How might sweeping shifts in both religion and medicine in the nineteenth-century impact a wide array of things we face today like loneliness and racism? When the mind began ruling over the body we saw society shift and loneliness, racism, and mental illness rise.
Dr. Fay Bound Alberti is a cultural historian, writer, and UKRI future leader’s fellow who studies the history of medicine and the human body. Her books include Matters of the Heart, The History of Medicine and Emotion, This Mortal Coil, the Human Body in History and Culture, A Biography of Loneliness The History of an Emotion.
Listen in as Dr. Bound Alberti finds a glimmer of hope in what feel like hopeless times. She pinpoints the exact moments in which we started to separate body, mind, and spirit and how it ushered in the world that we now have. She plants seeds of possibility that Covid-19 just might reconnect our bodies, minds, and spirits in a way that could usher in the social transformation that could end discrimination and loneliness and improve our health. The key, she says, is the body.
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Resources Mentioned:
Are You With Me or Against Me? | Dr. Laura Delizonna, Stanford University | Google Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI)
Race, Inequity & Mental Health | Dr. Jennifer Mullan, Decolonizing Therapy
Outing Your Discomfort | Dr. Vinny Chulani
Conscious Co-Working | Susan Madsen
NYC Street Connect | Janille Hill
Productivity and Connection | Yamini Naidu
Shadows and Light | Atiaf Alwazir
Wholly Human | Omar Davis
That which is Ungrieved | Marty Cooper
Living Room Conversations Is Creating Effective Action | Joan Blade
Better Angels is Putting Out the Political Polarization Fire | John Wood
A Golden Civilization | George Kinder
The Sixth Stage of Grief | David Kessler
Parker Palmer On Navigating White Priviledge
The First Step In Becoming Racially Literate | Dr. Howard C. Stevenson
Dr. Christian Conte is moving Inmates beyond their Anger
Cultivating a Fierce Heart | Spring Washam
Addiction, Art & Recovery | Adriana Marchione
Storytelling for Connection | Antonio Sacre, UCLA Lab School
Culture Changes Through Open Dialogue | Dr. Nadja Rossman, Cultural Anthropologist and Evolve Magazine Editor
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