Dr. Alex Curmi

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2,747 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 Aug

Dr. Alex Curmi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Thinking Mind: Mental Health & Personal Growth · E183 | Finding Your Life's Meaning (w/ Dr. Joel Vos) · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

And maybe it can be a little a little bit opaque, especially to people who are outside the the therapy profession. voice-verified

What does it mean to take an existential approach to psychotherapy? voice-verified

I often find actually people uh like a I think a lot of people need to go to psychotherapy or find psychotherapy useful because they're precisely not asking those questions. voice-verified

Like they're not asking how do I find meaning in my life? voice-verified

They're not asking what does it mean for me to live a a rich life. voice-verified

And I worry increasingly that we live in a culture that's really also not asking those questions, actually a culture that's quite diverting and distracting. voice-verified

Is that I mean, I sometimes it's hard to want it's hard to know whether you're just um voice-verified

complaining about culture or whether you actually f have your finger on the button of something real. voice-verified

Do you think our culture is leaning more in this le less in the direction of answering meaningful questions and more in the direction of distraction and diverting our attention to more meaningless things? voice-verified

So it's this lifelong process, isn't it, of like searching inside you. voice-verified

Again, it's an introspective process, harder to do nowadays because we can never be bored, basically. voice-verified

That we always have the option of having some sort of information beamed at our mind. voice-verified

So I think that's one problem. voice-verified

We have to look inside ourselves. voice-verified

continually like look for these. voice-verified

It's almost like having a metal detect detector on the beach. voice-verified

That's kind of an analogy I use and you're trying to find voice-verified

that feeling of meaning or fascination. voice-verified

And then maybe the something I emphasize, which I don't necessarily see everyone emphasise, is it voice-verified

How do you then translate that? voice-verified

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