It’s More Important to be Related than Right: Compassion in the Time of Social Media with Ravi Chandra, M.D.

Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Dr. Steven Hassan

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Humans crave connection. This need for connection is a vital aspect of the psychology behind cults, coercion, and undue influence. Isolation makes people vulnerable and fearful and more likely to be influenced in harmful ways. Psychiatrist Ravi Chandra discusses the psychology of connection, how institutions can take action to encourage empathy and critical thinking, and how social media and fear-mongering news cycles are creating divisions. We need to be focusing on developing trust and community. As a member of the American Psychiatric Association, Ravi Chandra is concerned about the Goldwater Rule and how it limits what psychiatrists can and cannot say about public figures Like Donald Trump. The APA established the Goldwater rule in 1973. The so-called “rule” says that psychiatrists should not diagnose a person from a distance; they should only offer professional opinions if they have done a personal examination and evaluation. However, forensic experts on dangerousness, like Dr. Bandy X. Lee insists “experts have a duty to warn!” When their voices are censored we are all endangered. Learn more about Steven Hassan and Freedom of Mind Resource Center. Visit freedomofmind.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of the Influence Continuum.
0:10.2	And I am absolutely delighted to have a friend and a colleague that I've known for a bunch of years
0:19.9	finally come on the influence continuum.
0:23.4	Ravi Chandra is a psychiatrist, writer, compassion educator in San Francisco,
0:29.3	and a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
0:33.9	Received as Cy B. with honors from Brown University and MD from Stanford University School of
0:41.1	Medicine, complete a residency in general adult psychiatry from the University of California, San Francisco.
0:49.4	You write a blog for Psychology Today, East Wind EZine, you wrote essays on film for the Center for Asian
0:56.9	American Media for 14 years. And you regularly teach at American Psychiatric Association and other
1:04.5	venues where I am proud to say you invited me to be on your panels for a few years. And you really are an activist and someone
1:16.9	with grounded values, so I respect and admire you so much. And you did a nonfiction book,
1:24.8	Face Buddha, Transcendence in the Age of Social Networks, which won a 2017 Nautilus
1:31.5	Silver Award. You did a debut documentary feature, The Bandaged Place from AIDS to COVID, and Rachel
1:39.9	Justice, which was awarded Best Film of 2021 Cannes Independent Film Festival, and they're both online.
1:47.9	And Ravi, you know, you've been wanting to get the American Psychiatric Association to look at some
1:55.4	of their positions and policies in particular, the Goldwater Rule, which was used to really censor
2:05.4	distinguished psychiatrists like Bandy Lee, who wrote the dangerous case of Donald Trump,
2:13.1	New York Times bestselling book, 37 luminaries weighed in.
2:18.9	And the APA came out and said, no, no, no, you can't diagnose somebody from afar,
2:25.8	which Bandy said, we're not diagnosing.
2:28.3	We have a duty to warn.
2:31.2	And so I want to circle back to why it's so important for the public to understand this topic,
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