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#881 Scott Bonn, PhD on The Fascination with Serial Killers

Dr. Scott Bonn is a criminologist, podcast host, TV commentator, public speaker and author of the best-selling popular culture book Why We Love Serial Killers: The Curious Appeal of the World’s Most Savage Murderers. He provides expert commentary and analysis for a...

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#873 The Geography of The Soul with Dr. Royce Fitts

Bio Dr. Royce Fitts is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in five U.S. states, an ordained minister, and lover of Process Theology. He holds a Doctor of Ministry in pastoral counseling. Royce is a certified Spiritual Care Professional in The American Association...

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#872 Family Therapist Dr. Mark Karris on Religious Trauma

Dr. Mark Gregory Karris is a compassionate and dedicated licensed marriage and family therapist, empowering individuals and couples to embark on transformative journeys to healing and self-discovery. Based in the vibrant city of San Diego, California, Mark's extensive...

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#870 Psychologist Dr. Deborah Serani on Living with Depression

Deborah Serani, Psy.D., is a psychologist in private practice in New York. She is a senior professor at Adelphi University, publishing academic articles on depression and trauma. She has appeared as an expert on various media outlets including ABC, CNN, Newsday, the...

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#867 Jocelyn Eve LICSW on Group Therapy for Traumatized Men

Jocelyn Eve is a white, neurodivergent human, and a trauma informed group therapist serving LGBTQIA+ folks. She is a loving Auntie, dog mom, and ambivert based in occupied Massachusett Tribe / Cambridge, MA. Jocelyn dreams of radical recovery, healing & thriving!...

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#866 Jon Frederickson MSW on Healing Through Relating

Jon Frederickson, MSW, is on the faculty of the Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) Training Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry. He has been on the faculty of the Laboratorium Psykoeducaji in Warsaw and has taught at the Ersta Skondal...

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#864 Interview with celebrity animal ecologist Karl Ammann

Karl Ammann uncovers wildlife trafficking, poaching and other forms of brutal exploitation of the planet’s most iconic species. Circumventing red tape and challenging the status quo established by governments and supranational bodies, he discloses the shameful silence...

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#861 Peter H. Kim PhD on How To Repair Trust

Dr. Peter H. Kim is a professor of management and organization at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. His research on trust has been published in numerous scholarly journals, received ten national/international awards, and has...

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#849 Luana Marques PhD on Transforming Anxiety into Power 

Dr. Luana Marques is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School,  Founder and Director of Community Psychiatry PRIDE at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and former President of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. She is the...

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#847 Yoga Innovator Lisa Knowlton on Morphing Past Trauma

BIO "My fascination with the human form led me to be a very active, observant, inquirer about being human, and I continually learn to love all it is! I have studied thought, form, emotion, energy, and how we express all of these elements throughout our lifetimes. A...

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#827 Philosopher Tim Shaw PhD on Trauma and Moral Injury

Dr. Shaw has undertaken a lot of research on moral injury, which is the damage done to one’s conscience or moral compass when that person perpetrates, witnesses, or fails to prevent acts that transgress one’s own moral beliefs, values, or ethical codes of conduct....

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#826 Physicist Suzie Sheehy PhD on How Physics Is Really Done

DR. SUZIE SHEEHY is a physicist, science communicator and academic who divides her time between research groups at the University of Oxford and University of Melbourne. She is currently focused on developing new particle accelerators for applications in medicine.  Her...

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#824 UK Music Therapist Amanda Thorpe on The State of The Art

Amanda Thorpe M.A. is a registered music therapist in the UK. She also has an extensive career as a songwriter, performer, and recording artist, as well as a community musician and special needs tutor, using song to facilitate wellbeing and cognitive functioning for...

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#817 Joanna LaPrade PhD Transformation Forged in Darkness

Dr. Joanna LaPrade earned her MA and Ph.D. in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. She is now the founder of Aion Psychotherapy and a practicing Jungian psychologist in Colorado. Her therapeutic work focuses on...

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#816 Ken Benau PhD on Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma

Ken Benau, Ph.D. earned his doctorate in clinical psychology with a subspecialty in adult psychotherapy at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA, in 1988. His dissertation focused on integrative, mind/body approaches to creative problem solving and symbolization in...

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#815 Renowned UK Expert Robb Kelly PhD on Addiction

Dr. Robb Kelly is a renowned Addiction Expert. Born and raised in Manchester, UK, who is eccentric, no holds bar, successful, and places his patients first kind of man. Robb is Meadows Trained in Trauma and holds a double Ph.D. It is necessary for the family to work...

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#813 Psychoanalyst Dr. Efrat Ginot on Our Anxious Selves

Efrat Ginot PhD, a graduate of the New York University Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, has been practicing psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for over 35 years in New York City. Her body of work integrates neuropsychology and psychoanalytic...

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#808 Sherry Walling PhD on Touching Two Worlds & Finding Hope

Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company,ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss, conflict, or any manner of complex human experience. She hosts...

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#807 Dr. Saleem Ali on How Natural Laws Define Human Life

Saleem H. Ali was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts but grew up in Lahore, Pakistan until his college years, receiving his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Tufts University, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in environmental policy and planning at Yale and MIT,...

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#801 Johnny Crowder The Remarkable Founder of CopeNotes

Johnny Crowder is a 29-year-old suicide/abuse survivor, TEDx speaker, touring musician, mental health and sobriety advocate, and the Founder & CEO of Cope Notes, a text-based mental health platform that provides daily support to users in nearly 100 countries...

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#799 Varun Gandhi PhD on Story, Passion, and Service

Dr. Varun Gandhi is a life orchestrator, soulpreneur, Angel investor, inventor, philanthropist and a water doctor. He enjoys orchestrating businesses, events, and ideas about the self (self-image)! He is currently focused on creating a digital course called Whats Your...

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#798 Michael Alcee PhD on Therapeutic Improvisation

Michael Alcée, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Tarrytown, NY and Mental Health Educator at Manhattan School of Music. He specializes in the psychology of artists and everyday creativity and the professional development of therapists.  He has...

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#797 Laurie Ure LICSW Discussing Her Work in Bioenergetics

BIO Laurie Ure, LICSW, has practiced as a Certified Bioenergetic Therapist in Gloucester, MA, for over 25 years. She trains bioenergetic therapists in the U.S. and internationally. In addition, she leads workshops, speaks, plans conferences, and writes about topics...

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#793 Douglas Flemons PhD on The Heart and Mind of Hypnotherapy

Douglas Flemons, PhD is Professor Emeritus of Couple and Family Therapy at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL, where, for over 30 years, he offered team-based live supervision and taught graduate courses on hypnosis and meditation, systems thinking,...

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#790 Joseph Shrand MD on Unleashing The Power of Respect

Dr. Joseph Shrand is Chief Medical Officer of Riverside Community Care headquartered in Dedham, Mass. He has been a Lecturer of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and an adjunct Faculty of Boston Children's Hospital. He is triple Board certified in adult...

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#789 Brian Quinn PhD on Depression: Unipolar or Bipolar?

Brian Quinn, LCSW, Ph.D. author of Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Bipolar Disorder and The Depression Sourcebook, 2nd ed., is a clinical social worker in private practice in Huntington, New York.  He specializes in working with patients with mood illnesses and...

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#784 Frances-Mary O’Connor PhD. on The Grieving Brain

Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, where she directs the Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab, which investigates the effects of grief on the brain and the body. O’Connor earned a doctorate from the...

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#774 Stephen Porges PhD on The Importance of Polyvagal Safety

Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium in the Kinsey Institute. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor...

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#769 Dr. Margie Warrell on Living Life Bravely

Dr. Margie Warrell draws on her background in Fortune 500 business, coaching and psychology to embolden people to lead themselves and others to better outcomes. Living on multiple continents around the world has made Margie a sought after expert by organizations from...

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#768 Dr. Connie Zweig on The Inner Work of Age

Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired psychotherapist, former executive editor at Jeremy P. Tarcher Publishing, former columnist for Esquire magazine, and contributor to the LA Times. Known as the Shadow Expert, she is the coauthor of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the...

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#767 Michael Rousell PhD on The Power of Surprise

Dr. Michael A. Rousell is a teacher, psychologist, and professor emeritus at Southern Oregon University. He completed his doctoral program at the University of Oregon in 1991. Rousell studied life-changing events for over three decades and established his expertise by...

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#766 Stephen G. Post on Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People

An opinion leader and public speaker, Stephen G. Post, Ph.D. (University of Chicago, 1983) has served on the Board of the John Templeton Foundation (2008-2014), which focuses on virtue and public life. Post is a leader in research on the benefits of giving and on...

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#765 Dr. Edward Bruce Bynum on Our African Unconscious

Edward Bruce Bynum is a licensed psychologist and Diplomat in clinical psychology, nationally certified in biofeedback and senior fellow in the National Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. Focus is psychosomatic medicine, hypnosis and individual...

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#764 Dr. Brandy Gillmore on The New Revolution in Healing

According to her website, Brandy Gillmore is a world-renowned celebrity Mind/Body Healing Coach & Spiritual Leader who is most well-known for her discoveries in working with the mind for healing and life transformation. Not only was Brandy able to heal herself...

