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When Empathy Goes Too Far with Dr. Gad Saad
A conversation with Dr. Gad Saad about compassion, politics, and what happens when feelings replace facts.
Coleman Hughes
1HR 1M
Steven Pinker on How Common Knowledge Rules Our Lives
In order to make any decision at all, we have to know what other people know. The cognitive psychologist explores the powerful force of ‘common…
Coleman Hughes
55M
The Serial Killer’s Apologist
An admitted serial killer spent years talking to a sympathetic psychologist. Her new HBO documentary is what happens when therapy culture is taken to…
Zac Bissonnette
We Need More Research on Violent People
I study the behavior, and the brains, of antisocial people. Knowing more about them will make us all safer.
Abigail Marsh
I’m a Psychiatrist. And I Support Trump’s Plan for Helping the Mentally Ill.
The White House wants to make it easier to impose psychiatric care on homeless people who suffer from severe mental illness. Can they actually pull it…
Sally Satel
Abigail Shrier: Stop Asking Kids If They’re Depressed
Children are wildly suggestible. Ask repeatedly if she might be mentally ill—and she just might decide that she is.
Abigail Shrier
I Tried Wall Street’s Famous Brain Drugs
My experimental high and crash through the not-quite-legal, sort of effective, occasionally heart-pounding medicine cabinet of Wall Street and Silicon…
Park MacDougald
Coleman Hughes: I Just Did Therapy in Public
I played a self-knowledge game with happiness expert Arthur C. Brooks. It forced me to ask: What do I worship?
Coleman Hughes
Press 3 for Moral Panic
The media and prominent Democrats are falsely asserting that Donald Trump has shut down a suicide hotline for LGBT youth.
Brad Polumbo
American Psychological Association Slammed for ‘Virulent’ Jew Hate
Thousands of mental health professionals have signed a complaint accusing the world’s largest psychological organization of growing antisemitism.
Sally Satel
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