Dr. Jonathan Stea on how to mind your mental health
It's more useful to think of pseudoscience as being a cluster or constellation of pseudoscientific warning signs—so that trying to unearth or describe something as pseudoscience becomes a probabilistic endeavour.
Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with Dr. Jonathan Stea, clinical psychologist and adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary, about avoiding the pitfalls of pseudoscience and what we can all learn from wellness grifters in his book Mind the Science: Saving Your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry.
Mind the Science: Saving your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry
Having seen so many of his patients hurt by the pseudoscience circulating in the industry, Dr. Jonathan N. Stea is on a mission to expose its harm and protect the public from mental health misinformation. In a landscape of rampant burnout and at a time when mental health concerns are at a fever pitch, Mind the Science provides hope and real information to those who have been touched by mental illness, have been misled by false marketing, or are simply curious about the relationship between science and mental health.
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