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Monday, August 9, 2021

Frank Yeomans - The Political Spectrum in Terms of Mental Health: The Paranoid-Schizoid Right vs The Depressive Left

 Why is the left often splintered, because the left thinks more deeply about things, says Frank Yeomans, a psychologist, and so they see more complexity. The right, on the other hand, see the world more simply, for example, good and bad, us and them, etc, that is, with less grey areas and ambiguity, so it's easier for them to be unified. 


Frank Yeomans discusses the political spectrum in terms of object relations theory and the importance of accepting and embracing the complexity of the world rather than regressing to simplicity. Illustrated with a clinical example of a patient with BPD.


We talked with Frank Yeomans about Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and how they can affect us on a personal and societal level.


Frank Yeomans is an expert clinician who makes use of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy in his practice treating NPD and BPD. In fact, he co-wrote the manual on TFP for Borderline Personality Disorder!




7 comments:

  1. Loony liberal Art Left are hypocrites .. not complex thinkers…

    You are conflating indecisiveness for “complex thinking”…

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  2. Left wingers get to the top of the exit ramp where you have make a decision to go left or right and they “ complex think!” Themselves right thru the guardrail and into the woods…

    We can see this happening all the time

    https://twitter.com/ryanmaue/status/1421279062325174278?s=21


    They just go straight thru the dead end tee at the top of the ramp…they do this all the time…

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  3. Maybe Bernie has all the guardrail repairs in his infrastructure bill?

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  4. “Are we out of money?” is a simple yes or no…

    Lefty liberal Art “complex thinkers!” can’t ever figure it out…

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  5. Liberal Art degree people can’t wait for Tesla’s FSD ….

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  6. Let the Tesla make the decisions…,

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  7. Impotent left... which then leads to depression.

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