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Monday, April 11, 2016

Rehm Interviews Dr. David Kessler On “Capture: Unraveling The Mystery of Mental Suffering”

Alan: As I listened to Dr. Kessler, his description of "capture" sounded indistinguishable from "demon possession" in The New Testament

"Something" seizes us, distorts our reality, and then persuades us that the distortion is true.

In addition to creative endeavor, outdoor walking, sufficient sleep and good nutrition, I have observed that many depressed people "get a handle" on their demons by regularly reminding themselves: "I am crazy but fortunately my bizarre perceptions do not truly correspond to my situation nor would they seem to correspond if I were not nuts."

It is also necessary to remind ourselves with some regularity that everyone is "nuts" -- which is to say, "stuck where they are stuck" -- and that the people who seem best-adjusted are often the craziest.

Thomas Merton: Adolf Eichmann, Sanity and Normality

The Sane Are More Dangerous Than The Insane

A growing number of psychologists are convinced that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the best, most dependable and quickest way to dispel those "demons" that capture people and hold them enthralled/spellbound. (Kessler himself endorses CBT.)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Pax House

 Two Smart For Our Own Good

Fixed False Beliefs (AKA "Delusions") Do Not Rule Out Simultaneous Use Of Reason


David Kessler: “Capture: Unraveling The Mystery of Mental Suffering”


For more than two decades, Dr. David Kessler, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, has researched the ways tobacco and food control our actions. What fascinates him most is how these substances can override both reason and will, directing our behavior. He says the latest brain research indicates that the same neurological process that drives us to chain-smoke or over-eat is responsible for many mental illnesses. Diane talks with Dr. Kessler about how our minds become taken hold by certain triggers and thoughts and what we can do about it.

Guests

  • Dr. David Kessler former commissioner, the Food and Drug Administration; author, "The End of Overeating;" former dean, Yale School of Medicine; pediatrician
  • Read An Excerpt
  • Excerpt taken from CAPTURE: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering. Copyright 2016 by David A. Kessler, MD. Harper Wave is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
  • Capture: "How Capture leads to Terrorism"

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