Renegade Ape - Psychology, Philosophy, and the Overton Wasteland

Dr. Vincent Felitti joins us to discuss the history of the famous Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study, how childhood trauma can later manifest as physical illness such as cancer and heart disease, why things like obesity and smoking are often protective reactions to childhood trauma, how people with an ACE score 6 or higher have a 5000% greater risk of suicide, and how doctors and mental health professionals can better care for people suffering the consequences of childhood trauma.  *** SUPPORT US ON PATREON *** http://patreon.com/mowe *** SHOW NOTES *** https://mowe.uk/2FWGO3s *** BOOKS MENTIONED *** "Judging Me" by Mary Elizabeth Bullock https://amzn.to/2G4wdTF "Fear: Trump in the White House" by Bob Woodward https://amzn.to/2WnI5pq "Enlightenment Now" by Steven Pinker https://amzn.to/2WoIvvz "Journeys From Childhood to Midlife" by Emmy Werner https://amzn.to/2WjO6Ud "Inscribed Bodies: Health Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse" by Anna Luise Kirkengen https://amzn.to/2DDGuV6 *** SOCIAL MEDIA *** Facebook: http://facebook.com/mowepod Twitter: http://twitter.com/mowepod *** CREDITS *** Theme Music: Falling Down by Ryan Little http://youtube.com/user/TheR4C2010 Podcast Image: Linus Eklund https://flic.kr/p/fnywF DISCLAIMER: My Own Worst Enemy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk and affiliated sites.

Prof. Yoel Inbar joins us to discuss why Social and Personality Psychology is dominated by political liberals, how one-in-three academic psychologists admit that they would willingly discriminate against their conservative colleagues, how ideological homogeneity affects psychological research, the benefits of encouraging more diversity of thought, and how to make the field of psychology more welcoming to political conservatives. Check out Yoel's podcast: https://fourbeers.fireside.fm/ *** SUPPORT US ON PATREON *** http://patreon.com/mowe *** SHOW NOTES *** https://mowe.uk/2TGqgQ8 *** BOOKS MENTIONED *** "Identity Crisis" by Sides, Tesler & Vavreck https://amzn.to/2RuiI5R "Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov https://amzn.to/2SHSnOK "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell https://amzn.to/2RCOQUG *** SOCIAL MEDIA *** Facebook: http://facebook.com/mowepod Twitter: http://twitter.com/mowepod *** CREDITS *** Theme Music: Falling Down by Ryan Little http://youtube.com/user/TheR4C2010 Podcast Image: Wikimedia https://bit.ly/2H7eugs DISCLAIMER: My Own Worst Enemy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk and affiliated sites.

With 2019 looming, Dr. John Norcross joins us to explore the science of personal change and the most effective ways to plan, commence, and - most importantly - stick to(!) your news years resolutions. *** PATREON *** http://patreon.com/mowe *** BOOKS MENTIONED *** "Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Goals and Resolutions" by John Norcross https://amzn.to/2VhmA9m "Self-Help That Works" by John Norcross https://amzn.to/2GOVe79 *** SOCIAL MEDIA *** Facebook: http://facebook.com/mowepod Twitter: http://twitter.com/mowepod *** CREDITS *** Theme Music: Falling Down by Ryan Little http://youtube.com/user/TheR4C2010 Podcast Image: Marco Verch https://flic.kr/p/21zG3qJ DISCLAIMER: My Own Worst Enemy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk and affiliated sites.

In this years Christmas episode we explore the issue of bitterness – and the proposed diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder (PTED) – by examining the character and story arc of Ebenezer Scrooge from the famous Charles Dickens Christmas tale “A Christmas Carol”. Along the way we discuss issues related to bitterness such as childhood trauma, romance, grief, nostalgia, meaning, mortality, and personal redemption. *** LEAVE US A REVIEW *** Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mowepod/reviews/ iTunes: https://mowe.uk/itunes *** BECOME A PATRON *** http://patreon.com/mowe *** BOOKS MENTIONED *** "Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic" by Stephen Diamond https://amzn.to/2V1tejX "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens https://amzn.to/2V5Arze "Man and His Symbols" by Carl Jung https://amzn.to/2CvezG8 *** SOCIAL MEDIA *** Facebook: http://fb.me/mowepod Twitter: http://twitter.com/mowepod *** CREDITS *** Theme Music by Ryan Little http://youtube.com/user/TheR4C2010 Podcast Image: Internet Archive Book Images https://flic.kr/p/otZGPQ DISCLAIMER: My Own Worst Enemy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk and affiliated sites.

