A shrink and a podcaster
audio episode with Dr. Mark McDonald
Dr. Mark McDonald is a psychiatrist and commentator. Along with Dr. Jeff Barke, his podcast Informed Dissent discusses mental and physical health, politics, and culture.
Mark joins Josh to talk about the explosion of Cluster B, narcissistic personality traits and behaviors in society, and how the mental health establishment not only doesn't recognize it, but is contributing to the prevalence of these behaviors.
We also discuss the effect of feminist and leftist ideologies on our collective mental health, and how these have upended traditional and sane understandings of good health, behavior, and personal responsibility.
Look up Mark's podcast Informed Dissent on your favorite podcast platform. We’ve linked here to the podcast on Spotify, but you’ll find it on any podcast platform you are familiar with.
I have now been informed by email that I and my guest are misogynists, that we probably want to give men carte blanche to beat women, that men are the problem and that all the troubles of the past five years are down to men's innate violent nature. This from a viewer who insists she's not a feminist.
The show disgusted her, appalled her, and she would like me to consider whether the problem may be that men as a whole are Cluster B.
Dr. Mark McDonald gives the most fundamentally real description of the roles of men and women (and maleness and femaleness) relative to one another that I've ever heard in this interview, and the viciousness of some of the responses is directly proportional to how necessary it is to state, and continue to restate, this fundamental sociobiological reality.