PODCAST · health
Confronting The Madness
by markkorthuis
Tackling the psychological issues of our time.
Episodes
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Jeff Booth on Mental Models, Money, and Human Agency
What if the economic system you've built your life around is fundamentally at odds with the natural direction of progress? Jeff Booth, author of The Price of Tomorrow and co-founder of Ego Death Capital, returns to explore the tension between technological deflation and a monetary system that...
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Confronting the Semler Scientific Bitcoin Playbook with Chairman Eric Semler
From leadership and healthcare to money and meaning, this show is about understanding the human condition—how we think, what we fear, and why we act. In a world defined by complexity, we look beneath the surface of psychology and ask: what forces are really driving our choices? Few forces are…
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EP27: Confronting the Inner Storm: Aboard the Longship
Any port in the storm. That’s what they say, right? But some storms, you don’t just ride out. Some storms are meant to break you open, strip away the old wood, and leave you staring at what’s left—raw, honest, real. It’s been two years since my last episode. In that time, I recorded several...
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EP26: Jeff Booth Confronts Inflation & Technology
“System problems with the type of magnitude the world is dealing with cannot be fixed by the system creating the problem. A different way of thinking is required.” - Jeff Booth I have spent the past decade trying to understand why the mental health crisis worsens while stigma reduction efforts…
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EP25: Greg Foss Confronts Money and Mental Health
Greg Foss has spent over thirty years working with money. He knows it inside and out: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Greg was a founding shareholder at 3IQ, one of Canada’s largest digital asset managers. He is currently CFO and Bitcoin strategist at Validuspower.com. Greg holds an MBA from the...
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EP24: Dr. Timothy Caulfield Confronts Misinformation
Dr. Timothy Caulfield is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Science Policy at the University of Alberta. Timothy may be the most well-known face of scientific myth-busting. He is the host of Netflix’s The User’s Guide to Cheating Death, and the author of multiple bestsellers…
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EP23: Jonathan Kay Confronts Crowdsourcing Censorship
My guest today is Canadian journalist Mr. Jonathan Kay. Jonathan was the editor-in-chief of The Walrus (2014–2017) and is presently a senior editor of Quillette, an online magazine focused on long-form analysis and cultural commentary. Jon currently hosts the Quillette podcast and previously...
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EP22: Tom Wolf and Chief Dale McFee Confront Pathological Altruism
Pathological Altruism: Behavior in which attempts to promote the welfare of another, or others, results instead in harm that an external observer would conclude was reasonably foreseeable. Over the holidays, I read a book by author Michael Schellenberger, "San Fransicko: Why progressives are...
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EP21: Karen Gosbee Confronts Abuse, Trauma, & Finding Meaning
“An expectation is a pre-meditated resentment. If we could just take that one saying and start to just have conversations, be able to co-exist, and have a bit more acceptance, that would be a good start.” – Karen Gosbee, from Ep. 23, Confronting the Madness Expectations among people are often…
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EP19: Dr. Vincent Agyapong Confronts Digital and Global Mental Health
On #WorldMentalHealthDay, there is no person I would rather be speaking with. I am privileged to call my next guest, first and foremost, a friend. Dr. Vincent Agyapong stands, in my eyes, as one of the most generous, kind, supportive, thoughtful, and empathetic men I know. I went through a…
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EP18: Luke Jahjefendic Confronts His Five Tours of Afghanistan
Antifragile is a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to suggest that “things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty...Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient…
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EP17: Dr. Valerie Taylor Confronts the Meaning of ”Sh*t for Brains”
In this episode I had the great pleasure of speaking with Dr. Valerie Taylor. Originally hailing from Newfoundland, Valerie is now the Calgary Zone Lead for Addiction and Mental Health with Alberta Health Services as well as the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary....
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EP16: Dr. David Goldbloom Confronts Urgent Innovations in Mental Healthcare
In the episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with one of my favorite people, Dr. David Goldbloom. David has been a leading mental health advocate long before it was en vogue. He is a leading psychiatrist and an Officer of the Order of Canada. He maintains an active clinical and teaching role as…
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EP15: Yalda Kazemi Confronts Postpartum Mental Illness
My guest today is Yalda Kazemi. Yalda’s story is powerful, emotional, honest, and raw. Her courage in sharing her story is admirable. I feel obliged to make a content warning to listeners that some of the stories discussed in this episode are raw. Yalda and I spoke about her journey battling...
