The Importance of Identity in Psychiatry

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Leo Cana was an Austrian Jewish psychiatrist and he'd come to America in the early 1930s. He would later help hundreds of other medical professionals escape from Nazi Germany. When Mary turned up in his office with her husband and her son Donald. And so then he read the notes and then he studied the boy and then he took Donald's arm and stuck a pin in it.

We sit down with Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s youngest-ever spymaster. He is intense, resolute—and oddly charismatic. A world of electrified transport is going to need lots of nickel for batteries. We argue that, environmentally speaking, gathering it from the seafloor clearly beats mining it on land (11:12). And remembering Donald Triplett, the first person ever to be diagnosed with autism (19:25).

Additional audio courtesy of “In A Different Key”, inadifferentkeythemovie.com

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