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Managing Our Eco-Anxiety (Encore)
Episode 450
Heat waves. Wildfires. Floods. This summer has served up some of the most extreme weather on record, and it’s clear many of us are overwhelmed by cli…
3 years, 6 months ago
How Trauma Lives in the Body with Bessel van der Kolk
Episode 449
A traumatic event can literally change the way our brain functions, and live on in our body in unexpected ways. The field of psychiatry has not alway…
3 years, 7 months ago
Hot Stuff: Love, Sex and the Brain
Episode 448
What is it that pulls one person toward another, and connects them? What does love and attraction do to our brain, and vice versa? Biological anthrop…
3 years, 7 months ago
Patrick Radden Keefe on Rogues and Rebels
Episode 447
We could look at people who veer off society’s dominant tracks into moral gray zones as simply bad, or damaged, or living the consequences of bad cho…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Kids Are Not Alright – But We Can Help
Episode 446
Kids growing up in the U.S. today are facing some terrifyingly real, daunting problems. Almost every day, they hear about political polarization, rac…
3 years, 7 months ago
Curbing Gun Violence Through Public Health
Episode 445
Despite the deeply tragic, terrifying and high-profile nature of gun violence, the United States has not been able to make significant progress on th…
3 years, 8 months ago
ENCORE: What the Ancients Got Right about Happiness
Episode 444
People have been thinking about happiness for thousands of years. In fact, ancient thinkers came up with strategies for cultivating pleasures over a …
3 years, 8 months ago
The Invisible Kingdom of Chronic Illness
Episode 443
The pain and discomfort brought on by a newly-developed chronic illness can be exhausting. On top of symptoms, millions of people also have frustrati…
3 years, 8 months ago
What if Wanting Less Gets You More?
Episode 442
Most of us know where to find quick hits of pleasure and enjoyment. But what about satisfaction that lasts for years, or decades, or a lifetime? It c…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Promise and Pull of Psychedelic Therapy
Episode 441
Psychedelics are emerging from a period of prohibition and association with counterculture into the rigorous world of medical research and treatment.…
3 years, 9 months ago