Shrink Rap Radio Psychology Interviews: Exploring brain, body, mind, spirit, intuition, leadership, research, psychotherapy and more!

#212 - Archetypal Dreamwork with Marc Bregman and Christa Lancaster

shrink — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:25:34 +0000

Marc Bregman and Christa Lancaster are co-directors of The Center for Archetypal Dreamwork. Marc Bregman founded Archetypal Dreamwork in 1973 and is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of North of Eden and The Center for Archetypal Dreamwork. Marc is a master Archetypal Dreamwork Therapist, in practice since 1973, a teacher and a trainer of teachers. He is [...]

#211 - Resurrection After Rape with Matt Atkinson

shrink — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:16:45 +0000

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 director with the YWCA in prevention of domestic and sexual violence, where [...]

#210 - Harnessing Synchronicity with John Valentino

shrink — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:56:05 +0000

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 interaction of the mind with sensitive random physical devices, and demonstrated that consciousness is indeed capable of influencing [...]

#209 - I Am Because We Are: The Family in Africa with Elaine Leeder

shrink — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:32:04 +0000

Elaine Leeder, MSW, MPH, PhD is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the School of Social Sciences. She holds an M.S.W. from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work of Yeshiva University, a Masters of Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. She was a practicing psychotherapist from [...]

#208 - Pre- and Perinatal Psychology with William Emerson

shrink — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:14:32 +0000

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 expert in treatment methods for adults, and is recognized world-wide for [...]

#207 - Life Changing Lessons from Hard Core Cons with Dana Houck

shrink — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:49:56 +0000

You may recall that Dana Houck D.Min, Ed.D. was my very fascinating guest on Shrink Rap Radio #173 – Prison Dreams and Fairy Tales. He has published a new book, Life Changing Lessons from Hard Core Cons. Dr. Houck is currently a psychotherapist working in Minnesota in private practice and is working part time as [...]

#206 - The Yoga of Self-Acceptance with Tony Wolff

shrink — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:41:25 +0000

Transcript Tony Wolff and I worked together in his consulting company for 18 years or so, when he decided to close up shop and go on a quest to build a more meaningful life. Tony has practiced yoga and Vipassana meditation for over 20 years. He began practicing Transcendental meditation in 1967 and has taught yoga [...]

#205 - Healing Troubled Relationships with David Burns, MD

shrink — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:25:17 +0000

Transcript David Burns, MD is an Adjunct Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and has served as Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Medical School. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. His best-selling book, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, has sold over [...]

#204 - Nightmares As A Tool for Personal Growth with Anne Hill

shrink — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:51:33 +0000

Anne Hill, D.Min., is a writer, dream consultant and public speaker based in Northern California. She is author of What To Do When Dreams Go Bad: A Practical Guide to Nightmares. She has a private dream practice, and teaches internationally on dreams and spirituality. Her website is www.annehill.org Anne is the host of [...]

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

shrink — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:48:11 +0000

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 and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Toronto. She [...]

#202 - Exploring The Promise of Holosync with Bill Harris

shrink — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:46:15 +0000

Bill Harris is Director of The Holosync Research Institute. He is a graduate of Portland State University and also has three years of graduate study in music, studying with world-renowned Czech composer Tomas Svoboda and Spanish composer Salvador Brotons. He is a Certified Trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming and is trained in Ericksonian [...]

#201 - Energy Psychiatry and Emotional Freedom with Judith Orloff, MD

shrink — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:26:05 +0000

Transcript Judith Orloff, MD is an assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and author of the 2009 book, Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life. SPECIAL OFFER: Get 100 free gifts with purchase of book at http://www.drjudithorloff.com/emotional-freedom-promotion/. She has spoken at medical schools, hospitals, universities, the APA, Fortune Magazine’s Most [...]

#200 - Suicide Prevention Among LGBT Youth with Effie Malley + Big #200 Celebration

shrink — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:39:25 +0000

Effie Malley is a senior prevention specialist at the national Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC). She is one of the authors of SPRC’s Suicide Risk and Prevention for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth, and has given numerous trainings on the topic. She works with federal grantees, advising them on youth suicide prevention and early [...]

