Purple Psychology

Dr Naoisé O'Reilly
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Dec 1, 2025 • 9min

Episode 538: Grief is the price you pay for love in a world that seems cruel

True origins of this quote “Grief is the price we pay for love” Colin Murray Parkes 1928– English psychiatristWe all have a role to play as the world exposes a cruelty in humanity that I believe we are re-writing in real time .. we have to witness the cruelty and play our part and what practices we have to stay in our own truth … executive order list:https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump%27s_executive_orders_and_actions,_2025Ottoman Empire role in the saving Irish people during the famine I did fact check this … as it was instagram … https://www.instagram.com/p/DRgp9DnjSbP/ 
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Nov 27, 2025 • 3min

Episode 537: Many people only experience unconditional love from animals not humans

I’d never considered why people might find grief of an animal harder than a human and feel guilty for this fact … 
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Nov 27, 2025 • 6min

Episode 536: Mamdani and Trump … it takes a lot to find middle ground

It’s a lot less work to take sides and be polarised 
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Nov 26, 2025 • 5min

Episode 535: Allowing Children a Childhood to Heal Generational Pain

what it takes to allow children to have a childhood and form their own compassion. 
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Nov 25, 2025 • 5min

Episode 534: French Film Lover - colours of time

Colours of time:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31411349/https://youtu.be/_sTdOm2BID8?si=nJMdH667geOCuLyiCedric Klapisch - Interview:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjaHzgHZJIQFederico Fellinihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_FelliniStill life book:https://goodreads.com/book/show/57001545-still-life
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Nov 24, 2025 • 11min

Episode 533: Learning from Nuremberg

There will be a lot of resources to this podcast please take the time to go through them … Ben Ferencz, the last living Nuremberg prosecutor, has died at age 103 | 60 Minuteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-uxyrHJ_mE&list=WLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-8m5YHt__4Nuremberg Trials :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trialsThe impacts on the German people:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy21VoWlxAsDouglas Kelleyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Kelley#PublicationsHis warning for Americahttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nuremberg-psychiatrist-had-a-warning-for-today-we-spoke-to-his-son/ar-AA1QEj83Nuremberg interview:with Doulas Kelleyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSvucjc52VI&list=WLRobert Jackson - look at hsi supreme court caseshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._JacksonJack El-Hai on researching "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist": Were the Nazis mad or bad?Book that started this whole film:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aROZke1Kj4&list=WL&index=4
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Nov 24, 2025 • 6min

Episode 532: Return to sharing - the balance between apathy and awareness

Japan’s Low Desire Societyhttps://youtu.be/Koow0Q6EiXU?si=Wf1HzflJOG_bweYNJungs thoughts on sharing “Carl Jung believed that the constant need to share our experiences can distance us from our authentic selves and hinder true self-understanding. He suggested that inner silence and reflection are more valuable for personal growth than the urge to narrate our lives to others.”
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Nov 15, 2025 • 2min

Episode 531: A week off podcasting - surfing the current energy

what I would prescribe right now is play … whatever that is for you … Rumi poem - night of unionhttps://www.poetryverse.com/rumi-poems/night-union
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Nov 13, 2025 • 5min

Episode 530: How a Community approach can eradicate Extreme poverty - lessons from Kerala

In a world where the richest nation can’t support their own people… One news article of many:https://scroll.in/article/1088384/beyond-statistics-the-more-important-lesson-from-keralas-poverty-eradication-initiative
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Nov 12, 2025 • 6min

Episode 529: As we approach the various religious festivals - I feel the hypocrisy more than ever

I’m honest for me it’s about the lights .. generosity and lights Christ in Rubble - I year ago https://youtu.be/Md_hw_A-oIs?si=p7AxZzt7310LwI9F

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