Co-Host: Dr. Craig B. Wiener - licensed psychologist, author
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My first time guest, Dr. Craig B. Wiener is a licensed psychologist and best selling author on a variety of topics. Central to today’s episode, much of Dr. Wiener’s important work has snowballed since he first questioned the growing tendency to make behavioral problems medical disabilities…especially for boys.
His groundbreaking work with ADHD shows that the behaviors included in the ADHD diagnosis can become frequent due to reinforcement. This “medicalization of the social” is a topic of interest for all of us as men, for sure…and for a variety of reasons, actually.
What would Craig tell men who have been told there’s something wrong with them by the medical field, when it might actually be a social thing? Could we simply need some self-work on our social skills.
Or worse, could we have been told something is wrong with us when we’re really just fine? What about when parents project medical diagnoses upon their kids? (e.g. Health Anxiety By Proxy or Munchausen Syndrome)
How would Craig explain the rise in later-life diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder? And what about when people manipulate the medicalization of the social for their own apparent benefit, like “I’m on the spectrum, not a narcissist”?
What happens when little boys act like, well…little boys, but are rushed to the principal’s office or even to therapy for it? On the other hand, there’s also a pattern where people seek help, then resist it and offload the blame onto others. Why would anyone want to stay locked into their pattern of failure?
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