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Everything's Psychology · July 28 · 40 min

The Psychology of The Odyssey

Have you seen it yet? The film of the summer? Have you forked out for the most padded seats in the cinema to watch Christopher Nolan’s three-hour bum-numbing epic of Matt Damon struggling to get home in a world without satnav? If you have, did you sit there thinking: Why has a three thousand year old story got any relevance to today? Is there real psychology in here? Did the Greeks work something out about being human that we've ignored ever since? Well, these are exactly the questions my guest asks in their new book: The Odyssey Mindset. So, with me in this episode to discuss the psychology of The Odyssey is Dr Sam Akbar, clinical psychologist, Oxford classicist and author of the wonderful new book The Odyssey Mindset. – – – The Odyssey Mindset (Amazon UK): https://amzn.eu/d/0hprLgcy The Odyssey Mindset (Amazon US): https://a.co/d/07gDDhrD Follow Dr Akbar on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drsam_akbar/ Send us Fan Mail To leave a voicenote, just visit speakpipe.com/everythingspsychology

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Have you seen it yet? The film of the summer? Have you forked out for the most padded seats in the cinema to watch Christopher Nolan’s three-hour bum-numbing epic of Matt Damon struggling to get home in a world without satnav?

If you have, did you sit there thinking: 

  • Why has a three thousand year old story got any relevance to today?
  • Is there real psychology in here?
  • Did the Greeks work something out about being human that we've ignored ever since?


Well, these are exactly the questions my guest asks in their new book: The Odyssey Mindset. So, with me in this episode to discuss the psychology of The Odyssey is Dr Sam Akbar, clinical psychologist, Oxford classicist and author of the wonderful new book The Odyssey Mindset.

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The Odyssey Mindset (Amazon UK): https://amzn.eu/d/0hprLgcy
The Odyssey Mindset (Amazon US): https://a.co/d/07gDDhrD

Follow Dr Akbar on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/drsam_akbar/

Send us Fan Mail

To leave a voicenote, just visit speakpipe.com/everythingspsychology

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