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#757 The Power of Narrative Therapy with Hugh K. Marr PhD

  Hugh Marr, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in the private practice of psychotherapy in the Washington, DC area. He consults to other professionals and healthcare agencies in the fields of psychotherapy and substance abuse. He has taught both substance abuse...

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#753 Black Media Mogul D. John Jackson On Overcoming Racism

D. John Jackson is a Fortune 50 leader with global responsibilities that include strategic planning, engineering, data science, and artificial intelligence. A creative visionary, he’s an executive producer of documentary films, an author, a strategist, a futurist...

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#751 Scott D. Miller PhD on How Psychotherapy Lost Its Magick!

Scott D. Miller, Ph.D. is the founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence an international consortium of clinicians, researchers, and educators dedicated to promoting excellence in behavioral health services. Dr. Miller conducts workshops and training...

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#750 Toward A Cure for Alzheimer’s with Dr. Kausik Si

Kausik S PhD received his BS and MS degrees at the University of Calcutta. • He moved to the United States for his doctorate and earned a PhD degree in molecular biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1999. • After graduating, Si did his postdoctoral...

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#749 Blind Ambition Author and Motivational Speaker Chad Foster

Can you imagine going blind as a teenager? When most people were preparing for the adventure of adult life, Chad was watching the world he grew up with fade to black. But instead of feeling sorry for himself, he told himself "I’m gonna make blind look good.” He became...

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#747 Latest Developments in Dreamwork with Angel Morgan PhD

Angel Morgan, PhD, President of IASD, is a dream psychologist, founder/director of Dreambridge, adjunct professor and research faculty in the Global PhD in Transpersonal Psychology program at Sofia University. She specializes in dreams, creativity, and the connection...

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#746 The Rise of Big Data Psychiatry with Daniel Barron MD

Daniel Barron completed his medical training and Psychiatry residency at Yale University, where he was the Chief Resident of both Yale's Neuroscience Research Training Program and of the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit. He holds a PhD in Human Brain Imaging from...

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#745 Jungian Analyst Lisa Marchiano on Motherhood

Lisa Marchiano, LCSW is a writer and Jungian analyst in private practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the co-host of the popular podcast This Jungian Life. She teaches at the C.G. Jung Institute of Philadelphia and lectures widely on Jungian topics. Her...

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#743 Recent Research on Nightmares with Michael Nadorff PhD

 Dr. Michael Nadorff is an associate professor of psychology at Mississippi State University, where he also directs the clinical psychology PhD program.  His research focuses on the association between sleep difficulties, particularly nightmares, and suicidal...

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#736 Francis Weller on Grief and The Absence of The Ordinary

Francis Weller, MFT, is a psychotherapist, writer, and soul activist. He is a master of synthesizing diverse streams of thought from psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures, and poetic traditions. Author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of...

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#734 Developments in The Practice of Coherence Therapy

Niall Geoghegan, Psy.D. is a Certified Advanced Practitioner of Coherence Therapy.   He collaborated closely with Bruce Ecker on creating the Coherence Psychology Institute's Training and Certification Program prior to 2015.  He was a contributing author to the...

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#733 Anthropologist Roy Grinker on his book Nobody’s Normal

Roy Richard Grinker is Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Grinker was born and raised in Chicago where his great-grandfather, grandfather, and father worked as psychoanalysts. He graduated from...

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#731 Music As A Path to Mindfulness with Therapist Simon Cole

Simon Cole is a psychological therapist with over 30 years experience and has worked in medical (NHS UK) and private settings in the UK, France and online.  He has worked with a very wide range of client difficulties, ages and backgrounds.  Almost 15 years ago he...

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#725 Latest Developments in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

Phil Wolfson MD is the creator of a new psychotherapy modality based on use of the medicine ketamine—Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP).  Phil is the CEO of the non-profit Ketamine Research Foundation and directs the training of KAP practitioners through The...

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#724 The Way Marketing Reshapes Our Brains

Matt Johnson is a professor, researcher, and writer specializing in the application of neuroscience and psychology to the business world. Matt received his PhD in Cognitive Psychology/Neuroscience from Princeton University in 2013. His focus now is ultimately about...

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#720 Living A Symbolic Life with Jungian Analyst Jason E. Smith

Jason Smith is a Jungian analyst based in the beautiful Cape Ann region north of Boston, Massachusetts. Jason began his training as a psychotherapist at Pacifica Graduate Institute where he received a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth...

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#716 The Shrink Rap Radio 15th Anniversary Celebration Show

Over the years, Prof. Brett Kahr has worked in numerous settings, ranging from the British National Health Service, to various universities, to the British Broadcasting Corporation, where he served for many years as Resident Psychotherapist on B.B.C. Radio 2,...

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#715 Noted Iowa Teacher Jane Elliott Still Fighting Racism

In response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, Jane Elliott devised the controversial and startling, "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise." This, now famous, exercise labels participants as inferior or superior based solely upon the color of their eyes...

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#712 Motivational Coach Aaron McCormick on Your Journey Within

Aaron McCormick is an author, entrepreneur, inspirational speaker and artist whose path to success and fulfillment defies societal norms and expectations in nearly every way. Raised by a single mom on the South Side of Chicago, McCormick, since the age of 23 was one...

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#708 Dr. Dave Interviewed on Self-Confidence by Dr. Aziz

Dr. Aziz Gazipura is the world’s leading confidence expert. He teaches people how to learn confidence so they can eliminate self-doubt, hesitation and social anxiety and master conversations, accelerate in their careers, and create deeply fulfilling relationships.  He...

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#690 Geneticist Sara Winokur on The Pandemic

Sara Winokur is a geneticist, researcher, and author. Sara has a master’s degree in cytogenetics and a Ph.D. in molecular genetics. Her research helped identify mutations underlying muscular dystrophy, Huntington’s disease, dwarfism, and a rare craniofacial syndrome....

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Introducing Business Wars

Hello Shrink Rap Radio Listeners, Here's something a little different, a promo for a podcast I think you might enjoy. It's called business wars. Business Wars digs deep into some of the greatest corporate rivalries of all time. Each season of Business Wars digs deep...

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#682 Values in Psychotherapy with Jenna LeJeune PhD

Jenna LeJeune, PhD, is cofounder and president of Portland Psychotherapy Clinic, Research, and Training Center in Portland, OR. As a clinical psychologist, she is interested in helping people live lives of meaning and purpose even in the midst of suffering. In her...

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#665 The Way of Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly MSW

Loch Kelly, M.Div., LCSW is the author of the best-selling The Way of Effortless Mindfulness. He is a licensed psychotherapist and recognized leader in the field of meditation. Loch is the founder of the non-profit, Open-Hearted Awareness Institute and has worked in...

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#660 Living A Life of Service with Shannon Weber MSW

Shannon Weber, MSW leads efforts to end HIV by day and hangs anonymous love notes in public spaces with her three teenagers by night. She is a serial social entrepreneur, having launched several HIV-informed sexual and reproductive health initiatives that have served...

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#659 The Self-Help Addict with Daniel Gefen

Daniel Gefen is author of The Self-Help Addict: Turn An Overdose of Information Into A Life of Transformation and also hosts the podcasts, The Daniel Gefen Show and the Can I Pick Your Brain the Can I Pick Your Brain? podcast where he 'picks the brains' of successful...

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#655 Stress and How to Short-Circuit It with Amy Serin PhD

Amy Serin is a world renowned neuropsychologist who is on a mission to teach you how to shut off the stress switch, which is the name of her new book: The Stress Switch, The Truth About Stress and How to Short-Circuit it. She has spoken at over 100 conferences, has...

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#653 Live Each Day with Best-Selling Author Jim McCarthy

Transcript Jim McCarthy is a TEDx speakerand # 1 bestselling author ofLive Each Day: A Surprisingly Simple Guide to Happiness. He teaches people how to create their happiness by blending mindfulness techniques and timeless wisdom with simple, science-based practices....

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#651 – Pause, Breathe, Smile with Buddhist Scholar Gary Gach

Gary Gach is a lifelong meditator who was ordained by Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. He's been hosting Zen Mindfulness Fellowship weekly for ten years, in the tradition of the Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism. He mentors and coaches in corporate and...

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#650 – What Wolves Can Teach Us with Teo Alfero

Teo Alfero is the founder of the Wolf Connection sanctuary and creator of Wolf Therapy®, a singular program that empowers individuals dealing with psychological and emotional pain, addiction, and trauma using the human-wolf bond. Teo is a transformational teacher and...

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#647 – The Unspeakable Mind of PTSD with Shaili Jain MD

Transcript Shaili Jain, M.D. is a Bristish born American Physician of Indian ancestry. She is a psychiatrist and PTSD specialist and currently serves as the Medical Director for Integrated Care at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System. She is a trauma scientist...

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#634 Psilocybin Retreats in Amsterdam with Chi and Leti

Chi's Bio For most of my life, I battled addiction, depression, and low self-esteem. In my 20’s, I spent a total of 16 months in silent retreat, including a month in darkness. I went to Burma twice to take temporary monastic vows and practice with the monks. I tried...

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#628 – Thriving In The Aftermath of Trauma with Ken Falke

Ken Falke is a 21-year combat veteran of the U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) community and retired Master Chief Petty Officer. Ken is highly respected around the world as an innovative and forward thinking thought leader on the subjects of wounded warrior...

