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  • #20 Stephen Hicks: Postmodernism, from Rousseau to the Present

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    Dr. Stephen Hicks teaches at Rockford University, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. He is the author of books like Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, and Nietzsche and the Nazis. Additionally, he has published articles and essays on a range of subjects, including entrepreneurism, free speech in academia, the history and development of modern art, Ayn Rand's Objectivism, business ethics and the philosophy of education, including a series of YouTube lectures.

    Here, we talk about the differences between modernism and postmodernism; the influences of Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx and Heidegger on postmodernism; the role the Frankfurt School played on promoting Marxist ideas; the differences between Marxism and Postmodernism; the philosophy of Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida, and Rorty; the current state of political and academic affairs and its relation to the several waves of postmodernism; and the relationship between existentialism and postmodernism.

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    O Dr. Stephen Hicks dá aulas na Rockford University, onde também dirige o Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. É autor de livros como Explicando o Pós-modernismo: Ceticismo e socialismo - de Rousseau a Foucault, e Nietzsche and the Nazis. Para além disso, tem artigos e ensaios publicados sobre uma panóplia de temas, incluindo empreendedorismo, liberdade de expressão na academia, a história e desenvolvimento da arte moderna, Objetivismo de Ayn Rand, business ethics e a filosofia da educação, incluindo uma série de aulas no YouTube.

    Aqui, falamos sobre as diferenças entre modernismo e pós-modernismo; as influências de Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx e Heidegger no pós-modernismo; o papel da Escola de Frankfurt na promoção de ideias marxistas; as diferenças entre marxismo e pós-modernismo; a filosofia de Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida e Rorty; o atual estado político e académico e a sua relação com as diversas correntes pós-modernas; e a relação entre existencialismo e pós-modernismo.

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    Please, check out Dr. Hicks’ work

    His Website: http://www.stephenhicks.org/

    His book, Explaining Postmodernism: https://www.amazon.com/Explaining-Postmodernism-Skepticism-Socialism-Rousseau/dp/0983258406 ; Em Português: https://www.amazon.com/Explicando-P%C3%B3s-modernismo-Ceticismo-socialismo-Portuguese-ebook/dp/B00B4FCGM0/

    And follow him on Twitter: @SRCHicks ; and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Stephen.R.C.Hicks

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    I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:

    https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo

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    1 hr 5 min
  • #19 Roberto Rivera: Human Sex Distribution, Genotype and Phenotype, Epigenetics

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    Roberto Calzadilla Rivera has studied Biology and Mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico, working in molecular and evolutionary genetics. He’s trained as a population geneticist. Currently he’s working as a computational biologist and biophysicist in a behavioral neuroscience lab.

    I decided to invite Roberto on the show because in February we had a discussion on Twitter about human sex, and sex distribution in humans. 

    So, here we talk about chromosomal sex and anisogamy; how to deal with intersex people in terms of sex distribution; mating sex and gametes; genotype and phenotype; and a little bit about epigenetics.

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    O Roberto Caldazilla Rivera estudou Biologia e Matemática na Universidade de Porto Rico, trabalhando em genética molecular e evolutiva. Tem formação como genético de populações. Atualmente, trabalha como biólogo e biofísico computacional num laboratório de neurociência comportamental.

    Decidi convidar o Roberto para o canal, uma vez que em fevereiro tivemos uma discussão no Twitter sobre sexo humano, e distribuição do sexo em humanos.

    Assim, aqui falamos sobre sexo cromossomal e anisogamia; como lidar com pessoas intersexo em termos de distribuição de sexo; sexo de acasalamento e gâmetas; genótipo e fenótipo; e um pouco sobre epigenética.

    Follow Roberto on Twitter: @HaldanesGhost

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    I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:

    https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo

    And check out my playlists on:

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    36 min
  • #18 Eric Smith: The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth

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    Dr. Eric Smith received the Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Physics from The University of Texas at Austin in 1993. He is External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Research Professor at George Mason University, and Principal Investigator at the Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is a physicist specializing in the origin of life, non-equilibrium systems, economics, and the evolution of human languages.

