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By helping us make sense of ourselves as human beings living during strange and stressful times, The Nature of Nurture explores some of the most pressing issues facing us today. Using current phenomena as context (like covid, cults, and the prescription d

Dr. Leslie Carr


    • Apr 11, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
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    Season 2 Wrap-Up: Thanks for Listening and a Season 3 Teaser

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 2:05


    Connect with Contributors:Dr. Leslie Car: lesliecarr.com

    The Nature of Reality. Interview with physicist Radhika Dirks

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 72:41


    Connect with Contributors:Dr. Leslie Car: lesliecarr.comRadhika Dirks: @radhikadirks on Instagram and https://xlabs.ai/ Links Mentioned in the Episode:The Fabric of the Cosmos with physicist Briane Greene on PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/series/the-fabric-of-the-cosmos/Donald Hoffman TED talk Do we see reality as it is?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYp5XuGYqqYHyperspace by Michio Kaku (Leslie's favorite book about theoretical physics and the magical nature of reality): https://www.amazon.com/Hyperspace-Scientific-Parallel-Universes-Dimension/dp/0385477058Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science by Werner Heisenberg https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Philosophy-Revolution-Modern-Science/dp/0061209198Science, Order, and Creativity: A Dramatic New Look at the Creative Roots of Science and Life by David Bohm https://www.amazon.com/Science-Order-Creativity-Dramatic-Creative/dp/0553344498The article about the placebo effect and knee surgery: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020712075415.htmAn explanation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jan/29/how-words-influence-thoughtAn explanation of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/

    From The Placebo Effect to The Secret: Mind Over Matter with Fatimata Sanogo

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2022 73:25


    Connect with Contributors:Dr. Leslie Car: lesliecarr.comFatimata Sanogo: @fatimatayoga on Instagram and https://sahelsage.org/ Links Mentioned in this Episode: Her book (31 Universal Spiritual Principles: A Daily Guide and Tool for spiritual growth, joy and empowerment, from the teachings of Michael Bernard Beckwith.): https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Spiritual-Principles-Fatimata-Sanogo/dp/0999257323The article about the knee surgery: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020712075415.htmThe outcomes paradox: Schizophrenia patients in developing countries seem to fare better than their Western counterparts https://www.nature.com/articles/508S14aHer non-profit: https://sahelsage.org/

    Interview with Michelle Masters “How Our Beliefs Shape Our Experience”

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2022 71:20


    Connect with Contributors:Dr. Leslie Car: lesliecarr.comMichelle Masters: https://michellemastersnlp.com/Links Mentioned in this Episode:Heart of the Mind - Engaging Your Inner Power to Change with Neuro-Linguistic ProgrammingThe brain didn't perceive the color blue and it wasn't mentioned in early writing: https://www.dunnedwards.com/colors/specs/posts/color-blue-historyJoe Dispenza: https://drjoedispenza.com/Michelle's book, Money Magic: Clear Your Path to Money, Time, and Happiness 

    Using hallucinogens to heal eating disorders and depression: Interview with food and body mindset coach Alicia Castaneda.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2022 63:55


    Connect with the Contributors:Alicia's website is Ritualco.co Leslie's website is lesliecarr.com Links mentioned in the episode:Brain Over Binge (book): https://www.amazon.com/Brain-over-Binge-Conventional-Recovered/dp/0984481702Learned Optimism (book): https://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/1400078393https://facebook.com/groups/resilienceroundtable  60% of women have eating disorders: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080422202514.htm#:~:text=FULL%20STORY-,Sixty%2Dfive%20percent%20of%20American%20women%20between%20the%20ages%20of,North%20Carolina%20at%20Chapel%20Hill. Facebook community Food Body Self: https://www.facebook.com/groups/resilienceroundtable/?multi_permalinks=630692628141695%2C626169768593981%2C626172615260363%2C626169591927332%2C626171835260441¬if_id=1642449609687348¬if_t=group_activity&ref=notif 

    “You Marry Your Unfinished Business," an interview with master couples therapist Erika Boissiere

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2022 54:24


    Connect with the Contributors:Erika's website is TRISF.comLeslie's website is lesliecarr.com Links From This Episode: https://terryreal.com/

    Interview with Stephanie Pass “A Tiny Little Couch”

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2022 55:16


    Connect with the Contributors:Leslie's website is lesliecarr.comErica can be found at TRISF.COM Links Mentioned in This Episode: https://terryreal.com/

    Season 2 Trailer

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2022 2:16


    Season 2 of The Nature of Nurture coming Monday, January 31, 2022!

    Thanks for listening - and a season two teaser

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2021 2:41


    Thanks for listening to Season 1 of The Nature of Nurture! Tune into this quick bonus episode to hear a teaser for Season 2.

