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> written by someone who has never experienced it

I didn't feel it was a dismissive account.. Plenty of useful writing on psychology/psychoanalysis is written by practitioners who don't themselves experience symptoms they study and research.

However, trained psychotherapists are likely to be more sensitive than clinical psychologists because they must first go through intensive therapy themselves.

It seems an incredibly complex phenomenon. Just below the surface I sense there is a very delicate and potentially explosive force of feelings of the same depth as race and gender issues. I don't think anyone should be dismissive of it. That said, I am not sure "imposter syndrome" is the most helpful term, or that there's a single phenomenon at play, or exactly what's normative or pathological.

After all it's hardly debatable that we live in a "fake society" of "fake news" and "fake leaders" running things. As Marcuse and Fromm both said in different ways, such feelings would be a sane reaction to an insane world. Maybe people with "imposter syndrome" are taking ownership of a societal projection and are the only ones around smart enough to know we're all kidding ourselves :)




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