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Life Examined

Life Examined

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 Life Examined is a one-hour weekly podcast exploring psychology, philosophy, spirituality — and finding meaning in the modern world. The show is hosted by Jonathan Bastian.KCRW 2024 Social Sciences
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  • When to medicate the mind with Laura Delano

    When to medicate the mind with Laura Delano
    Jun 10 2025

    Laura Delano is the author of “UNSHRUNK: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance." As you’ll hear, Laura Delano speaks from first hand experience - diagnosed as a teenager with bipolar disorder, Delano shares her own struggles with mental illness, the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industry and the toll that treatment and medication took on her.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Yale happiness guru Laurie Santos on the power of time off and modern parenting traps

    Yale happiness guru Laurie Santos on the power of time off and modern parenting traps
    May 27 2025

    Laurie Santos talks about the power of a sabbatical, burn out, and her new online course titled: “The Science of Well-Being for Parents” —a direct result of discovering just how much pressure, stress and anxiety parents are under these days.

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    51 mins
  • Ocean Vuong: "The Emperor of Gladness"

    Ocean Vuong: "The Emperor of Gladness"
    May 15 2025

    Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, novelist and professor of modern poetry and poetics at New York University. Some of you may already be familiar with his best-selling debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, which received a MacArthur “Genius” grant and was nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2019. Vuong’s award-winning poetry collections include, Time Is a Mother (2022) and Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016). His latest novel is “The Emperor of Gladness. A Novel.”

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    59 mins

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