Latest Finding our minds Podcast Episodes
Season 3 Wrap Up
Finding Our Minds - March 20, 2023 17:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIt's (finally) the final episode of the season! Dr. Mac and Leah wrap up this season's discussion on "the sense of self." Why is the medical model not the best way to look at mental un-wellness and the healing journey? How can we help our clients without infantalizing them? How dose a mind-cente...
Self Work
Finding Our Minds - February 22, 2023 20:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsToday's final episode of this season's lecture series, Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses what it takes for inner change to occur in an individual, and how other people are involved in the process. Works discussed in today's episode include: Benjamin, J. (2004). Beyond doer and done-to: An intersubjec...
Character
Finding Our Minds - February 07, 2023 19:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsOur final installment of discussing identity, personality, and character, Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses what makes up one's character. She goes on to review personal ethics in the context of forming identity and character, and how this relates to treating mental suffering in the therapeutic contex...
More on Personality
Finding Our Minds - January 25, 2023 16:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsToday's episode is a review of personality through the lens of developing a healthy self. How does this relate to identity, character, and development? Dr. Arnd-Caddigan and Leah Faye discuss.
Identity
Finding Our Minds - December 27, 2022 18:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIn this episode Dr. Arnd-Caddigan and co-host Leah Faye discuss the various ways in which those suffering from mental illness choose to identify. Today's lecture unpacks how mental suffering can arise when a society chooses to project an identity onto an individual whose sense of self is at conf...
Meditation: The Self
Finding Our Minds - December 13, 2022 15:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThis meditation is meant to be paired with episode 5, and focuses on our sense of self.
Multiple Selves
Finding Our Minds - November 30, 2022 21:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIn this episode Dr. Arnd-Caddigan breaks down the concept of multiple selves, and the experience of multiple selves in a dissociative context. How does one unify the self? What is the difference between multiple selves and multiple experiences? Works cited in today's episode: Steven Kuchuck: ...
Jungian Self
Finding Our Minds - November 16, 2022 03:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIn this episode Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses the Jungian definition of individuality, and the means by which Carl Jung studied the sense of self. The co-hosts discuss the impact Jungian and post-Jungian psychology has on the sense of binaries, and the concept of individuation. Works cited in to...
THE HEALTHY SELF
Finding Our Minds - November 01, 2022 19:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsToday's episode explores how we define a healthy sense of self. Books referenced in today's episode: Galen Strawson: Selves; The Subject of Experience Jiri Benovsky: Mind and Matter: Panpsychism, Dual-Aspect Monism, and the Combination Problem Daniel Stern: The Interpersonal World of the Infa...
Self and Mind
Finding Our Minds - October 18, 2022 16:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsDr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses the concept of self and how it is defined from a psychotherapist's perspective. Who or what experiences the concept of self? Works discussed in today's episode include: Jiri Benovsky: Mind and matter: Panpsychism, dual-aspect monism, and the combination problem. P...
YOU AND YOUR BODY
Finding Our Minds - October 04, 2022 16:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIn this first episode of Season 3 our co-hosts Dr. Mac and Leah Faye attempt to define the "self" while asking the question: What is it we are actually experiencing when we talk about our 'self' as a sensation? Leslie Kean: Surviving Death: A journalist investigates evidence for an afterlife H...
Meditation: Protection from NarcissisticAbuse
Finding Our Minds - February 15, 2022 18:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIn our next episode Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses tactics narcissistic abusers use in depth, and looks at ways one can heal from the experience. This meditation is meant to accompany Season 2, Episode 9, as a way to help ease mental suffering that results from gaslighting and other abusive tactic...
How to Find a Therapist
Finding Our Minds - February 15, 2022 18:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsLooking for a therapist and have no idea where to start? Uninsured? Worried about what type of therapy is right for you? Not sure what questions to ask a potential new therapist? Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses with Leah how to go about the task of finding the right fit.
Healing from Abusive Tactics
Finding Our Minds - February 01, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsNarcissistic abusers have many tactics to control and manipulate people in their lives. The good news is there are ways to heal after experiencing this kind of trauma. In this episode, Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses a few of the tactics a narcissistic abuser may use to manipulate a person, and the ...
Organizational Abuse
Finding Our Minds - January 04, 2022 15:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWhat if your abuser is your workplace, or your school? In this episode Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses how narcissistic abuse can extend to the structure of an institution, and posits how we can hold institutions accountable for abusive practices.