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#624 – Dream Analysis with Three Jungian Analysts

Joseph R. Lee, LCSW, Certified Jungian Analyst Joseph R. Lee is a certified Jungian Analyst and licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Virginia Beach, Virginia at DepthPsychotherapy.net. He works with adults and teens. He is currently the president of...

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#622 – Stories of Trauma Recovery with Dr. Matt Jaremko

Matt Jaremko has taught clinical psychology at the University level for almost 20 years, mostly at four institutions: University of North Texas, University of Richmond, University of Mississippi and University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Dallas. This academic...

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#605 – Body Psychotherapy Today with Dr. Chris Walling

Transcript Dr. Chris Walling, PsyD, MBA, C-IAYT is a psychological researcher and licensed clinical psychologist, and yoga therapist. Dr. Chris has been an active leader in healthcare for nearly two decades. His work integrates the developmental, biological, and...

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#599 – The Power of Extreme Empathy with Cris Beam

Cris Beam is an author and professor in New York City. Her most recent book, I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy was released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in March 2018. Her prior book, To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care...

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#595 – Therapy with A Coaching Edge with Lynn Grodzki LCSW

Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC is a proficient psychotherapist, in practice for over 30 years, and a master certified coach, working in the field since 1996. Known best by therapists for her role as a business coach, she is often considered the guru of practice-building:...

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#592 – Growing Your Resilience with Rick Hanson PhD

Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. His books are available in 26 languages and include Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother...

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#590 – Exploring Online Therapy with Cassie Christensen

Cassie Christensen LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who holds a Bachelor's Degree from Rowan University in Psychology and a Master's Degree from Rutgers University in Clinical Social Work. Cassie is a therapist and the co-founder of Modern Therapy, a...

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#589 – Mindfulness and Social Action with Dr. Elise Biaylew

Elise Bialylew MD, doctor, coach and wellness innovator. She has combined her passion for community, with her professional expertise in the field of psychiatry, coaching and mindfulness to create the Mindful in May challenge. She is passionate about using technology...

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#587 – The Divine Mind with Jungian Analyst Michael Gellert

Michael Gellert, LCSW is a Jungian analyst practicing in Los Angeles and Pasadena. He sees individuals and couples, and offers a Jungian Writing Workshop. He was formerly Director of Training at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and a humanities professor at...

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#586 – The Upside of Shame with Vernon Kelly Jr. MD

Vernon C. (Vick) Kelly, Jr., M.D. is a board certified psychiatrist, author, and educator who has lectured nationally and internationally integrating affect and script theories into a variety of topics, including childhood trauma, restorative practice,...

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#584 – Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness with David Treleaven PhD

David Treleaven, PhD, is a writer, educator, and psychotherapist whose work focuses on the intersection of trauma, mindfulness, and social justice. He is author of the book Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing published by W. W....

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#583 – Coffee with Freud with Professor Brett Kahr

Professor Brett Kahr is Senior Fellow at Tavistock Relationships at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and, also, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London. He is a...

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#582 – Memoir of A Trance Therapist with Adam Crabtree

Adam Crabtree is a founding faculty member of the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy in Toronto, where he is a lecturer, seminar leader, psychotherapy group facilitator, and psychotherapy practice supervisor. Adam Crabtree's first book, published in 1985, is titled...

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#580 – Remembering Zen Philosopher Alan Watts

Alan Watts, philosopher, author, and lecturer Alan Watts (1915–1973) popularized Zen Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies for the counterculture of the 1960s. Today, new generations are finding his writings and lectures online, while faithful followers worldwide...

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#579 – The Body of Sex with Sarah Byrden

For 18 years, Sarah Byrden has been a dynamic educator, speaker and advocate known for her domain-changing work in sexuality, cross-cultural, spiritual and wilderness education. As a visionary leader in the field of sex-education, Sarah's mentorship and approach is...

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No Podcast This Week

Dear friends of Shrink Rap Radio, I'm afraid there will be no podcast this week.  My previously announced guest New York psychoanalyst Hilary Jacobs Hendel and AEDP specialist ran into so many technical issues during our attempted interview yesterday that we finally...

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#576 –Love, Greed, and Trance with Adam Crabtree

Adam Crabtree is a founding faculty member of the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy in Toronto, where he is a lecturer, seminar leader, psychotherapy group facilitator, and psychotherapy practice supervisor. His first book, published in 1985, is titled Multiple...

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Northern California Wildfires & Shrink Rap Radio

Dear Shrink Rap Radio Listeners, First of all I want to let you know that 1. there will be no podcast this week and 2. My family and I are fine! We live in Rohnert Park which is about 10 miles south of Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, California. The night before last,...

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#571 – The Dreamlife of Families with Edward Bruce Bynum PhD

Edward Bruce Bynum, Ph.D., ABPP, is a clinical psychologist and former director of the behavioral medicine program at the University of Massachusetts Health Services. The author of several books, including Dark Light Consciousness, he is currently in private practice...

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570 – Author Judith Newman on To Siri with Love

Transcript Judith Newman is the author of To Siri With Love:  A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines.  She writes about entertainment, science, business, beauty, and popular culture for a wide variety of publications, includingThe New York Times,...

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#567 Tea With Winnicott with Professor Brett Kahr

Transcript Professor Brett Kahr is Senior Fellow at Tavistock Relationships at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and, also, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London. He is...

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#565 Neil D. Brown on Coping with Parental Burnout

Neil D. Brown, LCSW, is a master psychotherapist who has worked with families, couples, and individuals for more than thirty years. Deeply steeped in the theory and practice of family therapy, Brown uses a systemic approach that allows him to understand the system, or...

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#563 – Psychoanalysis in Tehran with Dr. Gohar Homayounpour

Transcript Dr. Gohar Homayounpour was born in Paris to Iranian parents, she was educated in Canada and the United States. She now lives and works in Tehran. Dr. Homayounpour is an author and a Psychoanalyst who belongs to the International Psychoanalytic association,...

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Video Preview of #562 with Mike Fink on OCD and Thero.org

My guest will be Michael Fink, who has struggled with his own OCD issues and gone on to become a mental health advocate and co-Founder of Thero.org, a non-pro in the behavioral healthcare space, dedicated to making it easy to find mental health resources.

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#559 – Restoring Resilience with Eileen Russell PhD

Dr. Eileen Russell is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City and Montclair, NJ. She is Senior Faculty and founding member of the AEDP Institute and has been studying and practicing AEDP for over 20 years. She is also a part-time Clinical...

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#557 – Getting The Sleep You Want with James Alexander PhD

Australian psychologist, Dr. James Alexander is author of the 2012 book, The Hidden Psychology of Pain, and the 2017 book, 'Getting the Z's You Want'. He became a psychologist after being nearly killed in a car accident as an 18 year old when his car was hit by a...

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#554 – Sexual Abuse Recovery Coaching with Rachel Grant

Rachel Grant, M.A. is the owner and founder of Rachel Grant Coaching and is a Sexual Abuse Recovery Coach. She is also the author of Beyond Surviving: The Final Stage in Recovery from Sexual Abuse. She works with survivors of childhood sexual abuse who are beyond sick...

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Dr. Dave at The Psychedelic Science Conference

My former M.A. student from the early 70s was at the conference and we met for lunch. He regaled me with amazing stories from his life. For me, that was the highlight of the conference. He had his A/V setup with him and he made this little slide show. No interview...

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#543 – Trauma Therapy with Guy Macpherson PhD

Guy Macpherson PhD is a husband, father, and a psychologist specializing in the treatment of trauma and early psychosis. In 2014 Guy created The Trauma Therapist Project, a site dedicated to educating, supporting and inspiring new trauma therapists. Soon after he...

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#542 Archetype & Psyche in Crisis & Growth with Tim Read MD

Tim Read, MD is a medical doctor, psychiatrist and psychotherapist based in London. He was Consultant Psychiatrist at the Royal London Hospital for 20 years leading the Emergency Liaison service and the Crisis Intervention Service. He has trained in psychoanalytic...

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#541 – My Shamanic Path with Sergey Baranov

Transcript Sergey Baranov is the author of ‘PATH’, a book that will be of interest to any spiritual seeker who seeks honesty above all else. Living in various countries and growing up in different cultures, Sergey gained an understanding of the essential, a core...

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#539 – The Lies We Tell Ourselves with Jon Frederickson LCSW

Transcript Jon Frederickson MSW grew up working in his father’s blacksmith shop in Clear Lake, Iowa. At the urging of a music teacher, he attended college and became a professional musician, playing the French horn. After receiving the help of a therapist, he decided...

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#538 – The Little Dog That Could with Filippo Voltaggio

Best-Selling Author Filippo Voltaggio is also a Public Speaker, Radio Show Host and Life Coach, with the moniker “Master of Change.” Among the many life changes that have earned him the moniker "Master of Change," Filippo started his professional career working his...

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#536 – Soul-Centered Leadership with R. Michael Anderson

R. Michael Anderson, M.A. teaches leaders how to lead others - as well as themselves - from a Soul-Centered perspective, leaving the ego behind, and stepping into their true purpose. Michael has had success in business, starting, growing, and selling three software...

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Video Preview of #534 with Dan Siegel MD On His Book, Mind

I speak with return guest, Dr. Dan Siegel about his new 2016 book, Mind: A Journey to The Heart of Being Human. He was previously my guest back in 2011 speaking about his book, Mindsight. For more information about Daniel J. Siegel MD, please see our show notes at...

