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Live from TEDxSydney (Saturday edition) and The Remarkable Story of H.M (Repeat - Monday and podcast editions)
28 mei 2011 · 30 min
ABC Radio National showcases a smorgasbord of brains, coming live from TEDxSydney this weekend. All in the Mind's Monday and podcast edition features the story of a H.M. Afflicted with amnesia after brain surgery, he became a man who lived in the perpetual present, and the most famous patient of 20th century neuroscience. Join Natasha Mitchell for a powerful posthumous encounter. Lees meer
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Live from the Sydney Writers' Festival (Saturday)...and Mothers and Others! (Monday & podcast)
21 mei 2011 · 30 min
Join us for a super smorgasbord of books and brains! Natasha Mitchell hosts live from the Sydney Writers' Festival for Radio National's special weekend broadcast from the harbour's edge. On Monday's edition and the podcast, acclaimed sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy with a provocative take on the evolution of our big brains. Lees meer
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Next to Normal: a rock musical with a difference
14 mei 2011 · 30 min
A rock musical about mental illness? The Pulitzer Prize winning, Broadway blockbuster Next to Normal is now being staged in Australia by the Melbourne Theatre Company. Living with bipolar disorder can be a dramatic experience, but how does it translate into a night at the theatre? Meet the director, lead, and two women living with Bipolar who don theatre critic hats for All in the Mind. Lees meer
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Neuroscientist-turned-novelist Lisa Genova: Narrating dislocated minds
7 mei 2011 · 30 min
Alice is just 50 and at the peak of her Harvard career when Alzheimer's arrives. High-flyer mother Sarah is driving to work when an accident and brain damage erases the left side of her world. Bestselling neuroscientist-turned-novelist Lisa Genova has a knack of getting inside her characters' dislocated minds and lives. Lees meer
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Sir Terry Pratchett: hallucinating gently for a living
30 april 2011 · 30 min
Celebrated fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett has mined the terrain of his imagination more than most. What shaped this passionately adventurous mind, and now, how is it being reshaped by early-onset Alzheimer's? Next week, a neuroscientist novelist's poignant exploration of the disease. Lees meer
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Easter special: The Brain in New York
23 april 2011 · 30 min
The brain is the star of an exhibition at one of the world's great cultural institutions, the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. Get off the subway at West 79th Street and take a tour with Natasha Mitchell of her very favourite organ!
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Mental health courts and the challenge of therapeutic jurisprudence
16 april 2011 · 30 min
When people with mental illness and cognitive impairments cycle in an out of jail—is there a better solution? 'Problem solving courts' are one approach, and shift the relationship between the judge and the judged. Join Natasha Mitchell at a symposium considering the 'for and against' with key players in Australia. Lees meer
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Murder in mind
9 april 2011 · 30 min
From Dexter and CSI to the nightly news - murder fills our media, and lethal violence never ceases to fascinate and frighten. A forensic look at the tense history of murder, and a modern rethink of the psychology of shame and honour in preventing it.
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Fear, brains and rock'n'roll: meet Joe LeDoux
2 april 2011 · 30 min
Rock star by night, neuroscientist by day—Joseph LeDoux's research has redefined our understanding of fear and emotion—and now the possibility of treating fearful memories. Natasha Mitchell visits his NYC studio to talk science, song, and his band, The Amygdaloids, where mind and brain take centre stage. Lees meer
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Buying desires: neuromarketing or neurohype?
26 maart 2011 · 30 min
Advertising used to be straightforward. Now neuromarketing has arrived, armed with a brain scanner and seeking to unearth your real buying desires. The Mad Men are excited, there's enticing potential, but neuroethicists have concerns for the autonomy and privacy of your inner-most sanctum - your thoughts. Lees meer
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Your fabulous bilingual brain!
19 maart 2011 · 30 min
Many Anglo-Australians lament speaking only one language when they travel overseas. But now we know being bilingual pays big dividends -- culturally and cognitively. From bilingual babies to slowing the deterioration of Alzheimer's, three leading psycholinguists join Natasha Mitchell to share their striking research. Lees meer
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Sit with Me: an anatomy of depression
12 maart 2011 · 30 min
Growing up with a depressed parent takes its toll, reframing how you look at the world as a child. In 2007, Mike Bernstein recorded a moving dialogue between 12-year-old Cameron and his father, Bob. Four years later Mike returns, to discover a staggering story in Bob's past. A rare insight into the anatomy of depression. Lees meer
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Mmm...that's tasty!
