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Every book Paul Conti recommended on podcasts
Across 4 podcasts. Every show Paul Conti appears on, in one place — not just one.
Dr. Paul Conti appeared on multiple podcasts to share professional insights on trauma, healing, and mental health. On The Tim Ferriss Show, he recommended Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score, describing it as a very helpful resource for understanding trauma. During the same interview, Dr. Conti discussed his own book, Trauma: the Invisible Epidemic, thanking Tim Ferriss for his support during the writing process and explaining that the work covers the definition of trauma, post-trauma syndromes, and practical strategies and antidotes. On The Mel Robbins Podcast, Dr. Conti mentioned writing about some of his past traumas in his own book. During his appearance on the Lex Fridman Podcast, he brought up Albert Camus's posthumous book The First Man while discussing Camus's philosophy and his writings about childhood. Additionally, on The Rich Roll Podcast, Dr. Conti discussed Lance Dodes's book The Heart of Addiction, noting how the author wrote about how traumatic circumstances promote the relapse of addictive behaviors.
Books recommended by Paul Conti
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Trauma : the Invisible Epidemic
Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic by Paul Conti is a comprehensive exploration of how psychological trauma impacts human behavior, physical health, and emotional well-being, complete with actionable recovery strategies.
Discussed“and i want to thank you for your support when i was really figuring all this out and deciding i really want to write a book and it's such a leap to take that your support and encouragement about how that would be a worthwhile endeavor and could could really make a difference was so helpful to me two and”
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The Body Keeps the Score
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is a landmark scientific exploration of how psychological trauma physically alters the brain and body, storing deep emotional pain within human physiology.
Recommended“the book the body keeps the score by dr van der kolk is also a very very helpful resource”
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The First Man
Discussed“and I think it's interesting that after his death uh a book called the first man was published which I don't know if he had intended to publish I don't remember the specifics about it but it's about him as a child right”
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The Heart of Addiction
Discussed“In some ways, I don't know if you're familiar, there's a psychiatrist named Lance Dodes who's at Harvard, who wrote a book called "The Heart of Addiction," and he is basically writing how traumatic circumstances promoted relapse to addictive behaviors.”
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The High 5 Habit
The High 5 Habit by Mel Robbins is a self-help book designed to help readers overcome self-doubt, stop procrastination, and foster self-belief through a simple daily physical action.
Discussed“so so after a number of traumas which I write about to some degree in the in the in the book um you know I started to have a feeling that I'm just cursed and things won't really go well”
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“And that's what I'm trying to do in the book. It's not that it's all new. I like to think that there's a new idea or two in there, but most of what I'm doing is pulling together what we already know and saying, "Hey, we can look at this and we can approach our mental health with the same”
“In the book I write two different perspectives of my life and they're both quite brief.”
“And I write in the in the book about Aleandro Zenardi who woke up after an accident and had lost both legs.”
“And I try I try and give a lot of guidance, a lot of practical steps in the book, but I'll I'll I'll pick a couple of them that I think really um kind of really stand out to me.”
“And that is what I've tried to do in this book. Not because I've invented it out of nowhere, but because we human beings have been working hard on this for many, many years. and we can pull it together and we can use it as a template for like this is what self inquiry looks like, right?”
“I've seen many many things that kill people and I I wrote about this in the book people that I was taking care of who at times died and I was always so struck by what the death certificate said versus why they had really died.”
“My in the book I interview Darren Richer, who's a psychiatrist at Stanford, and Stephanie von Gutenburg, who's a child wellness advocate, because we're talking about trauma from both ends of the spectrum.”
“There are a lot I could cite, but the one that comes to mind is the one story in in my book that is just an amazing story of a person who had had a trauma in her life that had just changed everything.”
“Dr Darren Richard who I interviewed for the book is a is a a trauma expert he's an academic at Sanford and he testifies about trauma”
“the book that I wrote is called trauma the invisible epidemic and that also can be just searched and and found there's a website that just has links to some of the other podcasts and to the book which is just it's um um uh Dr Dr Paul Conti so d p Au l n ti.com and that has links”