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#529 – On The Divine Human with John C. Robinson PhD

John C. Robinson PhD is a clinical psychologist with a second doctorate in ministry, an ordained interfaith minister, the author of nine books on the interface of psychology and spirituality (along with numerous articles, book chapters and guest blogs), and last but...

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#525 – ADHD Nation with Journalist/Author Alan Schwartz

Alan Schwarz is a former Pulitzer Prize–nominated investigative reporter for The New York Times whose acclaimed series of more than one hundred articles exposed the seriousness of concussions in the NFL and led to safety reforms for young athletes nationwide. His work...

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#519 – The Power Paradox with Dacher Keltner PhD

Transcript I was born in Jalisco, Mexico, the offspring of two early members of the counterculture. My mother, a literature professor, and father, an artist, raised my brother and me in Laurel Canyon in the late 60s, where those North Hollywood hills were filled with...

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Video Preview of #518 on Addiction with Maia Szalavitz

My guest is Maia Slalavitz, journalist, former addict and author of the 2016 book Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction in which she interweaves the story of her own past addiction to hard drugs with current science.

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#513 – Exploring Neuro-Philosophy with Georg Northoff MD PhD

Transcript Dr. Georg Northoff is a philosopher, neuroscientist and psychiatrist, holding degrees in all three disciplines. Being originally from Germany, he is now working in Ottawa/Canada where he researches the relationship between the brain and mind in its various...

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#512 – Exploring Gender Therapy with Dara Hoffman-Fox LPC

Dara Hoffman-Fox is a Licensed Professional Counselor and gender therapist in private practice in Colorado, USA, and is a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). Frequently serving as a resource on transgender issues for the media,...

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#510 – Overcoming Destructive Anger with Bernard Golden PhD

Bernard Golden, PhD, the founder of Anger Management Education in Chicago, has been a practicing psychologist for almost forty years. He has clinical experience in a variety of settings, including community mental health centers, inpatient psychiatric hospitals,...

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#502 – An Exploration of Self-Medication with Anna Fels MD

Anna Fels, M.D. is an alumna of Harvard College where she graduated with high honors. Following a post-graduate year as a researcher at the Brigham Hospital in Boston, she attended the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fels received her medical specialty and subspecialty...

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Video Preview of #501 with Ann Chanler, PhD

New York based psychoanalyst Ann Chanler, PhD who teaches and writes on the integration of spirituality and psychoanalysis. She brings an eastern sensibility to the western practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. We’ll be discussing When Mindfulness Meets...

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#498 – Duct Tape Parenting with Vicki Hoefle

From the bio on her website: Helping thousands of families for over two decades, Vicki Hoefle shares her parenting tips and techniques across the country. She combines expertise in Adlerian Psychology with a suite of actionable, time-tested tools. Her informative and...

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#497 – Write From God with Tom Bird

It was a dream that startled, at the time, for a young publicist with the big league’s Pittsburgh Pirates, from a deep slumber. What the young Tom would be privy to in the dream, an answer to his prayers, would not only drastically change his life for the better, but...

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Video Clip from Amy Felman’s Interview of Dr. Dave

I was interviewed delightfully by Australian podcaster, Amy Felman, who describes me as "psychology's most influential podcaster!" I like that! The name of Amy's show is We All Wear It Differently. Here is a 6-minute clip from her interview with me. You can find the...

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#494 – The Art of The First Session with Robert Taibbi LCSW

Robert Taibbi LCSW has 41 years of experience primarily in community mental health. He is author of 8 books on family therapy, couple therapy, clinical supervision, brief therapy, as well as over 300 magazine and journal articles. He writes an online column for...

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#493 – My Shamanic Healing Journey with Nathan Ehrlich M.A.

Transcript Nathan Ehrlich M.A. is a freelance multimedia Journalist. After attaining his Masters degree from the Columbia Journalism School he very quickly realized his style was not suited to the rapid daily news cycle and became more attracted to making longer form...

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#491 – The Traumatized Brain with Sandeep Vaishnavi MD PhD

Sandeep Vaishnavi, MD, PhD is the director of The Neuropsychiatric Clinic at Carolina Partners and a neuropsychiatrist at The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University Medical Center, where he offers evaluation, testing, and treatment of mood,...

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#485 – Neuroscience and The Dalai Lama with Hanno Kirk PhD

Hanno W. Kirk, PhD, LICSW, has been a teacher, trainer and author for the past 35 years. He has a wide ranging and eclectic background from studying nuclear strategy and international law at UCLA, to human development in the ARICA Institute, to clinical social work,...

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#480 – Why Therapy Works with Louis Cozolino PhD

Transcript Dr. Louis Cozolino has diverse clinical and research interests and hold degrees in philosophy, theology, and clinical psychology. His interests are in the areas of the synthesis of neuroscience with psychotherapy, education, management, and leadership. He...

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#473 – Assessing Psychosis with James Kleiger PsyD

Dr. Jim Kleiger has been a clinical psychologist since 1980. A native of Denver, CO, Jim received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and obtained his doctorate from the University of Denver. Dr. Kleiger served as a Naval Psychologist on the USNS Comfort...

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#468 – Listening to Killers with James Garbarino PhD

Dr. James Garbarino holds the Maude C. Clarke Chair in Humanistic Psychology and was founding Director of the Center for the Human Rights of Children at Loyola University Chicago. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and has served as an adviser to...

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#467 – How to Step Out of Your Story with Kim Schneiderman

Transcript Kim Schneiderman, LCSW, MSW, is the author of Step Out of Your Story. She counsels in private practice and teaches as a professor and guest lecturer at venues including New York University. She also writes a biweekly advice column for Metro Newspapers and...

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#465 – Unbinding The Heart with Agapi Stassinopoulos

Agapi Stassinopoulos is a bestselling author and speaker who inspires audiences around the world. In her most recent book,Unbinding the Heart: A Dose of Greek Wisdom, Generosity, and Unconditional Love, she shares her life’s adventures and experiences, and the wisdom...

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#463 – The Feeling Brain with Elizabeth Johnston PhD

Elizabeth Johnston PhD has an undergraduate degree in psychology from St. Andrews University, Scotland, and a doctorate in visual neuroscience from Oxford University, England. She did postdoctoral work at the Center for Neural Science, NYU before joining the...

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#456 – The Nature and Nurture of Passion with Gregg Levoy

Gregg Levoy is the author of Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion (Penguin), and the bestseller Callings: Finding and Following An Authentic Life (Random House)----rated among the "Top 20 Career Publications" by the Workforce Information Group. He is also...

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#450 – Effortless Mindfulness with Lisa Dale Miller LMFT

Lisa Dale Miller, MA, LMFT, LPCC, SEP is a private practice psychotherapist in Los Gatos, CA, specializing in mindfulness psychotherapy and Somatic Experiencing therapy for depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction and chronic pain. She is also an outpatient provider for...

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#449 – Inside The Criminal Mind with Stanton Samenow PhD

Samenow Transcript Dr. Stanton Samenow received his B.A. (cum laude) from Yale University in 1963 and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1968. After working as a clinical psychologist on adolescent inpatient psychiatric services in the Ann...

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#446 – Post Traumatic Success with Fredrike Bannink

Fredrike Bannink is a clinical psychologist and a Master of Dispute Resolution based in Amsterdam. She is an internationally recognized author of 20+ books, presenter and trainer. She is also a Mental Health Trainer for Doctors without Borders. Among her many...

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#431 – Stillness in Mind with Simon Cole, M.A.

Simon Cole M.A. runs a retreat center in France, having worked in psychological health in the UK for over 20 years.  Holder of a Masters with distinction and special award in counseling from Ripon and York St John, he is a senior-accredited counselor, with experience...

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#424 – Being a Brain-Wise Therapist with Bonnie Badenoch PhD

Transcript Bonnie Badenoch, PhD, LMFT is an in-the-trenches therapist, supervisor, teacher, and author who has spent the last ten years integrating the discoveries of neuroscience into the art of therapy. She co-founded the nonprofit agency, Nurturing the Heart with...

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#419 – Internal Family Systems Therapy with Jay Earley PhD

Transcript Jay Earley, PhD, is a psychotherapist, group leader, author, teacher, and theorist. He teaches Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) IFS to the general public as a practice for self-help and peer counseling. He also teaches a variety of classes and...

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#418 – How to Be An Adult in Love with David Richo PhD

Transcript David Richo, PhD, MFT, is a psychotherapist and workshop leader who lives in Santa Barbara and San Francisco, California. He combines Jungian, Buddhist, and mythic perspectives in his work. He is the author of several books including: How to be an Adult in...

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#416 – Trauma and The Soul with Donald Kalsched PhD

Transcript Donald Kalsched, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist and Jungian Psychoanalyst in private practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is a senior training analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts where he teaches and supervises. His 1996 book...

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#411 – Mindfulness and Resilience with Linda Graham MFT

 Transcript   Linda Graham MFT is a psychotherapist in full-time private practice in Corte Madera and a long-time practitioner of vipassana meditation. She integrates modern neuroscience, mindfulness practices, and relational psychology in her nationwide...

