Understanding mental processes

What this video is about

In this short excerpt from a conversation, a psychologist is asked how he uses the book under discussion in his clinical work and what he gets out of it. The answer focuses on the value of better understanding the human mind: our biases, our nature and the reasons why we sometimes end up in confrontations or become polarised.

As he explains, a better understanding of how these mental processes work helps the therapist offer the people who come to see them alternatives and explanations of what is happening to them that are more plausible and less simplistic. The excerpt thus sums up the idea that knowledge about biases and the workings of the mind is not merely theoretical but has a direct application in clinical practice.

Topics: mental processes, cognitive biases, polarisation, clinical practice