Category: Emotions & Inner Life

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The Art of Feeling at Home September 28, 2006

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Family & Parenting

What actually makes people feel welcome and at home? Armand DiMele offers practical and psychological advice on greeting rituals, shared meals, clutter as avoidance, adolescent rebellion, and why holding grudges poisons family life. A caller’s story about an inappropriate uncle opens into a broader conversation about absent fathers and displaced anger.

The Heart Has Its Own Brain September 27, 2006

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Roberta Maria Atti
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience

The heart is not just a pump. Armand DiMele and co-host Roberta Maria Atti dig into neurocardiology research showing the heart has its own neuronal network, produces neurotransmitters, and sends signals the brain obeys, meaning the heart perceives and decides before conscious thought begins.

Hysteria and Conversion Syndrome September 26, 2006

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience

Hysteria is a 4,000-year-old diagnosis that psychiatry buried but never resolved. Armand DiMele traces its two descendants, conversion syndrome and histrionic personality disorder, drawing on new brain imaging research showing that paralysis and other physical symptoms can be driven by the emotional centers of the brain rather than motor pathways.

Sleep Rituals and Disorders September 21, 2006

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience

Sleep is rarely discussed in therapy, but your bedtime rituals reveal more about you than almost anything else. Armand DiMele walks through the psychology of sleep habits, shared beds, and disorders from insomnia and hypersomnia to sleepwalking and night terrors, then takes callers through their own sleep secrets.

Dealing with Difficult People with Roberta Maria Antti September 13, 2006

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Roberta Maria Antti
Category: Communication & Conflict, Emotions & Inner Life

Why do certain people get under our skin, and what does that say about us? Armand DiMele and Roberta Maria Antti explore the subjective and objective dimensions of difficult behavior, framing erratic or disruptive people as mirrors for our own unresolved feelings and offering practical tools for staying grounded.

Do Men and Women Hate Each Other September 5, 2006

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

Do men and women harbor genuine hatred toward each other, or is it fear wearing hatred’s mask? Armand DiMele traces misogyny and misandry through evolutionary biology, phobia research, and caller stories, arguing that what looks like contempt between the sexes is often unacknowledged fear of the other’s power.

When Pain Gets Locked Away August 30, 2006

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Kent Robertshaw
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Trauma & Healing

Armand DiMele and Dr. Kent Robertshaw, MD, Psychiatrist, examine why people lock away unbearable pain rather than face it, how children assign themselves blame for disasters and abuse, and why denial of death costs us empathy for suffering near and far.

Shame Addiction and Katrina August 29, 2006

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Roberta Maria Atin
Category: Addiction & Compulsion, Emotions & Inner Life

Toxic shame drives addiction, numbness, and violence, and Hurricane Katrina made that truth impossible to ignore. Armand DiMele and co-host Roberta Maria Atti trace how collective shame over race, poverty, and government failure sent millions into emotional deadness and substance use, and urge listeners to feel the pain rather than go numb.

Intermittent Explosive Disorder August 23, 2006

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Christine Ulrich, Kent Robinshaw
Category: Addiction & Compulsion, Emotions & Inner Life

Explosive anger affects far more people than assumed, with some studies finding it in over 10 percent of the population. Armand DiMele and colleagues Christine Ulrich and Kent Robinshaw examine the biology of rage, the passive-aggressive partners who enable it, why victims stay, and how therapy and medication can help.

The Need to Be Famous August 22, 2006

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

Why do 30% of adults regularly daydream about being famous? Armand DiMele traces the fame motive to childhood homes where recognition was scarce, arguing that the hunger to be seen by strangers is distinct from wanting wealth or power and intensifies across the lifespan, even into old age.