In this episode, AI Voice and I sit in a Paris cafe and discuss the topic of social construction and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. If you are interested in learning more about Wittgenstein, then a great place to start is Ray Monk's biography Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (Penguin: 1990).

TW: This episode discusses suicide.   In this episode, we consider the chart of a boy named Devan who has seven major diagnoses listed in his chart. But what exactly that means is far from obvious ....   Works mentioned in this podcast: Andrew Scull, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness (Harvard: 2022). Ethan Watters, Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche (Free Press: 2010). Moncrieff, Joanna, Ruth E. Cooper, Tom Stockmann, Simone Amendola, Michael P. Hengartner, and Mark A. Horowitz. "The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence." Molecular psychiatry (2022): 1-14.

In this episode, I examine a series of questions about the nature of the unconscious mind. The book referenced in the show is:   Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters, Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria (University of California Press: 1994)   *Please excuse the inconsistent audio quality, I'm still getting used to the equipment. It should improve in later episodes. :)

In this first episode we take a look at the "elephant brain" and follow the story of Kate, an accomplished executive who is suddenly afraid to fly.  If you would like to learn more about the topics discussed in this show, then I recommend: Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (Vintage: 2012)Daniel Kaneman, Thinking Fast and Slow (FSG: 2011)Joel Weinberger and Valentina Stoycheva, The Unconscious: Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications (Guilford: 2020)Louis Cozolino, The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy (Third Edition) (Norton: 2017)Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson, The Elephant in the Brain (Oxford: 2018)Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, The Enigma of Reason (Harvard: 2017) If you have any questions or comments, then please comment below or find my current contact information at www.AffectiveTherapy.com.