Psychjourney Podcast

Silent Tears

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:59:27 +0000

Jamie Mason, co-host of the Psychjourney podcast, interviews Ms. Kay Bratt, author of Silent Tears: A Journey Of Hope In A Chinese Orphanage published by AmazonEncore.

Kay Bratt grew up in the Midwest as the child of a broken home and later, a survivor of abuse. Facing these obstacles in her own life instilled in Kay a passionate drive to fight for those that had been dealt an unfair hand. Upon arriving in China on an expatriate assignment with her husband in 2003, she was immediately drawn to the cause of China’s forgotten orphans. Moved beyond tears by the stories of these children, she promised to give them the voice they did not have. In 2008, she self-published her memoir Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage to do just that. With the help of her readers, Kay continues to raise awareness and advocate for at-risk children. In China, she was honored with the 2006 Pride of the City award for her humanitarian work. She is the founder of the Mifan Mommy Club, an online organization which provides rice for children in China’s orphanages, and is also an active volunteer for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for abused and neglected children. Kay currently resides in Georgia with her husband and her daughter. Visit her website.

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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Fri, 28 May 2010 18:29:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Gabor Maté, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction published by North Atlantic Books.

Gabor Maté, MD, is a physician, author, seminar leader, and acclaimed public speaker. His bestselling books include Scattered, When the Body Says No, and Hold On To Your Kids. A former medical columnist for The Vancouver Sun and The Globe and Mail, he lives in Vancouver, BC. Visit his website.

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The Ptarmigan's Dilemma

Fri, 21 May 2010 18:35:43 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews John B. Theberge and Mary Theberge, co-authors of
The Ptarmigan's Dilemma:An Exploration into How Life Organizes and Supports Itself published by McClelland & Stewart.

John B. Theberge was until his recent retirement a professor of ecology and resource management in the faculty of environment studies at the University of Waterloo, where he taught since 1970. Mary Theberge is a wildlife illustrator and wolf researcher and has presented many popular programs about their discoveries. They are the authors of several books, including Kluane: Pinnacle of the Yukon, Wolf Country, and Legacy: A Natural History of Ontario. Visit their website.

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Goddesses, Elixirs, and Witches

Thu, 20 May 2010 06:02:25 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. John Riddle, author of Goddesses, Elixirs, and Witches: Plants and Sexuality throughout Human History published by Palgrave Macmillan.

John M. Riddle, Ph.D., is an Alumni Distinguished Professor emeritus of History at North Carolina State University. He holds appointments in the History and Botany Departments. Author of seven books and a number of articles, his specialization is the history of drugs particularly during the classical and medieval periods. He is former President of Society for Ancient Medicine and the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy. In 1987 he was awarded the International Urdang Medal for Outstanding Writing in the History of Medicine and Pharmacy and he was made a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in 1988. Visit his webpage.

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Secrets of Great Marriages

Thu, 20 May 2010 00:43:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Charlie Bloom and Linda Bloom, co-authors of Secrets of Great Marriages: Real Truth From Real Couples About Lasting Love published by New World Library.

Charlie Bloom, MSW, and Linda Bloom, LCSW, have lectured and taught around the world. Regular presenters at Esalen Institute and the Kripalu Center, they have been adjunct faculty at University of California Berkeley Extension Program, California Institute for Integral Studies, JFK University, and many other institutes of higher learning. They live in Santa Cruz, California. Visit their website.

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Lonelyhearts

Fri, 14 May 2010 23:55:28 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Marion Meade, author of Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

MARION MEADE is the author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Madame Blavatsky, and Victoria Woodhull, as well as two novels about medieval France. She lives in New York City. Visit her website.

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Raw Edges

Fri, 14 May 2010 18:54:54 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Phyllis Barber, author of Raw Edges: A Memoir published by the University of Nevada Press.

Phyllis Barber is the award-winning author of seven books, including an earlier memoir, How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir. She teaches in the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Writing Program and lives in Denver. She was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 2005. Visit her website.

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Second Nature

Fri, 14 May 2010 05:15:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Jonathan Balcombe, author of Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., is a former animal behavior research scientist for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, and currently a consultant based in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Pleasurable Kingdom. For more information visit www.jonathanbalcombe.com.

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Enlightened Sexism

Fri, 14 May 2010 02:25:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Susan J. Douglas, author of Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism's Job Is Done published by Times Books.

Susan J. Douglas is the author of Where the Girls Are, The Mommy Myth, and other works of cultural history and criticism. She is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies and chair of the department at the University of Michigan, where she has taught since 1996. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The Progressive, Ms., The Village Voice, and In These Times. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Visit her website.

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All Or Nothing

Thu, 13 May 2010 20:08:28 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Jessica Warner, author of All or Nothing: A Short History of Abstinence in America published by Emblem Editions.

Jessica Warner is a research scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason and The Incendiary: The Misadventures Of John the Painter, First Modern Terrorist, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction. Visit her website.

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Happiness Around the World

Thu, 13 May 2010 18:12:38 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Carol Graham, author of Happiness Around The World: The paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires published by Oxford University Press.

Carol Graham is Senior Fellow and Charles Robinson Chair at the Brookings Institution and College Park Professor at the University of Maryland. She served as Vice President and Director of Governance Studies at Brookings from 2002-2004 and as a Special Advisor to the Deputy Managing Director of the IMF. She was a Special Adviser to the Executive Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank while on a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, and has consulted at a number of international financial institutions. Her research has received support from the Hewlett, Tinker, and MacArthur Foundations, as well as the Office of the Chief Economist of the World Bank. She is the author of numerous books and articles on poverty, inequality, and social welfare policy. Graham has an A.B. from Princeton University, an M.A. from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Ph.D. from Oxford University. Visit her website.

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Crisis-Proof Your Practice

Sat, 08 May 2010 03:13:49 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC, author of Crisis-Proof Your Practice: How to Survive and Thrive in an Uncertain Economy published by ww.Norton & Company.

Ms. Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC, is a psychotherapist in full-time private practice, a former business executive, and one of the leading business coaches in the US for small business owners. She specializes in working with change-agents: therapists, coaches, healers, and other service-oriented consultants who help others make change in their lives.

Through her workshops and writing, she has become a pioneer in the field of practice-building, helping non-business-oriented professionals develop their private practices. With Lynn’s guidance, thousands of professionals now operate small businesses that offer them a high degree of integrity as well as enhanced financial success. Lynn lives and works in Silver Spring, Maryland. Visit her website.

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Winning At Love Part Two

Fri, 07 May 2010 22:00:38 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Pat Webster, co-author of Winning At Love: The Alpha Male's Guide to Relationship Success by Pat Webster, PhD, and Martin Grober, MD, published by Bascom Hill Books. This is part two of a two part interview.

Pat Webster, Ph.D. worked with alpha males and females, and their mates in her private psychotherapy practice in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She was formerly an assistant clinical associate at Duke University. In her personal and professional life she continues to learn to manage her own alpha assets and liabilities. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Psychotherapists. She is a second degree black belt in karate and a sailor. Visit her website.

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Winning At Love Part One

Fri, 07 May 2010 18:33:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Pat Webster, co-author of Winning At Love: The Alpha Male's Guide to Relationship Success by Pat Webster, PhD, and Martin Grober, MD, published by Bascom Hill Books.

Pat Webster, Ph.D. worked with alpha males and females, and their mates in her private psychotherapy practice in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She was formerly an assistant clinical associate at Duke University. In her personal and professional life she continues to learn to manage her own alpha assets and liabilities. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Psychotherapists. She is a second degree black belt in karate and a sailor. Visit her website.

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Mental Health, Race and Culture

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:39:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Suman Fernando, MD, author of Mental Health, Race and Culture: Third Edition published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Suman Fernando is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at the European Centre for Migration and Social Care, University of Kent and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University. He is a psychiatrist involved in voluntary organisations providing mental health services for black and Asian people and has served in an advisory role on mental health issues in UK, Canada and Sri Lanka. He has lectured and published widely in psychiatric, psychology and health journals and his other books include Race and Culture in Psychiatry, Cultural Diversity, Mental Health and Psychiatry and Mental Health in a Multi-ethnic Society (co-edited). Visit his website.