Prof. Patrick Corrigan joins us to revisit the topic of stigma. In today's episode we explore the origins of stigma and the various ways it tends to manifest, whether there is any truth in the stereotypes of people with mental illness being dangerous and/or incompetent, examples of anti-stigma campaigns that are either ineffective or counterproductive and some more effective alternatives, and why mental health professionals should step aside and allow people with lived experience to lead the charge against stigma. *** PATREON *** http://patreon.com/myownworstenemy *** BOOKS MENTIONED *** "The Stigma Effect" by Patrick Corrigan https://amzn.to/2BEWMen "Insane Consequences" by DJ Jaffe https://amzn.to/2UW4CsF "Apt Pupil" by Stephen King https://amzn.to/2ShvRfm "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu https://amzn.to/2BuZO4t *** SOCIAL MEDIA *** Facebook: http://facebook.com/myownworstenemyorg Twitter: http://twitter.com/dannydwhittaker *** CREDITS *** Theme Music: Falling Down by Ryan Little http://youtube.com/user/TheR4C2010 Podcast Image: Christian Siedler https://flic.kr/p/CqAnKE DISCLAIMER: My Own Worst Enemy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk and affiliated sites.

How corrupt is academic psychology? In today's episode Tomasz Witkowski joins me to discuss why the results of almost half of all psychological studies are false or misleading, why 7% of academics in the field admit to fabricating data, why psychology journals are unwilling to publish negative study results and the effect this has on subsequent research, why the increase in mental health professionals results in worsening mental health statistics, and ultimately why the field of psychological research is merely a pale imitation of real science. *** PATREON *** http://patreon.com/myownworstenemy *** BOOKS MENTIONED *** "Psychology Gone Wrong" by Tomasz Witkowski https://amzn.to/2QiVY92 "Psychology Led Astray" by Tomasz Witkowski https://amzn.to/2KYG3qz "The Better Angels of Our Nature" by Steven Pinker https://amzn.to/2Pn4BKp "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway https://amzn.to/2QeO6VY *** SOCIAL MEDIA *** Facebook: http://facebook.com/myownworstenemyorg Twitter: http://twitter.com/dannydwhittaker *** CREDITS *** Theme Music: Falling Down by Ryan Little http://youtube.com/user/TheR4C2010 Podcast Image: Dierk Schaefer https://flic.kr/p/ngNLqa DISCLAIMER: My Own Worst Enemy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk and affiliated sites.

Psychiatrist and New York Times best-selling author Dr. Nassir Ghaemi joins us to explore the link between leadership and mental illness. We discuss the subject of Psychobiography and the methods involved in learning to understand the psychology of historical figures, we explore the link between manic depressive illness and leadership through examples such as Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, why mentally normal politicians make for good peacetime leaders but poor crisis leaders, and how people with mental illness can learn to channel their illness into something positive. *** PATREON *** http://patreon.com/myownworstenemy *** BOOKS MENTIONED *** "A First Rate Madness" https://amzn.to/2FtqUhE *** SOCIAL MEDIA *** Facebook: http://facebook.com/myownworstenemyorg Twitter: http://twitter.com/dannydwhittaker *** CREDITS *** Theme Music: Falling Down by Ryan Little http://youtube.com/user/TheR4C2010 Podcast Image: Nasir Ghaemi / Penguin Press / Nicole Laroche DISCLAIMER: My Own Worst Enemy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk and affiliated sites.

Anxiety expert Prof. Graham Davey joins us to discuss his forthcoming book "The Anxiety Epidemic". In this episode we discuss the difference between anxiety disorder and plain old worry, the evolutionary origins and advantages of anxiety, how the nature of our anxiety has changed across the generations, why anxiety tends to manifest in different ways in different people, common causes of anxiety in the modern world and whether or not there really is an anxiety epidemic, and of course some tips and advice on what you can do to reduce your own anxiety. *** PATREON *** http://patreon.com/myownworstenemy *** BOOKS MENTIONED *** "The Anxiety Epidemic" https://amzn.to/2RIyMwZ "Managing Anxiety with CBT for Dummies" https://amzn.to/2RK3gPw "A Brief History of Time" https://amzn.to/2PLOeLx "A Briefer History of Time" https://amzn.to/2SXJxNC "Cider with Rosie" https://amzn.to/2RGhdOf *** SOCIAL MEDIA *** Facebook: http://facebook.com/myownworstenemyorg Twitter: http://twitter.com/dannydwhittaker *** CREDITS *** Theme Music: Falling Down by Ryan Little http://youtube.com/user/TheR4C2010 Podcast Image: Mark Turnauckas https://flic.kr/p/agQ2FP DISCLAIMER: My Own Worst Enemy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk and affiliated sites.

