Nobody Pushed Him. That's Why He Got This Far | Dr Dave Rabin

About this episode

Dave Rabin was ten years old, having nightmares, and both his parents were doctors. He bought a dream catcher at a flea market with his dad, hung it over his bed, and the nightmares stopped that night. He calls it his first experiment that actually worked — and it made him permanently suspicious of the line between rigorous science and the practices Western medicine calls magic. He's spent the thirty years since closing that gap. He's a psychiatrist and a translational neuroscientist, and his lab's work with veterans with PTSD became the Apollo, a wearable now worn by hundreds of thousands of people. The thesis of his new book is that safety, not productivity, is the foundation of…