Mind Body Talk With Dr Jim Kantidakis

Ep 12 Prof Nick Haslam on 'Psychology in the Bathroom'

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Synopsis

In the talk we touched the surface on a number of topics including: - Reasons behind what made him decide to write about the    Psychology in the Bathroom? - The psychology of excretion and disgust. And why there is so much    taboo surrounding the gut? - We also talked about the anal character with the earliest discussion    going as far back Freud and psychoanalysis. - How earlier anal traits or definitions correlate with more recent      psychological condition, like OCD, Perfectionism, Orderliness,    Authoritarianism, & Type A personality. - We touched on the nature of swearing and the origins of   scatological swearing & why some people offended by it, and cultural   and gender differences - We also talked about flatulence and emotion, defensive flatulence    and enjoyment of flatulence, and gender differences. - We also talked about Toilet Graffiti and the theories of Latrinalia    including the differences between genders.   And finally we talked about the great debate surrounding whether the