Musician and photographer Mark Hunter joins us to discuss his journey from a heavy metal fan to a heavy metal icon as lead singer of the heavy metal band Chimaira, his experience with a specific form of bipolar know as "hypomania", the relationship between art and mental illness, the power of music to both represent and relieve emotional distress, the evolution of Mark's artistic expression from music to photography, and whether of not creativity inspired by personal darkness is worth the price of admission. Marks latest project, in collaboration with award winning director Nick Cavalier, is a documentary film entitled “Down Again” in which Mark shares his personal story about utilizing art to combat mental illness. Check it out at http://downagainfilm.com *** PATREON *** http://patreon.com/myownworstenemy *** MUSIC RECOMMENDATIONS *** "Chimaira" by Chimaira https://amzn.to/2z1TYqi "The Impossibility of Reason" by Chimaira https://amzn.to/2OPxByP "Reign in Blood" by Slayer https://amzn.to/2OMEv8a "Mechanical Animals" by Marilyn Manson https://amzn.to/2OReogo *** SOCIAL MEDIA *** Facebook: http://facebook.com/myownworstenemyorg Twitter: http://twitter.com/dannydwhittaker *** CREDITS *** Theme Music: Falling Down by Ryan Little http://youtube.com/user/TheR4C2010 Podcast Image: Matt Davis https://flic.kr/p/9huqH2 DISCLAIMER: My Own Worst Enemy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk and affiliated sites.

Julia Samuel MBE joins us to discuss her work as a grief counsellor and how encountering death so frequently affects her own mental health, why death is such a taboo subject and the price we pay for this, whether it’s justified to classify prolonged grief as a mental illness, and we also explore some of the most and least helpful ways to deal with the death of a loved one. *** PATREON *** https://patreon.com/myownworstenemy *** BOOKS MENTIONED *** "Grief Works" by Julia Samuel https://amzn.to/2ympaAc *** SOCIAL MEDIA *** Facebook: http://facebook.com/myownworstenemyorg Twitter: http://twitter.com/dannydwhittaker *** CREDITS *** Theme Music: Falling Down by Ryan Little http://youtube.com/user/TheR4C2010 Podcast Image: Marcela https://flic.kr/p/tWtrS6 DISCLAIMER: My Own Worst Enemy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk and affiliated sites.

World renowned psychological skeptic and evidence-based treatment advocate Scott Lilienfeld joins us to explore the topic of pseudoscience and misleading claims in the field of mental health. *** PATREON *** http://patreon.com/myownworstenemy *** BOOKS MENTIONED *** "50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology" by Scott Lilienfeld (co-author) https://amzn.to/2zoyQff "Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience" by Scott Lilienfeld (co-author)https://amzn.to/2Nx28ks "Facts and Fictions in Mental Health" by Scott Lilienfeld (co-author) https://amzn.to/2MR4ZQ4 "The Demon Haunted World" by Carl Sagan *** SOCIAL MEDIA *** Facebook: http://facebook.com/myownworstenemyorg Twitter: http://twitter.com/dannydwhittaker *** CREDITS *** Theme Music: Falling Down by Ryan Little http://youtube.com/user/TheR4C2010 Podcast Image: DJ Spiess http://www.fermentarium.com/ DISCLAIMER: My Own Worst Enemy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk and affiliated sites.

Dr. Peter Langman joins us to discuss myths and misconceptions about school shooters, some of the common traits, histories and motivations of the perpetrators, the influence of trauma and mental illness in shaping their personalities, and what can be done at the social and psychological level to prevent such incidents. *** PATREON *** http://patreon.com/myownworstenemy *** BOOKS MENTIONED *** "School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators" by Peter Langman https://amzn.to/2oRacxI "Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters" by Peter Langman https://amzn.to/2wVt1DD *** SOCIAL MEDIA *** Facebook: http://facebook.com/myownworstenemyorg Twitter: http://twitter.com/dannydwhittaker *** CREDITS *** Theme Music: Falling Down by Ryan Little http://youtube.com/user/TheR4C2010 Podcast Image: mabi2000 https://flic.kr/p/kDhyv DISCLAIMER: My Own Worst Enemy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk and affiliated sites.

