Friday, October 27th
12:00 PM EST – 2:00 PM EST
Overview:
Humans are masters at lying to themselves. At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false –or—refusing to believe something that is true. And it’s one of our biggest obstacles to growing and evolving because it’s very hard to change something we can’t admit.
In this presentation, Dr. Cortney Warren will provide an overview of the psychology behind self-deception. More specifically, it will review how people lie to themselves from some of the major theoretical orientations in psychology, including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, existential, and multicultural.
It will then explore why people lie to themselves and how it’s harmful to personal growth, interpersonal relationships, and society at large. Finally, we will delve into how to can work with clients who are stuck in self-deceptive beliefs using cognitive interventions to challenge them.
Objectives:
● Describe at least three common ways people lie to themselves.
● Identify some of the primary costs of self-deception to individuals, their relationships, and society at large.
● Utilize cognitive strategies to help clients confront their self-deceptive tendencies in a therapeutic context.
Course materials are only available to enrolled students.
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Dr. Cortney Warren
Dr. Cortney S. Warren is a board-certified clinical psychologist and former tenured associate professor of psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She earned her bachelor’s degree from Macalester College in 2000 and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Texas University in 2006 after completing her clinical internship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Warren is an expert on addictions, self-deception, eating pathology, and the practice of psychotherapy from a cross-cultural perspective. With almost 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, 7 book chapters, two books, and 75 professional presentations, Dr. Warren’s work appears in some of the field & top journals. She has won some of the most prestigious awards in her field. In addition to publishing in scientific, peer-reviewed journals, Dr. Warren is passionate about bringing theoretically grounded, empirically supported psychological research to the general public. Consequently, Dr. Warren works as a research consultant, keynote speaker, and writes a blog for Psychology Today. In her TEDx talk Honest Liars, and the associated book, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception, Dr. Warren describes her view that self-deception is our biggest obstacle to life fulfillment. In 2023, she published a self-help book on love addiction and breakups called Letting Go of Your Ex. TEDx Talk: Honest Liars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpEeSa6zBTE&t=2s
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