    Here, we go through the main content of his 2016 book, The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth; the history of the RNA-first world, and the metabolism-first world; the continuity between geochemistry and biochemistry; the biosphere as the 4th geosphere; the role of hydrothermal vents in the rise of biochemistry; the citric acid cycle (Krebs cycle); a new analysis suggesting relations between the rise of macromolecules (particularly the RNA and proteins in the ribosome) and the elaboration and fixing of more complex metabolic pathways; and the need (or not) for extraplanetary sources of chemicals.

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    O Dr. Eric Smith recebeu a licenciatura de Ciência em Física e Matemática pelo California Institute of Technology, em 1987, e um doutoramento em Física pela Universidade do Texas em 1993. É um professor externo no Santa Fe Institute, investigador na George Mason University, e investigador principal no Earth-Life Institute, do Tokyo Institute of Technology. É um físico especializado na origem da vida, sistemas de não-equilíbrio, economia, e evolução das línguas humanas.

    Aqui, percorremos o conteúdo principal do seu livro de 2016, The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth; a história do “RNA-first world”, e do “metabolismo-first world; a continuidade entre geoquímica e bioquímica; a biosfera como quarta geosfera; o papel das fontes hidrotermais no surgimento da bioquímica; o ciclo do ácido cítrico (ciclo de Krebs); uma nova análise sugerindo relações entre o surgimento de macromoléculas (particularmente, RNA e proteínas no ribossoma) e a elaboração e fixação de mais complexas cascatas metabólicas; e a necessidade (ou não) de fontes extraplanetárias de químicos.

    Faculty page at Tokyo Institute of Technology: http://www.elsi.jp/en/research/member/researcher/professor/Eric-Smith.html

    Faculty page at Santa Fe Institute: https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/d-eric-smith

    Book The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: https://www.amazon.com/Origin-Nature-Life-Earth-Emergence/dp/1107121884

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    I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:

    https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo

    And check out my playlists on:

    PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km

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    ANTHROPOLOGY:

    59 min
  • #143 William von Hippel: The Social Leap, Human Sociality, Mating, Agriculture, and Happiness

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    Dr. William von Hippel is Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia.  He has published more than a hundred articles, chapters, and edited books in social psychology, and his research has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, The Economist, the BBC, Le Monde, El Mundo, Der Spiegel, and The Australian. He also recently published a book, “The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy” (2018).

    In this episode, we go through the main topics of Dr. von Hippel’s book, The Social Leap. We compare humans with other animals. We talk about the movement from the rainforest to the savannah; the evolution of bipedality and our hands; meat, cooking, and diet; hunting, cooperative breeding, and the social brain hypothesis; alloparenting, pair-bonding and monogamy. We also refer to Christopher Ryan’s book, Sex at Dawn, and the points where his thesis fails. We then go through the importance of language and culture, and gene-culture coevolution. We also talk about tribalism, the advent of agriculture, and hierarchy and economic, social and sexual inequality, and the problem with polygamic societies. Also, the mismatch between the ancestral environments we adapted to and the modern ones, and what our innate psychology tells us about what makes us happy, even in modern industrialized societies. We finish off by talking about a recently paper authored by Dr. von Hippel and Dr. David Buss, “Psychological barriers to evolutionary psychology: Ideological bias and coalitional adaptations”. 

    Time Links:

    00:56 Humans and the Great Apes

    03:44 From the rainforest to the savannah               

    04:50 The evolution of our bipedality, and the stone-throwing hypothesis         

    09:51 The importance of our hands     

    12:35 Meat and diet

    16:28 Fire and cooking 

    17:47 The social brain hypothesis     

    20:32 Large brains, prolonged development, and cooperative breeding  

    22:53 Alloparenting and monogamy

    28:08 Christopher Ryan, Sex at Dawn, jealousy, polygamy and monogamy 

    32:40 Language and learning

    35:41 Culture, and gene-culture coevolution

    39:07 Tribalism and coalitional psychology  

    42:50 Agriculture and inequality

    49:54 The mismatch between ancestral and modern environments

    52:05 What makes people happy

    56:40 Psychological barriers to Evolutionary Psychology

    1:02:41 Follow Dr. von Hippel’s work!

