Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:

—Why it’s far more difficult to prove that you’re sane rather than insane…

—Just how effective psychiatrists are at identifying people with psychosis…

—The problem of subjectivity in sanity…

—Why the epidemic of gun-related deaths is an exclusively American problem…

—How all of us have become numb to the gun violence in our country, and finally…

—What we can do to curb gun violence in America. 

 

Segments:

Sanity vs. Insanity: 7:10

Gun Violence in America: 27:46

 

Where to Go to Get More Information:

1. The Rosenhan Experiments in Psychiatry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment

2. The Psychopath Test, by Jon Ronson

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/psychopath-test-ted-talk_b_2973423

3. Ernest Hemingway Biography

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Hemingway

4. Howard Hughes Biography

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Howard-Hughes

5. Howard Hughes Psychosis

https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug05/hughes

6. Timeline of Mass Shootings in America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States

7. Gun Violence Statistics

https://www.businessinsider.com/mass-shooting-gun-statistics-2018-2

https://www.bradyunited.org/issue/types-of-gun-violence

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/21/us/school-shooting-us-versus-world-trnd/index.html

8. Map of Mass Shootings in America

https://qz.com/1681082/the-292-mass-shootings-in-the-us-so-far-this-year-mapped/

9. Gun Laws in the United States (State-By-State Comparison and Scorecard)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_by_state

https://lawcenter.giffords.org/scorecard/

10. Universal Background Checks

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/04/mass-shootings-what-congress-doing-gun-control/1916451001/

11. H.R.8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8

12. H.R.1112 - Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2019

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1112/text

13. Assault Weapons Ban

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750656174/the-u-s-once-had-a-ban-on-assault-weapons-why-did-it-expire

14. S.66 - Assault Weapons Ban of 2019

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/66

15. Trump Administration Bans Bump Stocks in December 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/us/politics/trump-bump-stocks-ban.html

16. The Role of Mental Health in Mass Shootings

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mental-illness-and-mass-murder-11564955203

17. Red Flag Laws

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/01/red-flag-laws-temporarily-take-away-guns/3521491002/