Instead of treating the heart, soul and mind, we now take a pill to treat the brain. CHEMICALLY IMBALANCED (@UChicagoPress) is sociologist Joseph E Davis' field report on how ordinary people with common problems are increasingly turning to meds. Tune in๐
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Depression and anxiety aren't what you think.
IT'S NOT ALWAYS DEPRESSION (@randomhouse) debunks common myths about what it means to be โdepressedโ or โanxiousโ and offers a fresh approach using the Change Triangle. @HilaryJHendel joins @dreugenioduarte๐
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Drawing on cutting edge research in neuroscience and psychology, GENDER and OUR BRAINS presents the latest evidence finally proving that brains are like mosaics, comprised of both male & female components. Tune in as @ginarippon1 joins @ChristinaGessl2 ๐
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Delving into the science of human thriving, GROWING YOUNG (@randomhouse) helps us understand how every one of our days between now and, if weโre lucky, 100 might be full and rich and immensely gratifying.
๐๏ธScience journalist @mzaraska joins @eclemay ๐
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Why should we give a damn about strangers? On this episode @ME_McCullough joins EQ Spotlight's Dan Hill to give us the rundown on his new book, THE KINDNESS of STRANGERS: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code (@BasicBooks).โ๏ธout their conversation๐
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Have you ever felt, โOh my God, Iโm turning into my mother (or father)!โ ? Robert Plomin explains why that happens in BLUEPRINT: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are (@mitpress). Delve deeper as Plomin joins your host @embracingwisdom to fill us in on the book๐
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ANXIOUS CHINA (@ucpress) offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding โinner revolutionโ is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in modern China. Learn more as author Li Zhang fills us in โคต๏ธ
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How can we can apply the core tenets of #QuantumPhysicsโinseparability, uncertainty and potentialityโto live the life we choose, free from the wounds and constraints of our old beliefs?
๐๏ธ@MelSchwartz7 discusses THE POSSIBILITY PRINCIPLE (@soundstrue)๐
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Nothing short of a call to rework the psychiatric profession, NARRATIVE PSYCHIATRY (@JHUPress) advocates taking the inherently narrative-centered patient-psychiatrist relationship to its logical conclusion: making the story a central aspect of treatment.
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What are some of ways in which we lie to ourselves and limit our flexibility?
Dan Hill discusses this and other questions with @drg1985, author of THE IRRATIONAL APE (@simonschuster) on this episode of the podcast. ๐ต๐ง
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๐@LoriGottlieb1 joins us to discuss MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK to SOMEONE (@HMHbooks), a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapistโs world--where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).
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Why should we care about having true beliefs? Why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them๐๏ธ@embracingwisdom has @cailinmeister on the podcast to discuss THE MISINFORMATION AGE โคต๏ธ
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Would it be ethical for people in a relationship to take oxytocin to help renew their emotional bonds? ๐๐
Tune in as Brian Earp & @juliansavulescu discuss LOVE DRUGS (@stanfordpress), which considers the case for using drugs to alter our love lives โ๏ธ
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POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH (@Routledgepsych) provides a wide range of answers to questions concerning knowledge of posttraumatic growth (PTG) theory and its applications in diverse settings. Co-author Richard G. Tedeschi joins @embracingwisdom on the podcast๐
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QUITE MAD (@OhioUnivPress) takes the reader on a journey into the reality of #MentalHealth in the United States from a patientโs perspective, shining a much-needed light on a topic so often shrouded in stigma.
๐ง๐@SF_Montgomery's convo w/@zoebossiere๐
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Activists have been working to dismantle patriarchal structures since the last century, yet we continue to struggle with it. @CarolGilligan1 & @naomi_snider use psychoanalysis and psychology to understand its enduring power. Listen now on @NewBooksNetwork: buff.ly/2UMBNS2