AS IF: Free Workbook + Theory Guide
Was Elizabeth Holmes fooling herself too? Maybe that’s the wrong question.
This free 30-page workbook goes with my Psychology for the People video As If: Elizabeth Holmes and the Performance of a Self. It takes you through the ideas in the video and turns them back on your own life.
Inside:
Theory pages on eight thinkers, with their lives, dates, key works, and concepts in plain language: Helene Deutsch, Harry Guntrip, D. W. Winnicott, Sigmund Freud, Octave Mannoni, Wilfred Bion, Ignacio Martín-Baró, and John Bradshaw
A Theranos timeline and what the people around Holmes kept not seeing
Writing prompts after every thinker
The three-place assignment: sexuality, family, and the private self
A page on how shame catches you: collapse, attack yourself, attack the other, or disappear
A seven-day journal log
A dream practice with a dream record page
A glossary and further reading
Print it or write in it on your tablet. Let it be a little ugly. Let it be a little unperformed.
This workbook is for reflection and education. It isn’t therapy and isn’t a substitute for it.
Douglas Sadownick, Ph.D., is a doctoral-level clinician, licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, clinical supervisor, educator, and author with more than 30 years of experience in clinical practice and academia. He earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and served on the faculty of Antioch University, where he founded and directed the nation’s first LGBT Specialization in Clinical Psychology. He also founded the Colors LGBTQ Youth Counseling Center, providing free mental health services to LGBTQ+ youth. Dr. Sadownick has authored numerous books and articles integrating psychoanalytic, Jungian, and LGBTQ-affirmative perspectives. His honors include a GLAAD Journalism Award and induction into the Saints and Sinners LGBTQ Literary Hall of Fame He is now a psychoanalytic candidate at The Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is also teaching Multiculturalism at The Chicago School.