#199 - The Secret History of Dreaming with Robert Moss

shrink — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:03:46 +0000

Transcript Robert Moss is the pioneer of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of shamanism and modern dreamwork, and he will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming International Association for The Study of Dreams annual conference. Born in Australia, he survived three near-death experiences in childhood. He leads popular seminars all over the world, including a [...]

#198 - Understanding Teenage Psychology with Annie Fox

shrink — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:43:14 +0000

In 1977, Annie Fox, M.Ed. and her husband David co-founded the Marin Computer Center in San Rafael, California. It was the world’s first public access microcomputer facility. There she began exploring ways technology could be used to empower kids. This led her to write her best selling introductory computer book, Armchair BASIC, which launched her [...]

#197 - Scientific Parapsychology with Dean Radin

shrink — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:44:13 +0000

Transcript 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 become the most discussed talk of the 1,031 talks [...]

#196 - Exploring Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Raul Moncayo

shrink — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:53:28 +0000

Transcript Raul Moncayo, Ph.D. is author of the recent book, Evolving Lacanian Perspectives for Clinical Psychoanalysis. He is also training director for Mission Mental Health, San Francisco under the Department of Public Health. He is a member of the Research Faculty at Alliant University (formerly The California School of Professional Psychology] and [...]

#195 - Psychological Entrepreneurship with Colleen Long

shrink — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:47:09 +0000

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 expertise on major news outlets such as CNN, FOX, and ABC’s Good Morning America. She decided [...]

#194 - Life Among The Piraha - An Amazonian Psychology with Daniel Everett

shrink — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:48:55 +0000

Transcript Dan Everett, Ph.D. is author of Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazon Jungle, as well as Professor of Linguistics, Anthropology, and Biological Sciences and Chairman of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University in Normal, IL. He received his Sc.D. from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, [...]

#193 - Holistic Psychotherapy with Sarah Chana Radcliffe

shrink — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:24:26 +0000

Sarah Chana Radcliffe, M.Ed., C.Psych.Assoc. is a registered Psychological Associate 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 Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples, Process Experiential Psychotherapy, Energy Psychology, EMDR and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for parents. She [...]

#192 - Living Forward and Giving Back with Isabelle St. Jean

shrink — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:23:20 +0000

Isabelle St-Jean is a Certified NLP Practitioner, Professional Life Transitions coach and Certified Retirement Coach with a background including decades of personal development and a degree in social work and psychology. Pursuing her interest in human development and the midlife journey at this pivotal point of our evolution on Earth, Isabelle has authored [...]

#191 - Stopping Self-Sabotage with Pat Pearson

shrink — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:34:47 +0000

Transcript Pat Pearson, M.S.S.W., is an internationally known psychotherapist, motivational speaker, and business builder for over thirty years with companies such as Mary Kay Cosmetics, IBM, Century 21 and many more. The author of four books, Pearson has thousands of subscribers to her Audio-of-the-Month Club. She has traveled throughout the world sharing her practical methods for [...]

#190 - IconiCards: The Un-Tarot with Sharon Livingston, Ph.D.

shrink — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:23:33 +0000

Sharon Livingston, Ph.D. is a psychologist and is President of The Livingston Group, a market research consulting firm in Windham, New Hampshire. She is one of my long-time market research colleagues and friends and I previously interviewed her back on Shrink Rap Radio #11. She is well-known for the creativity that she brings to [...]

#189 –Lucid Dreaming with Robert Waggoner

shrink — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:06:27 +0000

Transcript 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 who have experienced this unique state are likely [...]

#188 - Technology and The Evolving Brain with Gary Small, M.D.

shrink — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:40:54 +0000

Gary Small, M.D. is co-author (along with his wife, Gigi Vorgan) of the 2008 book, iBrain: Surviving The Technological Alteration of The Modern Mind. In addition, Dr. Small is a professor of psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute and directs the Memory and Aging Research Center and the UCLA Center on Aging. He is [...]

