The Purpose of Loneliness by Dr Jana Studnicka (Talk on Loneliness - Part 1/4)
In Part 1, Dr Jana Studnicka talks about the Evolution of Loneliness, how it emerged as an emotion benefitting our survival as a species and recent discoveries about Loneliness and its purpose.
Dr Jana Studnicka is the founder and CEO of The Intimate Revolution Festival.
Born in Vienna, raised in Salzburg, Jana finished her Bachelor in Molecular Biology 2012 and her studies in human medicine 2017. During her studies, she was also a member of achtung°liebe, an organisation for sexeducation, was an author for the Vaginamuseum.at and founded a group for meditation and hypnosis. She moved to Vienna 2017, worked for a year as a professional cuddler and started to manage a sex-positive location.
At TedX 2017 she was on stage with her talk “The Power of Saying No”, a reflection on her learnings as a professional cuddler, and her quest to find boundaries and empowerment in a space of paid intimacy.
In 2019 she founded the sex-positive festival “The Intimate Revolution"with the goal to end loneliness and bad sex, a five day long festival with over 120 attendants in Berlin and Vienna. Since the festivals are always sold out, tickets are ususally bought a year in advance.
Her vision is to shed some light on the stigmatized and shamed apsects of our human existence, like loneliness and sexual violence, and to be a strong voice for connection and empowerment.
https://www.theintimaterevolution.com/
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Sources of Part 1*:
Evolutionary mechanisms for loneliness.
Cacioppo JT, Cacioppo S, Boomsma DI. (2014)
The growing problem of loneliness
John T Cacioppo and Stephanie Cacioppo, (Lancet, 2018)
Sleep Loss and the Socio-Emotional Brain.
Ben Simon E, Vallat R, Barnes CM, Walker MP.(2020)
Books:
Lost Connections by Johann Hari (2018)
Mit mir sein - Michael Lehofer (2017)
Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit - Yuval Harari (2011)
Die Kunst des Liebens - Erich Fromm (1956)
Der Glücksfaktor - Martin Seligman (2002)
*For a complete list of sources, visit this google doc
(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-...)
The talk was recorded May 2020.
Owned and recorded by Dr Jana Studnicka.
Audio Mixing: Georg Luger
Video Post-production: Georg Luger