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#406 – Listening to Your Gut with James Greenblatt MD

James M. Greenblatt, MD, a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, has treated patients with mood disorders and complex eating disorders since 1990. After receiving his medical degree and completing his psychiatry residency at George Washington University, Dr....

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#405 – Developing Dreamwork Skills with Clara Hill PhD

Clara E. Hill earned her Ph.D. at Southern Illinois University in 1974. She started her career in 1974 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Maryland and is currently still there as a Professor. She has been President of the Society...

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#399 – Trauma and The Body with Pat Ogdon PhD

Transcript Pat Ogden, Ph.D. is a pioneer in somatic psychology and the Founder and Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® Institute, an internationally recognized school specializing in somatic–cognitive approaches for the treatment of posttraumatic...

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#397 – James Alexander PhD Interviews David Van Nuys PhD

David Van Nuys, PhD See https://shrinkrapradio.com/about/ James Alexander, PhD Transcript Australian psychologist, Dr. James Alexander is author of the 2012 book, The Hidden Psychology of Pain. By way of biographical statement, Dr. Alexander writes: “I became a...

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#396 – Dream Tending with Stephen Aizenstat PhD

Dr. Aizenstat has explored the power of dreams through depth psychology and his own research for more than 35 years. His Dream Tending methodologies extend traditional dream work to the vision of an animated world where the living images in dream are experienced as embodied and originating in the psyche of Nature as well as that of persons. His work opens creativity and the generative process.

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#392 – On Time, Trauma, and Heroism with Philip Zimbardo PhD

Transcript Philip Zimbardo PhD is one of the most distinguished living psychologists, having served as President of the American Psychological Association, designed and narrated the award winning 26-part PBS series, Discovering Psychology, and has published more than...

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#389 – The Brain Bible with John B. Arden, PhD

Transcript John Arden, Ph.D. has 35 years of experience providing psychological services and directing mental health programs. Since 1999 he has served as the Director of Training for the Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers, Northern California region. He has developed...

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#382 – Healing Developmental Trauma with Laurence Heller

Transcript Laurence Heller, Ph.D. is the founder of the NeuroAffective Relational Model  (NARM) ( please add TM for trademark).  He is the co-author of  Crash Course: A Self-Healing Guide to Automobile Accident Trauma with Diane Poole Heller published in multiple...

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#381 – Dreams As Guides to The Soul with Steven G. Fox

Transcript Steven G. Fox PhD is a private-practice licensed psychologist with over 25 years experience. He recently authored the book, "Dreams: Guide to the Soul." This book formulates forty rules to describe a method of dream interpretation he acquired from Jungian...

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#380 – The Three Secrets of Aging with John C. Robinson

John C. Robinson, Ph.D., D.Min. is a clinical psychologist with a second doctorate in ministry, an ordained interfaith minister, the author of seven books on the interface of psychology and spirituality, and last but not least, an aging Boomer with grown children and...

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#378 – Emotional Medicine with Penelope Young Andrade LCSW

Penelope Young Andrade LCSW is the author of Emotional Medicine Rx: Cry When You’re Sad, Stop When You’re Done, Feel Good Fast. Founder of the San Diego Center for Psychosynthesis, her “Transformational Talk Radio” and her popular advice column, “Transformational...

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#373 – The Fear Fix with Sarah Chana Radcliffe

Transcript Sarah Chana Radcliffe, M.Ed., C.Psych.Assoc. is a registered Psychologist in Ontario, Canada. Over the past 30 years, she has counseled thousands of parents, couples and individuals in her full-time private practice in Toronto, Canada. She practices...

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#370 – Mindfulness and Loving Relationships with John Amodeo

Transcript John Amodeo PhD has been a licensed marriage and family therapist for over thirty years. He is the author of the new book, Dancing with Fire: A Mindful Way to Loving Relationships. His other books include The Authentic Heart and Love & Betrayal, which have...

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#364 – Exploring The Wild Feminine with Marilyn Steele PhD

Marilyn Steele, Ph.D., is a Jungian psychologist, author, speaker, artist, mother and grandmother. She grew up in Hawaii, a land of great beauty and native wisdom where life is deeply intertwined with nature and its rhythms. She still considers Hawaii, a place alive...

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#361 – Deep Blues with Jungian Analyst Mark Winborn

Transcript Mark Winborn, PhD, NCPsyA is a Jungian Psychoanalyst and Clinical Psychologist. He is a training and supervising analyst of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and is also affiliated with the National Association for the Advancement of...

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#354 – What Aging Men Want with John C. Robinson, PhD

Transcript John C. Robinson, Ph.D., D.Min. is a clinical psychologist with a second doctorate in ministry, an ordained interfaith minister, the author of seven books on the interface of psychology and spirituality, and last but not least, an aging Boomer with grown...

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#353 – Thriving with Adult ADHD with Craig Surman, MD

Transcript Dr. Craig Surman, co-author of FAST MINDS: How To Thrive If You Have ADHD (Or Think You Might), is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Scientific Coordinator of the Adult ADHD Research Program at Massachusetts General...

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#349 – Intuition and Dreams with David Sowerby, PhD

Transcript David F. Sowerby, Ph.D. is a Consultant and an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Psychology Departments at Sonoma State University and Dominican University of California. Dr. Sowerby has published research in the areas of intuition and hypnosis, and is the...

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#345 – Trauma Stewardship with Laura van Dernoot Lipsky

Laura van Dernoot Lipsky MSW, founder and director of the Trauma Stewardship Institute and author of Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, has worked directly with trauma survivors for 25 years. At age 18, she regularly...

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#338 – Big Mind, Big Heart with Roshi Genpo Merzel

According to the bio info provided by his organization, Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel is one of the most renowned and accomplished teachers of Zen in the Western world. He was born in Brooklyn NY and grew up in Southern California where he was a champion swimmer and...

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#334 – The Fear Project with Jaimal Yogis

Transcript Jaimal Yogis is an author, journalist, and outdoors-man. His first book, a coming-of-age memoir called Saltwater Buddha, was praised by The Times of London, The Age, Publishers Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle, and is currently being made into a film....

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#330 – Unlocking The Emotional Brain with Bruce Ecker, M.A.

Transcript Bruce Ecker, M.A., L.M.F.T. is co-originator of Coherence Therapy and coauthor of Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation; Depth Oriented Brief Therapy: How To Be Brief When You Were Trained To Be Deep...

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#327 – Politics and Jung with Jungian Analyst Tom Elsner

Transcript Thomas Elsner, J.D., M.A., Jungian analyst, is a core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California where he also has a private practice. A former attorney, he trained at the Jung-Von Franz Center for Depth Psychology in Zurich....

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#324 – Exploring HeartMath with Rollin McCraty PhD

Transcript Rollin McCraty, Ph.D. has worked with the Institute of HeartMath since its inception in 1991. Working with the Institute's founder Doc Childre, Dr. McCraty developed the organization's research goals and created the Institute's Scientific Advisory Board....

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#322 – Mastering Resilience with Dennis Charney MD

Transcript Dennis S. Charney, MD is Dean of Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs of The Mount Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Charney is a world expert in the neurobiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. He has made...

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#321 -The Brain in Trauma and PTSD with Robert Scaer MD

Transcript Robert Scaer, M.D. received his B.A. in Psychology, and his M.D. degree at the University of Rochester. He is Board Certified in Neurology, and has been in practice for 36 years, twenty of those as Medical Director of Rehabilitation Services at the Mapleton...

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#318 – Understanding Problem Kids with Nancy Rappaport MD

Transcript Nancy Rappaport MD is a graduate of Princeton University and Tufts University School of Medicine. A board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, Dr. Rappaport is associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School where she teaches...

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#316 – Exploring Neuro-Psychoanalysis with Mark Solms PhD

Mark Solms PhD is best known for his discovery of the forebrain mechanisms of dreaming, and his pioneering use of psychoanalytic methods and theories in contemporary neuroscience. Born in L'deritz in 1961, he was educated at Pretoria Boys' School and the University of...

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#313 – Building Heaven on Earth with Dwight Webb PhD

Transcript Dwight Webb, Ph.D. is a longtime friend who has written the 2012 book, Building Heaven on Earth: Claiming Our Human Spirit. His previous books are The Soul of Counseling: A New Model for Understanding Human Experience and 50 Ways to Love Your Leaver:...

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#312 – Behaviorism and Spirituality with William Baum PhD

Transcript William M. Baum received his A.B. in psychology from Harvard College in 1961. Originally a biology major, he switched into psychology after taking courses from B. F. Skinner and R. J. Herrnstein in his freshman and sophomore years. He returned to Harvard...

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#307 Freedom From Pain with Maggie Phillips, PhD

Trancript Maggie Phillips, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in full-time private practice in Oakland, California. She is director of the California Institute of Clinical Hypnosis and past-president of the Northern California Society of Clinical Hypnosis. She is the...

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#306 – The Now Effect with Elisha Goldstein PhD

Transcript Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. is in private practice in West Los Angeles and is author of the 2012 book The Now Effect (Simon and Schuster, 2012) and co-author of, A Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Workbook, Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn. He synthesizes the...

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#290 Ally Work with Jungian Analyst Jeffrey Raff PhD

          Transcript Jeffrey Raff, Ph.D. is co-founder of the C.G. Jung Institute of Denver and a senior Jungian Analyst who has been in private practice in Denver since 1976. Trained in Zurich in the early 1970's Dr. Raff is the author of...

