Cohen Miles-Rath

Guest on Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Cohen Miles-Rath is a mental health advocate, author, and suicide prevention professional who works for the New York State Office of Mental Health. He is known for publicly sharing his lived experience of psychosis and recovery to reduce stigma around severe mental illness, including in his book “Mending Reality: An Advocate’s Existential Journey with Mental Health.” He currently focuses on statewide suicide prevention programming, advocacy, and public speaking.

Products they talk about

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud💬 Mentioned
…reading philosophical text that relates to psychotic experience
“I was studying Sigmund Freud's civilization of its discontent. And I remember sitting in the kitchen reading the book and he talks about this oceanic feeling. I don't know if you're familiar with the oceanic feeling term. Freud is struggling with the concept because it talks about this feeling with the universe, this kind of like oceanic, like high, right? In some sense. Connection to everything.”
on Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard