In episode 370 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Carolyn Gorman.
Carolyn currently works as a Fellow for an organisation called the Manhattan Institute.
The Manhattan Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank whose scholars and journalists are dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in America and its great cities.
They cover a range of policy issues including policing and public safety, housing, education, law, economics and more.
In this episode we discuss Carolyn’s professional journey and her career up to this point, before we dive into a range of issues Carolyn writes and speaks about through the Institute.
These include: the failures of the mental health system in the West, the deinstitutionalisation movement of the 1960s and 70s and the impact that’s had up to now and ‘therapy culture’.
We also discuss the early screening of young people for conditions like autism and ADHD, what is the right approach? Can early screening be harmful for some children long-term? And can destigmatising these conditions ever have a downside?
For Carolyn’s mental health journey, we discuss her psychology undergraduate experience at university and how it made her self-reflect on her own personality and development, her regret at not taking economics instead, and her argument against solely relying on lived experience.
As always, #itsokaytovent
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