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

This generally worries me. voice-verified

But what they come out with is, oh, did you hear about what the teacher did last week? voice-verified

It comes out as gossip. voice-verified

And that's a game. voice-verified

So it's a way of transmuting a real anxiety, a real feeling into this is a safe a safe way of talking about it is we can gossip about the teachers. voice-verified

What I'm actually feeling is anxiety about my son's life. voice-verified

And once I understood that, it's like it's like when you're neo seeing the numbers in the matrix, you know, once you see that kind of stuff, it's so revelatory. voice-verified

I guess the difference is are you using the game or is the game using you? voice-verified

Precisely. voice-verified

Are you a slave to the game? voice-verified

It would be great to know from your research how do we n now now, like what do we know about the voice-verified

Effectiveness of voice-verified

TA because a lot of the the dominance of approaches like for example cognitive behavior therapy are often based on arguments that well CBT is really well researched and we know it's really effective. voice-verified

What do we know about the effectiveness of therapies like TA, especially as compared to other therapies like CBT? voice-verified

Yeah, that's the the dirty secret of psychotherapy and especially tribalism within psychotherapy is that many of these schools of thoughts are describing very, very similar concepts using different language. voice-verified

And that's why I get so sad when I see people in different camps being so um voice-verified

kind of toxic for lack of a better word about their school of thought and so so reluctant to engage with other different ideas, which seems like a shame to me since psychotherapists are supposed to be some of the most mature people in our society. voice-verified

You know, we're working hard. voice-verified

We're working out we're working hard out here to try and decrease tribalism in the mental health world. voice-verified

We are out of time. voice-verified

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