5 maart 2011 · 30 min
Are you a supertaster? Do your favourite flavours leave others flummoxed? Psychologist Linda Bartoshuk's influential work has unveiled how taste varies between people, and the striking impact that has on your health and wellbeing.
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The Man Who Was Disappointed with What He Saw (Broadcast) & The Blind Brain (Podcast and Radio Australia)
26 februari 2011 · 30 min
S.B grew up blind. But at middle age his sight was returned to him. His case transformed the field of visual perception, but it's also the bittersweet story of the fruits, and spoils, of science. Due to BBC copyright, this week's podcast, Radio Australia and streaming version is the triumphant story of Zoltan Torey, blinded as a young man. Lees meer
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The Day My Mother's Head Exploded
19 februari 2011 · 29 min
In 1987, 46-year-old Nikki Palin's head 'exploded', according to her daughter Hannah. After a ruptured aneurysm, Nikki's personality radically changed and recovery was slow, but surprisingly Nikki likes her post-aneurysm self so much more! A before and after story that'll make you grin...and sing. Lees meer
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The mind in crisis: to debrief or not to debrief?
12 februari 2011 · 29 min
Floods, fires, cyclones and the anniversary of Black Saturday. Psychological debriefing is a technique aimed at helping us process traumatic events, so the emotional scars can heal not harm. To some the approach is discredited, ineffective and may even do damage -- to others it can still have an important role. Beyond the controversy, where does the field stand today? Lees meer
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Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman on consciousness, creativity and 'neural Darwinism'
5 februari 2011 · 29 min
Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman rarely gives interviews. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 1972 for his work on antibodies, but at 81 he's a true Renaissance man of the brain, heading up what he describes as a 'scientific monastery' in San Diego. He joins Natasha Mitchell to talk consciousness, creativity and 'neural Darwinism'. Lees meer
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That Does Not Compute: the hidden affliction of dyscalculia
29 januari 2011 · 30 min
You've heard the common refrain, 'Oh, I'm so bad at maths!' But for up to eight per cent of us, a condition called dyscalculia means numbers are a serious struggle, with serious consequences. Scientists are now revealing its biological basis, and in Australia there's a push for it to be seen as a legitimate and unique disability. Lees meer
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Stem cells and brain tales
22 januari 2011 · 30 min
Acclaimed neuroscientist Fred Gage is a serial trailblazer. Decades of dogma were overturned when his team confirmed the adult brain continues to make new brain cells. Incredibly, now scientists can even turn skin cells into brain cells with a chemical push! But, if their potential to treat brain diseases or damage is to be realised, transplanted cells need to be able to call your brain home. Stanford biologist James Weimann has a major advance. Lees meer
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Kay Redfield Jamison - A deep love and loss
15 januari 2011 · 30 min
Top clinical psychologist and psychiatry professor Kay Redfield Jamison took the world by storm with her book An Unquiet Mind. In it she revealed her own torrid experience of bipolar disorder, and a passionate life marred by mania and depression. She joins Natasha Mitchell in conversation to discuss her new memoir, Nothing Was the Same. Recounting two decades with her partner, leading schizophrenia researcher Richard Wyatt, who died in 2002, it's a story of deep love and deep loss. To her, grief and depression differ in profound ways. Lees meer
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The Master and his Emissary: the divided brain and the reshaping of Western civilisation.
