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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 18 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 9.

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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

Is that what you found? voice-verified

I love that intervention and hearing about it, I'm wondering, have you have you come across the work of Marianne Milner at all? voice-verified

Undoubtedly. voice-verified

Uh, but can you remind me of that? voice-verified

I'm bringing her up because she's so like actually really under disgust, and I was totally unaware of her until my friend Tom Skolnik told me about her. voice-verified

So he's a film director and he's making a film about her and her life because she is so unheard of. voice-verified

But she was a psychoanalyst in the UK and voice-verified

And uh before she ever started any psychoanalytic analytic training, she was a 29-year-old woman in 1929 in Britain. voice-verified

And you can imagine what that's like. voice-verified

You know, post the decade post-World War One. voice-verified

And she at that time was recognizing that society wasn't going in a great direction in a lot of ways and that she noticed that she had a profound lack of meaning in her life and she did your exact exercise, but she did it on steroids. voice-verified

So she did it for like two or three years. voice-verified

She just kept a journal and voice-verified

of what she found joy and engagement and meaning from and refused to do anything that she to the extent that she could, she refused to engage in activities that didn't give her that sense of joy and meaning. voice-verified

And obviously this profoundly then influenced her work. voice-verified

as a as a psychoanalyst, but it just goes to show how how important it is to voice-verified

Not listen to the noise and look at your own experience because that's a that's a form of evidence. voice-verified

You know, we often talk about making our lives more evidence-based and we're thinking about scientific evidence, and scientific evidence is really good, as I'm sure you can attest to. voice-verified

But there's also your personal empirical experience, your own personal evidence that you can accrue, because ultimately we are we are all individuals and we will have our own this predispositions. voice-verified

And fascinations, so we need to know what's right for you in a world that's so full of different options. voice-verified

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