    BONUS: The Climate Crisis is a Psychological Crisis, an interview with One Green Thing founder and CEO Heather White

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2021 61:55


    Connect with Heather: OneGreenThing.org @OneGreenThing on Instagram @MyOneGreenThing on TwitterLinks From This Episode:The book Leslie's mother got for her when she was 19 years old that awakened her interest in physics was Michio Kaku's Hyperspace (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hyperspace-michio-kaku/1138748797). Some of her other favorite titles are The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene (http://www.briangreene.org/the-elegant-universe/), A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/brief-history-of-time-stephen-hawking/1100328875), and Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/relativity-albert-einstein/1100059699). CNN - the Google satellite link, forty years of climate change time-lapse: https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/04/15/google-earth-timelapse-zw-orig.cnn-business/video/playlists/business-google/www.350.org  An article on the connection between climate change and covid: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/oct/02/covid-19-and-the-climate-crisis-are-part-of-the-same-battleAn article about people deciding not to have children because of the climate crisis: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/27/climate-apocalypse-fears-stopping-people-having-children-studyThe work of David Quammen: https://www.davidquammen.com/Project Drawdown: https://drawdown.org/The Sunrise Movement: https://www.sunrisemovement.org/?ms=SunriseMovement-WeAreTheClimateRevolutionThe Scientific American article Leslie mentions: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/therapists-are-reckoning-with-eco-anxiety/The image Heather references about the koala that has “mental health issues” https://www.instagram.com/p/CN80qhPJY2P/Some additional information about Freddie Gray: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/20/freddie-gray-death-haunts-man-filmed-video-baltimoreSome additional information about Eric Garner: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2014/dec/04/i-cant-breathe-eric-garner-chokehold-death-video

    Inheritance: Drug Abuse and Addiction with Artist Cuyler Ballenger

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2021 56:49


    Connect with Cuyler: Cuylerballenger.comhttps://lawndaleartcenter.org/exhibition/cuyler-ballenger/Instagram: @snake_ballenger  Connect with Lawdale:lawndaleartcenter.orgInstagram: @lawndaleartcenterLinks From This Episode:Crazy Like Us book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Crazy-Like-Us/Ethan-Watters/9781416587095Crazy Like Us article: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/magazine/10psyche-t.htmlCDC opioid overdose stats 1999-2019: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.htmlSF covid data 2019-2020: https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/It-didn-t-have-to-happen-2020-was-15872937.phpTwo research articles that address the relationship between stigma and the biomedical model of psychological suffering https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28942615/ and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6234201/Some information about the work of Nan Goldin: https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/nan_goldin/Nan Goldin's protest against the Sackler family: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/nan-goldin-leads-a-protest-at-the-guggenheim-against-the-sackler-familyThe death and life of Dash Snow: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/nyregion/26dash.htmlResearch supporting the idea that in monozygotic twins the rate of concordance is 30-40%: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12503715_Twin_studies_in_schizophrenia_with_special_emphasis_on_concordance_figuresTED talk given by Eleanor Longden, where she shares how talk therapy helped her heal from a diagnosis of Schizophrenia: https://www.ted.com/speakers/eleanor_longden

    Experiencing Postpartum Psychosis with Lisa Abramson

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2021 58:24


    Connect with Lisa: www.lisaabramson.com + @lisaaabramson on Twitter and Instagram.Links From This Episode:Giving Birth Landed Me In the Psycho Ward: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/parenting/postpartum-psychosis-motherhood.htmlInformation on the link between sleep deprivation and psychotic experiences: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6048360/#:~:text=The%20finding%20that%20sleep%20deprivation,8%2C%2010%E2%80%9312)

    Empathy and Race in America with Corey Ponder

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2021 67:01


    Connect with Corey: www.coreyponder.com, @coreytponder on Twitter and Instagram.Links From This Episode:Some pieces that Corey has written on confronting the idea of being Black in America:https://www.coreyponder.com/single-post/i-am-a-black-manhttps://www.coreyponder.com/single-post/failure-of-belief-is-why-america-failshttps://www.coreyponder.com/single-post/tired-of-the-loophttps://www.coreyponder.com/single-post/the-seven-stages-of-progress-blacklivesmatter-and-national-healing-1https://www.coreyponder.com/single-post/are-you-really-ready-to-be-an-allyhttps://www.coreyponder.com/single-post/empathy-is-powerful-make-it-a-daily-habitThe article about “centering” Leslie referenced: https://www.thegoodtrade.com/features/decentering-yourselfAnd Corey mentioned The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander:www.newjimcrow.com