#187 – Happy At Last with Richard O’Connor, Ph.D.

shrink — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:36:42 +0000

Transcript Richard O’Connor, MSW, Ph.D. is the author of Happy At Last: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Finding Joy. His earlier books are Undoing Depression and Undoing Perpetual Stress. For fourteen years he was executive director of the Northwest Center for Family Service and Mental Health, a private, nonprofit mental health clinic serving [...]

#186 - What Happy Women Know with Cathy Greenberg, Ph.D.

shrink — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:57:48 +0000

Transcript With two decades of real world expertise, Dr. Cathy Greenberg focuses on the successful integration of business strategies and human performance. Cathy maximizes the outcomes of business change through executive coaching, using leadership and organizational assessments while developing internal coaching networks for enterprise wide success. Working with executives and CEO’s in the global [...]

#185 - At The SF Happiness and Its Causes Conference

shrink — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:10:28 +0000

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 Liberation Prison Project, which supports the spiritual practice [...]

#184 – Working with Families and The Courts with Dana Schneider

shrink — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:05:20 +0000

Dana Schneider, MA, MFT is a lecturer at Sonoma State University and a licensed marriage and family therapist. In addition to 29 years of clinical experience working with children, adolescents and their families, she has extensive training and experience in the field of divorcing families. She has served as a special master for the Sonoma [...]

#183 – Mindfulness, Harm Reduction and Relapse Prevention with Alan Marlatt

shrink — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:32:59 +0000

Transcript G. Alan Marlatt, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington and Director of the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at that institution. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Indiana University in 1968. After serving on the faculties of the University of British Columbia and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he joined the [...]

#182 - Effects of Meditation and CBT on The Brain with Philippe Goldin

shrink — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:04:49 +0000

Transcript Philippe Goldin, Ph.D. is a research scientist and heads the Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience group in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. He spent 6 years in India and Nepal studying various languages, Buddhist philosophy and debate at Namgyal Monastery and the Dialectic Monastic Institute, and serving as an interpreter for various Tibetan Buddhist lamas. [...]

#181 – The Art of Engagement in Organizations with Jim Haudan

shrink — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:40:16 +0000

Transcript Jim Haudan is CEO of Root Learning and author of the 2008 book, The Art of Engagement: Bridging The Gap Between People and Possibilities. For the past 20 years, he has not only built a thriving business, but has helped numerous individuals unleash their hidden potential. With origins as a coach and school administrator, it’s [...]

#180 - Consciousness and Technology with Nova Spivack

shrink — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:47:05 +0000

Transcript 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 application that that helps users organize, share and [...]

#179 - A Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy with Dr. Stan Tatkin

shrink — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:42:45 +0000

Transcript Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, founder/developer of A Psychobiological Approach To Couples Therapy™ integrates neuroscience, infant attachment, arousal regulation, and therapeutic enactment applied to adult primary attachment relationships. He maintains a practice in Calabasas, California, and runs a bi-weekly clinical study group for medical and mental health professionals (www.ahealthymind.org/csg) and training programs in Seattle and [...]

#178 - Intuition and The Voyager Tarot with Dr. James Wanless

shrink — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:12:11 +0000

Transcript James Wanless, Ph.D., is a former political science professor and creator of the best-selling Voyager Tarot and author of Intuition@Work. A popular keynote motivational speaker and seminar leader, Wanless travels the world teaching the 21st century skills of creativity, personal sustainability, intuition and leadership. You can view his work on [...]

#177 – A Live Presentation on Technology and The Millennials

shrink — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:00:28 +0000

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 intended. You will hear comments and [...]

#176 - The Dave and Jerry Show #13

shrink — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:22:38 +0000

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 creatures, speech recognition areas in the monkey brain, the [...]

#175 - Toltec Wisdom Teachings with Allan Hardman

shrink — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:50:22 +0000

Transcript 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 Mexico and beyond. He is the author of The Everything [...]

