Sunday, September 18, 2011

All in the Mind - Don't follow your instincts! Supernormal stimuli

Dr Deirdre Barrett interviewed by Natasha Mitchell (left)

Here is another cool new episode of Natasha Mitchell's All in the Mind. How do I get her job? Wouldn't be awesome to talk to leaders in their fields each week about brain, mind, and psychology? Maybe that's just me.

Don't follow your instincts! Supernormal stimuli

'Follow your instincts' - it's that old adage we all hold true. Well, don't. Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett argues our ancestral minds are leading us astray in a 21st century world. From obesity to beauty, warfare to television, it's time to use our big brains better.


SHOW TRANSCRIPT

Guests

Dr Deirdre Barrett
Psychologist and writer
Past president, International Association for the Study of Dreams
Lecturer, Behavioural Medicine Program, Harvard Medical School

Further Information

Publications

Title: Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose
Author: Deirdre Barrett
Publisher: WW Norton and Co, NY, 2010
Title: The Committee of Sleep: How Artists, Scientists and Athletes Use Dreams for Creative Problem Solving - and How You Can Too.
Author: Deirdre Barrett
Publisher: Oneiroi Press, 2001
Title: Waistland: The (R)Evolutionary Science behind our Weight and Fitness crisis
Author: Deirdre Barrett
Publisher: W.W Norton and Company, 2007
Title: The Pregnant Man: And Other Cases from a Hypnotherapist's Couch
Author: Deidre Barrett
Publisher: Three Rivers Press, 1999
Title: The New Science of Dreaming (3 volumes)
Author: Deirdre Barrett and Patrick McNamara (editors)
Publisher: Praeger, 2007.

Presenter

Natasha Mitchell

1 comment:

Sean FitzGerald said...

Why not start your own podcast? You have as much, if not more, insight into the human condition as other podcasters I've listened to. If you are a good interviewer you could build up a reputation and get some great interviewees.

Sean