Encountered one of those polls offering choices that are not necessarily opposed:

[james_davis_nicoll]

"Keep things in their original state.

Make changes, even if only for the sake of change."

Depends if the current state suits my goals.

"I am very excited when I meet new people; I can talk to anyone about various topics.

If I am around people who I am not familiar with, I will feel a bit uncomfortable; some people consider me to be restrained and reserved."

Yes.

"My social circle is very wide. I have a lot of friends and acquaintances.

I have very close relationships with a small amount of people. I am very cautious and serious when I choose my friends."

Yes: Social circle is not the same as close relationship.

"I focus on the outer world.

I focus my attention internally. I spend lots of time on introspection."

Pardon me while I throat-punch the author of this quiz.

Comments

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Sadly, you'll have to ruin tomorrow because today I have a deadline so I am not clicking on that rabbit hole. :-)

But I will. Oh Yes, I will.

I seem to recall a fairly fascinating study - and I have COMPLETELY forgotten in which class, or who did it or anything - that also basically concluded that if you have a decent therapist/client match and the therapist is relatively empathic/competent, therapy tends to work well even if the system used is bunk, so it's always more complicated, I guess.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Conversely, a system that is bunk enough can ruin any therapist's work. I was thinking the other day about T.H. White's foray into psychoanalysis, which he temporarily regarded as having "cured" him of homosexuality and sadism. He seems to have liked, trusted, and admired his doctor, who may well have been worthy of that trust as a person, dunno. (At any rate it didn't sound from the Warner biography as if White had any of the really horrible therapies sometimes used in the 1930s, which if so is a point in that guy's favor.) Nonetheless, I can't look at that episode from outside and say he was truly helped.

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

Meta-analysis of therapies. I recall that as well, basically implying that a therapist can be good despite having a "bankrupt" philosophy regarding psychology. Though I also agree with ethelmay's comment.

[elusis.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's the Dodo Award - "everyone has won and all must have prizes." Or, in more serious terms, therapy is better than no therapy; 40% of outcome seems to be attributable to the therapeutic alliance between client and therapist, so if you have a good working alliance, you can get some movement on stuck problems a good bit of the time.

Which is not the same as actually getting help that is useful long-term, but it's something.

[ticktockman.livejournal.com]

I think this applies to physical therapy as well. The theory behind chiropracty is both quack and bunk. Despite this, the practitioners seem to have developed some useful hands-on techniques for sore and aching parts below the neck.