American Beauty & the Power of Denial

American Beauty & the Power of Denial

This week Alex dissects the 1999 Sam Mendes classic "American Beauty", exploring the lives of the Burnham family and their neighbors, delving into themes of suburban superficiality, repressed desires, and the search for meaning in modern life. We also discuss the process of personality growth and individuation, and why its so important to continuing growing psychologically across the lifespan. Dr. Alex Curmi is a consultant general adult psychiatrist with a sub-speciality in addictions...

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E187 | Can Psychiatrists Predict the Unthinkable? | The Lindsay Clancy Case

E187 | Can Psychiatrists Predict the Unthinkable? | The Lindsay Clancy Case

The Lindsay Clancy case has prompted an enormous debate about postpartum psychosis, criminal responsibility, psychiatric treatment and whether severe mental illness can ever be reliably predicted. In ...

10 Syys 29min

How AI Shapes Our Beliefs (Key Moment w/ Dr. Tom Pollak)

How AI Shapes Our Beliefs (Key Moment w/ Dr. Tom Pollak)

How do you arrive at your beliefs? In this clip from E182 of the podcast, Dr Alex speaks with consultant neuropsychiatrist Dr Tom Pollack about what AI-associated delusions may reveal about human beli...

3 Syys 12min

Update on Channel 4's: The Great ADHD Myth?

Update on Channel 4's: The Great ADHD Myth?

In this update to last week’s episode, Dr Alex reflects on the response to Channel 4’s The Great ADHD Myth? and on an important new development. He also discusses what that means for the documentary,...

27 Elo 8min

E186 | Channel 4’s New ADHD Documentary Missed a Huge Opportunity

E186 | Channel 4’s New ADHD Documentary Missed a Huge Opportunity

In this episode of The Thinking Mind Podcast, Dr. Alex responds to Channel 4’s new documentary The Great ADHD Myth? Presented by psychiatrist Dr Max Pemberton, this film asks whether ADHD is really ...

20 Elo 29min

E185 | How Psychiatry Became Fixated on Chemical Imbalance (w/ Prof. Justin Garson)

E185 | How Psychiatry Became Fixated on Chemical Imbalance (w/ Prof. Justin Garson)

What if one of psychiatry’s most influential ideas began with LSD, amphetamines and a handful of experiments that would be difficult to imagine today? In this episode, Dr. Alex speaks with philosophy ...

13 Elo 1h 2min

Why Tradwife Content Feels Dangerous (Key Moment w/ Dr. Rosy Blunstone)

Why Tradwife Content Feels Dangerous (Key Moment w/ Dr. Rosy Blunstone)

Is being a tradwife really just about baking bread, homemaking and traditional femininity, or is there something deeper going on? This clip is an except from E181 of the Thinking Mind Podcast. In t...

6 Elo 13min

Podcast Announcements & Housekeeping!

Podcast Announcements & Housekeeping!

The Thinking Mind is taking a short break, but there is plenty happening behind the scenes. In this quick update, Dr Alex shares what listeners can catch up on now, what is coming next, and why the po...

31 Heinä 3min

What the Manosphere Gets Wrong About Evolutionary Psychology (Key Moment w/ Dr Paul Eastwick)

What the Manosphere Gets Wrong About Evolutionary Psychology (Key Moment w/ Dr Paul Eastwick)

In this exceprt from E179 of the Thinking Mind Podcast, Dr Paul Eastwick explains the “EvoScript” — the popular version of evolutionary psychology that many people have absorbed from online dating adv...

30 Heinä 10min

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