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EP14: Dr. David Clark Confronts The Case for Publicly Funded Psychotherapy
My guest for Episode 15 of Confronting The Madness is Dr. David M. Clark. Dr. Clark is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Oxford and a National Clinical Adviser for the United Kingdom’s Department of Health. Dr. Clark’s research has led to the development of new and effective…
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EP13: Dr. Thomas Insel Confronts People, Place, & Purpose
Joining me for Episode 14 is Dr. Thomas Insel, an american psychiatrist and neuroscientist. Without question Tom is one of the most influential minds as it comes to mental health in the world today. Tom is currently a co-founder and adviser to Mindstrong -- a company seeking to transform mental...
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EP12: Sheepdogs lead singer Ewan Currie Confronts Music & Meaning
In Episode 13, I had the great fortune of reconnecting with an old friend, lead singer Ewan Currie of The Sheepdogs. The Sheepdogs are a Canadian rock and roll band and first unsigned band to make the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. Since then, they have gone onto win four Juno Awards along with…
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EP11: Police Chief Dale Mcfee Confronts the Social Safety Net
I had the great pleasure of speaking with City of Edmonton Police Chief, Dale McFee. Dale is one of the most transformational, systems oriented thinkers I have had the pleasure to speak with. He is an authentic and courageous leader, doing the work for the right reasons. I think we are extremely...
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EP10: Dr. Tyler Black Confronts the Politicization of Suicide during Covid-19
My guest today is Dr. Tyler Black. Tyler is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Suicidologist who has been in clinical practice for over ten years. He is the Medical Director of Emergency Psychiatry at BC Children's Hospital. On top of clinical duties, he is an Assistant Clinical Professor at...
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EP9: Ronan Levy, Executive Chairman, Field Trip Health Confronts A Stern Foe For All Sham
Believing that you should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans, Ronan has built a career out of doing things that others say cannot be done. Ronan started his career as a securities lawyer at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP but left that after realizing he was much too...
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EP8: Cody Lakevold Confronts Bourbon, EMDR, Anti-Fragility, & MDMA Therapy
The long-awaited return of Cody Lakevold, for part two of our conversation has arrived. It’s not entirely necessary to listen to our first podcast (Ep. 1) but would be helpful for following the thread during this conversation. It also helps with my download numbers, which of course, supersedes…
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EP7: Pioneer Dr. David Nutt Confronts Drugs & the Brain
In This Episode I had the honour of speaking with Dr. David Nutt David is a psychiatrist and professor of neuroscience who specializes in studying the impact of drugs on the human brain. In 2010, The Times Eureka Science Magazine included David in the 100 most important figures in British…
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EP6: Dr. Allen Frances former Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Duke Confronts the DSM
In this episode, I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Allen Frances. Dr. Frances is an American psychiatrist best known for chairing the DSM-IV taskforce, and later roundly criticizing the DSM-5 and American psychiatry for their roles in manufacturing mental illnesses and the epidemic of...
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EP5: Harvard Professor Anne Harrington Confronts Psychiatry’s Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
Anne Harrington is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. Dr. Harrington received her Ph.D. in the History of Science from Oxford University, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London, and the...
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EP4: Health Critic David Shepherd Confronts Health Advocacy
In this episode, I had the good fortune of speaking with Edmonton City Centre MLA, David Shepherd. David was first elected in 2015, and recently re-elected in 2019. David is currently the Health Critic for the Alberta NDP, a very important role given everything that is happening in the world…
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EP3: City Councillor Scott McKeen Confronts Lived Experience
"It's okay to not be okay". In this episode, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with my friend, Edmonton City Councillor, Scott McKeen. Authentic; genuine; real -- three words that come to mind when I think of the good Councillor. Scott has been a passionate advocate for our most…
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EP2: Sanjay Singhal Confronts Psychedelic Charity
In this episode, I spoke with Sanjay Singhal. Sanjay is a Toronto based entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. I spoke with Sanjay about dealing with his bi-polar diagnosis early on in his entrepreneurial journey; about the challenges he confronted with the healthcare system while trying to...
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EP1: Cody Lakevold Confronts Tragedy & Trauma
Host Mark Korthuis interviews Cody Lakevold about confronting the loss of all three members of his family over a three-year period. Cody discusses how addiction, illness, and ultimately tragedy, lead to him dealing with lingering effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
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Tackling the psychological issues of our time.
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Confronting The Madness is created and hosted by markkorthuis.
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