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    Follow Dr. von Hippel’s work:

    Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/yadugvvu

    Website: https://williamvonhippel.com/

    Psychology Today blog: https://tinyurl.com/yb7487az

    Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/ycrabthn

    Joe Rogan Experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dtv8ibI1vk

    The Social Leap: https://tinyurl.com/yct2nljn

    Other relevant links:

    Sex at Dawn: https://tinyurl.com/y7rca225

    Sex at Dusk: https:/

    1 hr 5 min
  • #17 Laura Kipnis: PC Hysteria on US campuses | Histeria Politicamente Correta

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    Dr. Laura Kipnis is a cultural theorist/critic and former video artist at Northwestern University School of Communication. She’s the author of six books including the more recent one, Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus. She’s also written several essays and reviews published in Slate, The Nation, Critical Inquiry, Social Text, Wide Angle, the Village Voice, Harper's, and the New York Times Magazine. Her books and essays have been translated into fifteen languages.

    In this quick interview, we talk about Title 9; her recent book, Unwanted Advances; the case of Prof. Ludlow and her at Northwestern University School of Communication; the current situation in US campuses; and the relationship with feminism.

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    A Dra. Laura Kipnis é uma teórica/crítica cultural e antiga artista de vídeos da Northwestern University School of Communication. É autora de seis livros, incluindo o mais recente, Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus. Também escreveu vários ensaios para a Slate, The Nation, Critical Inquiry, Social Text, Wide Angle, Village Voice, Harper's, e a New York Times Magazine. Os seus livros e ensaios foram traduzidos para quinze línguas.

    Nesta entrevista rápida, falamos sobre o Title 9; o seu livro recente, Unwanted Advances; o caso do professor Ludlow e dela própria na Northwestern University School of Communication; a situação atual nos campus universitários americanos; e a relação com o feminismo.

    Dr. Kipnis faculty page: https://communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/LauraKipnis

    Book Unwanted Advances: https://www.amazon.com/Unwanted-Advances-Sexual-Paranoia-Campus/dp/0062657860

    Dr.  Kipnis’ Twitter handle: @laurakipnis

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    I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:

    https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo

    And check out my playlists on:

    PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km

    PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p

    ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g 

    20 min
  • #16 Jon Entine: Genetic Literacy Project, Bioengineering, GMOs, Chemophobia

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    Jon Entine is an American author and journalist, and the Executive Director of the Genetic Literacy Project. He’s also a senior research fellow at the Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy at the University of California, Davis. He’s the author of seven books, including Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture (2005); Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution? (2006); and Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health. Before becoming a print journalist, Jon was a producer and executive for 20 years at NBC News and ABC News, winning 20 journalism honors, including a National Press Club Consumer Journalism Award and Emmys for specials on the reform movements in China and the former Soviet Union. He was head of documentaries and Tom Brokaw’s long-time producer at NBC News. 

    Here, we talk about the Genetic Literacy Project; genes and genetic manipulation; GMOs; what advantages GMOs have over organic and conventional farming; chemophobia; and scientific literacy.

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    Jon Entine é um escritor e jornalista americano, e o Diretor Executivo do Genetic Literacy Project. É também um investigador associado do Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy da Universidade da Califórnia. É o autor de sete livros, incluindo Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture (2005); Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution? (2006); e Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health. Antes de se ter tornado um jornalista de imprensa, foi produtor e executivo durante 20 anos na NBC News e na ABC News, recebendo 20 prémios de jornalismo, incluindo o National Press Club Consumer Journalism Award e Emmys por especiais acerca dos movimentos de reforma na China e na ex-União Soviética. Dirigiu documentários e foi o produtor de longo termo de Tom Brokaw na NBC News.

    Aqui, falamos sobre o Genetic Literacy Project; genes e manipulação genética; as vantagens dos OGMs sobre a agricultura biológica e convencional; quimiofobia; e literacia científica.

