Description

Episode 46: What Are Extreme Overvalued Beliefs? - has Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Dr. Tahir Rahman, explain how beliefs and not delusions are responsible for attacks.

Episode Summary:
This episode of The Simple Questions Podcast features a discussion between Dylan Carnahan and Dr. Tahir Rahman, an award-winning author and physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Rahman is recognized for helping develop a threat assessment framework centered on obsessions, delusions, and extreme overvalued beliefs.

Listen as Dr. Rahman shares his insights on the impacts of extreme overvalued beliefs (EOB).

In this episode we discuss:

• 00:29 - Introducing Dr. Tahir Rahman
• 01:54 - Psychiatry Beginnings
• 08:08 - History of EOB
• 16:00 - Escalation to Violence (Lee Harvey Oswald)
• 30:13 - Warning Signs
• 47:28 - Good vs. Bad
• 59:21 - Advice for Average Person
• 1:06:08 - Learning More
• 1:07:30 - Conclusion

Resources:

• ⁠Dr. Rahman's Website
• Psychology Today Article
• Extreme Overvalued Beliefs Book

This episode includes the track 'RSPN' by Blank & Kytt. The song is used under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. You can find more of Blank & Kytt's music ⁠here