Narcissism, Mirrors and Fractals: A. Natasha Joukovsky, EP 255

A,. Natasha Joukovsky highlights the narcissism in current culture through the the mere-mirror coincidences that reflect our images back to us,. Central is interpersonal recursion--how will your respond if I say this to you and then how will I respond to what I think you will say. Being in love means you desire the other person's desire for you. You can pre-order Dr. Beitman's new book Meaningful Coincidences due out in September here! https://www.innertraditions.com/books... A. Natasha Joukovsky is the author of The Portrait of a Mirror, her debut novel published by The Overlook Press in 2021. Her work has appeared in The Common, Electric Literature, and Necessary Fiction, and her "quite useless" newsletter (after Wilde--"all art is quite useless") has been featured by LitHub. Natasha holds a BA in English from the University of Virginia and an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business. She spent five years working in the art world before pivoting into management consulting. She lives in Washington, D.C You can learn more about Natasha's work at her website: https://natashajoukovsky.com Connecting with Coincidence with Bernard Beitman, MD (CCBB) is now offered as both an audio podcast--anywhere that podcasts are available--and in video format on the Connecting with Coincidence YouTube channel. Please SUBSCRIBE to our channel to be notified when future episodes are posted! Also available, there are 138 archived episodes of the CCBB podcast available, HERE [https://www.spreaker.com/show/dr-bern...] Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity, and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder. Learn more at https://coincider.com