    Covid, Your Government, and You

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2021 48:05


    Connect With The Contributors:Bart Magee: https://www.accessinst.org/ Twitter @bartmagee @accessInstSF Insta @bartmagee @accessinstsfBlythe Adamson: blytheadamson.com Twitter: @DrBlytheAdamson Instagram: @DrBlytheAdamsonLuis Perez: https://www.ifrsf.org/ https://www.drluisperez.com/Links From This Episode:FAA Traffic by the Numbers: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/by_the_numbers/Forbes article about global air travel: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarathiessen/2020/04/01/40-percent-less-flights-worlwide-air-travel-restrictions/?sh=914607e60790Washington Post - 96% of covid cases have been transmitted indoors: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/13/covid-outside-safety/El Pais article about how aerosols function indoors: https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-and-a-class-how-the-coronavirus-is-spread-through-the-air.htmlCovid impacts the latino population at three times the rate of white people: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-california/california-latinos-contracting-covid-19-at-three-times-rate-of-whites-idUSKCN24T2UIHow to Hug During a Pandemic (NYT): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/well/family/coronavirus-pandemic-hug-mask.html

    From Insider to Expert: Cult Psychology with Dr. Janja Lalich

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2021 55:16


    Connect With The Contributors:Dr. Janja Lalich: http://cultresearch.org/ Twitter = @Janja_Lalich, and Facebook = https://www.facebook.com/Janja-Lalichs-Cults-Extremism-Page-183221905078546/Dr Leslie Carr: www.lesliecarr.com and @DrLeslieCarr on Twitter and InstagramLinks From This Episode:Some additional information about The Milgram Shock Experiments: https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html#:~:text=Results%3A-,Results%3A,18%20variations%20of%20his%20study. Dr. Lalich mentions the NXIVM cult and there are two good documentaries if you haven't seen them. There's The Vow on HBO (https://www.hbo.com/the-vow/season-1) and Seduced on Starz (https://www.starz.com/us/en/series/seduced-inside-the-nxivm-cult/59967). Dr. Lalich also references the Heaven's Gate cult and there's also a very thorough documentary about that on HBO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate:_The_Cult_of_Cults) but (a note from Leslie): This is the stuff of nightmares so watch out if you're extra-sensitive.We also talk about QAnon and HBO did a series about that as well: https://www.hbo.com/q-into-the-stormThe Cult of Trump  by Steven Hassan (for those who are curious): https://www.amazon.com/Cult-Trump-Leading-Explains-President/dp/1982127333

    Surviving Toxic Families with Dr. Sherrie Campbell

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2021 67:29


    Dr. Sherrie Campbell: www.drsherriecampbell.com. Instagram = @Dr.Sherrie, Twitter = @Dr_Sherrie, and Facebook = SherrieCampbellPhD.Dr Leslie Carr: www.lesliecarr.com and @DrLeslieCarr on Twitter and Instagram Links From This Episode:David Pelzer, A Child Called It: https://www.amazon.com/Child-Called-Childs-Courage-Survive/dp/1558743669The Myers Briggs Personality Inventory: https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/Educated, a memoir by Tara Westover: https://www.amazon.com/Educated-Memoir-Tara-Westover/dp/0399590501Resilience by Erik Greitens: https://www.amazon.com/Resilience-Hard-Won-Wisdom-Living-Better/dp/0544705262But It's Your Family… (Dr. Sherrie's book on the subject discussed today): https://www.amazon.com/But-Its-Your-Family-Aftermath/dp/1642790990The Genetics of Bipolar Disorder: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3637882/ (please note that this articles shortens Bipolar Disorder to “BPD” which is highly unusual; “BPD” is usually the shorthand for Borderline Personality Disorder and they are not the same thing.)

    Beyond Biology

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2021 70:45


    Links from this Episode: Reuters article: https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-mental-illness/one-in-5-covid-19-patients-develop-mental-illness-within-90-days-study-idUKL8N2HS4ND“The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy” by Jonathan Shedler: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-65-2-98.pdfA book about the DSM that some might find interesting: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Woe-DSM-Unmaking-Psychiatry/dp/0399158537This was recorded at The Battery in San Francisco on December 3, 2020 (@thebatterysf) Connect With The PanelJonathan Shedler, PhD: www.JonathanShedler.com, @JonathanShedler on TwitterEmily Anhalt, PsyD: www.Joincoa.com and @dremilyanhalt and @joincoa on both Instagram and Twitter Mahima Muralidharan, PsyD: www.cohearsf.comDr. Lesslie Carr: www.lesliecarr.com and @DrLeslieCarr on Twitter and Instagram

    The Nature of Nurture Trailer

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2021 3:41


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