LDS, Existential Distress, Janja Lalich
Hoodline: New Christofferson Accuser Shakes Up Salt Lake LDS Circles
"A new woman has stepped forward in Salt Lake City, saying Wade Christofferson abused her when she was a teenager and that she reported the conduct to her Latter-day Saint bishop at the time. Christofferson is the brother of LDS Apostle D. Todd Christofferson, and the church has now issued a statement spelling out what the apostle knew and when. Her account is emerging as part of a broader federal case that first surfaced last fall.
The woman told reporters she went to her bishop in her youth to disclose the alleged abuse. Despite that, she says, Wade Christofferson later served in a bishopric and in other church callings. She explains that she chose to go public only after learning there were additional alleged victims. Her account is detailed by The Salt Lake Tribune."
Psychology Today: Is Real and Increasingly Common
Catching up to a psychological concern that most clinical discourses miss.
"...We are living in an existentially intense time. Artificial intelligence is making many question what makes humans irreplaceable. Others find themselves disoriented by a sea of misinformation that is corroding trust in communication, social media, knowledge, and science itself. Some are sitting with ongoing wars, rising political tensions, and an ecological crisis whose scale resists comprehension. These phenomena reflect a breakdown of meaning, relationship, and ways of being in the world together, rather than individual psychopathology.
The 2023 article "Existential Issues in Psychotherapy," published in Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience, frames it for clinicians directly.1 Existential issues, which are psychological concerns related to death, meaning or meaninglessness, choice, responsibility, identity, and connection or isolation, are common across diverse healthcare populations and clinical settings. The authors remind clinicians of the value of recognizing and addressing such concerns rather than collapsing them into adjacent diagnoses.
Existential distress is real
The clinical research is, in many ways, only beginning to catch up with what these conditions are producing in real lives."
This is Your Brain: Tell-Tale Signs That You Are in a Cult – Janja Lalich
"Cults and high-control groups influence beliefs and fundamentally reshape identity, decision-making, and autonomy. In this episode, Dr. Phil Stieg sits down with sociologist and cult expert Dr. Janja Lalich, Professor and author of Take Back Your Life, to explore the psychology behind cults. Drawing from decades of research as well as her own personal experience of spending a decade in a political cult, she discusses how indoctrination alters a person’s sense of self, why anyone can become vulnerable under the right circumstances, and the road to recovery after leaving."
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