The Huberman Lab Podcast discusses neuroscience: how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health. We also discuss existing and emerging tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. His laboratory studies neural regeneration, neuroplasticity, and brain states such as stress, focus, fear, and optimal performance. For more than 20 years, Dr. Huberman has consistently published original research findings and review articles in top-level peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Science, Cell, Neuron, and Current Biology. He is a regular member of several National Institutes of Health review panels and a Fellow of the McKnight Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Dr. Huberman regularly consults for technology development companies, professional athletic organizations, and various units of U.S. and Canadian Special Operations.
GUEST SERIES | Dr. Paul Conti: How to Build and Maintain Healthy Relationships
This is episode 3 of a 4-part special series on mental health with Dr. Paul Conti, M.D., a psychiatrist who did his medical training at Stanford School of Medicine and residency at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of the book, “Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic.” Dr. Conti explains how to find, develop and strengthen healthy relationships — including romantic relationships, work and colleague relationships, and friendships. He explains a roadmap of the conscious and unconscious mind that can allow anyone to navigate conflicts better and set healthy boundaries in relationships. We also discuss common features of unhealthy relationships and clinically supported tools for dealing with relationship insecurity, excessive anxiety, past traumas, manipulation and abuse. Dr. Conti explains how, in healthy relationships, there emerges a dynamic of the mutually generative “us” and how to continually improve that dynamic. The next episode in this special series explores true self-care, which can be cultivated through a process of building self-awareness along with other important practices.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) Build Healthy Relationships
(00:02:04) Sponsors: BetterHelp & Waking Up
(00:05:01) Healthiest Self in Relationships
(00:10:51) Structure & Function of Self
(00:15:44) Relationships, Levels of Emergence
(00:22:48) Generative Drive in Relationships
(00:35:00) Sponsor: AG1
(00:36:26) Generative Drive, Aggressive Drive, Pleasure Drive
(00:45:16) Romantic Relationships & Matched Generative Drives, Trauma Bonds
(00:53:05) Generative Drive Expression, Libido, Giving & Taking
(01:04:29) Sponsor: Eight Sleep
(01:05:50) Generative Drive in Partnerships
(01:11:16) Libido, Avoidance & Working through Barriers
(01:18:02) Repeating Bad Relationship Patterns, Repetition Compulsion
(01:29:23) Narcissism, Dependence, Attachment Insecurity
(01:34:10) Abusive Relationships, Demoralization
(01:39:37) Oppressors, Darkness, Hope & Change
(01:48:08) Work Relationships, Oppression & Accountability
(01:53:53) Jealousy vs. Envy, Narcissism
(01:59:13) Power Dynamics in Relationships
(02:05:54) Giving vs. Taking in Relationships
(02:09:39) Transactions & Relationships; Family & Generative Drive; Flexibility
(02:19:47) Relationships & Kindergarten
(02:23:04) Anxiety in Relationships, Communication
(02:31:32) The “Magic Bridge of the Us”
(02:37:09) Mentalization, Getting into Another’s Mindset; Navigating Conflict
(02:46:51) Healthy Boundaries
(02:52:08) Self-Awareness, Mentalization
(02:55:28) “Broken Compass” & Self Inquiry, “Map” Analogy
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