{"id":709,"date":"2017-05-08T11:01:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T11:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/?p=709"},"modified":"2017-05-08T11:01:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T11:01:12","slug":"rejecting-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Rejecting help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;..human thinking is deeply flawed. Not only that, but we are capable of holding onto our false beliefs for a lifetime in the face of considerable evidence to the contrary. Not only do people come to us for help, but they also put up a prolonged fight against accepting the assistance they pay us to provide. As a species, we humans can be dumb, stubborn and proud &#8211; a costly combination&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0L. Cozolino &#8220;Why therapy works&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just a reminder that the &#8220;dumb, stubborn and proud&#8221; \u00a0applies to us as well as our patients. In that respect we are truly fellow-travelers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;..human thinking is deeply flawed. Not only that, but we are capable of holding onto our false beliefs for a lifetime in the face of considerable evidence to the contrary. Not only do people come to us for help, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/?p=709\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-clinicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}