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The Best Kept Secret: Single Black Fathers

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:27:39 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Roberta L. Coles, author of The Best Kept Secret: Single Black Fathers published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Roberta L. Coles received her PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She first taught a course on race and family while a PhD candidate and has continued teaching a similar course at Marquette University, where she is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences.. Her family-related research has focused on African American single fathers and on Turkish elderly. Her work in these areas has been published in the Journal of Aging Studies, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Families in Society, Journal of African American Men, and the Western Journal of Black Studies. Visit her webpage.

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Imperfect Endings

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:20:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Zoe FitzGerald Carter, author of Imperfect Endings: A Daughter's Tale of Life and Death published by Simon & Schuster.

Zoe FitzGerald Carter is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and has written for numerous publications including New York magazine, The New York Observer, Premiere, and various national magazines. Imperfect Endings is her first memoir.

Imperfect Endings won first place in the 2008 Pacific Northwest Writer's Association's literary contest and was a finalist at The San Francisco Writer's Conference. Zoe lives in Northern California with her husband and two daughters. Visit her website.

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The Mystery of Lewis Carroll:

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:16:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Jenny Woolf, author of The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created "Alice in Wonderland" published by St. Martin's Press.

Jenny Woolf has written for The Sunday Times Magazine (UK), Readers Digest, and Islands and has reviewed childrens literature for Punch. She is author of Lewis Carroll in His Own Account. She lives in England. Visit her website.

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A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:45:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Jane Vandenburgh, author of A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century: A Memoir published by Counterpoint.

Jane Vandenburgh is a fifth-generation Californian. She has taught literature and writing at U.C. Davis, at Georgetown and at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, and will be next years Writer-in-Residence at St. Marys in Moraga, California. She will publish her long-awaited book on the craft of writing the longer narrative called The Architecture of the Novel in January, 2010.

Married and the mother of two children, she is also the author of the novels, Failure to Zigzag and The Physics of Sunset. She lives in Point Richmond, California. Visit her website.

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When I Came West

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:54:00 +0000

Dr. Kevin Keough, co-host of the Psychjourney podcast, interviews Ms. Laurie Wagner Buyer, author of When I Came West published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

When she is not on the road presenting workshops, poet and novelist Laurie Wagner Buyer divides her time between Woodland Park, Colorado, and Llano, Texas. Laurie has an MFA in Writing from Goddard College and is the author of three collections of poetry, Glass-eyed Paint in the Rain, Red Colt Canyon and Across the High Divide, which won the Western Writers of America Spur Award in Poetry and was named a Willa Cather Literary Award Finalist. Her first novel, Side Canyons, was released by Five Star Publishing in 2004. Laurie received the Beryl Markham Prize for Spring's Edge: A Ranch Wife's Chronicles, a memoir released in 2008 from the University of New Mexico Press, which became a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Infinite Possibilities: A Haiku Journal has just been released from Filter Press and another memoir When I Came West is forthcoming from the University of Oklahoma Press. A member of The National League of American Pen Women and Women Writing the West, Laurie's freelance articles and photographs have appeared in dozens of periodicals, journals, reviews, and anthologies. She also devotes time to her mentoring and editing business, Creative Adventure: A Guide Service for Writers. Her new e-book Working with Words (including self-editing tips)is now available on her website.

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Street Shadows

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:18:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Jerald Walker, author of Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion and Redemption published by Bantam.

Jerald Walker received his MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Teaching/Writing Fellow and James A. Michener Fellow, and he received his PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from The University of Iowa.

His works have appeared in numerous national and international publications, including The Missouri Review, The North American Review, The Barcelona Review, The New Delta Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Mother Jones, The Literary Review, The Oxford American, Outsmart and The Iowa Review. His work has been widely anthologized in publications such as Best American Essays (2007&2009) Best African American Essays (2009&2010), America Now, The Writer’s Presence, and Brothers: 26 Stories on Love and Rivalry. His book, Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion and Redemption, will be published in January by Random House (Bantam).

Dr. Walker is the recipient of two of Bridgewater State College’s major awards: the Class of 1950 Most Distinguished Research Award, and the Martha D. Jones Award for Most Outstanding Dedication to Students. Married and the father of two young sons, he lives in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Visit his webpage.

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The Aqua Net Diaries

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:48:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Jennifer Niven, author of The Aqua Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town published by Gallery.

Jennifer Niven divides her time between Atlanta (where she was named one of Jezebel Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People) and Los Angeles (where her film Velva Jean Learns to Drive won an Emmy Award and she once played the part of Shania Twain in a music video). Her first book, The Ice Master, was released in 2000 and named one of the top ten nonfiction books of the year by Entertainment Weekly. Jennifer's second book, Ada Blackjack, released in 2003, was a Book Sense Top Ten Pick. When she isn't writing, Jennifer studies belly dancing, yoga, and electric guitar; and explores her inner bombshell. Visit her website.

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The Animal Manifesto

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:28:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Marc Bekoff, author of The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint published by New World Library.

Marc Bekoff is a former Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and co-founder with Jane Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals . He has won many awards for his scientific research including the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behavior Society and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Marc has written more than 200 articles, numerous books, and has edited three encyclopedias. His books include the Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare, The Ten Trusts (with Jane Goodall), the Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, the Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships, Minding Animals, Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues: Reflections on Redecorating Nature, The Emotional Lives of Animals, Animals Matter, Animals at Play (a children's book), and Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals (with Jessica Pierce). The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons For Increasing Our Compassion Footprint will appear in 2010. In 2005 Marc was presented with The Bank One Faculty Community Service Award for the work he has done with children, senior citizens, and prisoners. In 2009 he became a scholar-in-residence at the University of Denver's Institute for Human-Animal Connection where he is working with colleagues to develop the field of Conservation Social Work and a faculty member of the Humane Society University. In 2009 he also was presented with the St. Francis of Assisi Award by the New Zealand SPCA. Visit his website.

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Marry Him

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:55:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Lori Gottlieb, author of Marry Him: The Case For Settling For Mr. Good Enough published by Dutton Adult.

Lori Gottlieb is the national bestselling author of STICK FIGURE: A DIARY OF MY FORMER SELF. She has also co-written I LOVE YOU, NICE TO MEET YOU and INSIDE THE CULT OF KIBU. Her radio commentaries can be heard on National Public Radio and her journalism has been published in The New York Times, the Atlantic, Time, People, Elle, Self, Slate and Glamour. Her newest book, MARRY HIM: THE CASE FOR SETTLING FOR MR. GOOD ENOUGH, takes an in-depth look at modern dating, marriage, and what really makes for a happy long-term romantic partnership. Visit her website at www.lorigottlieb.com.

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Why We Make Mistakes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:15:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Joe Hallinan, author of Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average published by Broadway

Joe Hallinan's most recent book is Why We Make Mistakes. It was published in the U.S. by Broadway Books, a unit of Random House, and in the U.K. by Ebury Press. It is also scheduled for publication by other publishers in numerous countries throughout the world, from China to Israel. His previous book, Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation, was published in 2001 by Random House. The book, which is now in paperback, was named by The New York Times as one of the year's "Notable Books." The Los Angeles Times chose it as one of its "Best Books of the Year." He was previously a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and before that was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Among his journalism awards is a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, and was most recently a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has appeared on a variety of radio and television programs in the U.S. and abroad, including NPR's Fresh Air with Teri Gross and The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Pamela Taylor, and their three children. Visit his website.

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Healing Companions

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:13:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Jane Miller, LISW, CDBC, author of Healing Companions: Ordinary Dogs and Their Extraordinary Power to Transform Lives published by New Page Books.

Jane Miller, LISW, CDBC, works in private practice as a clinical psychotherapist and licensed independent social worker, with a particular interest in holistic healing. She has lectured in a wide variety of settings, including many national and local organizations, schools, and dog-training facilities. More recently, Miller has consulted with NEADS (National Education for Assistance Dog Services), the Canines for Combat Veterans program for soldiers returning from combat in Iraq with post-traumatic stress, as well as other veterans organizations. She has appeared in the PBS program "Health Visions: Animals As Healers" and other local and national media. Miller lives in Oberlin, Ohio, with her two Golden Retrievers. Visit her website.

