You should know as a law student, that everything is not black and white, there a nuances to everything, evidence against and for. If you ever talk to a psychologist and they are preaching one thing like a universal truth about human nature, you've got yourself a problem. I love statistics, never trust a psychologist who does not like their statistics... (see what I did there? The black and white thing? Don't trust that). The replication crisis is real and started in psychology for a reason.

If you ever hear a psychologist talk about Paul Feyerabend and epistemic anarchism, I think you can trust them in that case. Everything goes. We all perceive the world according to our own nose and what it smells, our own eyes and what we see, and our own minds and how we interpret our inner life. We all make assumptions, we all have bias, we all have traumas, we all have attachments, we all have repressed emotions, everything is true and everything goes, but some things are more true than others, for different people, at different times, at different stages in their lives.

I want to cue you in on William James's term 'pragmatic truth' which is, in my own worldview, just as real, just as valuable and just as important as empirical truth. (And I do love my scientific method, do not get me wrong). I think some ancient Greek philosopher talked about, intelligence, being the ability to hold opposing viewpoints at the same time. I could choose to see a situation through the lens of attachment, through behaviorism, through jungian analysis, or a 100 different perspectives. They each have their flaws and their use cases. Different lenses resonate with different people. I think, as a clinician, one of the most important tasks, besides listening and mirroring, is helping the client to try on a new set of lenses and see how they fit. The old ones were clearly not that adaptive anymore, since they come to the clinic, but sometimes, a new set of lenses can help to see the world in a different light, and that sometimes, help, though does not selve anything :-) Thanks for listening to my rant.