Mattias Desmet and Aaron Kheriaty: Understanding the Age of Loneliness
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Dec-28-2024
America is facing an epidemic of loneliness, and its as bad for peoples health as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, says U.S. surgeon general Vivek Murthy.
In the past two decades, theres been a marked rise in suicides and deaths of despair.Show more Whats fueling these trends of social fragmentation, isolation, and atomization? And how are they linked to broader political and social trends?
In this episode, two of the worlds leading thinkers on bioethics and group psychology join together with me for the first time.
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty is a former psychiatry professor and director of the medical ethics program at the University of California Irvine Medical School. Hes the author of The New Abnormal.
Mattias Desmet is a professor of psychology at Ghent University and author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism. https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/mattias-desmet-and-aaron-kheriaty-understanding-the-age-of-loneliness-5781557 Show less
America is facing an epidemic of loneliness, and its as bad for peoples health as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, says U.S. surgeon general Vivek Murthy.
In the past two decades, theres been a marked rise in suicides and deaths of despair.Show more Whats fueling these trends of social fragmentation, isolation, and atomization? And how are they linked to broader political and social trends?
In this episode, two of the worlds leading thinkers on bioethics and group psychology join together with me for the first time.
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty is a former psychiatry professor and director of the medical ethics program at the University of California Irvine Medical School. Hes the author of The New Abnormal.
Mattias Desmet is a professor of psychology at Ghent University and author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism. https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/mattias-desmet-and-aaron-kheriaty-understanding-the-age-of-loneliness-5781557 Show less