Disquieted Life
3 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Emma Williams talks to interesting people from the worlds of philosophy and the arts about mental health. Emma and her guests reflect on what different writers and thinkers would say on the topic of mental health, and gain new insights into the human condition. Inspired by Samuel Beckett's idea: 'you're on earth, there's no cure for that', this podcast series is created as part of Emma's research in philosophy and education at Warwick University. Funded by the British Academy and Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.
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Episodes
03 William Shakespeare with Sarah Beckwith (Featuring Jonathan Cullen)
November 11, 2020 07:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MB‘You can be alive, but have you taken on your life. Those are very very different things.' – Sarah Beckwith, Katherine Everett Gilbert Distinguished Professor of English In the third episode of the series, Emma talks to Professor Sarah Beckwith about mental health and the works of William Shakespeare. On this episode: Sarah Beckwith is Katherine Everett Gilbert Distinguished Professor of English at Duke University. She works on medieval and early modern drama and the philosophy of ordin...
01 Sigmund Freud with Adam Phillips
November 03, 2020 08:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBIn the first episode of Disquieted Life, Emma talks to the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips about mental health and the ideas of the physician and writer Sigmund Freud. ‘Medicine is not a good model for so-called mental health, because there isn’t something really called mental health, people are more or less unhappy, more or less troubled, more or less feel their lives are not their own. And that needs to be addressed.’ – Adam Phillips, Psychoanalyst On this episode: Adam Phillips was forma...
02 Stanley Cavell with Paul Standish
October 30, 2020 14:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBThe second episode in the Disquieted Life series sees Emma talk to the philosopher Paul Standish about mental health and the ideas of the thinker Stanley Cavell. ‘A lot of the problems we’re seeing as mental problems and psychological problems are part of the human condition, and learning to live well with that seems to me what we should be looking for in terms of mental health.’ – Paul Standish, Philosopher On this episode: Paul Standish is Professor of Philosophy of Education at...