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The Denzel Principle

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:18:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Jimi Izrael, author of The Denzel Principle: Why Black Women Can't Find Good Black Men published by St. Martin's Press.

JIMI IZRAEL is an award-winning reporter and culture-critic from Shaker Heights, Ohio who currently moderates “The Barbershop” for National Public Radio’s “Tell Me More with Michel Martin” and blogs regularly for the Washington Post-backed The Root com. at "The Hardline. "As a professor, he is a Presidential Fellow at Case Western Reserve University and teaching film and new media courses for Cuyahoga Community College in Fall ‘09 and Cleveland State University in Winter ‘10. He muses often at www.jimiizrael.com.

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The Behavioral Neuroscience of Adolescence

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:11:00 +0000

Deborah Harper President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Linda Spear, author of The Behavioral Neuroscience of Adolescence published by W. W. Norton & Company.

Dr. Linda Spear's area of research is behavioral neuroscience. Her work focuses on how prenatal drugs such as cocaine and ethanol, along with environmental factors, can influence subsequent behavior. It has provided a critical data resource for policy decisions by the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency. Her other interests include developmental psychobiology, psychopharmacology, and neurobehavioral teratology.

Spear joined the Binghamton faculty in 1976, after completing post-doctoral work in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Florida, where she also earned her master's and PhD. She earned her bachelor's at Western Illinois University.

She has been elected president of three prestigious professional organizations and was a member of the newly established Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research of the National Institutes of Health. Visit her webpage.

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From Madness to Mental Health

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:24:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Dr. Greg Eghigian, author of From Madness to Mental Health: Psychiatric Disorder and Its Treatment in Western Civilization published by Rutgers University Press.

Greg Eghigian is the director of the science, technology, and society program and associate professor of modern history at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Self as Project: Politics and Human Sciences in the Twentieth Century. Visit his webpage.

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The Ticking Is the Bomb

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:21:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Nick Flynn, author of The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir published by W. W. Norton & Company.

Nick Flynn is the award-winning author of Some Ether, Blind Huber, The Ticking is the Bomb and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. He teaches at the University of Houston. Visit his website.

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The Male Factor

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:39:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Shaunti Feldhahn, author of The Male Factor: The Unwritten Rules, Misperceptions, and Secret Beliefs of Men in the Workplace published by Broadway Business.

SHAUNTI FELDHAHN is the best-selling author of For Women Only:What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men and For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women. Her books have sold two million copies and have been translated into fifteen different languages. A longtime nationally sydicated columnist, she holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University, has worked on Wall Street, and now lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Visit her website.

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The Power of Women

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:40:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, author of The Power of Women: Harness Your Unique Strengths at Home, at Work, and in Your Community published by Times Books.

Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema is a professor of psychology at Yale University. She has been conducting research on women's mental health for twenty years. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema is the author of the bestselling Women Who Think Too Much and Eating, Drinking, Overthinking, and The Power of Women: Harness Your Unique Strengths at Home, at Work, and in Your Community.

Her award-winning research has been funded by major grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, and several private foundations. Visit her website and blog.

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The Other Brain

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:03:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. R. Douglas Fields, author of The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science published by Simon & Schuster.

R. Douglas Fields is the Chief of the Section on Nervous System Development and Plasticity at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Adjunct Professor in the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2004 Dr. Fields founded the scientific journal Neuron Glia Biology, where he is the Editor-in-Chief, and he is a scientific advisor to Scientific American Mind and Odyssey magazines. He is an internationally recognized authority on neuron-glia interactions, brain development, and the cellular mechanisms of memory. Dr. Fields received advanced degrees at UC Berkeley, San Jose State University, UC San Diego, and he held postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford University, Yale University, and the National Institutes of Health before starting his research laboratory at the NIH in 1994. The author of over 150 articles in scientific journals and books, he also enjoys building guitars, rock-climbing, and scuba diving. Visit his website.

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Beyond Blue

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:41:00 +0000

Dr. Kevin Keough, co-host of the Psychjourney podcast, interviews Ms. Therese Borchard author of Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes published by Center Street.

Therese Borchard is the author of the hit daily blog “Beyond Blue” on Beliefnet.com, which is featured weekly on The Huffington Post and was voted by PsychCentral.com as one of the top 10 depression blogs. Her memoir, Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes, has just been published by Hachette Book Group/Center Street, who will also release, in April 2010, a handsome volume of her therapy notes, called “The Pocket Therapist: An Emotional Survival Kit.”

Therese is becoming a top go-to expert in the field of pop-psychology. Her work has recently been cited in The Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, USA Today, Guideposts, and on Time.com, CNN.com, and Yahoo! She has been featured in O magazine, Psychology Today, Parenting, More, Redbook, Ladies’ Home Journal, and the Washington Post. Therese is the editor of The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World, and I Love Being a Mom: Treasured Stories, Memories, and Milestones. With Michael Leach, she is co-editor of A Celebration of a Married Life

Therese moderates the popular depression support group, Beyond Blue, on Beliefnet’s social networking site, is a regular guest on Sirius Satellite Radio, and writes a syndicated column, “Our Turn,” for Catholic News Service. She lives with her husband, Eric, and their two “spirited” children in Annapolis, Maryland. Visit her website.

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Danger to Self

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:10:00 +0000

Dr. Kevin Keough, co-host of the Psychjourney podcast, interviews Paul R. Linde, M.D., author of Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist published by the University of California Press.

Paul R. Linde, M.D. is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He's worked as a clinician/teacher in the Psychiatric Emergency Service at San Francisco General Hospital since 1992 and in several other high-intensity psychiatric settings over the years.

A writer of medical/psychiatric nonfiction, his second book, Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist, was released by the University of California Press in September 2009. He has also written for JAMA, the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and DoubleTake magazine. Dr. Linde also created, produced, and hosted a weekly health program on KALW-FM in San Francisco from 2002 to 2004.

He lives in the Bay Area with his wife, two sons, and a rambunctious one-eyed dog. Visit his website.

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Why Empathy Matters

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:49:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. J.D. Trout, author of Why Empathy Matters: The Science and Psychology of Better Judgement published by Penguin.

J.D. Trout is a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, and an adjunct professor at the Parmly Sensory Sciences Institute. He writes on the nature of scientific and intellectual progress, as well as on the contribution that psychological science can make to human well-being. He is the author of Measuring the Intentional World, and co-author of Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment. Visit his website and blog.

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Healing and Transformation Through Self Guided Imagery

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:29:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Leslie Davenport, LMFT, MA, author of Healing and Transformation Through Self Guided Imagery published by Celestial Arts.
LESLIE DAVENPORT is the founding director of Marin General Hospital's Institute for Health and Healing. She is a psychotherapist and trains interns in guided imagery at the California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco. Visit her website.

Living Oprah

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:17:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Robyn Okrant, author of Living Oprah: My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk published by Center Street.

Robyn Okrant is a writer, filmmaker, performer, and yoga teacher. A graduate of Bennington College, she also holds an MFA in performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives with her husband and two cats in Chicago. Visit her website and blog.

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Hollywood Blockbusters

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:26:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. David Sutton (pictured) and Dr. Peter Wogan, co-authors of Hollywood Blockbusters: The Anthropology of Popular Movies published by Berg.

DAVID SUTTON is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University. PETER WOGAN is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Willamette University. Visit their blog.

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Women Conquering Depression

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:33:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, author of Women Conquering Depression: How To Gain Control of Eating, Drinking, and Overthinking and Embrace a Healthier Life published by Holt Paperbacks.

Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema is a professor of psychology at Yale University. She has been conducting research on women's mental health for twenty years. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema is the author of the bestselling Women Who Think Too Much and Eating, Drinking, Overthinking, and The Power of Women: Harness Your Unique Strengths at Home, at Work, and in Your Community.

