Episodes

  • Personal and Cultural Trauma: Philosophical Reflections on Women in Combat

    Personal and Cultural Trauma: Philosophical Reflections on Women in Combat
    Oct 7 2013
    Women have been acquiring more visibility and presence in the military. In fact, in January, the Military reversed their ban on women in combat. Carol S. Gould, while a strong proponent of women's rights, has deep reservations about the role of women in combat. Dr. Brendel will be engaging her in a dialogue about her unorthodox concerns over women as warriors.
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    57 mins
  • Computer-guided Behavioral Healthcare: From NASA to Earth

    Computer-guided Behavioral Healthcare: From NASA to Earth
    Sep 30 2013
    Behavioral health problems cause human suffering, result in lost productivity, drive up costs of care and worsen outcomes. Although effective treatments for mental health disorders exist, many people do not receive them due to cost, access to trained clinicians, logistics, and the stigma of asking for help. NASA faces similar barriers to delivering behavioral health interventions to astronauts flying long-duration space missions. A suite of interactive media programs has been developed to help astronauts prevent, assess, and treat their own psychosocial problems. The “Virtual Space Station” provides a range of computer-automated tools, including electronic Problem-Solving Treatment for depression, or ePST. ePST is a tool to treat depression by helping people solve real-world problems, which improves mood and enjoyment of life. This program will provide an overview of computer-automated treatments for behavioral health problems, an audio tour of the “Virtual Space Station” and ePST.
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    57 mins
  • How to Hit and Think at the Same Time

    How to Hit and Think at the Same Time
    Sep 23 2013
    Yogi Berra claimed that you can’t hit a baseball and think at the same time; the choreographer George Balanchine would tell his dancers, “don’t think; just do,” and the psychologist Sian Beilock has conducted experiments which support, as she sees it, the phenomenon of “paralysis by analysis,” or as she puts it in her popular book Choke, “heightened attention to detail can actually mess you up.” But does thinking really interfere with expert performance? Does attention to detail tend to mess you up? Going against a long tradition of thinkers who have advocated the view that thinking interferes with doing, the philosopher and former professional ballet dancer, Barbara Gail Montero, discusses her forthcoming book in which she explains why, when you are really good at something, you really can hit and think at the same time. (Read a preview of the book in the New York Times, http://www.opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/the-myth-of-just-do-it/?emc=eta1Preview)
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    57 mins
  • From Freud to Football: A Journey

    From Freud to Football: A Journey
    Sep 9 2013
    From Freud to football, the title of this session, is suggestive of the variety of subjects that Patricia Shields will discuss. Her background as an award winning teacher and eclectic scholar should result in a variety of topics including techniques for writing research papers that lead students to creative insights, the role of astonishment and action in a fulfilling life, peacekeeping and Brendel's 4P's, how football skills can inform empirical research, Freud, efficiency and pragmatism, and how the zombie and prisoner metaphor stop students from reaching their full potential. All of these topics are connected through an examination of the transformative nature of pragmatic inquiry.
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    56 mins
  • Neuroscience and the art of being awesome

    Neuroscience and the art of being awesome
    Aug 26 2013
    Your mindset is a major factor in determining your level of success in life. The latest discoveries in neuroscience give us the tools we need to change our mindset and our behaviors at will. In this episode, Umar Hameed will show you how to use these tools and techniques to take charge of your most valuable asset: your mind. For this episode think about the one area in your life that you want to change. What impact would that have on your life; emotionally, financially and physically? Umar will share a technique that you can use right away to make that happen. You will learn: • The four neurological levels of humans • What really drives behavior • The three ways people sabotage themselves • Strategies for breaking through self-imposed limitations
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    58 mins
  • A View from the Psych ER: Is Our Society Abandoning the Seriously Mentally Ill?

    A View from the Psych ER: Is Our Society Abandoning the Seriously Mentally Ill?
    Aug 19 2013
    Speaking as a frontline clinician with 20 years of experience in the psychiatric emergency room at San Francisco General Hospital, Dr. Paul Linde believes that people with chronic and serious psychiatric illness, politically powerless and voiceless, are being further marginalized by our society. As President Obama's health care reform package is due to roll out in 2014, will the changes in it further abandon the care of the seriously mentally ill? Already, cuts to public health budgets have adversely impacted this population. And, with organized psychiatry casting an even wider diagnostic net with the publication of DSM-5, the focus on treating the sickest psychiatric patients becomes even more diluted. Dr. Paul Linde's clinical work in a busy urban psych ER will inform this discussion and put a human face on this public health problem.
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    57 mins
  • Feel Better With Technology - The Leading Edge of Mental Health

    Feel Better With Technology - The Leading Edge of Mental Health
    Aug 12 2013
    The famous iPhone advertisement tagline There's an app for that is ringing true in many areas of our life, but what about mental health? David Burt and Eron Cohen will discuss the current state of software applications that help mental health patients and what the ramifications are for the future. This episode will focus on consumer centered self-help software that is available now or currently being tested. Joining us will be David Burt and Eron Cohen from LinkedWellness, a Baltimore based startup that will soon begin offering the first of its kind, SPARX, the Video Game for Depression.
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    57 mins
  • Insanely Happy: Why Good-Enough is Better than Great

    Insanely Happy: Why Good-Enough is Better than Great
    Aug 5 2013
    Lori Gottlieb noticed in her private therapy practice that many people attributed their unhappiness to something external in their lives – their spouse or lack of a spouse, their boss, their income, their children. Over time, however, she came to believe that often, what was “wrong” in people’s lives was their perception of what daily life was actually about. The sociologist Barry Schwartz said that “expectations are disappointments in training,” and Gottlieb, also a journalist, decided to thoroughly research this concept as it applied to relationships and marriage. In her New York Times bestseller, MARRY HIM: THE CASE FOR SETTLING FOR MR. GOOD ENOUGH, she looks at how our culture’s view of happy relationships is squarely at odds with the scientific research on what actually makes for passionate, fulfilling, and long-lasting marriages, and how more generally, our dogged pursuit of a misguided view of happiness is making many of us, paradoxically, needlessly miserable.
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    58 mins