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Podcast: Thoughts on Record: Podcast of the Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Episode: Lydia Denworth: The Evolution, Biology & Power of Friendship
Description: Comments or feedback? Send us a text! The formation & maintenance of friendships as well as the emotional turmoil related to the rupture of friendships are common sources of clinical discussion in psychotherapy. Award-winning science journalist, author and speaker Lydia Denworth joins us for a discussion of major themes explored in her latest book Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond. In this discussion we cover: the definition of friendshiprelevant findings from animal, neuroscience & genetic research findings that speak to our evolved “social brain” and why we may be so predisposed to friendship...