This is a recording of a speech delivered on Friday, August 16th, 2019 in Brisbane, Australia at the 2nd Challenging Realities Conference: Radical Addictions and Indulgent Obsessions.
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What constitutes the soul? What about the spirit? Are they one in the same? And what’s the deal with the mind? Where does the brain come in with all of this? How does it all figure in with regards to mental illness, or is it spiritual illness? Are they two different things? And are these […]
This is one of the most captivating books on the history of medicine I’ve come across, and written by a person who couldn’t be better positioned to produce this work. Psychiatry is too often disparagingly referred to as the unwanted second cousin of medicine (or some other similar reference). But Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman chronicles the […]
I read this right after reading Steve Silberman’s NeuroTribes, which I also highly recommend. In short, Prizant takes his 40 years of experience and presents his insights gained from the numerous cases he’s been exposed to or worked with. Two main themes that run in this book is first to ask “Why?” when it comes […]