Prof. Linda Gask shares her experience of walking the tightrope between both sides of the therapeutic process; as a practising psychiatrist helping clients through their darkest days whilst simultaneously engaged in a lifelong battle with her own recurrent bouts severe of depression. *** PATREON *** http://patreon.com/myownworstenemy *** BOOKS MENTIONED *** "The Other Side of Silence" by Linda Gask https://amzn.to/2PlTulW "A Short Introduction to Psychiatry" by Linda Gask https://amzn.to/2OPUMF4 "Admissions - Life as a Brain Surgeon" by Henry Marsh https://amzn.to/2Mr58OU "Middlemarch" by George Eliot https://amzn.to/2BtNOUj "The Compossionate Mind" by Paul Gilbert https://amzn.to/2N572ko *** SOCIAL MEDIA *** Facebook: http://facebook.com/myownworstenemyorg Twitter: http://twitter.com/dannydwhittaker *** CREDITS *** Theme Music: Falling Down by Ryan Little http://youtube.com/user/TheR4C2010 Podcast Image: Peter Burka https://flic.kr/p/x2Ek1D DISCLAIMER: My Own Worst Enemy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk and affiliated sites.

Critical psychiatrist joins us to explore the history and development of psychiatric medication, why there is little, if any, evidence to support the idea that psychiatric medication is correcting a “chemical imbalance” or any other underlying cause of mental illness, why the disease-centred model of mental health issues is both misleading and disempowering to service users, and ultimately, why much of the “science” supporting psychiatric medication is based more on ideology than evidence. *** PATREON *** https://patreon.com/myownworstenemy *** BOOKS MENTIONED *** "The Myth of the Chemical Cure" by Joanna Moncrieff https://amzn.to/2MxG5po "A Straight Talking Guide to Psychiatric Drugs" by Joanna Moncrieff https://amzn.to/2nlq6j9 "The Bitterest Pills" by Joanna Moncrieff https://amzn.to/2vwpgob "A Woman in Berlin" by Anonymous https://amzn.to/2Miosgc "Das Kapital (Capital Vol. 1)" by Karl Marx https://amzn.to/2KL9cnv "Manufacturing Depression" by Gary Greenberg https://amzn.to/2MiOTCt "Crazy Like Us" by Ethan Watters https://amzn.to/2MBZLZ6 *** SOCIAL MEDIA *** Facebook: http://facebook.com/myownworstenemyorg Twitter: http://twitter.com/dannydwhittaker *** CREDITS *** Theme Music: Falling Down by Ryan Little http://youtube.com/user/TheR4C2010 Podcast Image: IGypsyWoman https://flic.kr/p/NtCRK3 DISCLAIMER: My Own Worst Enemy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk and affiliated sites.

In today’s episode we're joined by Juliet Grayson, the director of StopSO (Specialist Treatment Organisation for Perpetrators and Survivors of Sexual Offences) to discuss the causes and treatment of pedophilia. We explore the origins of sexual attraction to minors in adults, what causes a pedophile to move from a sexual attraction to minors to actually committing an offence, how and why we should change public perception towards non-offending pedophiles. We discuss the importance of providing people who are attracted to children with access to treatment, what therapy for pedophilia consists of and how it can help, and why preventing the first offence is not only more ethical, but more cost effective than punishment. *** BOOKS MENTIONED *** "Landscapes of the Heart" by Juliet Grayson: https://amzn.to/2M3CsqE "Infant Losses, Adult Searches" by Glyn Hudson Allez: https://amzn.to/2LB21Dq "The Killing Woods" by Lucy Christopher: https://amzn.to/2LO32rc "Intimacy" by Hanif Kureishi: https://amzn.to/2mThVKO "Understand and Addressing Adult Sexual Attraction to Children" by Sarah Goode: https://amzn.to/2M3557L *** SUPPORT US ON PATREON *** http://patreon.com/myownworstenemy *** SOCIAL MEDIA *** Facebook: http://facebook.com/myownworstenemyorg Twitter: http://twitter.com/dannydwhittaker *** CREDITS *** Theme Music: Falling Down by Ryan Little http://youtube.com/user/TheR4C2010 Podcast Image: theshutterbug https://flic.kr/p/zuJRGE DISCLAIMER: My Own Worst Enemy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk and affiliated sites.