Her award-winning research has been funded by major grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, and several private foundations. Visit her website and blog.

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Spirituality, Inc.

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:06:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Lake Lambert III, author of Spirituality, Inc.: Religion in the American Workplace published by NYU Press.

Lake Lambert III is professor of religion and Board of Regents Chair in Ethics at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. His research focuses on the intersections between religion, ethics and economic life. At Wartburg, he also serves as Assistant Dean for Academic Planning and Project Director for the Callings Initiative. Visit his website.

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50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:12:00 +0000

Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Scott O. Lilienfeld, co-author of 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions About Human Behavior with Steven Jay Lynn, John Ruscio, and Barry Beyerstein published by Wiley-Blackwell.

Scott O. Lilienfeld is a Professor of Psychology at Emory University. He is a recipient of the 1998 David Shakow Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Clinical Psychology from Division 12 (Society for Clinical Psychology) of the APA, past president of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Dr. Lilienfeld's principal areas of research are personality disorders, psychiatric classification and diagnosis, pseudoscience in mental health, and the teaching of psychology. He is the co-author of Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology and Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding. Visit his blog.

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Clinical Social Work Practice and Regulation

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:01:00 +0000

Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Ms. Laura W. Groshong, LICSW, author of Clinical Social Work Practice and Regulation: An Overview published by University Press of America.

Laura W. Groshong, LICSW, has been a clinical social worker in private practice for 32 years in Seattle , Washington . She graduated from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration in 1974 and received Certificate in Adult Psychotherapy from the Seattle Psychoanalytic Institute in 1979.

Ms. Groshong is also a Registered Lobbyist in Washington state and has lobbied on behalf of 7 mental health groups for better access to mental health treatment for 12 years.

She has also been the Director of the Government Relations Committee for the Clinical Social Work Association since 2006, and in that capacity has worked with LCSWs in over 30 states to create or improve their social work licensure laws and on other legislative/regulatory issues throughout the country. Visit her website. Visit Dr. John Riolo's blog The Insider.

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Internet Natives and Immigrants

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:01:00 +0000

Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Ofer Zur about his work.

Ofer Zur, Ph.D., is a consultant, licensed psychologist, writer, forensic consultant and lecturer from Sonoma, CA. He is a pioneer in the development of the ethical and effective managed-care-free psychotherapy practice and is a prolific writer and researcher.

He co-edited the landmark book, Dual Relationships and Psychotherapy authored the mighty useful HIPAA Compliance Kit and The Complete Fee-for-Service Private Practice Handbook and has published dozens of cutting-edge and widely cited articles and book chapters on therapeutic ethics, standard of care, boundaries and dual relationships. His latest book, Boundaries in Psychotherapy is the most comprehensive book on therapeutic boundaries to date, was published in 2007 by APA Books.

Dr. Zur is the director of the Zur Institute, which offers a unique and innovative online continuing education to psychologists, social workers, MFTs and counselors. He is one of the most prominent consultants and forensic experts in the area of therapeutic boundaries. Visit his website. Visit Dr. John Riolo's blog The Insider.

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The Brain Advantage

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:16:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Madeleine L. Van Hecke, PhD, co-author of The Brain Advantage: Become a More Effective Business Leaders Using the Latest Brain Research with Lisa P. Callahan, Brad Kolar, and Ken A. Paller published by Prometheus Books.

Madeleine L. Van Hecke, PhD (Elmhurst, IL), is a licensed clinical psychologist; a former Professor of Psychology at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois; and a lecturer and workshop leader for Open Arms Seminars. She is the author of Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things Visit her website.

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The Language of the Heart

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:31:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Trysh Travis, author of The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey published by the University of North Carolina Press.

Trysh Travis received her BA from New York University in 1987, designing her own major in Media Studies and American Culture. She taught high school English in New York City for three years before earning an MA in English from the Breadloaf School at Middlebury College and a PhD in American Studies from Yale University.

Trysh Travis is assistant professor of women's studies at the University of Florida. Professor Travis is a literary historian of the 20th-century U.S., studying the gendered history of the book with a focus on reading communities and the publishing industry. Her book, The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey, will be published by the University of North Carolina Press in fall 2009. Her writings on radical feminist publishing, contemporary spirituality, and popular culture have appeared in journals like Book History, American Quarterly, and Men and Masculinities as well as in publications like The Chronicle of Higher Education and Bitch magazine. Visit her website.

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Guardians of Being

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:49:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Patrick McDonnell, co-author of Guardians of Being with Mr. Eckhart Tolle, published by New World Library.

Patrick McDonnell, the creator of MUTTS, has more than twenty books in print, including theNew York TimesThe Gift of NothingHug Time. He lives in New Jersey with his wife Karen and formerly feral feline MeeMow. Visit his website.

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Because It Feels Good

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:41:00 +0000

Jamie Mason, co-host of the Psychjourney podcast, interviews Dr. Debby Herbenick, author of Because It Feels Good: A Woman's Guide to Sexual Pleasure and Satisfaction published by Rodale Books.

DEBBY HERBENICK, PHD, MPH, is a research scientist and lecturer at Indiana University and coordinator of the Kinsey Institute Sexuality Information Service for Students (KISISS). She writes weekly and monthly sex advice columns for newspapers and magazines including Men’s Health and Time Out Chicago. She is often called upon as a sex expert by various media from the Today show and Discovery Health to the New York Times. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana. Visit her website.

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Inklings: A Memoir

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:23:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Jeffrey Koterba, author of Inklings: A Memoir published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Jeffrey Koterba is an award-winning syndicated political cartoonist. He is also lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the Prairie Cats, a swing band. Inklings is his first book. He lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Visit his website.

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One Soul, One Love, One Heart

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:59:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. John E. Welshons, author of One Soul, One Love, One Heart: The Sacred Path to Healing All Relationships published by New World Library.

JOHN E. WELSHONS (“Ramananda”) is a highly respected contemporary spiritual teacher who lectures and leads meditation courses throughout North America. He has been a practitioner of vipassana (mindfulness) meditation and various forms of yoga for more than forty years. In addition to his new book, One Soul, One Love, One Heart: The Sacred Path to Healing All Relationships, he is also the author of Awakening from Grief: Finding the Way Back to Joy and When Prayers Aren’t Answered, two books that emerged from his thirty-five years of experience helping people deal with dramatic life change and loss.

John has studied world religions throughout his life, and holds a B.A. in Comparative Religions from the University of South Florida, and an M.A. in History of Religions from Florida State University. He has also traveled and studied extensively in India. He is a gifted counselor and teacher who has worked closely with Ram Dass and Stephen Levine and trained with Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.

His workshops and lectures are offered in personal growth centers, yoga schools, churches, hospitals, hospices, corporations, colleges, and universities. He is also available for one-on-one consultations. He currently resides in northern New Jersey. Visit his blog.

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I See Your Dream Job

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:42:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Sue Fredrick, author of I See Your Dream Job: A Career Intuitive Shows You How to Discover What You Were Put on Earth to Do published by St. Martin's Press.

Sue Fredrick is a career intuitive who has been called the “Emeril of Enlightenment.” She’s a frequent guest on radio shows and has presented workshops at venues such as The Crossings Retreat Center, New Hope, American Business Women’s Association and the National Career Development Association. She lives in Colorado. Visit her website.

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Buddha's Brain

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:02:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Rick Hanson, author of Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom published by New Harbinger.

Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a neuropsychologist, contemplative neuroscience researcher, and meditation teacher. A summa cum laude graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, he cofounded the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom and edits the Wise Brain Bulletin. He and his wife have two children. Visit his websites www.rickhanson.net and www.wisebrain.org.

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The Dice Game of Shiva

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:50:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Richard Smoley, author of The Dice Game of Shiva: How Consciousness Creates the Universe published by New World Library.

Richard Smoley is one of the world’s leading authorities on mystical philosophy. A graduate of Harvard and Oxford, Richard served for eight years as editor of Gnosis: A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions. Currently he is executive editor of The Quest, the members’ journal for the Theosophical Society in America.

