Hello and welcome. I'm Dr. Kernan Manion and you're listening to ShrinkRap.

When I initially envisioned ShrinkRap, this being only its second post and podcast, I had really hoped to dwell more on emotional intelligence and the related e-course that I'm preparing, and also to opine on a diversity of topics related to the field of psychiatry and mental health issues in society. However, recent events in southwestern Russia and Ukraine have so preoccupied me that I felt I needed to devote immediate attention to it. As I reflected more about it, I realized that it was not at all off-topic and that it had everything to do with societal, indeed global, mental health.

And so this particular podcast is a look at the evolving crisis in Ukraine and some of the psychological dimensions that I don't see being sufficiently explored elsewhere in public discourse, perhaps most significant amongst them being our minimization and even complete denial of the nuclear threat.

The written post of this podcast (see main ShrinkRap page - it has the same title but no headphones icon preceding the title), also contains important reference links to the source material in the footnotes.

Would love to hear your comments.

And if you’re moved by it, sharing it would be the highest honor you can give.

Make extra effort to stay well, hopeful and balanced in these out-of-kilter times.

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