About this episode
Have you ever left a session feeling smaller than when you walked in? In this episode of Food Junkies: Clinician's Corner, Clarissa and Molly explore one of the most important — and least talked about — dynamics in eating disorder, food addiction, and substance use treatment: what happens when the clinician's model gets in the way of the client's healing. 🔑 What We Cover in This Episode: ⬡ The Rosenhan Experiment — how psychiatric patients were misdiagnosed and then had their normal behavior interpreted as worsening symptoms, and what it reveals about clinical bias today ⬡ Epistemic dismissal — the active or passive rejection of a person's own knowledge and lived experience by the very professionals meant to help them ⬡ How diagnosis can be a flashlight or a floodlight — illuminating patterns vs. erasing the person ⬡ What happens when clients start performing recovery instead of living it ⬡ The role of ego in clinical practice — and why it doesn't always look like arrogance (sometimes it looks like certainty) ⬡ Why ambivalence is not pathology — and why allowing clients to explore moderation can be clinically sound ⬡ The difference between recovery and discovery, and why one may feel more alive than the other ⬡ How behaviors that look like symptoms are often solutions — and why treating the smoke instead of the fire keeps people stuck ⬡ Why autonomy predicts engagement and long-term
