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The illusion of mental healthOther

by Jonathan Shedler

Who uses, recommends or left The illusion of mental health, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Jonathan Shedler
Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF, creator of the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure and author of research on the efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy.
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The illusion of mental health [pdf] Scientific evidence that we do not know our hearts and minds and must look past the surface—a classic in the field

His curated “selected writings” page, where he lists the articles he most wants readers to read and says in one line why; the page carries no publication date, so the date given is when it was retrieved.

2013-09-20·jonathanshedler.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.