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OQ18: Lonely with Emily White
I speak with Emily White about her memoir Lonely: Learning to Live With Solitude, in which Emily recounts her struggle to comprehend and overcome her chronic loneliness. Emily discusses some of the roots of loneliness and how the existing in the Western societies stigma around the state makes it harder for people who feel isolated and rejected, to batter loneliness. She also talks about the core differences between loneliness and depression, the difficulty of transitioning from loneliness and how it can be helped and touches upon how experience of loneliness day after day can influence our physiology and behavior. Music track: Your Are My Applepie by Northern Safari (http://annasara.se/) Lyrics: Anette Skåhlberg. Please rate Open Questions in Itunes store. It will make it easier for others to find it. Happy winter/summer!
Continue readingOQ17: A life of dreams with Dr Dave, Part Three
Part One: I continue my conversation with psychologist and podcaster Dr David Van Nuys on dreams and how they can inform our waking life. In this episod Dr Dave and I discuss pre-cognitive and psychic dreams, synchronicities and simple but effective techniques to improve our dream recall. Dr Dave, host of Shrink Rap Radio Psychology Podcast and Wise Council Podcast, also talks about his podcasting career, its challenges and rewards. Part Two: I talk about some of the findings of content analysis research, a scientific method for accurately describing what we dream about, conducted by Calvin Hall and Bill Domhoff. Featured music track: Da Vinci from 2006 album Mallorca Charm by Mr Marx at stereolovers.com. Have comments or questions? Drop me a line at oqpodcast@gmail.com.
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