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Throughout Joseph Weizenbaum's life, he liked to tell this story about a computer program he’d created back in the 1960s as a professor at MIT. It was a simple chatbot named ELIZA that could interact...
View Article[Unedited] Bessel van der Kolk with Krista Tippett
Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk is an innovator in treating the effects of overwhelming experiences. We call this “trauma” when we encounter it in life and news, and we tend to leap to address it by...
View ArticleGet Lit: Lori Gottlieb
Lori Gottlieb, author of the bestselling memoir Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, joins us live in the Greene Space as part of our Get Lit with All...
View ArticleGet Lit: How to Find a Therapist
Dr. Gail Saltz, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and host of the upcoming iHeart podcast, Personology, joins us live in the Greene Space as part of our Get Lit with All Of It book club to give tips on how...
View ArticleManaging Anxiety in the Pandemic
Lori Gottlieb, psychotherapist, Dear Therapist columnist for The Atlantic and the author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019), offers advice for handling anxiety as...
View ArticleLove in the Time of Coronavirus
Dr. Orna Guralnik, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst featured in the Showtime docu-series "Couples Therapy," discusses COVID-19, quarantining, and relationship issues.
View ArticleDeath, Sex & Money's Financial Therapy
Loading...Many of you are in financial transition right now. You've lost jobs, income, stable housing. And you're worried about what's to come.For many of us, this time of uncertainty isn't just...
View ArticleFinancial Therapy: Meet Amanda Clayman
Many of you are in financial transition right now. You've lost jobs, income, stable housing. And you're worried about what's to come.And this time of uncertainty isn't just bringing up thoughts about...
View ArticleFinancial Therapy: What Is Our Savings For?
Before the pandemic, Dale ran an event space in Knoxville, Tennessee. After cancelling every booking this month—which was set to be their busiest ever—she finds herself wondering how to share the...
View ArticleFinancial Therapy: Why Did I Take That Risk?
Two years ago, Mathew* quit an executive job and struck out on his own to start an independent consulting firm. After months of bringing in "90% less than what [he] used to," business was finally...
View Article[Unedited] Pauline Boss with Krista Tippett
Pauline Boss coined the term “ambiguous loss” and invented a new field within psychology to name the reality that every loss does not hold a promise of anything like resolution. Amid this pandemic,...
View ArticleGet Lit with All Of It: How to Find a Therapist
[REBROADCAST FROM JANUARY 27, 2020] Hear highlights from our conversation with Dr. Gail Saltz, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and host of the podcast, Personology, from our Get Lit with All Of It event....
View ArticleShrinks on Screen (2020)
In this fraught time, when truth and reality are warped beyond recognition, we could all use someone to talk to. WNYC's Sara Fishko has more in this Fishko Files. (Produced in 2002)The Criterion...
View ArticleFighting a Mental Health Pandemic
In the past few months, a pandemic of mental health has shadowed COVID-19. Across the country, cases of depression, anxiety, alcoholism and domestic violence have been on the rise — intensifying an...
View ArticleCovid Couples Therapy
Dr. Orna Guralnik, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst featured in the Showtime docu-series, "Couples Therapy," returns to discuss Covid, quarantining, and relationship issues nine months into...
View ArticleJonathan Lethem, Advice from an Ornithologist ,'Assassins,' 'Couples Therapy'
Jonathan Lethem joins us to discuss his new novel, The Arrest, a dystopian novel about two Hollywood friends who find themselves in conflict after an apocalyptic event. Lethem will join us again as...
View ArticleWill the Biden Administration Take Mental Health Seriously?
Not surprisingly, this year has been terrible for our collective mental health. Reports of depression, anxiety, insomnia and suicidal ideation are way up. Ashwin Vasan, MD, PhD, epidemiologist and...
View ArticleGroup Therapy for Therapists
Lori Gottlieb, psychotherapist, cohost of the Dear Therapists podcast, and the author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,...
View ArticleCOVID Relief & Equity; Municipal Elections; New Podcast La Brega; Therapists...
On today's show:Heather McGhee, chair of Color of Change board of directors and the author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (One World, 2021), talks about...
View ArticleAdvice for Facing Cancer and Other Crises
Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, psychotherapist on the faculty of the Westchester Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, cancer survivor, Zen practitioner and co-author (with Marsha Linehan) of Coping...
View ArticleThe Fraught Promises of the Therapy App
This year, almost half of Americans reported experiencing substantial distress. According to a survey by OnePoll, nearly 17 percent of Americans sought out therapy for the first time during the...
View ArticleGetting Through Covid with "Couples Therapy"
The Showtime series "Couples Therapy" follows three New York couples as they work through conflicts with the counseling of Dr. Orna Guralnik. It may sound voyeuristic, but as we watch these couples...
View ArticleEpisode 5: The Body
This episode contains descriptions of graphic violence.Ignored, erased, silenced… But Greenwood’s trauma from 1921 persists. Resmaa Menakem— a therapist and expert on healing from conflict and violence...
View ArticleSusan Choi Reads Jennifer Egan
Susan Choi joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Found Objects,” by Jennifer Egan, which was published in The New Yorker in 2007. Choi is the author of five novels, including “My Education” and...
