C. Scott McMillin | Recovery SI

What ‘Empathy’ Means

Not so much ‘I share your pain’ as ‘I want to show you I understand what you mean.’

Their targets often know or strongly suspect they’re being manipulated, but give in anyway because they can’t figure out how to avoid it.

If Project MATCH had it right, and all three work but none works significantly better than the others– then what’s all the argument about?

Pundits are always telling us that science proves this or that, but when we look closer, we find it proves neither.

Many clinicians don’t view addiction as a disease, which they believe relieves them of the need to learn much about its pathophysiology.