OPEN LOOPS: The Psychology of NOT Knowing!
Audience: Fellow Clinicians & fellow strugglers with uncertainty, unanswered questions, and the unknown.
Psychotherapy Adventurers: Gamer Girl Heather, Super Bookworm Sarah, Squirrel Girl Debbie, & Doc Heath; lifelong anti-ignorance adventurer.
Go to https://TherapyBites.myshopify.com & grab some A.R.T. LAB MERCH, specially designed to help keep this episode’s message “top of mind” in your life! Don’t forget friends & family members who could use a mental boost too.
Show Summary:
In this episode . . .
How is YOUR level of “uncertainty avoidance”?
Do you catastrophize NOT KNOWING?
Are you ADDICTED to “cognitive closure”?
Do you let “lack of knowing” manufacture irritation, anger, fear, or anxiety?
TherapyBites Podcast is the home of A.R.T. LAB which investigates, explores, & educates all about the neuroscience of Accurate, Realistic Thoughts & Life Affirming Beliefs by challenging worn-out, unsubstantiated, ivory tower psychological theories as well as kool-aid drinking, pseudo-psychological social media clap-trap.
Today we venture into the deeper, darker recesses BENEATH the therapy couch to investigate one of the BIGGEST issues humans struggle with juggling and understanding: NOT KNOWING!
Humans are hard-wired to believe that open loops (i.e., unanswered questions, the unknown) are a risk or threat to safety. We believe LABELING things improves our understanding. Sometimes it does. However, these labels often do more to CONFUSE than explain scarcely understood phenomena. Death, for example, is a label that does little to improve our understanding of this particular human experience. It actually has become a word about which there are dozens of sabotaging cognitive distortions.
“Open loops” are psychological “itches” begging to be scratched. That’s completely normal. The key is to be careful in deciding in what cases “not knowing” is actually a threat to safety or security, life or limb.
During today’s episode, we explore some research-proven strategies for programming YOUR brain to deal with this MOST HUMAN of all experiences: NOT KNOWING.
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USEFUL REFERENCES:
Britton, J. C., Lissek, S., Grillon, C., Norcross, M. A., & Pine, D. S. (2011). Development of anxiety: the role of threat appraisal and fear learning. Depression and anxiety, 28(1), 5-17.
Hohman, Z.P. and Hogg, M.A. (2011), Fear and uncertainty in the face of death: The role of life after death in group identification. Eur. J. Soc. Psychol., 41: 751-760. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.818
Jung, J.M. and Kellaris, J.J. (2004), Cross-national differences in proneness to scarcity effects: The moderating roles of familiarity, uncertainty avoidance, and need for cognitive closure. Psychology & Marketing, 21: 739-753. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.20027
Sarinopoulos, I., Grupe, D. W., Mackiewicz, K. L., Herrington, J. D., Lor, M., Steege, E. E., & Nitschke, J. B. (2010). Uncertainty during anticipation modulates neural responses to aversion in human insula and amygdala. Cerebral cortex, 20(4), 929-940.
FOR OUR VORACIOUS READERS . . . GOBBLE UP THE WHOLE THING!!! (transcript): https://docs.google.com/document/d/12crfQaip90DKPZsGEILg3fDSoq0_7naPN7ub7_mnKVU/edit?usp=sharing
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