#174 - Murder Most Psychological with Dr. Roberta Isleib

shrink — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:21:57 +0000

Transcript 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 detective in a mystery has quite a bit in common [...]

#173 – Prison Dreams and Fairy Tales

shrink — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:20:03 +0000

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 years before recently retiring. While working in the prison [...]

#172 - The Dave and Jerry Show #12: Tweets for Twits?

shrink — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:56:55 +0000

Transcript What you have here is another session between Jerry Trumbule and me. For the moment, I’ve decided to back off from calling these episodes Shrink Rap Radio LIVE, since we are no longer doing the in the call-in format. So, rejecting the few renaming suggestions I’ve received, I think I like The Dave [...]

#171 - The View From A University Counseling Center

shrink — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:10:56 +0000

Transcript Tom Murray, PhD., is the Director of Counseling and Disability Services at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Dr. Murray’s is a licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed professional counselor, and board certified in clinical hypnotherapy. He received his graduate training from the University of Florida’s Department of Counselor Education in 2001 [...]

#170 - From Dreambody to Worldwork

shrink — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:20:35 +0000

Transcript Drs. Arnold and Amy Mindell come out of the Jungian tradition and have been doing pioneering work around the world. Dr. Amy Mindell is in private therapeutic practice in Portland, Oregon and teaches in many countries in the world. She helped developed process oriented psychology in the areas of coma, creativity, and dance. She holds a [...]

#169 - Way of The Scottish Ninja

shrink — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:07:01 +0000

Transcript Jock Brocas is author of the book Powers of The Sixth Sense: How To Remain Safe in A Hostile World. In addition to being an author, Jock is also an expert in security and martial arts, as well as a professional psychic medium. He works worldwide with his wife, demonstrating the continuance of [...]

#168 - An International Conference on Shamanism

shrink — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:42:12 +0000

Transcript Juliette Hanauer, 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 San Rafael, CA. The first interview is with Juliette Hanauer, [...]

#167- Shrink Rap Radio LIVE#11 - Chumps for Chimps!

shrink — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:17:33 +0000

Transcript Jerry Trumbule, MS, PhD (abd) and I engage in a discussion about the ethics of animal research, with a focus on his experiences working with chimpanzees. Jerry was inspired to go down memory lane by a recent episode on the Australian Broadcasting Company’s All In The Mind. titled, “Apes, legal personhood and the plight of [...]

#166 – A Jungian View of The Feminine in Film

shrink — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:34:18 +0000

Transcript John Beebe, M.D., is co-author, along with Virginia Apperson of the new book, The Presence of The Feminine in Film. You may recall that Dr. Beebe, was my guest on show #140 which dealt with Jungian Typology. Dr. Beebe is a Jungian analyst in practice in San Francisco. He received degrees from Harvard [...]

#165 - Irritable Male Syndrome

shrink — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:10:27 +0000

Transcript Jed Diamond, Ph.D. has been a licensed psychotherapist for over 43 years and is the author of seven books including the international best-selling Male Menopause and Surviving Male Menopause that has thus far been translated into 32 foreign languages and the recently released The Irritable Male Syndrome: Understanding and Managing the 4 Key Causes [...]

#164 - A Holistic Approach to Treating PTSD in Israel

shrink — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:03:39 +0000

Transcript Rabbi Immanuel Yosef Legomsky MA, has been researching and practically integrating mind/body therapies in Israel since relocating from the USA in 1987. In 2002, he started www.IsraelTraumaCare.org to give free psychotrauma care to terror victims, and train facilitators to serve the public. He focused on EFT (Emotional Freedom Therapy) as the tool of choice [...]

#163 - Exercise and The Brain

shrink — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:27:34 +0000

Transcript John J.Ratey, M.D. is author of the new book, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and The Brain. Dr. Ratey is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has a private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more than a decade he taught residents and Harvard medical students as the [...]

