Feb 07 2024 56 mins 4
Dr. Anthony Feinstein is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a neuropsychiatrist. His research and clinical work focus on people with multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury and Conversion Disorder. He has undertaken a number of studies investigating how front-line journalists are affected by their work covering war and man-made and natural disasters. Our discussion focuses on his two books: Moral Courage: 19 Profiles of Investigative Journalists and Mind, Mood, and Memory: The Neurobehavioral Consequences of Multiple Sclerosis… as the subject relates to the mind, the brain and trauma.
#trauma #journalism #multiplesclerosis #themind #thebrain
Discussion Markers
0:00 Introduction
1:02 Research and Interests in the brain, mind, trauma, and frontline journalism
2:50 Fascination with MS and the first MRI
4:53 Hi Depression Rates in MS patients and Frontline Journalists
5:52 Dr. Feinstein’s background in South Africa and Moving to England
6:37 From medicine to psychiatry
8:33 Moral Courage and Moral Injury among frontline journalists
10:59 Authoritarian regimes and controlling the media message
14:55 Harrowing stories of Frontline journalists risking their life to report the story
21:35 Moral Courage as the antidote to moral injury
24:48 Profound quote and discussion
26:28 Moral courage and free will and the media’s responsibility
32:45 Mental health therapy during COVID-19 pandemic
34:13 Multiple Sclerosis, demyelination, brain atrophy and neuroplasticity
45:02 Cannabis pros and cons for MS cognition
49:42 EMDR, Meditation and other therapies
52:47 Accepting repeated trauma as a Frontline Journalists
55:39 Summary and conclusion
Dr. Feinstein’s Links
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