    Genetic Literacy Project website: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/

    Genetic Literacy Project Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeneticLiteracyProject/

    Genetic Literacy Project Twitter handle: @GeneticLiteracy

    Jon Entine’s Twitter handle: @JonEntine

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    I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:

    https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo

    And check out my playlists on:

    PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km

    PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p

    ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g 

    33 min
  • #142 James Tabery: The Nature-Nurture Debate, And Its Ethics

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    Dr. James Tabery is Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Adjunct Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. His research focuses largely on the philosophy of science and applied ethics, as well as the intersection between those domains. On the philosophy of science side, he investigates questions of causation and explanation in biology; while on the applied ethics side, he explores how the answers to those questions have ethical, legal, and social implications. He’s also the author of the book Beyond Versus: The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture.

    In this episode, we focus on some of the main topics of Dr. Tabery’s book, Beyond Versus. We go through the historical origins of the nature-nurture debate, and the early stages of Biology, and the influences of genetics and the study of development. Then, we address the complexity of the interaction between genes and the environment, and how they mediate each other’s effects on the organism. And we finish up with a couple of questions about the ethical implications of this science, including the dangers of focusing too much on nature, or believing in extreme environmentalism and views of the mind as a blank slate, and also the technical and ethical limitations to gene editing, human enhancement and eugenics.

    Time Links:

    00:48 The origins of the nature-nurture debate

    04:30 Genetics and the eugenics movement               

    06:50 The introduction of development in Biology, and the nurture side         

    10:19 Are environmental effects always mediated by genetics?     

    12:38 Is it easier to identify genetic factors than environmental ones?

    23:46 The trouble with the complexity of genetics, and pleiotropic effects    

    26:22 Are there any situations where the environment is the single cause?     

    29:24 Gene-environment correlations, and people creating their own environments  

    31:58 How to correctly frame the nature-nurture debate

    35:30 The ethical dangers of focusing too much on nature

    39:21 Sometimes, social justice is made on the basis of the innateness of certain traits 

    43:35 Also, the dangers of extreme environmentalism

    49:07 On eliminating “negative” traits, and human enhancement

    56:24 Follow Dr. Tabery’s work!

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    Follow Dr. Tabery’s work:

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s entrances on genetics: https://tinyurl.com/y7qnpled

    Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/yde5znvp

    Beyond Versus: https://tinyurl.com/ya9af47a

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    I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:

    https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo

    And check out my playlists on:

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    59 min
  • #15 @Muttmere1: Grandmother and Grandson Victims of Gender Ideology

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    This is the first interview in a series I have planned, in which I will have people who were personally affected by gender ideology, in a way or another. 

    My first guest I will identify as Muttmere, which is her Skype handle, in order to protect her true identity. 

    Muttmere is behind the Facebook page and Twitter account, No Puberty Blockers For Children. 

    And here we talk about how her grandson is being put through a process of gender transition, after having been forced to act socially as a girl. 

    Please watch it. It’s an appalling story, and this lady had the courage to show her face and to let us know about this.

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    Some relevant links:

    No Puberty Blockers For Children: https://www.facebook.com/Muttmere/ ; https://twitter.com/Muttmere1

    Hands Across The Aisle: https://handsacrosstheaislewomen.com/

    Gender Critical Resources: https://gendercriticalresources.com/Support/

    Lily Maynard: https://lilymaynard.wordpress.com/

    Transgender Trend: https://www.transgendertrend.com/

    Parents of ROGD Kids: https://www.parentsofrogdkids.com

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    I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:

    https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo

    And check out my playlists on:

    PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km

    PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p

    ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g 

    26 min
  • #141 Moshe Hoffman: Game Theory, Norm Enforcement, and Evolutionary Psychology

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    Dr. Moshe Hoffman is a Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab & Lecturer at Harvard's Department of Economics. He applies game theory, models of learning and evolution, and experimental methods, to try to decipher the (often subconscious and subtle) incentives that shape our social behavior, preferences, and ideologies. Dr. Hoffman obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and his B.S. in Economics from the University of Chicago. He also co-designed and teaches "Game Theory and Social Behavior" which lays out a lot of the evidence and models behind this approach.

