Just a bit more Jonathan Shedler and I’ll stop:
When someone begins a comment with “As a therapist…” it’s a safe bet that what follows is not established knowledge in psychology, or about psychology at all.
It’s a linguistic stratagem to claim unearned authority—usually for a self-serving agenda like self-promotion, virtue signaling, or maneuvering for the upper hand.
Don’t be taken in. “Therapist” is not a credential, and actual knowledge speaks for itself. It doesn’t wrap itself in manufactured authority.
Again, it doesn’t have to be solely about therapists. It’s like when you are on Twitter, and somebody says something cute about their pet fish, and somebody else always pipes up with “marine biologist here!” and shits all over the cute fish anecdote. Don’t you hate such people and their credential-waving?
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