Jonathan Shedler ✓

@JonathanShedler · San Francisco and Vail · joined 09 Aug 2013

Professor, psychologist, author. Tweets about psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy. Writings, podcasts, talks👇

75 483Followers

706Following

40 148Posts total

1.5MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views12 464this account1 637median for 10K–100K

Reach, %16.51%this account5.01%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.22%this account1.81%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	12 464	1 637	7.61×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	16.51%	5.01%	3.30×
Engagement rate	1.22%	1.81%	0.67×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

41.8K6 Aug

35.1K

54K

30.7K

34.2K

25.8K

10.1K4 Sep

3.8K12 Sep

10.8K31 Aug

9.8K2 Sep

14.8K3 Sep

31.4K

13.4K4 Sep

11.5K

Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.16%6 Aug

2.44%

1.41%

2.19%

2.38%

2.66%

0.90%4 Sep

0.52%12 Sep

0.03%31 Aug

1.12%2 Sep

1.85%3 Sep

0.29%

1.67%4 Sep

1.31%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.81%.

What the audience does

Likes66.8%10 088 in total

Reposts11.3%1 709 in total

Replies1.5%234 in total

Quotes1.8%271 in total

Bookmarks18.5%2 800 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Psychology experiments demonstrate that if you ask people to choose a random number between 1 and 30, they are most likely to choose 17. There are many such related biases. Humans cannot do generate random numbers. They rely on what Kahneman & Tversky calked the https://t. 11.5K views · 123 likes · 19 reposts · 8 replies 04 Sep 2026 Funny how actual psychotherapy for depression—the treatment with the most evidence of all—is blotted from existence in this post. As if the only conceicable treatment options are SSRIs or psychedelics (& lifestyle changes in 2nd tweet) Almost like magician trick of misdirec 13.4K views · 189 likes · 12 reposts · 21 replies 04 Sep 2026 Are you freaking kidding me https://t.co/kLTjm5E4Cv 31.4K views · 64 likes · 1 reposts · 22 replies 03 Sep 2026 Therapy research supports what is called the “Dodo bird” verdict: all mainstream therapies show equivalent benefits in research trials. It is possible that there are no differences. But it is also possible something is very wrong with the research trials. Here are six reasons 14.8K views · 209 likes · 49 reposts · 9 replies 03 Sep 2026 Someone who wants to keep therapy impersonal because it “reminds them of what they grew up with” is showing the therapist something crucial. First, it is objectively not “what they grew up with.” It is a different relationship with a different person in a different time and 9.8K views · 92 likes · 12 reposts · 6 replies 02 Sep 2026 @JonathanShedler Many want to end because it factually reminds them of what they grew up with. Oftentimes using the therapist as a fairly impersonal, trustworthy consultant is best. 10.8K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 ✅ Follow me for insights on psychology, psychotherapy, and mental health ✍️ Read me on on Substack https://t.co/ylU94J58d4 📸 Follow me on Instagram https://t.co/2DcyE0rF97 3.8K views · 18 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 12 Sep 2025 @JonathanShedler Can you do a thread on how we live and deal with these people in our daily lives? 10.1K views · 85 likes · 1 reposts · 5 replies 04 Sep 2024 7/ or dares to fight back in any way, this is now seen as further proof of how hateful and evil they are—and why attacking them is just and right. This is what is called “projective identification.” 25.8K views · 621 likes · 62 reposts · 3 replies 06 Aug 2024 8/ The end result is that the person can deny their own sadism, cruelty, and hate—while simultaneously acting it out without restraint. And feel themselves to be 100% on the side of truth and right as they do it. 34.2K views · 713 likes · 82 reposts · 15 replies 06 Aug 2024 6/ The person now feels fully justified in unleashing their viciousness & hate on the other person, who is now seen (via projection) as someone monstrous who should be destroyed. If the person on the receiving end of the projection responds to the intense provocation with an 30.7K views · 601 likes · 65 reposts · 5 replies 06 Aug 2024 5/ in themselves. Instead, they project the badness onto some designated other. And this other person or group, via the defense of projection, is now seen as the repository of all that is bad and evil, that must be attacked and destroyed. That’s the projection. 54K views · 690 likes · 65 reposts · 3 replies 06 Aug 2024 4/ For professional colleagues looking for more theoretical explanation, the psychological processes are splitting, projection and projective identification. Splitting means not recognizing one’s own capacity for hate, cruelty and destructiveness. The person is blind to the bad 35.1K views · 771 likes · 79 reposts · 4 replies 06 Aug 2024 3/ They find a way to give free rein to their cruelty, to attack, to treat others cruelly and viciously. *And they find allies to cheer them on* who also believe they are on the side of all that is true and good. 41.8K views · 810 likes · 86 reposts · 5 replies 06 Aug 2024 1/ One of most important things I've learned: Severe personality problems find *camouflage.* No one thinks “I’m a sadist” or “I'm a malignant narcissist.” They find a belief system/social group that validates their most hateful, destructive impulses & construes them as virt 1.1M views · 4K likes · 1K reposts · 115 replies 06 Aug 2024 2/ The most toxic and hateful people in the world are 100% convinced they fight on the side of all that is true and right. 91.1K views · 1.1K likes · 157 reposts · 11 replies 06 Aug 2024

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