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The Many Faces of Denial November 28, 2007

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Addiction & Compulsion, Emotions & Inner Life

Denial is not weakness but an evolved survival tool, and Armand DiMele breaks down its many forms: denial of fact, responsibility, impact, awareness, and cycle. He connects this mechanism to addiction, overeating, abusive relationships, and even the subprime mortgage collapse, then works through caller stories to show how denial operates from the inside.

The Four Day Win with Dr. Martha Beck November 20, 2007

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Martha Beck
Category: Addiction & Compulsion, Personal Growth & Change

Self-loathing drives the very behaviors we are trying to stop. Dr. Martha Beck, author of The Four Day Win, explains how fight-or-flight responses sabotage change, introduces the “dictator” and “wild child” as tools for self-understanding, and offers a Tibetan loving-kindness practice as the surprisingly simple engine of lasting transformation.

What Your Clothing Says About You November 14, 2007

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Identity & The Self, Society, Culture & Current Events

Fashion is never just fashion. Armand DiMele traces clothing choices from 7,500-year-old figurines to sagging jeans, arguing that what we wear signals identity, power, and rebellion, and that our snap judgments about others’ dress reveal uncomfortable truths about ourselves. Callers share their own stories.

The Pursuit of Happiness with Nicholas Vreeland October 4, 2007

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Alexandra Beller, Nicholas Vreeland
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Meaning, Spirituality & Philosophy

True happiness cannot be captured in a memory, a possession, or another person. Armand DiMele explores that argument with Nicholas Vreeland of the Tibet Center, previewing the Dalai Lama’s Radio City teachings on emptiness, and choreographer Alexandra Beller, whose new dance piece stages the futile human habit of chasing happiness outside ourselves.

The Loneliness of Men October 3, 2007

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

A genetic study finding hereditary loneliness traits opens a wide-ranging conversation about the hidden inner lives of men. Armand DiMele argues that male depression and isolation run far deeper than society acknowledges, buried under stoicism, workaholism, and the pressure to never appear weak. Callers share their own struggles.

Inheritance Neurosis with Dr. Tripp Evans September 25, 2007

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Tripp Evans, Kent Robertshaw
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

When wealth replaces love in a family, children grow up rudderless and waiting for their parents to die. Armand DiMele, Dr. Kent Robertshaw, MD, Psychiatrist, and Dr. Tripp Evans examine how inherited money warps identity, poisons relationships, and breeds the particular loneliness of the very rich.

How Emotion Shapes Memory September 19, 2007

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

Memory is not just repetition but emotion: the stronger the feeling, the deeper the imprint. Armand DiMele and co-host Roberta Maria Atti trace memory from DNA and evolutionary survival through neuroplasticity, PTSD, and the chemical trio of acetylcholine, dopamine, and norepinephrine, showing why stuck emotions block us from moving on.

The Human Need for Punishment September 12, 2007

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Roberta Maria Atti
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Society, Culture & Current Events

Why do humans punish, seek punishment, and punish themselves? Armand and co-host Roberta Maria Atti survey punishment across criminal justice, religion, family, and finance, arguing that withdrawal of love is the most powerful punishment of all and that defiance in children is really a plea for love.

Sleep Sex and Human Difference September 6, 2007

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Sexuality & Desire, The Mind & Neuroscience

Every person’s inner life is radically different, and sleep is where that strangeness shows most clearly. Armand DiMele moves from the diversity of human experience into the territory of sexomnia, narcoleptic false memories of childhood assault, and Ambien’s surprising links to hypersexuality and compulsive night eating.

The Natural Instinct to Steal August 23, 2007

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Society, Culture & Current Events

Stealing and deception are woven into nature itself, Armand argues, from camouflaged fish to scavenging hyenas. He traces human larceny from petty office theft to billing fraud, and explores why people who steal against their own values end up punishing themselves more than anyone else does.