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Life Examined host Andrea Brody and Andrew Solomon discuss Andrew’s recent article in The New Yorker, “Doom Scrolling: Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis?”
Dec 2024
Life Examined host Andrea Brody and Andrew Solomon discuss Andrew’s recent article in The New Yorker, “Doom Scrolling: Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis?”
May 2024
In this episode of Information Radio: MB with Marcy Markusa, mental health columnist Mark Henick talks about how our ambient environmental soundscape affects our mental health. Includes a portion of an interview with Andrew Solomon.
Apr 2024
Andrew Solomon’s keynote address at a meeting on mental health of children and youth, sponsored by the Permanent Missions to the United Nations of Canada, Indonesia, Mexico, Qatar, Romania and Kuwait, with the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund.
Aug 2023
In this conversation, mental health advocate Andrew Solomon talks with The One You Feed host Eric Zimmer about his efforts to challenge societal norms and explore the complex relationship between depression and identity.
Jun 2023
A talk and Q&A with members of Morrison & Foerster’s Diversity + Inclusion Group.
Feb 2023
Andrew Solomon and TED Radio Hour host Manoush Zomorodi discuss and challenge the concept of what an “ideal” family looks like.
Jan 2023
Andrew Solomon speaks with Christiane Amanpour about identity, mental health, and social progress in America, and explains why he finds hope “simply in the lives that people are leading.”
Nov 2022
In which Andrew and Beatty discuss Andrew’s article, The Mystifying Rise of Child Suicide, how our systems of care are failing young people, and the many ways that our political, educational and healthcare systems could work to reverse this downward trend.
Oct 2022
Andrew Solomon and Siddhartha Mukherjee discuss discuss Mukherjee’s new book about how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans.
Oct 2022
Dr. Eric Oliver of the University of Chicago asks Andrew Solomon nine questions the answers to which are essential for crafting “a well-examined life.”