8 januari 2011 · 30 min
Eminent psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist offers an ambitious, provocative thesis about how the brain's two hemispheres came to be, and construct the world. Today there's a power struggle being played out between the left and right brain that he argues is reshaping Western civilisation in disturbing ways. Lees meer
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Stressed out! The powerful biology of stress
1 januari 2011 · 30 min
A little tension keeps us on our toes - we're biologically primed for it. But 'toxic' stress makes us physically sick, and powerful research is now revealing its potent impact on our developing bodies and brains. Don't miss two world leaders transforming our understanding. Lees meer
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Diving into dolphin heads: science, rights and ethics
25 december 2010 · 30 min
The Cove took out this year's Oscar for best documentary for its confronting coverage of the annual dolphin culls in Taiji, Japan. Scientists argue dolphins have complex, large brains - second only to human brains relative to body weight. Join Natasha Mitchell with leading cetacean scientists and an ethicist for a tour of a waterborne 'alien intelligence'. What are the consequences for captivity, and a controversial call for 'personhood' status? Lees meer
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Cultural Chemistry (Part 3 of 3): Colombia - the plant that steals your free will?
18 december 2010 · 30 min
You've seen it in suburban Australian gardens with its bright, pendulous flowers in full bloom. But in Colombia, Angel's Trumpet has a dark side. It's used to rob people by robbing them of their memory, and allegedly, their free will. For All in the Mind, clinical psychologist Dr Vaughan Bell goes in search of the truth about the drug Burundanga, and Brugmansia, a popular plant with a complex personality. Lees meer
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Thinking about suicide (Part 2 of 2)
11 december 2010 · 30 min
David Webb's powerful account of suicidal feelings, and call for a more open and nuanced public conversation about suicide, has sparked rich discussion among listeners. This week, an Australian suicide prevention leader reflects thoughtfully on the issues raised. Be part of the conversation. Lees meer
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Thinking about suicide: one survivor's perspective (Part 1 of 2)
4 december 2010 · 30 min
David Webb has penned what's described as 'the world's first PhD on suicide by someone who has attempted it'. He suggests we need to honour suicidal feelings as real, legitimate, important and 'a sacred part of the human story'. But how does this view sit with health campaigns urging us to understand suicidal thoughts as a sign of untreated mental illness? An opportunity to hear a voice absent from the public conversation about suicide - that of an attempt survivor - and, next week, reflections from a suicide prevention leader. Lees meer
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Cultural Chemistry - Part 2 of 3: Our Caffeinated Culture: how much is too much?
27 november 2010 · 29 min
80% of the world consumes it, coffee bean aficionados relish it, but is caffeine the pick me up we think it is? Surprising evidence says it's all an illusion. And, the rise of caffeinated energy drinks is causing concern. The dark side to caffeine we rarely hear about. And we want your coffee stories too -- speak to us! We've just launched the new All in the Mind Audioboo channel for your feedback and conversations. Think of it as social media meets radio talkback! Find out how here. Natasha Mitchell joined Richard Aedy on Life Matters for a live coffee culture talkback too. Lees meer
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Glenn Close: We are exactly who we are meant to be
20 november 2010 · 30 min
Acclaimed actress Glenn Close, her sister Jessie and nephew Calen are star guests at this week's huge Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego. Hear their candid account of a family history of mental illness, and why they're speaking out. Next week, in our Cultural Chemistry series...Our caffeinated culture, with YOUR stories! Lees meer
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Battlelines: science, sex, brains and gender
13 november 2010 · 29 min
Boy or girl? Blue brain or pink brain? Dr Cordelia Fine's new book, Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences, and Professor Rebecca Jordan-Young's latest, Brainstorm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Difference, have raked over research data and mined the controversies on how male and female brains differ -- no holds barred. Lees meer
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Why everyone (else) is a hypocrite: your modular mind
6 november 2010 · 29 min
Why do we so often deceive ourselves, believe one thing and yet do another, and fail to exercise self control when we know better? Acclaimed evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban argues we need to be more forgiving of ourselves. Our strange ways are explained by our 'modular minds', one of the most hotly debated ideas about how your mind works. Lees meer
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Nido (nest) therapy: Top psychiatrist issues strong challenge for change
23 oktober 2010 · 29 min
Professor Peter Tyrer, editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry, argues his profession practises 'mental colonialism' on people with long-term, chronic mental illness that's resistant to treatment. His approach is called Nidotherapy -- Nido meaning 'nest' -- focused on changing a person's environment not their personality. And, Jenny relates her poignant identity struggles and triumphs of being a long term 'service user'. Lees meer
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Esther Sternberg: The science of stress, place and wellbeing
16 oktober 2010 · 29 min
A peaceful view through a hospital window promotes healing after surgery, while other environments can make us sicker. Why? What is it about place and space that shapes your body and brain chemistry? Dr Esther Sternberg is a world leader in understanding the powerful interactions between your brain, emotions and immune system. Lees meer
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We have ways of making you think. Parasites on the brain!