#162 - Tea and Empathy: Combining Acupuncture, Hypnosis and NLP

shrink — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:03:46 +0000

Transcript Randy Clere, Lic Ac, CH. MNLP is a licensed acupuncturist and hypnotherapist in private practice in Seattle, Washington. He has three decades of clinical practice in the arts of acupuncture, Oriental Medicine and hypnotherapy, specializing in Japanese-style acupuncture and Zen Shiatsu. He also uses NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP), Neuro-Semantics, Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and Self Relations therapy [...]

#161 - Shrink Rap Radio LIVE! #10

shrink — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:54:36 +0000

Transcript Once a month, Jerry Trumbule, M.A., ABD and I get together on blogtalkradio to discuss psychology. I later put the show up here. In this show, the discussion focuses on whether Google and the Internet are making us stupid. In the course of the discussion, we refer to three different articles. The [...]

#160 - Drunk With Wonder

shrink — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:18:40 +0000

Transcript 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 ago. He attributes his current health and [...]

#159 - Therapist to The Hollywood Stars

shrink — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:56:50 +0000

Transcript Dennis Palumbo, M.A., MFT is a writer and licensed psychotherapist in private practice, specializing in creative issues. He’s the author of Writing From the Inside Out, as well as a new collection of mystery short stories, From Crime to Crime. Formerly a Hollywood screenwriter, his credits include the feature film My Favorite Year, for which he [...]

#158 - Psychology, Economics, and Learning Communities

shrink — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:38:25 +0000

Transcript Arthur Warmoth, Ph.D. is professor of psychology at Sonoma State University in Northern California, where he has taught since 1969. He has served three terms as department chair and is currently chair of the Academic Planning Committee. He is also past president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP) and has served as a member [...]

#157 - The Psychology of SecondLife

shrink — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:23:44 +0000

Transcript 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 an emerging society– [...]

#156 - My Three Shrinks

shrink — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:08:34 +0000

Transcript My Three Shrinks and its associated blog, 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 [...]

#155 - Shrink Rap Radio LIVE #9

shrink — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:06:33 +0000

Transcript Jerry Trumbule, M.A., ABD and I have been getting together on BlogTalkRadio about once a month for a free-wheeling discussion of things mostly-psychological that have caught our current fancy. In this episode, we discuss memory, the clever intelligence of crows, and our recent forays into the virtual world of SecondLife. Jerry was in [...]

#154 - The Good News on Memory

shrink — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:15:44 +0000

Transcript Dr. Sue Halpern is author of the book, Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from The Front Lines of Memory Research. She is also scholar in residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. Here’s what she says about herself: “I was educated at Yale and at Oxford, where I was a Rhodes Scholar, and [...]

#153 - Medicine Dance - A Shamanic Journey

shrink — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:47:16 +0000

> Transcript Marsha Scarbrough is author of the book Medicine Dance: One woman’s healing journey into the world of Native American sweatlodges, drumming meditations and dance fasts, which was a finalist in USA Book News National 2007 “Best Books” Awards, New Age Non-Fiction category. As a freelance journalist, Marsha has had over 75 articles published in national magazines [...]

#152 - Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with Elisha Goldstein

shrink — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:41:41 +0000

Transcript Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Los Angeles and trained teacher of the increasingly popular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). He stands at the progressive end of integrating mindfulness into the therapeutic setting. He has personally been integrating concepts and behaviors of mindfulness into his daily life, and has helped his [...]

#151 - Relationships in The Workplace

shrink — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:18:10 +0000

Transcript Bob Murray, PhD, and Alicia Fortinberry, MS, are a husband and wife team who are internationally-recognized experts in psychology, leadership development and organizational change. With 20 year’s experience in mental health and organizational psychology, Bob and Alicia lecture at universities such as Duke, Tufts and California State. As consultants, speakers, trainers and executive coaches, Bob [...]

#150 - Wisdom Councils and Dynamic Facilitation

shrink — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:15:11 +0000

Transcript Jim 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 he has presented public seminars on this innovation. Jim also created the Wisdom Council, [...]

