EXPERTS ON EXPERT: Johann Hari

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

Johann Hari is a Swiss English author and journalist. Johann sits down with the Armchair Expert to discuss the many factorsthat have impacted his research on addiction and mental health, he explains why he is disillusioned by the idea that addiction is purely chemical, and he talks about the importance of community and love in depressive people. Johann talks about his own personal experience with anti-depressants, trauma and familial addiction that led him to his exploration. Dax debates Johann about the importance of tough love and he wonders if models of rehabilitation in other countries can be mapped on to America. Johann is the author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections: Uncovering the real causes of depression and the unexpected solutions. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody welcome to experts on expert I'm your host expectant
0:06.3	parent-son and my co-host that sounded like I'm like Latin for expecting parent.
0:14.0	Yeah, well.
0:15.0	Are you an expecting parent?
0:17.0	Are you telling us now?
0:18.0	I'm expecting great things for my children
0:22.0	as they mature. and I am joined by expectant bachelorum.
0:27.0	Wow, wow, wow, wow. Today we have Johann Harrow. Wow.
0:32.6	Today we have Johann Hari.
0:35.2	I heard Johann Hari on Sam Harris and I just loved him so much and I thought I really want to chat with this gentleman.
0:43.0	Yeah.
0:44.0	I was aware of his work in his previous book,
0:47.0	chasing the screen that was about addiction,
0:51.0	with a totally different view of it.
0:53.0	I don't always agree with it, but I found it really interesting.
0:56.7	We have a fun little juicy debate about that, but his book that he's here to talk about
1:01.9	is Lost Connections, uncovering the real causes of
1:05.4	depression and the unexpected solutions he's a just a beautifully optimistic
1:10.0	wonderful person that I think has a really nice assessment of humanity.
1:14.6	And before you enjoy Johann Hari, I want to announce that in response to popular demand, we're
1:21.7	going to Denver, y'all. We're going to Denver, Colorado on April 19,
1:27.0	2019 at the Temple Hoine-Buell Theater. I hope I'm saying that correctly. The Temple H-O-Y-N-E, I don't know, H-N-E-O-N-E, we're going to be at the Temple H-N-E-O-N-E, H-O-N-O-N-E, we're going to be at the Temple H-N-E-E-O-E-E, we're going to be at the temple. Hoiene, Buell Theater.
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