You probably haven't heard of diaphobia, but you're guilty of it, says Sophie Morris after psychotherapist Philippa Perry used the term
You probably haven’t heard of diaphobia, but you’re guilty of it, says Sophie Morris after psychotherapist Philippa Perry used the termDon’t worry if you’ve never heard of the term “diaphobia”. You won’t find it in the dictionary, and even though it’s a clinical term, coined by the Scottish psychiatrist R.D Laing, most of the psychotherapists I asked about it hadn’t heard of it, either.
mean we can pick and choose when and how to engage with any views, ideas and information we might disagree with or find hard to hear. It’s also immature not to open yourself up to things you might not want to know. “Maturity is being able to cope with uncomfortable feelings, and hearing things that are challenging about ourselves,” Burke explains. “It’s not easy to hear we’ve hurt someone. But it’sto have your ego completely protected and not threatened by anyone else’s experience of us that might be negative.”
“Calling something out, rather than simply cancelling it, would mean we all have to feel the uncomfortable emotions that arise when we are being influenced or challenged, it would also mean we would all have to learn to listen rather than react.”If we don’t listen, Burke says, we don’t learn or grow. “The ego likes to know, but it’s humbling to open up. If we can park our egos in some way, we can go into a dialogue thinking about what we can learn rather than making pronouncements.
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