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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And then his WWF tag team with Bruce Wampold

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But who can blame them? What fun is there in being a radical behaviorist philosophy of science scold?

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

That's just for commentaries it looks like

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Curious about just bashing libido and irritability in there. The whole case for the PHQ is DSM alignment, for better or for worse. The prima facie case for each item seems flimsy on different grounds--i.e., irritability more GAD or bipolar and libido just subsidiary to loss of pleasure.

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If there is a hope of ultimately replacing the evidence base practice RCT pharmaco industrial complex, breakthoughism needs to be resisted.

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Similar to the joke about all the fancy shmancy statistical techniques just being dressed up regression, anyone proposing a new all encompassing theory of psychological problems should need to show they are not just reinventing functional analysis yet again. Cf. "Process based therapy"

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Scales I have developed are belief scales with either 5- or 7-point Likert scales from Completely disagree to Completely agree with a midpoint of "Neither agree or disagree". I'd suggest there is a strong argument that this tracks how beliefs are subjectively judged.

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This brings up another critical dimension, which is what is the scale measuring. The DERS is probably a prime example of when you could safely take out the midpoint because it is meant to measure a monotonic increasing dimension.

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It's more a general point that a response category itself might not provide information, but it might be an essential factor in how responses are formed. I have noticed the neutral point is often submerged like that, but that could very well be because it is a springboard for other responses

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Think aloud protocols, cognitive interviewing, also I think some techniques like IRTree can model this, but that would be something you would know more about than me.

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

But it could be the middle category is a necessary anchor for the one above and without it, the one above would not be distinguishable from the one above that one.

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Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

And he ironically became the most cognitive defusing, experiental avoiding, value listing, bad psychometrics second waver around.

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

...The file sits behind a U.S.–geofenced or U.S.–restricted CDN/security rule, which causes non‑U.S. visitors to receive a denial even though the document itself is public."

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

ChatGPT says: The short answer: SAMHSA is not intentionally “blocking” the PDF outside the U.S.; the block happens because of how HHS/SAMHSA configures its content‑delivery and security layers...

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

2. But could also be why a supposedly effective treatment has an effect despite its putative mechanism not accounting for it.

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I'm sure Judy is sincerely repeating her understanding and it's in line with the secular narrative.

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The research actually corroborated psychoanalysis

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Exactly. It's a non sequitur. But the "movement" needed a narrative that was more pithy than the more plausible nuanced account by Rosner (based, by the way, on interviews with Beck himself and access to his papers and letters).

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This article, if you can access it, paints a nuanced picture www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1... suggesting his break with psychoanalysis wasn't as definitive as it was later portrayed.

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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I never understood the narrative line. He ends up effectively corroborating what psychoanalysis would predict but it is later spoken about as a point of inflection that led him to look at cognitions.

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Yes, connoisseurs may wish to investigate Steven Hayes' panic attack epiphany, Beck's non-masochistic depressed dreamers, and the fact Anna O only got better after fleeing from Freud and Breuer.

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Yeah, but go back in time to the '90s and find Rosen with a vendetta against EMDR, denying that it could possibly work. If we want to start doxxing self mythologizing founding stories, there will be no end to it.

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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

If I recall correctly, cluster analysis solutions are also salsa.

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

We look forward to you translating it back to your clinical research community

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The best brain-machine interface remains the mouth. Evolution spent 4B years of evolution on R&D developing the device, so I guess it's not that surprising. Yet it still rarely appears as a baseline in evaluations of new devices.

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tCBT & BCP @babcpjournals.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

BCP New FirstView paper: A novel person-reported measure of safety-seeking behaviours: a preliminary study in older victims of community crime Full free text at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Well done, Tim. I have been trying to figure out how to do this since networks first surfaced. Will now have a closer read.

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