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Beyond the Homestretch

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:44:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Lynn Reardon, author of Beyond the Homestretch: What I've Learned From Saving Racehorses published by New World Library.

Lynn Reardon is the founder and executive director of LoneStar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers (LOPE Texas), a nonprofit racehorse placement agency near Austin, Texas. Prior to founding LOPE, Lynn worked in nonprofit finance and administrative management in the Washington DC–area for too many years. Lynn lives on the LOPE ranch with her husband, Sophie the dog, multiple cats, and a herd of ex-racehorses up for adoption. Lynn has adopted three LOPE horses of her own: Tulsa Mambo, Sally, and Lightening Ball. Visit her website
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Crocodiles Not Waterlilies™”

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:43:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Roger Anthony, creator of “Crocodiles Not Waterlilies™” about his books, Now I Understand: Pearls of Wisdom for One’s Pathway of Mastery: For The Avid Seeker of Truth published by Crocodiles not Waterlilies International and children’s book and DVD “Rindin The Puffer”

Roger Anthony is the creator of “Crocodiles Not Waterlilies™” intellectual property and suite of training programs. . He is an international trainer, executive coach, author, athlete, and a dynamic public speaker. Roger captivates audiences with his wisdom, humor, and signature “Crocoball” speedball (boxing speed bag) demonstrations. A true master, at fifty-one years of age, Roger won the gold medal to become Australia’s Victorian Freestyle Speedball Champion. Visit his website and CrocPond.

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Drunk with Wonder

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:51:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Steve Ryals, author of Drunk With Wonder: Awakening to the God Within published by Rock Creek Press.

Steve Ryals has published over 1,200 music reviews in the past 12 years in magazines such as New Age Retailer and Sedona Journal. He has been a student of philosophy, religion, spirituality, science, and human behavior for 30 years. Visit his website.

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The Wolf in the Parlor

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:49:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Professor Jon Franklin, author of The Wolf in the Parlor: The Eternal Connection between Humans and Dogs published by Henry Holt and Co.

Jon Franklin is a literary journalist whose work frequently focuses on the human side of science and technology. In a career that has spanned more than four decades he has written five books and a variety of magazine articles and newspaper stories and series. Known for his innovations both in style and reportage, his credits include two first-in-category Pulitzer prizes (feature writing in 1979 and expository journalism in 1985). He has taught Oregon State University, and the University of Oregon, where his duties included the directorship of the creative writing program. He currently teaches at the University of Maryland. Visit his website.

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When in Doubt, Make Belief

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:44:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Jeff Bell, author of When in Doubt, Make Belief: An OCD-Inspired Approach to Living with Uncertainty published by New World Library.

Jeff Bell is a nationally recognized author, speaker, and radio news anchor. His first book, "REWIND, REPLAY, REPEAT: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder," was published in 2007 and quickly established Bell as a leading voice in the mental health community. Since RRR’s publication, Bell has traveled extensively, becoming a sought-after motivational speaker across the country, while lending his support to numerous mental health awareness and advocacy programs, including the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation, for which he serves as a National Spokesperson.

Bell is a 2007 recipient of Mental Health America’s prestigious forWARDS Award, for “moving the cause of mental health forward,” and his story has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, DETAILS Magazine, and The New York Times, for which he was commissioned to write a feature that ran internationally in 2008. He has appeared on NPR’s Talk of the Nation and The Infinite Mind programs, Good Morning America Radio, and on more than 50 TV and/or radio stations in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Denver, Washington, D.C., and numerous other top markets.

Bell is a 20-year veteran of radio and television news and currently co-anchors the afternoon news at KCBS Radio, the CBS Network’s San Francisco flagship and one of the nation’s most respected and successful radio news operations. Visit his website.

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More Than Genes

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:21:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Dan Agin, author of More Then Genes: What Science Can Tell Us About Toxic Chemicals, Development and the Risk to Our Children published by Oxford University Press.

Dan Agin is Emeritus Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago. His latest book is More Than Genes: What Science Can Tell Us About Toxic Chemicals, Development, and the Risk To Our Children. He's also the author of Junk Science: How Politicians, Corporations, and Other Hucksters Betray Us. Visit his Psychology Today blog and Huffington Post blog.

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Demystifying Psychiatry

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:59:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Charles F. Zorumski MD (pictured) and Eugene Rubin MD PhD, co-authors of Demystifying Psychiatry: A Resource For Patients and Families published by Oxford University Press.

Charles F. Zorumski, MD, is Samuel B. Guze Professor & Head of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine. Visit his web page.

Eugene H. Rubin, MD, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Vice Chair for Education at Washington University School of Medicine, Visit his web page.
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The Power of Your Child's Imagination

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:23:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Charlotte Reznick, author of The Power of Your Child's Imagination: How to Transform Stress and Anxiety into Joy and Success published by Perigee Trade.

Charlotte Reznick, Ph.D, a nationally recognized child educational Psychologist and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at UCLA, created Imagery for Kids: Breakthrough for Learning, Creativity, and Empowerment, which she has used with thousands of children, parents, and professionals for more than twenty-five years. Reznick is a consultant, counselor, and healer, and maintains a private practice in Los Angeles, California. Visit her website.

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Packaging Boyhood

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:50:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Sharon Lamb and Dr. Mark Tappan, co-authors of Packaging Boyhood: saving our sons from superheroes, slackers, and other media stereotypes with Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown published by St. Martin's Press.

Dr. Sharon Lamb is Distinguished Professor of Mental Health at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology. She is on leave from Saint Michael’s College in Vermont where she is a Professor of Psychology. Originally from the Chicago area, she received her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and her child psychology training at Mass. General Hospital in Boston. Sharon co-authored Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes with Lyn in 2006 and is thrilled to be able to continue working with Lyn and her partner Mark on Packaging Boyhood. Sharon is author of The Secret Lives of Girls: What Good Girls Really Do, and Sex, Therapy, and Kids: Addressing their Concerns through Talk and Play (a book for psychotherapists).

Dr. Mark Tappan is Professor of Education and Human Development and Chair of the Education Program at Colby College. He received his A.B. in Religion from Oberlin College, his M.A. in Education from the Ohio State University, and his Ed.D. in Human Development from Harvard University. He is co-editor (with Martin Packer) of Narrative and Storytelling: Implications for Understanding Moral Development and Cultural and Critical Perspectives on Human Development.

Mark grew up in suburban Philadelphia but he now lives in Waterville, Maine with his partner Lyn Brown, their daughter Maya, their dog Heidi, and four cats. At Colby he teaches courses on education and social justice, contemporary children and youth, and boys development and education. Students in his “Boys to Men” course also work with local elementary and middle-school boys on media literacy and leadership development. Visit their website.

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Emotional Exorcism

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:24:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Holly A. Hunt, author of Emotional Exorcism: Expelling the Four Psychological Demons That Make Us Backslide published by Praeger.

Holly A. Hunt, Ph.D., is a psychologist, author, and speaker based in Southern California, where she first established her private practice in 1990. She developed the model and tools described in her latest book "Emotional Exorcism" over many years in practice, helping people of all backgrounds to identify and conquer their psychological demons.

Dr. Hunt is also the author of Essentials of Private Practice: Streamlining Costs, Procedures and Policies for Less Stress.

Dr. Hunt provides information to businesses and organizations as a speaker, emphasizing effective ways to expel the four psychological demons that make us backslide on the job and at home (www.HollyAHunt.com). Holly empowers attendees through instructive, interactive, motivational sessions to change self-sabotaging patterns to achieve their full potential at work and in their personal lives.

Dr. Hunt received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Kansas in 1988. She interned and worked as a staff psychologist at the VA Medical Centers in Sepulveda and Long Beach, CA. She is the past chair of the Practice Management Committee of the San Diego Psychological Association. Visit her website.

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Emotional Wisdom

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:29:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Dena Saxer, MA, co-author of Emotional Wisdom: Daily Tools for Transforming Anger, Depression and Fear with Mantak Chia published by New World Library.

