{"id":49215,"date":"2022-02-23T17:20:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T22:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=49215"},"modified":"2022-08-11T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T14:24:07","slug":"prof-steven-sandage-published-in-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/prof-steven-sandage-published-in-the-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Steven Sandage Published in The Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following is an excerpt from the article \u201cThink therapy is navel-gazing? Think again\u201d by Albert and Jessie Danielsen Professor of Psychology of Religion and Theology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/steven-j-sandage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steven Sandage<\/a>, published on February 22, 2022 by <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation US<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/think-therapy-is-navel-gazing-think-again-173312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> to read the full article.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Midway through a recent lecture<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/steven-j-sandage\/\">about my psychology research<\/a>, a bright graduate student voiced a familiar question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have heard<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/tests-procedures\/psychotherapy\/about\/pac-20384616#:%7E:text=Psychotherapy%20is%20a%20general%20term,%2C%20feelings%2C%20thoughts%20and%20behaviors.\">psychotherapy<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>makes people more self-absorbed,\u201d they said. \u201cSo how can you encourage a practice that has such a negative social impact?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I am often struck by these negative stereotypes, despite<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/news\/press\/releases\/2021\/10\/mental-health-treatment-demand\">growing demand<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>for counseling \u2013 particularly amid the pandemic. The well-entrenched image seems to be that psychotherapy is an indulgent, narcissistic cocoon where therapists enable patients to \u201cnavel-gaze\u201d and<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/23\/is-it-your-mothers-fault-and-your-dads-how-psychotherapy-excavates-the-past-to-free-the-present\">blame others for their problems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a class=\"button btn-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/think-therapy-is-navel-gazing-think-again-173312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from the article \u201cThink therapy is navel-gazing? Think again\u201d by Albert and Jessie Danielsen Professor of Psychology of Religion and Theology Steven Sandage, published on February 22, 2022 by The Conversation US. Click here to read the full article.\u00a0 Midway through a recent lecture\u00a0about my psychology research, a bright graduate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[200,201,202,203],"tags":[194,401,288],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49254,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49215\/revisions\/49254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}