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From Charlie Brown to Franz Kafka, psychoanalyst Josh Cohen explores why being a loser can be a good thing

From Charlie Brown to Franz Kafka, psychoanalyst Josh Cohen explores why being a loser can be a good thing

Knowing your destiny on earth is your most important destination in life, however, many people in society are distracted and focused on everything, except their soul and salvation.  Many people roam meaningless in life, without cause or intent. Believe it or not, but the average person does not know their purpose, but would love to know. Listen to this short clip about walking in your divine purpose to gain more clarity.

Dr. Chiaku Hanson
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Mental health issues, such as depression, anxiety, and loneliness are on the rise. Are psychedelic medicines the cure? Dr. Gita Vaid, co-founder of the Center for Natural Intelligence, uses ketamine assisted psychotherapy in her practice and has seen radical shifts in mental health as it works on foundational repair. Through her wisdom, she unlocks the concept of inner healing intelligence, how connection is the infrastructure to wellness, and the respect she has for the mystery of the mind with Health2049 co-host Bisi Williams.

Dr. Gita Vaid

• Website: https://thecenterfornaturalintelligence.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gita-vaid-md-2a5b87221/
• Instagram: @gitavaid

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• Website: https://www.health2049.com

Find the complete Show Notes and Transcripts Here -> https://bit.ly/Dr-Gita-Vaid

Timestamps:

• Expert in ketamine assisted psychotherapy. [03:25]
• Psychedelic medicines are a game changer. [04:26]
• Psychedelics journey from underground to clinical practice. [08:01]
• Other mental health medicine practices. [09:32]
• Two concepts that catalyze healing potential. [10:40]
• New approaches to alleviate mental and physical suffering. [13:20]
• Remarkable healing results open more possibilities.[16:25]
• Imagination and play mentally frees us up to help others. [17:53]
• Why are we blind to inequities and ecological degradation? [20:30]
• What is an example of a journey to wholeness? [24:04]
• A shift to interdependence. [29:17]
• Interconnectedness leads to a healthy society. [33:19]
• What is nourishment as a form of healing? [34:18]
• Respecting the mystery of people. [36:58]

To connect with Thomas:

Dr. Thomas Jordan

Clinical Psychologist/Psychoanalyst

574 West End Avenue, #64

New York, New York 10024

212.875.0154

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https://lovelifelearningcenter.com  

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Debbie Weil talks with Daphne Merkin, a highly acclaimed novelist, essayist and literary critic. She is known for writing boldly, without shame or modesty, about depression, obsession, money, sex, family, and religion. Her 2017 memoir, This Close to Happy: A Reckoning With Depression, which was 16 years in the making, got a front page review in The New York Times by Andrew Solomon, another acclaimed author on the topic of depression.

Daphne's latest novel, 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love, is a powerful story about sex and obsession. And underlying those twin themes, the theme of depression. Today she and Debbie talk not about her books, per se, but about her experience with  clinical depression and what that can teach us in this difficult year of COVID when many of us are experiencing deep uncertainty and anxiety. It's a topic of personal interest to Debbie who is an occasional sufferer of clinical depression. Depression is the story behind the story, if you will, of much of Daphne’s writing.

Debbie and Daphne explore why real depression - sometimes called endogenous depression - is not talked about, why it is so misunderstood, and why it’s something that NEEDS to be talked about. They talk about how her creativity as a writer, cooped up in her apartment in New York City, has been affected the past few months. They talk about the pros and cons of doing therapy via Zoom. And they talk briefly about Psilocybin and the new psychedelic-assisted therapies for depression. 

Daphne ends the conversation with some poignant thoughts on what the depths of depression are like and how society has a long way to go to better address depression, as well as thoughts of suicide.  This is a powerful conversation with a brilliant author. Be sure to explore the links to Daphne's writing  below.

Mentioned in this episode or useful:

• Daphne Merkin bio
• This Close to Happy: A Reckoning With Depression  (Picador 2018)
• 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love (July 2020)
• Re-issue of her 1987 novel Enchantment  (Picador, July 2020)
• Other writing and reviews
• Daphne Merkin's review of new Sylvia Plath biography: Shifting the Focus From Sylvia Plath's Tragic Death to Her Brilliant Life  (New York Times, Oct. 22, 2020)
• Depression and isolation during a pandemic by Daniel W. Drezner (Washington Post, Oct. 29, 2020)
• New York Institute for the Humanities
• Freud’s wife, Martha Bernays
• How To Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan

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INTRO:
In this episode of InForm Neil & Jared talk more about the role of the analyst as a sort of detective of the weird and the eerie.

ROUGH OUTLINE:
Review: Last time we mentioned the role of the analyst is the secretary of the unconscious. Today we will be talking about the role of the analyst as a detective.

Freud has ideas about what makes things in life uncanny, odd, upsetting, etc.

1. The double:
2. The four registers — animism, castration-complex, repetition-compulsion, & omnipotence

Fisher has different ways of describing the uncanny
1. Weird — The presence of something that does not fit in.
- The Other where we don’t want the Other to be.
- Presence
- Unexpected effect
- The symptom

2. Eerie — The absence of something that one expects.
- A lack of the Other where we expect the Other to be.
- Absence
- Unexpected failure
- The gap

Jared’s point — “What is the sense of the weird and eerie during analysis, and what does it mean to both analyst and analysand? It is my assertation that during analysis, the weird acts as a signpost of the unconscious, and the eerie acts as the direction written upon the signpost; that is to say the eerie is the form of the unconscious material indicated by the weird.”

REFERENCES:
1. Freud’s The Uncanny (1919)
2. Mark Fisher, The weird & the Eerie (2017)