Dena Saxer, MA, has been teaching the Universal Healing Tao System internationally for twenty-six years. With Mantak Chia, she cowrote Taoist Ways to Transform Stress into Vitality and Chi Self-Massage. She lives in the Los Angeles area. Visit her website.

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Cancer Is a Bitch

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:15:00 +0000

Jamie Mason, co-host of the Psychjourney podcast, interviews Ms. Gail Konop Baker, author of Cancer Is a Bitch: (Or I'd Rather Be Having Be Having a Midlife Crisis) published by Da Capo Lifelong Books.

Gail Konop Baker is an award-winning writer and essayist. A former columnist at Literary Mama, is a regular contributor to thedebutanteball.com. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her family. Visit her Web site at www.gailkonopbaker.com.
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Why Women Have Sex

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:19:00 +0000

Jamie Mason, co-host of the Psychjourney podcast, interviews Dr. Cindy M. Meston and Dr. David Buss, co-authors of Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations From Adventure to Revenge (And Everything in Between) published by Times Books.

Cindy M. Meston is one of the world’s leading researchers on women’s sexuality and a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where she directs the Sexual Psychophysiology Laboratory, a cutting-edge lab on women’s sexual experience.

David M. Buss, one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology, is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of several books, including The Evolution of Desire and The Dangerous Passion. Their jointly authored article, “Why Humans Have Sex,” garnered international attention when it was published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.

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Forgive for Love

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:39:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Fred Luskin, author of Forgive For Love: The Missing Ingredient for a Healthy and Lasting Relationship published by HarperOne.

Fred Luskin, Ph.D. is the author of Forgive for Good and one of the world's leading researchers and teachers on the subject of forgiveness. He is the director of the Stanford Forgiveness Project, a series of research projects that investigate forgiveness methods. He holds an appointment at the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation as a senior fellow and is an associate professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He lives in Palo Alto, California. Visit his website.

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The Magician's Way

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:34:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. William Whitecloud, author of The Magician's Way: What It Really Takes To Find Your Treasure published by New World Library.

William Whitecloud founded and teaches the Living from Greatness program, through which he coaches clients to realize their dreams by connecting with their authentic, creative spirit. He lives in Byron Bay, Australia. Visit his website.

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What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:38:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Tina Seelig, author of What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Way in the World published by HarperOne.

Tina Seelig has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Stanford School of Medicine and is the executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, which is the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University's School of Engineering. In addition, Seelig teaches courses on entrepreneurship and innovation in the Department of Management Science and Engineering and in the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University. She frequently speaks and runs workshops for executives in a wide range of disciplines and has written several popular science books for adults and children. Visit her blog.

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Transforming Toxic Leaders

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:18:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Alan Goldman, author of Transforming Toxic Leaders published by Stanford Business Books.

Alan Goldman is Professor of Management at Arizona State University. He is the author of numerous books and articles. In 2005, he received the Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management for his research on toxic leadership. Visit his webpage.
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Solace

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:19:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Roberta Temes, author of Solace: Finding Your Way Through Grief and Learning to Live Again published by AMACOM.

Roberta Temes, Ph.D. (Westfield, NJ) is a noted psychologist who has taught classes in death, dying and bereavement at schools such as Downstate Medical School, CUNY, and University of Pennsylvania Continuing Education for Physicians. She is the author of several books, including the award-winning Living with an Empty Chair: A Guide Through Grief. Visit her website.

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Secrets of the Teenage Brain

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Sheryl G. Feinstein, author of Secrets of the Teenage Brain: Research-Based Strategies For Reaching and Teaching Today's Adolescents published by Corwin Press.

Sheryl G. Feinstein is an assistant professor in the Education Department at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where she teaches courses in educational psychology and adolescent development. She also serves as an educational consultant for an adolescent correctional facility in Minnesota. She has worked with adolescents as a public school teacher and as a K–12 curriculum coordinator; she has also served as director at an alternative secondary school. She is the author of numerous books and during the 2007-2008 school year she was a Fulbright Scholar in Tanzania, where she continued her research on adolescents. Visit her website.

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The Queen of the Ring

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:54:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Jeff Leen, author of The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American Legend published by Atlantic Monthly Press.

Jeff Leen is the author of two books, The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds and the Making of an American Legend (Atlantic Monthly Press, August 2009) and, with Guy Gugliotta, Kings of Cocaine: A True Story of Murder, Money and International Corruption (Simon & Schuster, 1989).

He received his A.B. in English Literature and Drama in 1979 from Washington University in St. Louis, where he worked as a senior editor on the school magazine, Subject to Change.

In 1982, he received his M.A. in Journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia. After graduation, he joined the Miami Herald as a reporter in the Gulf Coast Bureau. In 1985, he began covering the cocaine trade in Miami.

Beginning in 1987, he worked on the paper's investigative team in Miami. That year, he co-authored a 10-part series on the Medellin Cartel that became Kings of Cocaine. The series resulted in the seizure of Pablo Escobar's vacation home on Miami Beach and the druglord's $10 million apartment building in Broward County.

At the Herald, Leen also contributed to the coverage of Hurricane Andrew that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service in 1993.

Since 1997, he has been a reporter and an editor in the Washington Post's investigative unit, where he was part of a four-reporter team whose investigation of D.C. police shootings won the 1999 Pulitzer Gold Medal, the paper's first since Watergate. As the Post's investigations editor and later assistant managing editor in charge of investigations, he has directed reporters investigating deaths among the mentally retarded and at-risk children, plutonium poisoning in Kentucky, overseas drug testing, the 9/11 terror attacks, the business activities of the Nature Conservancy, the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, federal farm subsidy abuse, the Dick Cheney vice presidency and the Chandra Levy homicide case. The work has been honored with five Pulitzer Prizes, including another Gold Medal and two for investigative reporting.

He is married to Lynn Medford, senior Style Editor at The Washington Post. Visit his website.

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Trauma Stewardship

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:03:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, author of Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others with Connie Burk published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is a trauma social worker, educator, and consultant. She is also the founder and director of a Spanish-language preschool and grade school enrichment program that offers an environmental and social-justice curriculum. Visit her website.
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Men InTherapy

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:54:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews David B. Wexler, Ph.D., author of Men In Therapy: New Approaches for Effective Treatment published by W.W. Norton & Co.

David B. Wexler, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Diego, specializing in the treatment of relationships in conflict. He is the Executive Director of the non-profit Relationship Training Institute, which provides education and treatment internationally for relationship development and the prevention and treatment of relationship violence. He has also servedas the Clinical and Administrative Supervisor for the NIMH-sponsoredresearch study of domestic violence in the Navy from 1991 through 1996,and again from 2001 through 2006.

Dr. Wexler is the author of When Good Men Behave Badly: Change Your Behavior, Change Your Relationship, Is He Depressed or What?: What to Do When the Man You Love is Moody, Irritable, and Withdrawn. Dr. Wexler has been featured on the Dr. Phil show and the TODAY show, in the Washington Post, “O” magazine, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Men’s Health,and on dozens of radio and TV programs throughout North America to help educate the public about relationships in conflict and how to resolve them. Visit his website.

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Saving Sammy

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:13:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Beth Alison Maloney, author of Saving Sammy: Curing the Boy Who Caught OCD published by Crown.

Beth Alison Maloney is a successful Maine attorney and guardian ad litem. Before moving to Maine, she was an executive and attorney in the motion picture and television business in Los Angeles. Saving Sammy is her first book. Visit her website.

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He's History, You're Not

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:48:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Erica Manfred, author of He's History, You're Not: Surviving Divorce After 40 published by GPP Life.

Erica Manfred is a freelance journalist in the areas of parenting, relationships and health whose articles and essays have appeared in Parenting, Ladies Home Journal, Womans Day, SELF, Cosmopolitan, New York Times Magazine and other publications. Divorced at sixty, she became interested in the plight of older divorcees and researched and wrote He’s History; You’re Not; The Girlfriends Guide to Mid and Late Life Divorce (in Your 40s, 50s, 60s) She facilitates Moving On; a women’s divorce support group in Woodstock, NY sponsored by the Ulster County Mental Health Association. Before becoming a writer she spent ten years as a caseworker with adolescents and a family court probation offer. She is the proud mom of one adopted and one foster daughter.