9 oktober 2010 · 30 min
Half the living things on the planet are parasites, and they've developed uncanny ways of making us do what they want. A spooky encounter with suicidal crickets, mad rats and Zombie ants -- the parasites are here to take over our brain. One ecologist argues they could even be changing our personality at the civilisational scale. Lees meer
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Finding Miles: a transgender transition
2 oktober 2010 · 30 min
'The sex of my body is female but the gender I feel is male.' A year in the making, this intimate portrait of a person on the cusp of transitioning to a man is not to be missed. Miles was born Megan, but after years of depression and confusion he made the enormous decision to reconcile body and mind... with an audio recorder at hand. Lees meer
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On the Couch: Perminder Sachdev and Norman Doidge
25 september 2010 · 29 min
Two world renowned psychiatrists, Perminder Sachdev and Norman Doidge, join Natasha Mitchell on the All in the Mind couch, prepared to be asked anything. Are you normal? What is alien hand syndrome? The tics of Tourette syndrome -- what causes them? Do stories of broken brains generate little more than a cabinet of neurological curiosities? Lees meer
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Schizophrenia: Personal confrontations and a philosophical investigation
18 september 2010 · 30 min
Philosopher, poet and writer Dr Paul Fearne had his first psychotic episode as a young university student, and continues to take medication. 'To live is to take a leap into a sea of daggers, each one stabbing the fabric of your being', he wrote in his diary at the time, now published as a rare glimpse inside psychosis. From Freud to Wittgenstein, his experience inspired a unique PhD investigation into the philosophical questions posed by schizophrenia. Lees meer
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It's on the tip of my finger! Sign language, deaf culture and the brain
11 september 2010 · 30 min
LA comedian CJ Jones is a master storyteller in sign language. San Diego scientist Stephen McCullough studies the neurobiology of sign language. Both are deaf. Sign language is revealing surprising insights into the evolution of all human languages in the brain. From finding the word on the 'tip of the finger' to the bilingual brains of speakers and signers -- join two performers and two scientists with unique stories from the frontiers of deaf culture. Lees meer
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Climate change and behavioural change: what will it take?
4 september 2010 · 30 min
Climate change is on and off the political agenda in Australia. Whether an emissions trading system or a carbon tax win the day, one big barrier stands in the way of change: human nature. How we think about the problem can trump what we actually do -- right down to shorter showers and turning off the lights. Leading environmental psychologists are now taking on the climate change challenge. Lees meer
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Crazy Like Us - The Globalisation of the American Psyche
28 augustus 2010 · 29 min
'Would you like fries with that?' America's big brands and fast food outlets have become the dominant signatures of globalisation. But is mental illness becoming another? Is West best when it comes to the diagnosis, definition and treatment of mental illness? Ethan Watters unearths a disturbing trend, which could inform how we respond to disasters like the devastating Pakistan floods. Lees meer
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AS Byatt: woman of letters and ...science!
