{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Actually ADHD | Medication Strategies & Clinical Wisdom","title":"Understanding Creativity and Critical Theory","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":939,"description":"After the Clancy deep dive I was in a bad mood, and the antidote is always nerding out. So I pulled some books, took notes, and thought out loud about why the things we look at run us more than the things around us.\nJonathan Murphy, PMHNP-BC, on Walter Lippmann's pseudo-environment, why stereotypes are cognitively necessary rather than simply bad, and what any of it has to do with a frontal lobe that isn't fully online.\nThis episode covers:\n ▸ Why the screen is the problem for a creator whose work is about mental health\n ▸ Medium as the thing in between, and why 99.9% of our communication is reception\n ▸ Lippmann on the feeling aroused by a mental image of an event you never experienced\n ▸ The amygdala, hippocampus, and adrenal response happening before you can think\n ▸ Why ADHD makes you a passenger on that ride\n ▸ The pseudo-environment: behavior responds to it, but acts land in the real world\n ▸ Where the contradiction develops, and what that looks like with a true crime case\n ▸ Fiction, fidelity, and why a novel doesn't mislead you but a feed can\n ▸ Being told about the world before you see it, and what preconception does to perception\n ▸ The landscape in the parlor: recognizing the sunset because you already saw the painting\n ▸ Why abandoning all stereotypes would impoverish human life rather than free us\n ▸ Bertrand Russell's code of science from The Impact of Science on Society\n ▸ Marcuse on the welfare state as a state of unfreedom\n ▸ Why the first move when you're anxious is to look at what's been going in\nThe book The Process: An Adult's Guide to ADHD Medication is available on Amazon: [link]\nFind the YouTube channel Focus Path | PMHNP-BC for the full clinical education catalog.\nFor educational purposes only. Not medical advice. Consult your own provider for clinical decisions.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/TQ0cdwY1LDRCErv0owrNaxd6zJJuqtQCa3NYWW3JqR4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yY2Vj/MzI1NGM3NGJkMzhm/YTFhNGUzZWMzMjg3/NTQ5MS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}