Erica lives in West Hurley, New York. Visit her website.

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The White Knight Syndrome

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:27:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mary C. Lamia, Ph.D and Marilyn J. Krieger, Ph.D, co-authors of The White Knight Syndrome: Rescuing Yourself From Your Need To Rescue Others published by New Harbinger.

Mary C. Lamia, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Marin County, CA. She is also a professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA.

Marilyn J. Krieger, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Marin County, CA. She was previously on the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco Medical School.

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Caught in Play

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:56:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Peter G. Stromberg, author of Caught In Play: How Entertainment Works On You published by Stanford University Press.
Peter G. Stromberg is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of Language and Self-Transformation: A Study of the Christian Conversion Narrative (1993) and Symbols of Community: The Cultural Systems of a Swedish Church (1986). Visit his website.

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The Kids Are All Right

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Liz Welch and Ms. Diana Welch authors of The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir with Dan and Amanda Welch published by Harmony.

Liz Welch is an ASME award-winning journalist, and contributing writer at Glamour and Inc. magazines. Her work has also been published in Real Simple, O, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and many others. She lives in Broooklyn, NY.

Diana Welch is a writer living in Austin, Texas, where she works with the multimedia label Monofonus Press. Her reportage, fashion, and travel writing has appeared in the Austin Chronicle, Nylon and Night Magazine. Visit their website.

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In Her Wake

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:15:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Nancy Rappaport, MD, author of In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide published by Basic Books.

Nancy Rappaport is assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is attending child and adolescent psychiatry consultant to the Cambridge Public Schools and director of school-based programs in child psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Visit her website.

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The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:38:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Michael A. Jawer, co-author with Marc S. Micozzi M.D. Ph.D. of The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion: How Feelings Link the Brain, the Body, and the Sixth Sense published by Park Street Press.

Michael A. Jawer is an emotion researcher and expert on “sick building syndrome.” He lives in Vienna, Virginia. Visit his website.

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The Upside of Fear

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:03:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Weldon Long, author of The Upside of Fear: How One Man Broke the Cycle of Prison, Poverty, and Addiction published by Greenleaf Book Group Press.

Weldon Long knows firsthand that Maui is nicer than prison. After thirteen years of federal and state incarceration, he emerged a transformed man: a powerful speaker, driven motivator, and successful trainer/entrepreneur. Long holds a BS in law and an MBA in management, despite dropping out of high school in the ninth grade. He splits his time between the beaches of Maui and the mountains of Colorado with his wife, Janet, and son, Hunter. Visit his website.

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31 Hours

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:37:00 +0000

Jamie Mason, host of AuthorCast, interviews Ms. Masha Hamilton, author of 31 Hours published by Unbridled Books.

Masha Hamilton is the author of four acclaimed novels, most recently 31 Hours (2009), an Indie Choice pick by independent booksellers, which Publisher's Weekly called "gorgeous and complex." "You don't just read this gut-wrenching book; you become part of it in a deep, primal way," wrote StyleSubstanceSoul.com founder Lois Alter Mark. Hamilton is also the founder of two world literacy programs: the Camel Book Drive, begun in 2007 to supply a camel-borne library in northeastern Kenya, and the Afghan Women's Writing Project, begun in 2009 to foster creative and intellectual exchange between Afghan women writers and American women authors and teachers.

Her previous novels include Staircase of a Thousand Steps (2001), a Booksense pick by independent booksellers and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection; The Distance Between Us (2004), named one of the best books of the year by Library Journal; and The Camel Bookmobile (2007), also a Booksense pick. Booksense called it an excellent book club selection, and the New York Times said: "Hamilton makes us see how much is really at stake in a poverty-stricken place where every possession carries the weight of significance."

She worked as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press for five years in the Middle East, where she covered the intefadeh, the peace process and the partial Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. Then she spent five years in Moscow, where she was a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, wrote a newspaper column, Postcard from Moscow, and reported for NBC/Mutual Radio. She wrote about Kremlin politics as well as life for average Russians under Gorbachev and Yeltsin during the coup and collapse of the Soviet Union. She reported from Afghanistan in 2004, and returned in 2008. In 2006, she traveled in Kenya to research The Camel Bookmobile and to interview street kids in Nairobi and drought and famine victims in the isolated northeast.

A Brown University graduate, she has been awarded fiction fellowships from Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. She teaches for Gotham Writers' Workshop and has also taught at the 92nd Street Y in New York City and at a number of writers' workshops around the country. She is a licensed shiatsu practitioner and lives with her family in Brooklyn. Visit her website.

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The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:17:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Joyce Catlett, MA, co-author of The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships with Dr. Robert W. Firestone published by Karnac.

Joyce Catlett, MA, author and lecturer, has collaborated with Dr. Robert Firestone in writing ten books and numerous professional articles. Most recently, she co-authored Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice (New Harbinger, 2002) and Creating A Life of Meaning and Compassion: The Meaning of Psychotherapy(APA Books, 2003).

Ms. Catlett began her career in psychology in 1972, working with autistic children at the Camarillo State Hospital Children's Treatment Center in Camarillo, CA. A founding member of Glendon Association, she has been a national lecturer and workshop facilitator in the areas of child abuse prevention and couple relations. With Glendon, she has co-produced 37 video documentaries on a wide range of mental health topics. Ms. Catlett was also instrumental in the development and training of instructors in the Compassionate Child Rearing Education Program and in training mental health professionals in Voice Therapy Methodology. Visit the Glendon Association website and The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships website.

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The Secrets of Happy Families

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:25:00 +0000

Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Scott Haltzman, MD, author of The Secrets of Happy Families: Eight Keys to Building a Lifetime of Connection and Contentment published by Jossey-Bass.

Scott Haltzman, M.D., is board certified in Psychiatry and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a graduate of Brown University class of 1982, and received his medical degree from the Brown Medical School in 1985. He completed his psychiatric training and chief residency at Yale University, and then moved back to Rhode Island with his wife and children. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at Brown University Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and the Medical Director of NRI Community Services in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

Dr. Haltzman has gained international recognition for his work in support of marriage and committed relationships. He has appeared on the Today Show, 20/20, Good Morning America, and in TIME Magazine, Glamour, Redbook, Parent's Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and local and national radio, TV and print.

Dr. Haltzman is a member of the "Love Network" of Redbook magazine, and is an editorial consultant of Best Life. He co-authored the chapter, "Men, Marriage and Divorce" in the American Psychiatric Press book: Men and Mental Health. He is an internationally recognized speaker, presenting at the Annual Smart Marriages conference and at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. In 2007, he was honored by the Women's Resource Center of Newport & Bristol Counties (Rhode Island) as one of 19 "Men who Make a Difference."

Scott Haltzman, M.D., is the founder and editor of DrScott.com and 365Reasons.com and author of The Secrets of Happily Married Men, The Secrets of Happily Married Women and The Secrets of Happy Famlies. Visit Dr. Haltzman's website. Visit Dr. John Riolo's blog.

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Consequential Strangers

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:19:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Karen Fingerman, co-author of Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem To Matter...But Really Do with Melinda Blau published by W.W. Norton & Co.

Psychologist Karen Fingerman, who coined the term “consequential strangers,” is the Berner Hanley Professor and Director of Adult Family Research at Purdue University. An internationally known scholar whose work focuses on social relationships, emotions, and aging, she has authored over sixty articles and chapters. Mother of two, she lives in West Lafayette, Indiana. She is also a self-proclaimed chocoholic. Visit her website.

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Psychopathy, Perversion, and Lust Homicide

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:01:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Duane L. Dobbert, author of Psychopathy, Perversion, and Lust Homicide: Recognizing the Mental Disorders that Power Serial Killers published by Praeger.