21 augustus 2010 · 30 min
Booker prize winning novelist AS Byatt has a thing for words. But do you know about her passion for science? In neuroscience she's discovered what she's always sensed about the workings of her own head as a writer -- and you must hear what's going on in her unique mind! She joins Natasha to discuss snail brains, mirror neurons and more for National Science Week. Lees meer
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Challenging Stereotypes: culture, psychology and the Asian Self (Part 2 of 2)
14 augustus 2010 · 30 min
We can't escape our cultural heritage, and yet it's more malleable than you might think. It's there in everything we do and say -- from the boardroom tables of big business to conversations with your GP. How are scientists getting inside our cultural mindsets to study them? Brain scans have entered the fray. Lees meer
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Challenging Stereotypes: culture, psychology and the Asian Self (Part 1 of 2)
7 augustus 2010 · 30 min
As East and West meet across the boardroom tables of big business, there's growing interest in how culture shapes the psyche and Self. If you're born into a collectivist or individualistic society, do you think differently? This week, controversial research on self-esteem. Do East Asians need less of it to feel good about themselves? Lees meer
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Special Series (Part 3 of 3) Up the Line to Goodna: Patient rights and staff fights
31 juli 2010 · 29 min
As old as the state of Queensland itself, Goodna Mental Hospital became Australia's largest asylum, housing 50,000 people over its lifetime. During a time of major institutional and cultural upheaval, the Office of the Patient's Friend opened its doors in 1977, the first patient advocacy service to operate within the confines of an Australian psychiatric hospital. Part advocate, part whistle-blower - running the service has taken a might of steel and a heart of gold. 30 years later, Nadia Beer only recently retired from the role. Lees meer
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Special Series (Part 2 of 3) Up the Line to Goodna: stories from inside the asylum
24 juli 2010 · 29 min
As old as the state of Queensland itself, Goodna Mental Hospital became Australia's largest asylum, housing 50,000 people over its lifetime. In this series All in the Mind unearths stories from people who lived and worked there. A nurse reflects on life in the asylum during World War II before the dramatic arrival of modern medications, and two sisters reminisce on growing up at Goodna with their matron aunt in the 1930s. Very different insights from opposite sides of the ward walls. (Rebroadcast) Lees meer
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Special Series (Part 1 of 3) Up the Line to Goodna: stories from inside the asylum
17 juli 2010 · 29 min
As old as the state of Queensland itself, Goodna Mental Hospital became Australia's largest and oldest asylum, housing 50,000 people over its lifetime. In this series, All in the Mind shares stories from people who lived and worked there. From a nurse who worked there from the 1940s - to a woman incarcerated as a young ward of the state, now fighting for justice. Warts and all recollections of madness, care and abuse. (Rebroadcast) Lees meer
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Would I Lie to You? Part 2 of 2 (broadcast edition) and The Private Life of a Brain Surgeon (podcast & Radio Australia edition)
10 juli 2010 · 30 min
Many scientists distrust the traditional lie detectors, like the polygraph with its wires and electrodes stuck to the skin, and say they never reliably reveal a liar. But now companies are marketing voice stress analysers and even brain scanners to do 'truth verification'. BBC science journalist Roland Pease investigates whether the new technologies are any better than the old ones. For copyright reasons, this week's podcast and online edition is an alternative from our archives, The Private Life of a Brain Surgeon. Lees meer
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Would I Lie to You? Part 1 of 2 (broadcast edition) and When Good People Turn Bad (podcast and Radio Australia editions)
3 juli 2010 · 30 min
Science journalist Roland Pease investigates the eternal quest for an objective approach to spotting deception. For almost 100 years, law enforcement agencies have used the polygraph to find out whether suspects are lying or not. But is it a legitimate tool? For copyright reasons, this week's podcast and online edition is an alternative from our archives, When Good People Turn Bad: Philip Zimbardo in conversation Lees meer
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The Remarkable Story of HM: remembering the man without memory
26 juni 2010 · 30 min
Afflicted with amnesia after brain surgery, he became a man who lived in the perpetual present, and the most famous patient of 20th century neuroscience. Join Natasha Mitchell for a powerful posthumous encounter with HM's legacy and his brain, which continues to offer remarkable insights into the machinations of human memory. Lees meer
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The Master and his Emissary: the divided brain and the reshaping of Western civilisation.
19 juni 2010 · 30 min
Eminent psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist offers an ambitious, provocative thesis about how the brain's two hemispheres came to be, and construct the world. Today there's a power struggle being played out between the left and right brain that he argues is reshaping Western civilisation in disturbing ways. Lees meer
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Making sense of noise: Part 2 of 2 - In pursuit of silence
12 juni 2010 · 29 min
Join George Prochnick as he escapes the racket of New York City on a profound quest for the quiet. His book, In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise, encounters the deaf architecture movement, surprises in the stillness of a Trappist monastery, and the Self unmasked by silence. Corinne Podger reports. Lees meer