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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Joe Voss, thank you so much for coming on and sharing some of your wonderful insights.
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If you guys want to learn more about transactional analysis, you can read his most recent book, The Handbook of Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy.
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If you're totally new, you want to read something foundational, you can also read games.
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People play by Eric Brenn.
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In the meantime, Doctor Voss, thank you so much for joining me today.
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joining me today.
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I'm gonna ask you something and I personally have my own conflicting feelings about it, so I don't have a clear necessarily position one way or the other, but do you think the word disease is a useful word to apply to depression as a disease?
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can be quite complicated.
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One one thing that I think can be helpful to understand is not always, but I think often a mental health condition originates
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with some phenomena that's trying to help the person in some way.
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So for example, one might experience a lot of social rejection.
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And that can cause sadness and retreat socially.
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And you can see how that be could be advantageous.
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There's a reason we feel sad.
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So sadness is an emotion that compels us to stop doing what we're doing, retreat, protect ourselves, ruminate, and maybe think, what's going wrong?
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What am I losing out on in this situation?
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And potentially eventually how things could how could things be better?
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And sadness in small doses like that can be very useful.
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But then if it goes
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