# Episode 271: Clinician's Corner | "Nobody Ever Asked Me What I Wanted" — When Clinicians Stop Listening & Why It Harms Recovery

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Podcast: [Food Junkies Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/food-junkies-podcast-3077617)
Published: 2026-03-05T16:47:00+00:00
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## Resource

Have you ever left a session feeling smaller than when you walked in? In this episode of Food Junkies: Clinician's Corner , Clarissa and Molly explore one of the most important — and least talked about — dynamics in eating disorder, food addiction, and substance use treatment: what happens when the clinician's model gets in the way of the client's healing. 🔑 What We Cover in This Episode: ⬡ The Rosenhan Experiment — how psychiatric patients were misdiagnosed and then had their normal behavior interpreted as worsening symptoms, and what it reveals about clinical bias today ⬡ Epistemic dismissal — the active or passive rejection of a person's own knowledge and lived experience by the very professionals meant to help them ⬡ How diagnosis can be a flashlight or a floodlight — illuminating patterns vs. erasing the person ⬡ What happens when clients start performing recovery instead of living it ⬡ The role of ego in clinical practice — and why it doesn't always look like arrogance (sometimes it looks like certainty) ⬡ Why ambivalence is not pathology — and why allowing clients to explore moderation can be clinically sound ⬡ The difference between recovery and discovery , and why one may feel more alive than the other ⬡ How behaviors that look like symptoms are often solutions — and why treating the smoke instead of the fire keeps people stuck ⬡ Why autonomy predicts engagement and long-term change — and what that means for how we design treatment ⬡ Whose anxiety is actually driving the treatment plan? 🔗 Connect With Us: 📧 Topic suggestions & questions: foodjunkiespodcast@gmail.com ▶️ Watch on YouTube — subscribe to help us grow and reach more people who need this content! The content of our show is educational only. It does not supplement or supersede your healthcare provide…

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