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#289 – Jung and Holding The Opposites with Jon Jackson MD

It was only after his psychiatric residency that Dr. Jon Jackson discovered Carl Jung. More specifically, he first discovered Marie-Louise von Franz, who remains one of his major influences to this day. He sees himself as an intuitive introvert who has somehow learned...

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#287 – ePsychotherapy with Ofer Zur, PhD

Ofer Zur, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and forensic consultant practicing in Sebastopol, California. He is the director of the Zur Institute, which offers over 100 online courses and is one of the most extensive online CE programs for psychologists, counselors,...

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#285 – A Jungian Initiation Process with Patricia Damery

Patricia Damery is an analyst member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco in private psychotherapy practice in Napa, California, where she and her husband also farm a Biodynamic organic ranch. She has published numerous articles and poems, as well as a book...

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#274 – The Secret Lives of The Brain with David Eagleman, PhD

David Eagleman PhD holds joint appointments in the Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Eagleman’s areas of research include time perception, vision, synesthesia, and the intersection of neuroscience with the...

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#273 – Victimization Nation with Ofer Zur, PhD

Transcript ZurInstitute.com provides dozens of free articles and guidelines for psychotherapists and the public. Discover these discount codes for you!: Angie's List and 10% off on printer ink at 4inkjets and 10% off on Shoes and other apparel at ShoeBuy.com. A...

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#265 – The Polyvagal Theory with Stephen Porges, Ph.D.

Transcript Stephen W. Porges, PhD is Professor of Psychiatry and BioEnginneering and Director of the Brain-Body Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work on the autonomic nervous system has led to a new understanding of mechanisms involved in...

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#261 – Practical Life Philosophy with Brian Johnson

Transcript Brian Johnson is the Philosopher & CEO of en*theos Enterprises where he has fun integrating his passion for practical philosophy with his passion for creating cool businesses that inspire and empower people to live their most authentically awesome lives. A...

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#260 – Whole Psychiatry with Robert Hedaya, MD

Transcript Robert J. Hedaya, MD, DFAPA is the founder of the National Center for Whole Psychiatry in Chevy Chase , Maryland. Dr Hedaya believes that better mental and physical health can be achieved with less medication by correcting bodily systems and getting to the...

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#259 – The Slippery Slope of Reality (2) with Jerry Trumbule

Dr. Hameroff has conducted very intriguing research on “microtubules,” tiny biological “transistors” which suggest a memory system much larger and more complex than that provided through the synapses. Robert Lanza, M.D. is considered one of the leading scientists in...

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#257 – The Slippery Slope of Reality (1) with Jerry Trumbule

Jerry Tumbule, M.S, ABD and I have another one of our wide ranging conversations. As usual, it is both personal and psychological. Among the topics we discuss in this first episode of a three-part series is an article that appeared in the December 13, 2010 issue of...

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#256 – Mindful Sleep, Mindful Dreams with Rubin Naiman PhD

Rubin Naiman, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in integrative sleep and dream medicine. He is director of Circadian Health Associates, an organization that provides information, goods and services in support of sleep health. Dr. Naiman completed his...

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#255 – Mindsight with Daniel Siegel, MD

Transcript Daniel J. Siegel, MD received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. He served as a National Institute of Mental Health...

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#250 – Transformative Education with Aftab Omer

Aftab Omer, Ph.D. received his Bachelor's from M.I.T. and his Doctorate from Brandeis University. He is President of Meridian University which infuses transformative education and innovation into its graduate programs in Psychology, Business, Education and the Arts....

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#243 – Exploring Behavioral Economics with Dan Ariely

Dan Ariely, Ph.D. is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University, where he holds appointments at the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, the School of Medicine, and the department of Economics. He...

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#237 – Dr. Dave Heads for Prague & Vienna

Hello everybody! This is just a short message for you all to let you know that I’ll be on the road and my next interview podcast may be a little later than usual. Today is Sunday, May 16, 2010 and tomorrow I get on a British Air flight to London and from London to...

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#234 – Psychoanalysis in Ireland with Paul Moore

Paul Moore B.A. Psych., M. Phil., M.Sc. is a psychologist and psychotherapist working in private practice in Dublin, Kilkenny & Carlow, Ireland. Paul is also a lecturer in psychology, teaching introductory psychology and social psychology on the undergraduate...

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#233 – NLP Modeling in Corporate Training with Tom Carroll

Transcript Tom Carroll has been facilitating and conducting corporate training for the past 20 years. Be sure to see his YouTube "The Vein Whisperer" on his site at www.evolutionarylearning.com. After earning a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Oregon (with...

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#226 – Dream Sight with Jane Teresa Anderson

Jane Teresa Anderson is the author of six books including Dream Alchemy and 101 Dream Interpretation Tips, a regular guest on Australian television, and an accomplished radio dream talk-back expert, interpreting callers’ dreams on more than 1,500 shows. She also hosts...

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#224 – Trekking Alone in The Wilderness with J.R. Harris

J. Robert (“J.R.”) Harris is one of my market research colleagues who is also an adventurer and explorer. His resume includes more than 40 wilderness expeditions over the past 30 years to remote places such as Alaska, Tasmania, Iceland, Patagonia, Lapland, the...

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#223 – Seeking Wisdom in Extreme Solitude with Robert Kull

Robert Kull, Ph.D. teaches through an online university and is author of the 2009 book, Solitutde: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes. Transcript Years after a motorcycle accident left him with one leg, Bob Kull traveled to a remote island in the Patagonia wilderness with...

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#219 – More Archetypal Dreamwork with Rodger Kamenetz

Rodger Kamenetz, Ph.D. is an award-winning poet and author of nine books, including the landmark international bestseller The Jew in the Lotus and the National Jewish Book Award-winning Stalking Elijah. His latest book, The History of Last Night's Dream:Discovering...

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#218 – Matrix Meditations with Victor and Kooch Daniels

Victor Daniels, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at Sonoma State University and co-author, along with his wife Kooch Daniels, M.A. of the 2009 book, Matrix Meditations: A 16-Week Program For Developing the Mind-Heart Connection. Victor was the first director of its...

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#217 – Happiness and Health with Dacher Keltner

Transcript Dacher Keltner, Ph.D. received his BA in Psychology and Sociology from UC Santa Barbara in 1984 and his PhD in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 1989. After a post-doc at UCSF with Paul Ekman, in 1992 he took his first academic job, at the...

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#216 – The Light Inside Dark Times with Michael Meade

Transcript Michael Meade has studied myth, anthropology, history of religion, and cross-cultural rituals for over 35 years. His hypnotic and fiery storytelling, street savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths and symbols are highly...

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#214 – Focusing with Ann Weiser Cornell

Transcript Ann Weiser Cornell, Ph.D., for more than 30 years, has been refining an approach to personal change that she calls “Inner Relationship Focusing.” Ann was getting her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Chicago when she met and worked with Dr. Eugene...

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#211 – Resurrection After Rape with Matt Atkinson

Transcript Matt Atkinson, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker and therapist who works with trauma survivors. He’s also author of the book Resurrection After Rape: A Guide to Transforming From Victim to Survivor. He has worked in crisis services as a staff...

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#210 – Harnessing Synchronicity with John Valentino

John C. Valentino is Chief Executive Officer of Psyleron. Psyleron was founded by scientists and associates of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory (PEAR) at Princeton University. The PEAR lab spent more than twenty-eight years studying the...

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#208 – Pre- and Perinatal Psychology with William Emerson

Transcript William R. Emerson, Ph.D., is a renowned workshop leader, writer, lecturer, and pioneer in the field of pre and perinatal psychology. He is among the first in the world to develop prenatal and perinatal treatment methods for infants and children, is an...

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#203 – The Feminine Face of God with Sherry Ruth Anderson

Transcript Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D. is the co –author of best selling The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women and The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World. Sherry received her B.A. cum laude from Goucher College...

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#198 – Understanding Teenage Psychology with Annie Fox

In 1977, The InSite, a highly acclaimed web resource for teens. One of The InSite’s most popular features is Hey Terra, a Cyberspace relationship adviser. Annie’s award-winning book The Teen Survival Guide to Dating and Relating is based on hundreds of email questions...

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#197 – Scientific Parapsychology with Dean Radin

Dean Radin, PhD, is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and has served as president of the American Parapsychological Association four times. A little over a year ago, he gave a presentation at Google, which can be found on YouTube, and it has...

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#195 – Psychological Entrepreneurship with Colleen Long

Dr. Colleen Long, Psy.D. was trained as a clinical psychologist but quickly learned her path would not be a traditional one. Dr. Long started to recognize the burgeoning number of professionals in the psychology/psychiatry industry being interviewed for their...

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#193 – Holistic Psychotherapy with Sarah Chana Radcliffe

Transcript Sarah Chana Radcliffe, M.Ed., C.Psych.Assoc. is a registered Psychologist in Ontario, Canada. Over the past 30 years, she has counseled thousands of parents, couples and individuals in her full-time private practice in Toronto, Canada. She practices...

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#189 – Lucid Dreaming with Robert Waggoner

Robert Waggoner is the author of the 2008 book Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self and the co-editor of the quarterly publication, The Lucid Dream Exchange. Lucid dreaming refers to the ability to become consciously aware in the dream state while dreaming. Those...

