Some animals don’t just react. They anticipate. In this episode of Think First, we explore a quiet idea most of us already sense but rarely say out loud: animals may notice shifts in the world before we do — emotional, social, and environmental — in ways that complicate how we think about consciousness. From dogs that read the room before anything happens, to crows that plan, elephants that remember relationships, whales that communicate across vast distances, and octopuses that solve problem...
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Some animals don’t just react. They anticipate. In this episode of Think First, we explore a quiet idea most of us already sense but rarely say out loud: animals may notice shifts in the world before we do — emotional, social, and environmental — in ways that complicate how we think about consciousness. From dogs that read the room before anything happens, to crows that plan, elephants that remember relationships, whales that communicate across vast distances, and octopuses that solve problem...
#70 Bad Therapy: How the DSM Made Fragility a Feature, Not a Bug
Think First with Jim Detjen
20 minutes
3 months ago
#70 Bad Therapy: How the DSM Made Fragility a Feature, Not a Bug
What happens when the manual for diagnosing mental illness stops being a guide for doctors… and starts shaping childhood itself? In this episode of Think First, we trace how the DSM widened the map — turning sadness into depression, tantrums into mood disorders, and shyness into social anxiety — and then follow Abigail Shrier’s Bad Therapy into the classrooms, clinics, and living rooms where those labels became culture. From stomachaches that trigger suicide screenings… to classrooms run like...
Think First with Jim Detjen
Some animals don’t just react. They anticipate. In this episode of Think First, we explore a quiet idea most of us already sense but rarely say out loud: animals may notice shifts in the world before we do — emotional, social, and environmental — in ways that complicate how we think about consciousness. From dogs that read the room before anything happens, to crows that plan, elephants that remember relationships, whales that communicate across vast distances, and octopuses that solve problem...
