Dr. Anthony Bean
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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I'm doing pretty good, pretty good. Excited to be here.
Absolutely. So I am a licensed psychologist. I'm actually licensed in about 35 different states. Like a true license, not like a... There's something in our field called PsychPact. I'm not part of that. I actually have like the actual real license across about 35 different states.
I'm 15 away from getting my entire Pokedex done. Just so we're on the same clear. I'm 15 away. Got it. And it's been a lot of fun. It's been very trying in some cases because every state does something a whole little bit different. And their rules and regulations... are very identical to other people in other states. However, they're
interviewing and their, um, application process is wildly different. And some of them are wildly outdated, um, and in a lot of crazy ways. So I I'm, I'm licensed in a lot of different states. I see a lot of people I'm, uh, what you would call kind of a concierge psychologist.
At this point, I go to different states and do a lot of psychological assessments, cuz I'm trained in neuropsychology, autism assessment. um, divergent testing, um, academic stuff and everything like that. All of those things, uh, are being pulled in lots of different States by experts because there's, there's not a lot of people who know how to do it really well.
And so that's one of the reasons I got licensed in all of those, uh, different States and find myself to be obviously very busy, but we, we also, uh, I would imagine. So we also love what we do at geek therapeutics and, uh, That's actually one of my major loves of what we do here, of incorporating geek culture into therapy. Geek Therapeutics is a heck of a company.
The reason is because we have a whole education component to it where we'll teach people how to use geek culture in therapy, how to use it in your life to better understand yourself. That's one arm of our stuff. We have a research arm. where we actually do research, evidence-based research, utilizing geek culture in therapeutic contexts. We've gotten quite a few studies published off of that.
Then we have a publishing arm where we do all of our evidence-based reading and kind of fun readings, like our psychology series of different things. So we've got like D&D, Zelda, Pokemon, all the different types of psychology books that we do that are based upon a lot of educational components, but are like... I would call them easy readers. Sure. Just because they're fun. They're fun to do.
A bunch of essays and things like that. And then we have the therapy side where we do the psychological assessment and therapy practices across all these different states. And we have a physical location, two physical locations in Texas, one in Colorado and one in Virginia. Wow.
My days are never boring. I can tell you that.
You brought up actually a really, really good point because a lot of people don't realize that they can take all the different principles that you learn through gaming and And I know we'll get into all this fun stuff through this fun podcast and everything.
But when you take the principles that you learn within the game and you apply them to different avenues of your life, it completely changes everything. Not just what you do, but also all the benefits that come with it. So like Starcraft's another huge one. I literally played that game until my desk would not work anymore. Yeah.
And that's when you're taught as a psychologist, you're not taught how to run a business. They teach you how to work with clients and do all sorts of stuff, but they don't teach you any business type of stuff. And so what would you think that a nerdy gamer, a psychologist is going to fall back on? Their games. Absolutely. What does StarCraft do? It teaches you multiple resource nodes.
Every day.
Oh, it's got to be Zelda. Any Zelda is the only game that I will literally stay out night and get the limited editions for. I will pay money for limited editions of any Zelda game that's out there. I've played all the randomizers. I've played every game that's ever come out to a point where I... We basically, when a game's coming out, I take a week off.
And that's all I'm doing for like 12 hours a day. It's like I'm just playing this game, going forward, exploring and beating the crap out of it.
Ooh, so I like them both. Breath of the Wild was unique, and I think that's where the gameplay kind of came into play very, very importantly. But I really liked Tears of the Kingdom because of the different striations of levels that you had to play within. And the mechanics in it were very similar to Breath of the Wild. I feel like they added in some additional things.
And you really can't be bombing the living crap out of someone while flying.
I spent so much time underneath, and we call it the darkness, and literally just finding everything and lighting it all up and then literally just lasering and just flying around being like, oh, you killed me, you stupid little frog. I'm going to get you this time.
So this is a very wide-reaching question. We'll go through it like little piece by piece here. And in one of our stuff that we're seeing in gaming is it has a lot of pro-social and positive effects upon the individual playing. are only heightened when the parents play with them.
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