Other Interviews, Talks & Podcasts
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Other Interviews & Talks
Dr. Fraad interviewed or speaking in public venues.-
Dr. Fraad speaking in Times Square in NYC.
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Dialogue between Jim Vrettos and Dr. Harriet Fraad — a New York based, psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, and feminist. The interview centered on her recent article in Truthout and her life as a radical.
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Economy and Psychology Podcasts
The interaction of economy and psychology helps to determine our society and our individuality as well. Yet these topics remain loaded with taboos, confusions, ignorance, and fear preventing us from asking big questions and daring to discuss big answers.-
This conversation seeks to explore some relatively ignored economic, psychological and cultural causes of the Newtown school killings, their context in our nation's culture, and their implications for our future.
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Everyone from the candidates to the parties to observers and voters are making their respective senses of what the election results mean. Here we offer a psychological and economic analysis of an election dominated by what people were voting against...
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The traditional family is a declining institution in contemporary society. The profit-driven processes and recurring crises of capitalism are major causes of that decline. Nostalgic appeals for the return of traditional families may be clever politics....
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Richard Wolff and Harriet Fraad interviewed for a full hour at Pacifica station KPFA in Berkeley California.
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More important than pathologizing the individual who killed is the task of evaluating the social and psychological conditions - changeable by collective action - that can explain why his frustrations and failures should take such a violent turn...
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Secure, stable jobs gave way to precarious employment over recent decades - and especially during the crisis that started in 2007. Precarious work has dubious benefits for employers and imposes huge economic costs on society and huge human costs...
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Over 50 % of today's adults in the US live singly, what a 2012 book by Eric Klinenberg calls Going Solo. We discuss why that happened, the deep loneliness involved, its relationship to modern capitalism, and why basic social change is crucial to...
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Around facts of unemployment, people living alone, children and the elderly, we discuss how differently the 1% and the 99% experience capitalism’s crisis. The 1% and their government have ignored widespread suffering and social costs that react back...
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We discuss how the tiny top and the increased bottom of the US economic system have very differently experienced economic crisis since 2007. We suggest some specific programs urgently needed and also draw some lessons about what basically has to change.
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Charles Murray's new book, Coming Apart,is criticized as a "blame-the-victim" argument applied to the white working class just as Patrick Moynihan applied it to the African-American working class in the 1960s. Murray excludes and thereby exonerates...
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While hope is an elusive reality, it is crucial for our personal lives and in society. Hope destroyed leads to decline and desperation. Hope rekindled - think Obama in 2008 and Occupy Wall Street today - is a powerful social and personal force.
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Recent mass fascination with an alleged rape by then-IMF Chairman Dominique Strauss-Kahn and an admitted extra-marital relationship and child by former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stress almost exclusively these events' sexual, personal...
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Why did last week's royal wedding in London attracted millions of UK and US spectators? What social functions did the distraction serve with its huge costs just when economic austerity is official policy and with its celebration of marriage and family...
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Who wins when politicians only debate which public services and public employees to cut - but dare not tax big businesses and the richest individuals more?What kind of system cuts public services just when most people need them more, and thereby...
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The US crisis continues for the many, despite the over-described "recovery" of banks, the stock market and selected larger corporations. Far too little attention is directed to the crisis's impacts on our personal relationships. Here we discuss ...
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