Why do manners exist, who gets to have them, and what happens when the brain can no longer enforce them? Armand DiMele and Dr. Sherry Siegel, M.D. trace etiquette from dementia and autism to class inequality and road rage, arguing that good manners are ultimately a function of time, neurological capacity, and self-awareness.
What makes a person abnormal? Armand DiMele walks through the criteria psychiatry uses to define abnormality, from maladaptivity to cultural norms, then turns to paraphilias, hidden secrets, and the shame that grows the harder we work to conceal them. Callers share their own experiences of feeling outside the norm.
What makes people care about right and wrong, and where does that impulse come from? Armand DiMele and co-host Roberta Maria Atti open with a striking story of a heavily medicated psychiatric patient who offered comfort to his own doctor, then trace morality from biology and genetics through religion, sexuality, taxes, and the tension between inner conviction and externally imposed rules.
