People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast
People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast
Zachary Elwood
Psychological similarities between couples therapy and resolving political conflict, with therapist Bill Doherty
55 minutes Posted Aug 11, 2023 at 4:00 pm.
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A talk with Bill Doherty, a relationship therapist and the co-founder of Braver Angels, a political depolarization-aimed group. Topics discuss include: his approach to couples counseling; thoughts on dealing with the common situation where one partner is much more interested in healing the relationship than the other; the importance of seeing our role in a conflict, and why that can be hard for us; how he got into the depolarization work; the similarities he sees between relationship counseling and political depolarization work; the psychological principles that have informed Braver Angels' approaches; thoughts on what we are asking of people who want to help with depolarization work. 

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