Good Is In The Details30 Marras 2025

Why Self-Help Books Keep Failing You (A Psychologist Explains)

Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo welcome Psychology Professor Dr. Bruno De Oliveira to unpack the real problems with the modern self-help industry. Why does self-help culture thrive despite offering oversimplified advice? How does it ignore the structural forces that shape mental distress? And what does evidence-based psychology actually say about wellbeing?

We discuss the rise of pseudo-psychology, the limits of mindset-based advice, and how institutional practices, social inequality, and lived experiences contribute to mental distress.
A thoughtful conversation for listeners interested in critical psychology, philosophy, ethics, and the science behind wellbeing.

Drawing from critical community psychology, critical realism, and interdisciplinary research, Dr. De Oliveira explores how institutional practices, social inequality, and lived experiences, especially among those facing homelessness or welfare systems, challenge the myth that personal mindset alone determines success.

We examine: limits of positive thinking, pseudo-psychology in the self-help space, the wellness industry vs. scientific psychology, how social economics shape mental distress, and why individualistic advice often fails marginalized communities.

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Learn more about Dr. Bruno: https://www.chi.ac.uk/people/dr-bruno-de-oliveira/

Get Dr. Bruno's Book (Amazon Affiliate Link): The Self Help Industry: Is The Self-Help Industry Really Helping or Are We Being Mislead?

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Cults, Conspiracy Theories & Critical Thinking: The History America Didn't Teach You

What if the United States was never immune to cult thinking, but was built on it? Journalist Jane Borden joins Gwendolyn and Rudy to unpack her book Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America...

31 Heinä 41min

Are You Living in an Echo Chamber? The Psychology of Misinformation & Critical Thinking | Matthew Facciani

How do echo chambers influence our beliefs? How do you know what is true on the internet? Why does misinformation spread so quickly online? What is an echo chamber, and how does confirmation bias infl...

16 Heinä 50min

Rewind, Play, Repeat: Nicole Morrison on Music, Memory, Coming Out, and Memoir

The mixtape structural metaphor ushers in a philosophical lens. Because a mixtape (as every Gen X person who ever made one knows) is a curated act of autobiography. It's how you tell someone the truth...

1 Heinä 40min

How To Critically Think About Career Choices: Hope for Unhappy Lawyers

Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo welcome Casey Berman: former attorney, founder of Leave Law Behind (the leading coaching program helping attorneys transition into non-legal careers), multipreneur, stra...

16 Kesä 43min

How To Navigate The Homeless Crisis With Humanity and Reason

In this episode of Good Is In The Details, Gwendolyn Dolske sits down with Karen Olson — founder and CEO emeritus of Family Promise, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping homeless and...

25 Touko 40min

The Good in Getting There: Thinking Critically About Your Career/Skills and The Meaning of Your Life's Work

Critical thinking, happiness, career goals, and...how we understand moving about our cities. What assumptions do we hold onto about our purpose? In this episode of Good Is In The Details, Gwendolyn...

15 Touko 51min

Encore: The Philosophy of Star Wars. Eastern Wisdom, Attachment, and the Search for Happiness

What can Star Wars teach us about happiness, attachment, and the search for meaning? In this episode of Good Is In The Details, we explore the philosophy behind one of the most influential cultural ph...

30 Huhti 47min

The Slow Death of Local News and Its Impact on Critical Thinking

What happens when local journalism disappears, and how does it affect democracy, critical thinking, and informed citizens? Is local journalism disappearing, and what does that mean for democracy? In t...

15 Huhti 41min