What Paul Conti has said about Childhood trauma
1 quote · 1 episode · May 4, 2026
Paul Conti, Psychiatrist quoted on psilocybin and the unconscious mind, has been quoted on Childhood trauma once in 1 episode of Huberman Lab, most recently on May 4, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Conti explains that emotional systems do not track time, so a present trigger can make a past event emotionally current.
“They don't know that there's a clock or the calendar. So it's not that that was then, this is now. A trigger in the now can make then now”
Huberman Lab: Tools to Bolster Your Mental Health & Confidence | Dr. Paul Conti (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 1:37:40
Episodes
Tools to Bolster Your Mental Health & Confidence | Dr. Paul ContiHuberman Lab · May 4, 2026 · 2 h 10 min
Andrew Huberman and psychiatrist Paul Conti discuss self-reflection, agency, behavior change, trauma, intrusive thoughts, and happiness, drawing on Conti's book What's Going Right?
Paul Conti on other topics
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- Negativity bias · 1 quote
- Intrusive thoughts · 1 quote
- Self-talk · 1 quote