It's Not Just In Your Head

We interview award-winning investigative journalist Bob Hennelly about his new book "Stuck Nation: Can the United States Change Course on Our History of Choosing Profits Over People?" Learn more about Bob here: https://www.stucknation.com/bio.html

Become  a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to   get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly  reading/discussion groups.

Some listeners suggested we do some case conceptualizations so we decided to use the liberation health model to conceptualize two past cases we had. We plan to try doing something like this once per month or so. Identifying aspects of these cases have been modified so that previous clients could not be identified if listeners, people they knew, or they themselves heard the episode. 

See here for information on the liberation health triangle which puts a problem at center, with personal, cultural and institutional factors mapped out at each corner of the triangle to both understand and try solving the problem. http://www.liberationhealth.org/documents/s12.pdf

ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

(Mistake: personal, cultural, institutional - not personal, cultural, economic. See here: http://www.liberationhealth.org/documents/s12.pdf)  

In this episode we learn from Bob Hall about the concept of "conflict literacy" and how it relates to addressing different forms of interpersonal violence.

Bob Hall is  the founder of Learning To Live With Conflict, Inc., a company he  established in 1987 to provide education and training in the analysis  and resolution of conflict. His academic background includes a Bachelors  Degree in Business Administration from the Rochester Institute of  Technology and a Masters Degree in Conflict Resolution from Antioch  University; as well as a host of informal study and research on sexual  violence, human sexuality, addiction, violence, conflict, nonviolence,  and Girardian Theory on mimetic rivalry, sacrificial violence, and  scapegoating. Learn more about his work at nonviolentsexuality.com.

Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at [email protected]. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access  to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups.

ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

Become a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups.

Ron Purser, Ph.D., author of McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, joins us for this episode. We ask him how mindfulness became a multi-billion dollar industry, why Silicon Valley has designed hundreds of mindfulness apps, and whether mindfulness is just a capitalist form of spirituality. Is mindfulness actually a secular medical intervention that improves focus, mood, and compassion? Is mindfulness in its modern Western form in service of anything beyond The Self? Ron helps us figure all this out and more.

Ron Purser, Ph.D. is the Lam Larsen Distinguished Research Professor of Management at San Francisco State University. He is the author of eight books, including McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (Penguin Random House/Repeater Books), the Handbook of the Ethical Foundations of Mindfulness and the Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context and Social Engagement. He writes for such media outlets as Tricycle, The Guardian, Salon, Alternet, Tikkun, Pando Daily and Transformation. He is also the host of The Mindful Cranks podcast.

ronpurser.com

---

Email us at [email protected]. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access  to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups.

ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

Become  a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to   get  early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly    reading/discussion groups.

In this episode we interview Prof. Jennifer Silva, author of Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty. Silva interviewed 100 working class young adults for the book (published in 2013) and found that most interviewees attributed their life problems to psychological issues located within themselves rather than economic or political problems located outside of themselves. While Silva initially found it almost bewildering that none of her interviewees thought of their problems as related to declining wages and working conditions, and other economically and politically determined factors, she later concluded that the more internally focused and psychologized shift was a kind of survival mechanism for working class millennials. If traditional institutions such as churches, unions, the family, government, had failed their parents as well as themselves, the self would be the most rational place to retreat to "work through" struggle. This may explain why millennials are "the therapy generation."   

Email us at [email protected] Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access  to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups.

ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

Become  a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to  get  early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly   reading/discussion groups.