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Opinion | I’m a Couples Therapist. We Can Address Our Political Divide.
It becomes ever more difficult to see those on the other side of the aisle as well-meaning individuals who share our goals but differ in what they believe are the best means to reach them. Instead, the other side begins to look more and more like enemies.
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Once the fog of political warfare that surrounds an election has cleared, we could discover that most of our fellow citizens are not irredeemably indifferent to Trump’s evident vices; that whatever explains their attachment to the president, it is not that they repudiate the values he does not respect. Our tribal prejudices are at their worst in
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Solitarist identity is an example of dichotomous or binary thinking, one of the cognitive distortions that are evidently becoming more common, at least among young adults in the United States, according to George Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s analysis in “The Coddling of the American Mind.” Psychologists studying binary thinking have also found it... See more