Contemporary Articles
This area of Channel McGilchrist is dedicated to articles of interest on contemporary topics as chosen by Dr Iain McGilchrist.
Your Brain When Depressed
Running Time: 0:47
Why Unrealistic Optimism is a Feature of the Brain’s Left Hemisphere
Running TIme: 2:48
Where Denial, Self Deception and Rationalisation Come From
Running Time: 5:37
Why High Self Esteem is a Hallmark of the Psychopath
Running Time: 3:38
Is Our Internal Moral Compass Being Destroyed?
Running Time: 3:28
How Trust Has Been Eroded in Society
Running Time: 5:24
The Value of Guilt, Shame and Sadness
Running Time: 1:34
The Brain’s Left Hemisphere is Literal and Doesn’t Understand Metaphor or Context
Running Time: 2:03
Our Culture is Becoming ‘More Autistic’
Running Time: 2:09
Why We’re Losing Our Most Important Source of Wisdom
Running Time: 2:59
Why the Social Justice Movement No Longer has Anything to Do With Empathy
Running TIme: 3:00
The Left Hemisphere is Arrogant and Hubristic
Running Time: 1:59
The Belief That Led to the Two Iraq Wars
Running Time: 1:10
Why Identity Politics is the Left Hemisphere Gone Too Far
Running TIme: 3:45
Why Equality and Fairness are Not the Same Thing
Running TIme: 1:31
The Problem with Rationalistic Arguments
Running TIme: 2:10
The Three Overarching Relationships That We’re Losing Today
Running Time: 8:26
Is Modern Society Schizophrenic?
Running TIme: 4:09
Dismissed Religion? The Blindness of the Left Hemisphere
Running Time: 3:37
Why WHAT We Say is Less Important Than HOW We Say It
Running Time: 1:21
Society’s Loss of Wisdom and Why We Need Both Hemisphere’s of the Brain
Running Time: 3:46
Why Traditional Treatments for Schizophenia Worked
Running Time: 2:12
What Ancient Cultures Knew About Our Minds and We’ve Forgotten
Running Time: 5:28
An Exercise to Balance Your Brain’s Two Hemispheres
Running Time: 4:29
Why Reasonableness Beats Rationality Every Time
Running Time: 2:19
Why Insanity is NOT Irrational, But Hyper-Rational Instead
Running Time: 2:19
Why Psychosis is a Left Hemisphere Dominant Condition
Running Time: 2:24
One Thing You Need To Do To Be Wise
Running Time: 2:54
Why Our Pursuit of Meaning is Going Wrong
Running Time: 3:16
How Ultra-Capitalism Destroys Meaning and Damages People
Running Time: 6:08
What is Consciousness?
Running Time: 2:57
Why Are We So Miserable When We’re So Affluent and Free?
Running Time: 2:57
On Death, Mortality and Boredom
Running Time: 6:10
On Beauty (And the Coming Together of Opposites)
Running Time: 11:16
Wisdom as a Harmony of Opposites
Running Time: 9:58
The Movement Between Heaven and Earth: William Blake’s Image of Jacob’s Ladder
Running Time: 5:40
How Education and Government are Suffering From the Loss of the Right Hemisphere
Running Time: 15:52
Metalearn Episode #192 Iain McGilchrist on The Matter with Things, Paths to Understanding and Answering Big Questions
Running time: 1:30:30
How the Light Gets In Festival – in-person event
An in-person event. Saturday 17th September 2022, Hampstead Heath in London, UK.
Two discussions: Our Brains, Our Delusions at 1:30pm and The Key to Consciousness at 4:00pm.
Live Q&A with Iain
MEMBERS ONLY
The live Q&A Zoom session with Iain will take place on Thursday 3rd November 2022 from 6:00 to 7:45pm UK time.