View ArticleDeath, Sex & Money's Financial Therapy
Loading...In this Financial Therapy mini-season, we meet married couple Cora and Garrett*. She's a teacher and artist, and he's a construction worker. And in the past year, they've been through a lot,...
View Article[Unedited] Bessel van der Kolk with Krista Tippett
Krista interviewed the psychiatrist and trauma specialist Bessel van der Kolk for the first time in 2013, as his book The Body Keeps the Score was about to be published. He is an innovator in treating...
View ArticleHow to Cope with Grief and Loss During the Holiday Season
Covid-19 has claimed more than 5 million lives globally. That means many families have an empty chair at the holiday table this year. Including many families in our Takeaway community of listeners.Dr....
View ArticleMy Perfect Dad
It’s not easy being a perfect dad. Especially when your son has some notes about the performance.Written by Louis Kornfeld.Performed by Tim Platt, Michael Cullen, Alex Dickson, Tanyika Carey, Dennis...
View ArticleNo pain, no gain in "Couples Therapy"
The Showtime series "Couples Therapy" returns for season three as Dr. Orna Guralnik treats four New York couples in long-term relationships going through a crisis. We watch as they dig into thorny...
View ArticleTaking Care of You in 2022: 'Big Feelings' and Despair
Recently, we were joined by Mollie West Duffy and Liz Fosslien, authors of a new book, Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay. We enjoyed the conversation so much, and had so much more...
View ArticleRelaxing Is Stressful
Sensory deprivation is new again! Renamed “flotation therapy,” the practice of closing oneself in a light- and soundproof tank is now trendy among self-actualizers who want to cultivate their...
View ArticleWhat Precedents Would Clarence Thomas Overturn Next?
Justice Clarence Thomas voted in the majority in last month’s abortion decision, but he issued a separate, concurring opinion articulating an extreme view that other rights derived from privacy—such as...
View ArticleThe Comedian Hannah Gadsby Renounces Comedy, and Patricia Marx Tries to Relax
The comedian Hannah Gadsby has been touring this summer with a show called “Body of Work.” She came to wide attention in 2018, with the Netflix special “Nanette.” It was a full-length comedy show, and,...
View ArticleHow Therapy-Speak Shows Up in Your Life
Love-bombing, attachment styles, holding space. It seems like therapy-speak has trickled into every area of our social lives. From advice about how to navigate a platonic breakup to determining whether...
View ArticleHold On: The Life Cycle of Therapy
Dr. Kali Cyrus, practicing community psychiatrist, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine, kicks off the first episode of Hold On by talking about the basics: how to find a therapist that fits....
View ArticleHold On: Your Psych Medication Journeys
Daniel Tadmon, a PhD fellow in the department of sociology at Columbia University, talks about his 2021 study,which found thattalk therapy by U.S. psychiatrists has dropped by half since the mid-90s....
View ArticleYour Guide to Finding Affordable Mental Healthcare in New York City
Reaching out for help when you're experiencing mental health struggles is difficult enough, but exorbitant prices, a scarcity of providers, and dealing with confusing health insurance companies can...
View ArticleTherapy-Speak in Your Daily Conversations
Love-bombing, attachment styles, holding space. It seems like therapy-speak has trickled into every area of our social lives. From advice about how to navigate a platonic breakup to determining whether...
View ArticleMovie Therapy: Prescriptions for Embracing Change
As the Takeaway comes to an end, we get one last set of movie prescriptions from Kristen Meinzer, a culture critic and host of the podcast "By The Book" and Rafer Guzman, a film critic for Newsday, and...
View ArticleHold On: Let’s Talk About Psych Meds
According to a 2021 study, 1 in 5 American adults are taking medication to treat their mental health, that’s more than the number of people in any sort of talk therapy or counseling, which is about 1...
View ArticleThe Rise of Therapy on TV
In recent years, a large number of shows—both scripted dramas and reality TV—have made psychotherapy a central plot line, including “Ted Lasso,” “In Treatment,” and, of course, “Couples Therapy,” a...
View ArticleSISTERS: Debreif-isode
Kaitlin and Natalie Prest do a post-game analysis after creating the 5 episode series: SISTERS. The two sisters unpack all the things that didn’t get said in the narrative series, discuss topics that...
View ArticleDeciding When to End Therapy
Over the past few years, the trend in society has been to encourage most people to enter therapy. Richard Alan Friedman, M.D., professor of clinical psychiatry and the director of the...
View ArticleMayor Adams Goes to Albany; The 'Meme-ification' of Politics; Kwame...
On today's show:After a stinging political defeat since the City Council overrode his vetoes on two bills, Mayor Adams is traveling to Albany to ask the state legislature to consider his priorities....
View Article382- The ELIZA Effect
Throughout Joseph Weizenbaum's life, he liked to tell this story about a computer program he’d created back in the 1960s as a professor at MIT. It was a simple chatbot named ELIZA that could interact...
View ArticleA Memoir About Living as a Sociopath (Mental Health Mondays)
From the time Patric Gagne was a kid, she knew there was something about her that was different from other kids. Later, she was diagnosed a sociopath. Gagne decided to work to destigmatize that...
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