Sanity and Society

Welcome to "Sanity and Society," where we peel back the layers of the modern mind and the cultural forces that shape it. I'm your host, a therapist with a passion for exploring the deep and sometimes daunting aspects of human psychology as they intersect with today's most pressing societal issues. Life doesn't come with an instruction manual, but you can think of this program as a guide for better understanding the complexities of the human psyche and the societal trends impacting us all. psychfox.substack.com

Sanity and Society is a health podcast hosted by Jeremy, with 62 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Jeremy hosts Sanity and Society, a health show with 62 episodes published.

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  How to Think Like a Roman Emperor

  May 27, 20261h 54mS0

  <p>The Sentence Every CBT Therapist Repeats Without Knowing It</p><p>I recorded a podcas tinterview with Donald Robertson (see above), the cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist who has spent two decades arguing that Stoicism is the unacknowledged parent of modern CBT. Robertson (2019) opened the case with a clinical detail most therapists have never heard. Albert Ellis, in the 1950s, used to hand patients a single line from Epictetus during the orientation phase of treatment and build the entire ABC model around it.</p><p>“He said, read this quote from Epictetus, one of the main stoic teachers, it’s passage five of t...

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  How to Create Positive Masculinity with Brian Maierhofer

  May 20, 20261h 10mS0

  <p></p><p>How men can develop confidence, competence, and quests to serve them well for a lifetime. </p><p>A quote-driven compilation from my conversation with Brian on what the male nervous system actually needs</p><p>Jeremy Fox, LPC</p><p>Brian and I have been bouncing observations off each other on X for a while. When we finally sat down on his Sanity and Society podcast, the conversation moved faster than I expected. What follows is a compilation of what I think were the most clip-worthy lines from both of us, organized around the natural arc the...

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  Why Men Are Suffering and How to Stop It (with Lisa Britton)

  May 19, 202658 minS0

  <p>Where Male Ambition Goes When Nobody Wants It</p><p>A conversation with Lisa Britton on undirected male energy, male-friendly therapy, and how men can survive and thrive in today’s world.</p><p>NOTE: for timestamps of specific mic-drops and imprtant points, go to the botton of this article</p><p>Lisa Britton came to the men’s mental health question from inside feminism. She volunteered abroad in Tanzania, the Middle East, and Central America (8:30), helped build a girls’ dormitory in a Tanzanian village where, in her words, they still see daughters being sold for the price of a goat...

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  The Resentment Industrial Complex: Why the Manosphere Keeps Winning

  May 12, 20261h 11mS0

  <p>The Manosphere Isn’t the Problem. The Empty Center Is.</p><p>What a conversation with Dr. Nathalie Martinek clarified about why young men keep wearing identities like loaner cars.</p><p>I sat down with Dr. Nathalie Martinek to talk about the Netflix Manosphere documentary. We discussed gender relations and algorithms, eventually reaching the topic of postmodern absence of identity.</p><p>Nathalie said something that sticks: </p><p>“There’s a lot of people walking around who have no actual center. They wear these different identities and absorb the belief systems associated with them. Now I’m a femini...

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  The Powerful Psychology Secrets in the Star Wars Films

  May 4, 202643 minS0

  <p>It’s Star Wars Day as i’m writing this, and I’ve been thinking about why this saga keeps rewarding clinical re-reading. The sci-fi is the trimming. Lightsabers are amazing. The story underneath is one we have to help patients understand, because it is the same story we are running with them in session: a young man with great talent meets a calm voice offering solutions to the problems that voice secretly created.</p><p>Palpatine is the master tactician. Anakin is fearful rage. As I said on the podcast: “Palpatine is pure unadulterated psychopathy. Anakin is fearful rage. Th...

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