Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice.

Hello, this is James, and welcome to episode 56 of the Madden America podcast.

And this week we present the second interview in our science and pseudoscience

series. And this week, Dr. Sharna Olfman interviews Dr. Darcia Narvaise. I'm Dr. Sharna Olfman and I'm so

pleased to welcome you to the Science and Pseudo-Science of Mental Health Podcast for Mad in America.

In 1955, Eric Fromm published a book called The Sane Society.

And the basic premise of the book is that cultures that promote are existential needs

for love, community, autonomy, creativity, purpose, meaning,

and communion with nature are ones that enable us to become fully actualized and sane human beings.

Cultures that fail to meet these core human needs

set the stage for mental illness.

I am so pleased to welcome our guest today, Dr. Darsha Narvaiz.

She's an award-winning author and scholar and a professor of psychology

at the University of Notre Dame. And Dr. Narviz takes up the mantle of Fromm's quest to identify

and promote sane cultural practices. She integrates the sciences of neurobiology, anthropology, and psychology in her research on human

development and human nature.

So in other words, she moves beyond the philosophical and really grounds her research

in compelling science. She very generously shares all of her

research, her writing, podcasts, conference proceedings, etc., on the University of Notre Dame

website. So her work is very accessible.

Dr. Narvai's research is urgently needed today because there is such persuasive evidence that Western

culture, which is being rapidly exported and adopted globally, is undermining our mental and our physical health.

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