PLAY PODCASTS
Dr. Kevin Majeres on Anxious Generation and Bad Therapy

Dr. Kevin Majeres on Anxious Generation and Bad Therapy

HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully Alive · The Heights School

May 3, 20241h 11m

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (traffic.libsyn.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Original episode page

Show Notes

In this episode Dr. Kevin Majeres offers his thoughts on two recent books: Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, and Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier. Both books seek to tackle major questions such as screens and socials, overprotective parenting, anxiety and depression, and the appropriate response to those conditions. Dr. Majeres optimistically offers helpful and poignant suggestions to parents fully aware seeking to mindfully raise mindful children.

Chapters

  • 4:23 The Anxious Generation, introduction and analysis

  • 10:39 Social media and social comparison

  • 11:03 Proven connection between social media and anxiety, depression

  • 15:10 Bonds formed online versus in person, the "rupture and repair" process

  • 17:26 Primary impact on boys: video games, pornography, disengagement

  • 22:02 Pessimism fueled by social media

  • 24:43 Costs of screen time, impact on sleep

  • 27:17 Screens and the left hemisphere of the brain

  • 31:40 Children must be frustrated every day

  • 35:31 Haidt's anti-fragile model

  • 40:40 Debate over the age for smart phones

  • 44:20 Bad Therapy, introduction and analysis

  • 51:31 Educative therapy approach

  • 56:41 Discerning necessary therapy

  • 1:00:19 Anxiety is adrenaline waiting to be invested

  • 1:03:58 Maintaining optimism

Links:

Also on the Forum:

← All episodes of HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully Alive