Keyword: conditioning

The Symbols We Live By April 29, 2009

Host: Armand DiMele

Every person becomes a symbol to someone else, and that projection shapes desire, conflict, and love more than most people realize. Armand DiMele traces how childhood wounds turn strangers into father figures, mother figures, or pain symbols, and invites callers to examine the symbols they embody and chase.

Fear Conditioning and the Dentist November 15, 2007

Host: Armand DiMele

Why do so many people dread the dentist? Armand DiMele uses dental fear as a window into how the brain wires pain to neutral stimuli, how that wiring buries itself under layers of displacement, and how extinction learning and reward associations can undo it.