Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-04-07
Lex Fridman & Karl Deisseroth: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #274
#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry
Karl Deisseroth is a professor of bioengineering, psychiatry, and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – BiOptimizers: http://www.
Lex Fridman recommended Projections by Karl Deisseroth, and discussed Finnegans Wake by James Joyce and The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. Karl Deisseroth discussed The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Projections
Projections by Karl Deisseroth is a remarkable exploration of human emotions and psychiatry that uses real patient interactions to illustrate how the brain functions in both healthy and diseased states.
Recommended“he explores this in his book called projections a story of human emotions i highly recommend it”
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound philosophical novel that explores deep spiritual questions surrounding faith, free will, morality, and the human condition.
Discussed“I'm a big fan of Prince Mishkin from 'The Idiot,' and I learned from 'The Brothers Karamazov.' Optimism can be seen as naïveté and dumbness, but I think it's a kind of deep intelligence, maybe an inability to reason about the mechanics of the world, but instead kind of feel the world.”
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Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce is a famously experimental and notoriously dense modernist novel that challenges traditional narrative structures with its idiosyncratic language and dreamlike logic.
Discussed“so you quote finnegan's wake uh mad props for that james joy's book i took a class on james joyce in college”
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is a seminal modernist coming-of-age novel that chronicles the intellectual and spiritual awakening of its young protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, against the backdrop of late nineteenth-century Ireland.
Discussed“you know i learned a lot about irish history from you know portrait of the artist as a young man and there was just he could be as objective as he wanted to be”
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The Secret
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne is a bestselling self-help book and film centered on the law of attraction, asserting that positive thinking and intentional visualization can directly manifest wealth, health, and happiness.
Discussed“I think the mind—it’s like, you know I guess that's what like books like 'The Secret' plug into. They kind of make a whole industry out of it, but there is something about the mind believing something, making it a reality.”
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Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and that was one thing i wanted to share as well in projections is that broader story but still anchored in the moment of patience”
“and in some ways that's the essence of what i was hoping to approach with the book is to reflect on this spectrum that exists for all the disorders there is and taking nothing away from the severity and the suffering that comes at”
“i don't know what to call you but uh there's drafts of finn can squake yeah i actually saw pictures of this from um i think it was on instagram or something”
“the word projections definitely serves that purpose here but it's it's got a few other really appropriate other connotations as well”
“for english for english language perfect word to use for this book”
“i had a patient who's actually described in in the book projections this was the patient that's in the mania chapter the bipolar chapter”
“because i read oliver twist does that encapsulate you personally”