Abuse or Psychosis?
Finding Our Minds - December 21, 2021 23:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIn previous episodes we discuss how narcissistic abuse can involve thought-insertion, the non-somatic communication of degrading thoughts directed at a victim. In this episode, Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses how in therapy we can support clients experiencing this, and the dangers of incorrectly lab...
Meditation: Chakras
Finding Our Minds - December 07, 2021 16:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsDr. Arnd-Caddigan leads us in a meditation to center our chakras.
Telepathy and Psychoanalysis
Finding Our Minds - November 23, 2021 14:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIn this week's episode Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses the history of telepathy and telepathic studies in the discipline of psychoanalysis.
Psi
Finding Our Minds - November 09, 2021 17:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWe've been discussing all season the implications of mind-to-mind communication in the context of abuse. When someone experiences a narcissist's abusive tactics (such as gaslighting) it can often seem as though the abuser has an otherworldly control over our minds. In this episode we discuss the...
Meditation: Progressive Relaxation
Finding Our Minds - October 27, 2021 00:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsA guided meditation in the practice of progressive relaxation, lead by Dr. Margaret Arnd-Caddigan.
Abusers
Finding Our Minds - October 12, 2021 14:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsToday Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses abusers, specifically, types of narcissistic abusers. From oblivious (or, covert) narcissists to malignant narcissists, this episode unpacks the ways in which abuse can manifest from different type of narcissistic abusers; and why you don't have to have a person...
Narcissism As A Disorder of the Self
Finding Our Minds - September 28, 2021 22:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsLast week we looked at what constitutes a healthy personality, and how a healthy personality is developed in early childhood. This week Dr. Arnd-Caddigan breaks down what a personality disorder is and how that relates to narcissistic abuse.
What is Personality?
Finding Our Minds - September 14, 2021 13:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWhen talking about Personality Disorders it first helps to define personality. What is a flexible personality, a rigid personality, and how can one's personality become disordered? Dr. Arnd-Caddigan and her producer Leah discuss what a healthy personality is, can be, and how a healthy personalit...
Introduction to Narcissistic Abuse
Finding Our Minds - September 01, 2021 17:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWhat is narcissistic abuse? What is gaslightling? What is an energy vampire? Most, if not all, of us have had to bear the brunt of abusive behavior at least once in our lives. What drives a person to behave this way, and how can we protect ourselves from falling victim to abuse? Dr. Margaret Anr...
Season 2 - Trailer
Finding Our Minds - August 18, 2021 21:00 - 58 seconds ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsTrailer for Season 2 of Finding Our Minds, a podcast about Having Mind, Knowing Mind, and Changing Mind. Hosted by Margaret Arnd-Caddigan, PhD, Associate Professor of Social Work at East Carolina University. Produced by Leah Faye.
Out of the Broom Closet
Finding Our Minds - June 08, 2021 13:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIn this special season-finale, Dr. Arnd-Caddigan and her daughter Leah Faye discuss their experience with Wicca, magic, spirituality, and what that all has to do with therapy. Thank you so much to our listeners for giving us such positive feedback, our idea for this episode was inspired by you. ...
Mind and Body
Finding Our Minds - May 26, 2021 20:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIn our last lecture of the season, Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses the relationship to the mind and body, and how one cannot exist without the other. This is our second to last episode of the season, and next episode will be an informal discussion on spirituality within mental health practices. Stay...
Research and Change
Finding Our Minds - May 11, 2021 12:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThis week's episode is less dense, Dr. Arnd-Caddigan talks research. We explore what the research shows about mind-centered therapy, and what it is that makes a therapy experience work for a client. The secret? You'll have to listen...
The Ways We Relate to Experience
Finding Our Minds - April 27, 2021 13:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWhy do we need to unburden ourselves of our experiences? Why do we feel better after talking to someone? What's going on in our minds when a therapist is guiding mental healing? Margaret and Leah discuss the ways we relate to experience, how sharing qualia is a necessary part of cementing our un...
Consciousness and the Unconscious
Finding Our Minds - April 13, 2021 13:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThis week we take a semi-deep dive into the Jungian and Post-Jungian understanding of the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. What did Jung mean by the collective unconscious, and what are our interpretations of it today? Is the collective unconscious metaphysical, material, or is there per...
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