Nicholas Kardaras: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Crisis and How Reading Plato Can Help Cure it
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.
In this episode, Andrew is joined by Nicholas Kardaras, author of Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis—And How to Restore Our Sanity.
Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is an Ivy League educated psychologist, one of the country’s foremost addiction and mental health experts and the bestselling author of Glow Kids. A former clinical professor at Stony Brook Medicine, he’s developed treatment programs all over the country, has written for TIME Magazine, Scientific American, Salon, and Psychology Today, and has appeared on Good Morning America, ABC’s 20/20, CNN, the CBS Evening News, PBS, NPR, FOX & Friends and in Esquire and Vanity Fair. He lives in Sag Harbor, NY with his wife and twin sons.
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