#149 - Shrink Rap Radio LIVE #8

shrink — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:50:20 +0000

Transcript Jerry Trumbule, M.A., A.B.D. and Dr. Dave do a live session, discussing issues relating to their longstanding interests in psychology and technology. In particular, the discussion focuses on the Internet as a prosthesis for the brain, memory, elephants that paint, and other delights. The photo above is Jerry as a young scientist of [...]

#148 - Ego States Psychotherapy

shrink — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:24:55 +0000

Transcript Sarah Chana Radcliffe, M.Ed., C.Psych.Assoc. is a registered Psychological Associate 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 Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples, Process Experiential Psychotherapy, Energy Psychology, EMDR and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for parents. She [...]

#147 - Nirvana and The Brain

shrink — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:16:09 +0000

Transcript 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 tells the story of a stroke which essentially knocked out her left hemisphere [...]

#146 – The Individual vs. The Collective on The Internet

shrink — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:55:36 +0000

Transcript This audio is from an invited presentation I recently gave at Sonoma State University. The class is called Person in Society and it is being taught by Dr. Shepherd Bliss who I interviewed on Shrink Rap Radio #82 almost a year ago exactly. I was interested in exploring the impact of new communication [...]

#145 - A Psychoanalyst’s View of HBO’s “In Treatment”

shrink — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:14:26 +0000

Transcript You’ll recall from last week’s episode that Fern W Cohen, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. Both of us have been fascinated by the fictional depiction of psychotherapy in HBO’s cable television series, “In Treatment.” Dr. Cohen graciously agreed to come back on to Shrink Rap Radio [...]

#144 - Psychoanalysis From Both Sides of The Couch

shrink — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:11:30 +0000

Transcript Fern W. Cohen, PhD, a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice in New York City, has long been committed to conveying in everyday language what the psychoanalytic process is about and how it works. She is the author of the 2007 book, From Both Sides of The Couch: Reflections of A Psychoanalyst, Daughter, Tennis Player, [...]

#143 - Shrink Rap Radio LIVE! #7

shrink — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:49:03 +0000

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 Truth About Autism: Everything You Know Is Wrong” [...]

#142 – The Happiness Hypothesis

shrink — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:01:17 +0000

Transcript Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D. is a social and cultural psychologist and author of the 2006 book, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and then did post-doctoral research at the University of Chicago and in Orissa, India. He has been on the faculty [...]

#141 - Hypnotic Dreamwork and EFT

shrink — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:30:11 +0000

Transcript Nancy Hunter is a psychotherapist in private practice, in Toronto, Ont., Canada. Nancy has been working in the field of personal change since 1989. She is: * a clinical member of the Ontario Society of Psychotherapists (OSP) * a master practitioner of classic and advanced Ericksonian hypnosis, certified with the [...]

#140 - Adventures in Jungian Typology

shrink — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:13:59 +0000

Transcript John Beebe, M.D., is a Jungian analyst in practice in San Francisco. He received degrees from Harvard College and the University of Chicago medical school. He is a past President of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where he is currently on the teaching faculty, as well as Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at [...]

#139 - Conscious Living and Dying

shrink — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:29:58 +0000

Transcript Annamaria Hemingway, M.A., ABD, is the author of the 2008 book Practicing Conscious Living and Dying and also writes articles for various magazines on this topic. She is a member of the International Association for Near-Death Studies and a spiritual counselor. Annamaria has an MA in Consciousness Psychology and also in Mythology and Depth [...]

#138 - MindMentor - The NLP RoboTherapist

shrink — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:56:04 +0000

Jaap Hollander, Ph.D. is co-founder of the Institute for Eclectic Psychology, Holland’s oldest and largest NLP institute. He introduced Neuorlinguistic Programming (NLP), provocative coaching and symbolic modelling in Holland. He developed MindMentor, the robot psychologist, together with his colleague Dr. Jeffrey Wijnberg. Hollander and Wijnberg performed a test-run with 1600 clients from all [...]