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#185 – At The SF Happiness and Its Causes Conference

We deviate from our regular format of interviewing a single person. Last week I attended a four-day conference in San Francisco on Happiness and It’s Causes. The conference was sponsored by a Tibetan Buddhist organization to raise money for an initiative known as the...

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#180 – Consciousness and Technology with Nova Spivack

Nova Spivack is one of the leading voices of the emerging Semantic Web, what is sometimes referred to as Web 3.0. Nova founded Radar Networks to develop the next-evolution of social software, Twine, based on the Semantic Web. Twine is a unique, Semantic Web...

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#177 – A Live Presentation on Technology and The Millennials

This is presentation I gave at Sonoma State University. As in several previous semesters, Dr. Shepherd Bliss invited me to be a guest speaker in his psychology class, The Person in Society. I tried to make the session interactive, though I ended up talking more than I...

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#176 – The Dave and Jerry Show #13

Jerry Tumbule, M.S, ABD and I have another one of our wide ranging conversations. As usual, it is both personal and psychological. Among the topics we discuss are the impact of cell phones upon sleep and health, self-awareness in elephants and other large-brained...

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#175 – Toltec Wisdom Teachings with Allan Hardman

Allan Hardman describes himself as a relationship coach, author, teacher, and Toltec Master, trained by Miguel Ruiz in the tradition of The Four Agreements. He teaches in Sonoma County, CA, and guides “Journeys of the Spirit” to sacred sites and tropical beaches in...

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#174 – Murder Most Psychological with Dr. Roberta Isleib

Roberta Isleib, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist with a mystery series starring a Connecticut psychologist and advice columnist. Her mystery series debuted in 2007 with Deadly Advice. Book three, Asking For Murder, has just been released. She says the work of the...

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#173 – Prison Dreams and Fairy Tales

Transcript Dana Houck D.Min, Ed.D. is currently a psychotherapist working in Minnesota in private practice and is working part time as a licensed School Counselor working with troubled youth in Rural Minnesota Schools. He worked as a prison Psychologist for over ten...

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#168 – An International Conference on Shamanism

Dr. Jurgen Kremer, and Gail Hayssen are organizers and presenters at the upcoming 25th Annual International Conference on the Study of Shamanism and Alternative Modes of Healing which will take place August 30 through Sept 1, 2008 at the Santa Sabina Retreat Center in...

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#160 – Drunk With Wonder

Steve Ryals is author of the new book Drunk with Wonder: Awakening to the God Within. Through learning to be present to his own deep feelings, Ryals was able to let go of years of addictive behavior, including freeing himself of decades of alcohol abuse seven years...

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#157 – The Psychology of SecondLife

Wagner James Au is author of the 2008 book, The Making of Second Life: Notes from The New World. From April 2003 to February 2006, he was a contract writer for Linden Lab, creators of Second Life, primarily hired by the company to cover SL as an embedded journalist in...

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#156 – My Three Shrinks

Shrink Rap, are hosted by three psychiatrists. Inasmuch as they keep their online identities, anonymous, they are simply Dinah, Roy, and ClinkShrink. The name of their show and blog are so to Shrink Rap Radio that I thought it would be fun for us to get to know one...

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#150 – Wisdom Councils and Dynamic Facilitation

TJim Rough is a consultant, speaker, seminar leader, author, and social innovator. He originated Dynamic Facilitation, a new way of facilitating meetings that assures creative collaborative thinking, which is now being used all over the world. For almost two decades...

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#147 – Nirvana and The Brain with Jill Bolte Taylor PhD

Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist who teaches at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Bloomington, Indiana. She is the author of the extraordinary book, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey which...

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#143 – Shrink Rap Radio LIVE! #7

Jerry Trumbule, M.A., ABD and I speak on a live episode about the brain, communication, autism, animal intelligence, and Second Life. In particular. We comment on "Inside Animal Minds" which can be found in the March 2008 issue of National Geographic and also "The...

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#135 – Jungian Sandplay Therapy with Liza Ravitz

Liza J. Ravitz, Ph.D. is a Jungian Analyst who teaches at the San Francisco C.G. Jung Institute’s continuing education program. Liza practices in San Francisco and Petaluma where she works with children and adults, conducts consultation groups for therapists and...

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#132 – The Psychology of Doll Work

Transcript Geri Olson, Ph.D. is associate professor in the Psychology Department at Sonoma State University, where she will soon assume the role of Department Chair. Geri teaches and leads workshops in the area of creativity and expressive arts. Geri points out that...

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#131 – Confronting Death

Steven Shaps, M.A., MFT, is a Marriage and Family Therapist who practices body-mind psychotherapy in Portland, Oregon. He specializes in the practice of Somatic Psychotherapy and Anger & Stress Management. He works with individuals, couples, families, and groups in...

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#130 – Shrink Rap Radio LIVE! #5

Jerry Trumbule. It's a wide ranging conversation covering "the memex," Google, science fiction, Second LIfe, Moroccan kids in cyber cafes, and more. (Psychology podcast by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.)

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#128 – Shrink Rap Radio LIVE! #4

Dr. Dave and co-host Jerry Trumbule respond to a listener comment about the previous show on artificial intelligence with more discussion of the intelligence concept, referring to a review by Malcolm Gladwell in the December 17, 2007 issue of The New Yorker, in which...

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#125 – The Psychological Roots of Leadership

Stephen H. Baum is author of the 2007 book, What Made Jack Welch Jack Welch: How Ordinary People Become Extraordinary Leaders. Mr. Baum has been an adviser and coach to CEOs for more than twenty years, first as a partner with Booz Allen Hamilton and, now, as an...

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#123 – The Mind in The Exploratorium

I recently visited the San Francisco Exploratorium and Dr. Richard Brown was kind enough to give me the guided tour which you will hear here. You can join us on the tour right now! Dr. Richard Brown is a Neuropsychologist on the staff at the San Francisco...

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#114 – The Podcast and New Media Expo

On the last show, I mentioned I had been away at the Podcast and New Media Expo in Southern California. Like the last show, today’s show does not feature the usual psychological celebrity interview but instead contains interviews with some of the podcasters I met at...

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#110 – Spiritual Emergencies and Spiritual Competencies

David Lukoff, Ph.D. has been a clinical psychologist for 25 years and is currently a professor of psychology at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California. He has also taught at Harvard, UCLA, Oxnard College, Saybrook Graduate School, and the...

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#107 – 115th APA Convention

I was excited to attend the 115th American Psychological Association convention in San Francisco. I'm under the impression that it is the largest professional association on the planet and there were roughly 16,000 psychologists in attendance. This podcast is a...

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#106 – Psychology and The Coaching Movement

Sarah Zeldman along with her husband Dr. Allan Zeldman are today’s guests. The Zeldman’s are Shrink Rap Radio listeners who I’ve asked to step through the looking glass, transitioning from listeners to interviewees. Sarah Zeldman is a Life & Home Business Coach...

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#102 – Anne Is A Man On Love

Anne is a faithful Shrink Rap Radio listener who after 10 years of marriage is still very much in love with his wife. According to his blog, he was born in the Netherlands in 1966, moved to Israel in 1998. He says he has dabbled in creative writing since 1983. Studied...

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#99 – The Unabomber and The Zodiac

My family settled in Dover, Delaware, where I matriculated at Delaware State University, co-majoring in History and Biology. Leaving college just short of a degree, I embarked upon a personal quest to understand the nature of artistic creativity. This quest drew me...

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#98 – Sound-Seeing Tour at A Dream Conference

Dr. Dave interviews a variety of presenters and participants at the 24th International Association for The Study of Dreams conference held at Sonoma State Universiy, California June 29 - July 3, 2007. This is a remarkable organization inasmuch as it welcomes academic...

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#97 – The Freud/Jung Letters

Transcript My long-time friend, Dr. Douglas A. Davis, recently retired from full-time teaching at Haverford College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania where he was professor of psychology and for many years department chair. Long time listeners will remember Dr. Davis from...

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#96 – Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy with Michael Mayer

Transcript Long time listeners will recall that Michael Mayer, Ph.D. was my guest on Show #41, speaking with us about Bodymind Healing with Qiqong. Michael Mayer, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, hypnotherapist and a Qigong/Tai Chi teacher in the San Francisco Bay...

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#90 – The Language of Dreams with Robert Hoss, MS

Transcript Robert Hoss, M.S., is author of the book Dream Language. He is also Executive Officer and Past President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and faculty member of the Haden Institute for Dream Leadership Training and adjunct faculty of...

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#88 – Peak Performance Sports Psychology

Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn has been an athlete and a coach. According to his website, he's experienced firsthand how beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors influence performance. His passion for sports was born early in life and grew as he participated in...

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#86 – Warriors, Settlers, and Nomads

Terence Watts is hypnoanalyst and author of the self-help book: Warriors, Settlers, & Nomads: Discovering Who We Are and What We Can Be. He is a fellow of the Hypnotherapy Research Society, a member of the National Council of Psychotherapists and an accredited...

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#85 – The Heroine’s Journey with Maureen Murdock

Transcript Maureen Murdock M.A. is a psychotherapist, writing teacher and the author of six books, including The Heroine's Journey:Woman's Quest for Wholeness, a ground-breaking book which revealed a broader understanding of the female psyche on both a personal and...

