I Feel Like I'm in the Wrong Body?

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There's a whole range of experiences that people talk about under rubric of this. I know two people in my life who have had children who had some version of this and take a case where somebody is a natal boy, penis testicles, biologically, a boy, but believes they're a girl in the wrong body. And it's an absolutely fascinating question how that could happen. It makes me think in something denativist part of me thinks that there may be a switch in the head for gender,. But regardless, there are these cases that are very early emerging. They couldn't you imagine? Imagine you woke up at some point and you were you were encased in a female

How does the brain — a three-pound gelatinous mass — give rise to intelligence and conscious experience? Was Freud right that we are all plagued by forbidden sexual desires? What is the function of emotions such as disgust, gratitude, and shame? Renowned psychologist Paul Bloom answers these questions and many more in Psych, his riveting new book about the science of the mind.

Shermer and Bloom discuss: neuroscience • human nature • religion • souls • consciousness • Freud • sex and desire • Skinner • development • language • perception • memory • rationality • appetites • differences and disorders • the good life • happiness.

Paul Bloom is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, and the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University. His research explores the psychology of morality, identity, and pleasure. Bloom is the recipient of multiple awards and honors, including, most recently, the million-dollar Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize. He has written for scientific journals such as Natureand Science, and for the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic Monthly. He is the author or editor of eight books, including Against Empathy, Just Babies, How Pleasure Works, Descartes’ Baby, The Sweet Spot, and Psych: The Story of the Human Mind.