    In this episode, we talk about Game Theory. We first establish the aspects of behavior Game Theory studies, and how it does it, referring to strategies of social interaction studied by Robert Axelrod, which Richard Dawkins talks about in The Selfish Gene. In the second part of the interview, we go through the critiques that Dr. Hoffman made of Evolutionary Psychology (https://twitter.com/Moshe_Hoffman/status/1073270050809937923), focusing on aesthetics, religion, and social norms and morality.

    Time Links:

    00:49 What is game theory, and how it works

    11:39 Evolved strategies and environmental cues              

    24:20 Dawkins, Axelrod, The Selfish Gene, and strategies of social interaction         

    31:58 The evolution of cooperation and altruism     

    33:47 Norm enforcement 

    37:35 Evolutionary Psychology (EP)   

    40:29 What Dr. Hoffman thinks EP gets wrong – pre-adaptations     

    51:44 Beauty, aesthetics, and artistic behavior  

    59:43 Extrinsic properties and social aspects of art

    1:06:55 Conspicuous consumption

    1:19:59 Religion, and other by-products of mental adaptations 

    1:27:12 How social norms evolve, and the case of Chinese foot-binding

    1:33:21 Innate cognition and cultural evolution

    1:36:12 Emergent properties and “novel” strategies of the mind

    1:46:27 Follow Dr. Hoffman’s work!

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    Follow Dr. Hoffman’s work:

    Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/y7g2ubal

    Personal website: https://tinyurl.com/yboyxvxu

    Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/ybxwknfs

    Twitter handle: @Moshe_Hoffman

    Twitter thread on Evolutionary Psychology: https://twitter.com/Moshe_Hoffman/status/1073270050809937923

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    I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:

    https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo

    And check out my playlists on:

    PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km

    PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p<

    1 hr 48 min
  • #14 Miguel Estrada: A Vida é um Sopro | Mental Health

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    Miguel Estrada is a pediatric and neurodevelopmental psychoanalyst. Trained in the UK, he has worked several years in the NHS, as well as in the private sector. He was the clinical director of two daycare centers for children with autism, and responsible for the project Targeted Mental Health in Schools (TAMHS). He returned to Portugal in 2012, and now works as the coordinator to the satellite project of TaMHS in Portugal. He’s the author of the books “Um mapa para chegar ao coração da criança” [“A map to arrive at the child’s heart”], and “Ouvir o que a criança não diz” [“Listening to what the child doesn’t say”].

    He has just published a new book, “A vida é um sopro” [“Life is a Breath”], co-authored with Dr. António Coimbra de Matos, which is the topic of the interview. We talk about depression and suicide; the creation of scapegoats and narcissism; impulsivity disorders in children; the TaMHS; and modern psychoanalysis. 

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    Miguel Estrada é psicanalista pediátrico e do neurodesenvolvimento. Formado no Reino Unido, trabalhou vários anos para o NHS, tal como para entidades privadas. Foi diretor clínico de dois centros de dia para crianças com autismo, e responsável clínico do projeto Targeted Mental Health in Schools (TaMHS). Regressou em 2012, e trabalha hoje em dia no setor privado e é coordenador clínico do projeto satélite do TaMHS em Portugal, Cuidar da saúde mental pediátrica. É autor dos livros “Um mapa para chegar ao coração da criança” e “Ouvir o que a criança não diz”. 

    Acabou de publicar também o livro “A vida é um sopro”, em coautoria com o Prof. António Coimbra de Matos, que é o tema desta entrevista. Falamos sobre depressão e suicídio; da criação de bodes expiatórios e narcisismo; transtornos de impulsividade nas crianças; do TaMHS; e da psicanálise moderna.

    Livro “A vida é um sopro”: https://www.wook.pt/livro/a-vida-e-um-sopro-miguel-mealha-estrada/21607840

    Outros livros de Miguel Estrada: https://www.wook.pt/autor/miguel-mealha-estrada/3735071

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    A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE!

    I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:

    https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo

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