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#84 – The Anatomy of a Lobotomist

Jack El-Hai is author of the 2005 book, THE LOBOTOMIST, the story of Dr. Walter Freeman, a maverick medical genius and his tragic quest to rid the world of mental illness. Jack El-Hai is the President of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, a winner of the...

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#82 – In Praise of Sweet Darkness

Transcript Shepherd Bliss earned his Doctor of Ministry from the University of Chicago Divinity School in l971. He is a retired college professor. Dr. Bliss spent a decade at Harvard, in various capacities, including doing Post Doctoral Study on the life cycle...

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#79 – Understanding and Improving Memory

Thomas H. Crook, Ph.D. is a psychologist and author of the new book, The Memory Advantage: Improve Your Memory, Mood, and Confidence Throughout Life. He is also the former chairman of both the National Institute of Mental Health and American Psychological Association...

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#77 – Understanding the Enneagram

Transcript Gabriele Hilberg, Ph.D., is a San Francisco Bay Area psychotherapist, business consultant and international workshop leader who relies heavily on the Enneagram personality system in her work with people over the past 24 years. She says her passion is...

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#76 – The Psychologist As Novelist

Transcript Stephen White, Ph.D. is the author of the New York Times bestselling Alan Gregory novels. In his books, he draws upon over fifteen years of clinical practice as a psychologist to create intriguing plots and complex, believable characters. Trained as a...

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#73 – Reflections on My Tarot Reading

Dr. Dave (David Van Nuys, Ph.D.) reflects on a Tarot reading by Art Rosengarten, Ph.D. during Shrink Rap Radio episode #70. Dr. Dave models the process of how one might approach working with these archetypal symbols and applying them to a key concern in one's own life.

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#72 – Soul Medicine with Dawson Church

Dawson Church, Ph.D. has edited or authored over 200 books in the fields of health, psychology, and spirituality. Most recently, he is the co-author with Dr. Norman Shealy of the 2006 book, Soul Medicine: Awakening Your Inner Blueprint for Abundant Health and Energy....

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#70 – Tarot As Psychological Tool

Transcript Dr. Art Rosengarten is a Jungian-based licensed psychologist and widely recognized expert on the psychological use of Tarot cards. He is author of Tarot And Psychology: Spectrums of Possibility (Paragon, 2000) and wrote the first accredited dissertation on...

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#68 – The Soul of Counseling

Dwight Webb, Ph.D. is a longtime friend who has written the 2005 book, The Soul of Counseling: A New Model for Understanding Human Experience. He also wrote an earlier book titled 50 Ways to Love Your Leaver: Getting On With Your Life After The Breakup. He earned his...

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#67 – Psychology and Kabbalah

Dr. Abner Weiss, Ph.D. is author, psychologist and Rabbi. Rabbi Weiss wrote the 2005 book, Connecting to God: Ancient Kabbalah and Modern Psychology. Rabbi Weiss is a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and a member of the...

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#64 – The Sinclair Method for Treating Addiction

David Sinclair,Ph.D. is a Senior Researcher at the National Health Institute in Helsinki, Finland. He has pioneered an approach to the treatment of alcoholism which has come to be called, the Sinclair Method. His protocol involves the use of opiate antagonists such as...

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#62 – Get Smart, Healthy, and Rich

Randy Gage is a multilevel marketing guru, success coach, motivational speaker, and author of the new book, Why You’re Dumb, Sick, and Broke… And How to Get Smart, Well, and Rich. He has been referred to as “The Millionaire Messiah” because of his assertion that it’s...

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#58 – Understanding Art Therapy

Transcript Suzanne Lovell, Ph.D. for a number of years has been the program coordinator for the Master’s degree program in Art Therapy at Sonoma State University. After earning her own Master’s degree at Sonoma State, Dr. Lovell went on to earn her Ph.D. at The Union...

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#49 – The Psychology of Terrorism

Clark McCauley, Ph.D. is Prof of Psychology at Bryn Mawr College. He also has ties to my undergraduate alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Soloman Ash Center for Ethnopolitical Conflict. In addition, he is co-director of the START...

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#47 – Psychological Survival in Israel

Varda Raziel Jacont is a psychologist with a daily call-in radio show in Televiv, Israel. She is interviewed by Dr. Dave on how Israelis have learned to cope with the violence of war and terrorism. Inasmuch as Israel has been dealing with terrorism and war longer than...

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#46 – The Narcissistic Personality

Transcript From time to time, I get requests from listeners asking for more coverage of the various diagnostic categories such as depression, autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and so on. So, it’s in that spirit that I invited today’s guest to talk about the...

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#45 – Drugs and Psychotherapy

Padma Catell, Ph.D. is the author of Drugs and Clients: What Every Psychotherapist Needs to Know. According to the book’s flyleaf, Drugs and Clients is written for people who are studying or practicing the art of psychotherapy, particularly Marriage and Family...

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#44 – The DNA of Leadership

Judith E. Glaser, M.A. is the author of The DNA of Leadership: Leveraging Your Instincts to Communicate, Differentiate, Innovate. Judith has an M.A. in Human Behavior & Development and has gone on to create a very successful organizational change agency in New...

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#43 – A Jungian Shaman with Carl Greer, PhD

Transcript Carl Greer, Ph.D. is a former engineer and Columbia University business professor who became a psychologist and then a Jungian Analyst and then in recent years has trained to be a Shaman at the Four Winds Society in Park City, Utah. In addition to all the...

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#39 – Business Consulting with NLP and Love

Stephen Cotterell, and his partner, Caron Chung, head up a consulting company called Executive Matters, working out of Brighton, in East Sussex, England. Stephen’s work as a consultant focuses on leadership development, teamwork, building community, and personal...

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#38 – An Artist’s Journey of Transformation

In 1979, when he was 29 years old, Jerry Wennstrom was an artist living in New York City and he had already produded a large body of work. At that point in his life, he felt an overwhelming spiritual urging to discover the rock-bottom truth of his life. For years he...

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#36 – An Irish Odyssey

This episode documents my recent trip to Ireland to conduct a workshop on The Hero's Journey. In the process, I met with and interviewed Shrink Rap Radio listener Hugh Gormley, M.A. who originally trained to be a priest, then became a computer network consultant, and...

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#27 – Computer-Assisted Dream Interpretation

Transcript Glenn Livingston, Ph.D. lives in New Hampshire and is an extremely versatile psychologist. Dr. Livingston has trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, done pioneering work on emotions in market research, served as an executive coach, and, more recently,...

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#26 – Bullying in The Workplace

Transcript If you have ever been picked on or bullied, you know how hurtful it can be. If you haven't ever been picked on or bullied, then you should really listen to this to help sensitize you to the issue. Our Australian correspondent, Frank Smolle, interviews a...

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#25 – Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)

Transcript NLP was born in the early 70's, the branchild of John Grinder and Richard Bandler. They studied some of the leading therapists of the time but instead of accepting the standard theoretical underpinnings of the various approaches, they sought to develop a...

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#24 – Psychological Survival in Baghdad

Transcript How does one cope with the stress of random danger, of car bombs going off daily? I interview Mohammed, a 32 year-old Iraqi living in Baghdad who shares a secret he dare not spread widely there-- he likes Americans. Mohammed describes the perils of daily...

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#23 – Ageism: A Call for Tolerance and Compassion

Transcript Frank Smolle, our Australian correspondent, interviews nurse Carol Mortenson about her experiences working with older patients and her views on age discrimination (Ageism) in Australia. Her observations are right on and certainly apply to the U.S. and,...

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#22 – Snake Dreams with The Maidens

Transcript Snakes are a fairly frequent dream symbol. Robin and Suzanne Maiden host the Jungian-oriented podcast, InsytWorks and, in a recent episode, they discuss snakes and the archetepal image of the snake swallowing its own tail, which is known as the Oroboros. In...

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#18 – Two Blokes in An Aussie Pub Discuss Psychology

Transcript Frank Smolle, from episode #16 below, interviews fellow student and research assistant on war gaming and on the psychology of deception. In my wrap-up, I recommend several books: Transcendent Experiences in Sports by Michael Murphy, Kitchen Confidential by...

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#16 – Psychology in Australia

Transcript Frank Smolle is a 33 year old psychology student who is finishing up his degree at Charles Stuart University in Bathurst. A former auctioneer, he took up psychology after witnessing so much family discord over the estates of their deceased loved ones. An...

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#14 – Advanced Placement Psychology and Podcasting

Transcript In show #12, Adam Ronscavage, M.A. interviewed me on Altered States of Consciousness. This time I interview him about his experiences teaching Advanced Placement Psychology to high school students in Denver. We explore the teaching of psychology at this...

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#6 – Psychology and Politics

Transcript Larry Robinson, M.A., MFT is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, an ecopsychologist, and a poet. He is also in his second term as Mayor of Sebastopol, California. He is probably one of a handful of Green Party mayors in the country. For over 15 years,...

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#5 – Podcasting, Psychology, and My Serial Killer Book

Transcript I recently attended my first San Francisco Podcasters MeetUp. It was an unexpectedly large event which made it hard to have conversations with individuals. Consequently, I was surprised to receive an e-mail a few days later from blogger and podcaster Chris...

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