Dr. Duane L. Dobbert is a 38 year veteran of the Criminal Justice Profession; serving in clinical, administrative, consulting, teaching, research, and expert witness capacities. Dr. Dobbert is a Fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners and the American Board of Psychological Specialties. He has consulted in hundreds of criminal justice jurisdictions through-out the United States. Dr. Dobbert has developed and presented training programs pertaining to the nature and identification of sexual predators to law enforcement officers, educators, mental health counselors, and attorneys.

Dr. Dobbert is also the author of Praeger Publisher’s, Halting the Sexual Predators among Us: Preventing Attack, Rape, and Lust Homicide, released in 2004 and Understanding Personality Disorders released in 2007.

Most recently, Dr. Dobbert authored the training program, School Bus Drivers: The 1st Line of Defense Against Sexual Predators. He has trained thousands of School Bus Drivers in "live" audience and DVD formats. Dr. Dobbert is currently a Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University and Capella University. Visit his website.

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Retail Hell

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:52:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Freeman Hall, author of Retail Hell: How I Sold My Soul to the Store Confessions of a Tortured Sales Associate published by Adams Media.

Freeman Hall (Los Angeles, CA) is a retail survivor who began slaving in retail at the age of twenty at Macy’s. His most notable retailicious experience was with specialty clothing store Nordstrom, where he spent fifteen years as an award-winning handbag manager and salesperson. Check out RetailHelltheBook.com for his blog, videos, sounding board, and more.

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The Woman Who Decided to Die

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:25:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Ronald Munson, author of The Woman Who Decided To Die: Challenges and Choices at the Edges of Medicine published by Oxford University Press.

Ronald Munson is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Medicine at University of Missouri-St. Louis. His books include the award-winning Raising the Dead: Organ Transplants, Ethics, and Society (OUP, 2002); Intervention and Reflection: Basic Issues in Medical Ethics; and the novels Nothing Human, Fan Mail, and Night Vision. Visit his website.

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Lies My Mother Never Told Me

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:28:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Kaylie Jones, author of Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir published by William Morrow.

Kaylie Jones was born in Paris, France, and attended French schools until she returned with her family to the United States in 1974. She attended Wesleyan University and Columbia University's School of the Arts. She is the author of A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, which was made into a film starring Kris Kristofferson and Barbara Hershey, Celeste Ascending, As Soon as It Rains, and Speak Now. She also chairs the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, which awards $10,000 annually to the writer of an unpublished first novel. She lives in New York City. Visit her website.

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The Anatomy of Evil

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:18:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Michael H. Stone, MD, author of The Anatomy of Evil published by Prometheus Books.

Michael H. Stone, MD (New York, NY) is professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the author of ten books, most recently Personality Disorders: Treatable and Untreatable, and over two hundred professional articles and book chapters. He is also the host of Discovery Channel's former series Most Evil and has been featured in the New York Times, Psychology Today, the Christian Science Monitor, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post, the London Times, the BBAC, and Newsday, among many other media outlets.

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Dreaming in Hindi

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:34:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Katherine Russell Rich, author of Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language A Memoir published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Katherine Russell Rich is the author of the award-winning memoir The Red Devil: To Hell with Cancer and Back, and she has written for New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, Salon.com, and National Public Radio. Visit her website.

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Power Animals

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:29:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Steven D. Farmer, author of Power Animals: How To Connect with Your Animal Spirit Guide published by Hay House.
Dr. Steven D. Farmer is a shamanic practitioner, minister, and licensed psychotherapist with over thirty years experience as a professional healer and teacher. In addition to Power Animals, he is the author of Sacred Ceremony: How to Create Ceremonies for Healing, Transitions, and Celebrations, as well as several other books and articles. Visit his website.
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Fearless Confessions

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:01:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Sue William Silverman, author of Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir published by University of Georgia Press.
Sue William Silverman is a faculty advisor at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and the associate editor of the journal Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. Her first book, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You (Georgia), received the AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction. She is also the author of Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction (made into a Lifetime TV movie) and Hieroglyphics in Neon, a collection of poems. Visit her website.
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Learning from the Light

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:43:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews John Lerma, MD, author of Learning from the Light: Pre-Death Experiences, Prophecies, and Angelic Messages of Hope published by New Page Books.
John Lerma, MD, author of Into The Light is widely known for his compassionate and loving care of hundreds of terminally-ill patients as well as his tenure as the inpatient medical director for the internationally renowned Medical Center Hospice of Houston, Texas. He currently serves as a consultant for several hospices and palliative units in Houston and San Antonio, Texas.
Since the inpatient unit is located in the heart of the largest medical center in the world, he worked closely with MD Anderson hospital, the leading cancer institute in the world in research and teaching. After obtaining a degree in pharmacy at The University of Texas at Austin, he entered medical school at the University of Texas San Antonio and years later finished his training in Internal Medicine. Over the last ten years he has focused his career in the field of hospice and palliative medicine.Board certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Dr. Lerma is widely recognized for his compassionate care of terminally-ill patients and research in the field of end of life care.
While working at the Medical Center in Houston, he was involved with teaching hospice and palliative medicine to medical students, residents, geriatric, oncology and palliative fellows from several institutions including but not limited to, Baylor College of Medicine, The University of Texas Medical School, and MD Anderson Cancer Institute.Among the topics he teaches include: The doctor, spirituality, and death, Pain management in the terminally ill, Palliative nursing, and Pharmacology and deathbed hallucinations versus visions.
As an international speaker, Dr. Lerma is recognized for his signature lecture, Pre-death Experiences: A hospice physician’s perspective on spirituality and the terminally ill.He is a frequent guest on local, national, and international media. Dr. Lerma is creating a non-profit company titled Hearts without Borders, which will take the hospice concept to underserved areas in South America. His organization's current project is to organize a hospice team and travel to several Mexican and South American cities, and aid governments and physicians in giving birth to the wonderful gift of hospice. Visit his website.
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The Slippery Year

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:46:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Melanie Gideon, author of The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After published by Knopf.

Melanie Gideon was born and raised in Rhode Island and now lives in the Bay Area with her husband and son. She graduated from Emerson College with a degree in journalism. She has been a waitress (a very clumsy waitress). She has worked in advertising. She was a buyer for a company that made one of the first parallel processing supercomputers. Her favorite job was working in a herbal apothecary where she learned to appreciate kale. When she’s not worrying about earthquakes, she is working too hard at housebreaking her puppy. She is the author of two young adult novels, The Map that Breathed and Pucker. The Slippery Year is her first memoir. Visit her website.

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The Novice

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:48:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Stephen Schettini, author of The Novice: Why I Became A Buddhist Monk, Why I Quit and What I Learned published by Greenleaf Book Group Press.

Stephen Schettini was ordained as a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan Gelug tradition and became a founding member of Tharpa ChÃ¶eling Centre d hautes Ã©tudes TibÃ©taines in Mont PÃ¨lerin, Switzerland. For eight years he trained there and in Asia as a translator and instructor of Buddhism, and began teaching in 1980. After leaving the Tibetans, he established a Montreal communications firm specializing in health science and stress management. Later, he founded Quiet Mind Seminars, where he teaches mindful reflection to the health community, businesses and the general public. Visit his website.

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Can't Find the Will Power?

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:49:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Lew Hamburger, author of Can't Find the Will Power? Everything You Should Have Learned Since Kindergarten published by Eloquent Books.

Lew Hamburger is a retired psychotherapist. Before retiring, he ran social service agencies in psychiatric settings including hospitals and treatment centers. He resides in Tucson, Arizona.

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The Natural Laws of Good Luck

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:10:00 +0000

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Ellen Graf, author of The Natural Laws of Good Luck: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage published by Trumpeter.

Ellen Graf writes out of rural upstate New York where she lives with her husband Zhong-hua Lu. She is a graduate of Bennington Writing Seminars in non-fiction. Her first book, The Natural Laws of Good Luck: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage, is scheduled for release by Shambhala publications on August 11, 2009. The book has been selected for Barnes and Noble’s Discover New Authors promotion and Border’s Original Voices program. Ellen is a Ludwig Volgelstein Writers Grant and a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts 2009 Fellowship in Non-fiction. Visit her website.

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