When Leaders Go Mad Christopher Ferguson [S2 Ep.1]

Conversations with Coleman

The Free Press

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to season two of Conversations with Coleman and to the first episode of the New Year. Today’s guest is Christopher Ferguson. Christopher is an American psychologist who serves as a professor and co-chair of psychology at Stetson University in Florida. He previously served as an associate professor of psychology and criminal justice at Texas A&M International University and in 2014, he was named a fellow of the APA. Christopher and I talked about the definition of mental illness, prescribing Adderall to children, the link between creativity and mental illness, how mental illness affected historical figures like Alexander the Great, Hitler, and Stalin. I also asked Christopher to assess the mental state of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Recording date: 08 Jan 2021 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:07.0	The Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman.
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0:49.1	As always, thank you for your support.
0:55.7	Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman, and welcome to the first episode of the new year.
1:01.7	First things first, I want to thank all of you for the enormous support you gave me in 2020.
1:06.9	Because of your support, I'll be able to ramp up both the quality and quantity of my output in 2021.
1:13.3	Two notes before I introduce today's guest.
1:16.4	Many of you have been asking me about the status of my attempted conversation with Ibram X. Kendi,
1:21.2	especially those of you who donated to charity to make that happen.
1:24.9	There have been very interesting developments on that front, but I think I'll put
1:28.6	them all in a solo episode, which I'll release very soon. And secondly, I should say something about
1:34.7	the absolute dumpster fire that is American politics right now. The first thing to do is to blame the
1:41.3	people directly responsible without caveat and without immediately
1:45.2	changing the subject. In this case, I'm talking about the president of the United States
1:50.6	claiming that he won an election he did not in fact win, pressuring officials to find missing
1:56.7	votes that don't exist, persuading millions of people who hang on his every word to behave as
2:03.0	if an American election was just stolen, and saying, we love you, you're very special to people
2:09.4	who perpetrated an act of domestic terror on his behalf. Irresponsible does not even begin
2:16.3	to describe this behavior.
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