Robert Waggoner is the author of the 2008 book Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self and the co-editor of the quarterly publication, The Lucid Dream Exchange. Read More
#188 - Technology and The Evolving Brain with Gary Small, M.D.
December 26, 2008
Gary Small, M.D. is co-author (along with his wife, Gigi Vorgan) of the 2008 book, iBrain: Surviving The Technological Alteration of The Modern Mind. In addition, Dr. Small is a professor of psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute and directs the Memory and Aging Research Center and the UCLA Center on Aging. Read More
#187 – Happy At Last with Richard O’Connor, Ph.D.
December 18, 2008
Richard O’Connor, MSW, Ph.D. is the author of Happy At Last: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Finding Joy. His earlier books are Undoing Depression and Undoing Perpetual Stress. For fourteen years he was executive director of the Northwest Center for Family Service and Mental Health, a private, nonprofit mental health clinic serving Litchfield County, Connecticut, overseeing the work of twenty mental health professionals in treating almost a thousand patients per year. He is currently a practicing psychotherapist with offices in Connecticut and New York.
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#186 - What Happy Women Know with Cathy Greenberg, Ph.D.
December 12, 2008
With two decades of real world expertise, Dr. Cathy Greenberg focuses on the successful integration of business strategies and human performance. Cathy maximizes the outcomes of business change through executive coaching, using leadership and organizational assessments while developing internal coaching networks for enterprise wide success. Working with executives and CEO’s in the global Fortune 500 she has spanned all industries including financial services and insurance. Cathy Greenberg, Ph.D., a keynote and facilitator at the World Economic Forum, has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, London Times, The Financial Times, Australia’s The Boss, Stanford Executive videos, and a host of international media, radio and talk shows including CNN, Martha Stewart Living SIRIUS Radio and is a featured guest on American Airlines In Flight Entertainment. Cathy, an International Member of Who’s Who was named one of the Top 50 Female Entrepreneurs of 2004. Her most recent book “What Happy Women Know” Rodale Press, 2007 is featured in Oprah Magazine.
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#185 - At The SF Happiness and Its Causes Conference
December 5, 2008
We deviate from our regular format of interviewing a single person. Last week I attended a four-day conference in San Francisco on Happiness and It’s Causes. The conference was sponsored by a Tibetan Buddhist organization to raise money for an initiative known as the Liberation Prison Project, which supports the spiritual practice of thousands of prisoners in the USA and Australia. What you will hear here are a selection of short interview clips from attendees and organizers, along with my commentary.
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#184 – Working with Families and The Courts with Dana Schneider
November 28, 2008
Dana Schneider, MA, MFT is a lecturer at Sonoma State University and a licensed marriage and family therapist. In addition to 29 years of clinical experience working with children, adolescents and their families, she has extensive training and experience in the field of divorcing families. Read More
#183 – Mindfulness, Harm Reduction and Relapse Prevention with Alan Marlatt
November 21, 2008
G. Alan Marlatt, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington and Director of the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at that institution. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Indiana University in 1968. After serving on the faculties of the University of British Columbia and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he joined the University of Washington faculty in the fall of 1972. He has conducted pioneering research in three areas: harm reduction, brief interventions, and relapse prevention.
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#182 - Effects of Meditation and CBT on The Brain with Philippe Goldin
November 14, 2008
Philippe Goldin, Ph.D. is a research scientist and heads the Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience group in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University.
He spent 6 years in India and Nepal studying various languages,
Buddhist philosophy and debate at Namgyal Monastery and the Dialectic Monastic Institute, and serving as an interpreter for various Tibetan Buddhist lamas. He then returned to the U.S. to complete a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University. His NIH-funded clinical research focuses on (a) functional neuroimaging investigations of cognitive-affective mechanisms in adults with anxiety disorders, (b) comparing the effects of mindfulness meditation and cognitive-behavioral therapy on brain-behavior correlates of emotional reactivity and regulation, and (c) training children in family and elementary school settings in mindfulness skills to reduce anxiety and enhance compassion, self-esteem and quality of family interactions.
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#181 – The Art of Engagement in Organizations with Jim Haudan
November 7, 2008
Jim Haudan is CEO of Root Learning and author of the 2008 book, The Art of Engagement: Bridging The Gap Between People and Possibilities. For the past 20 years, he has not only built a thriving business, but has helped numerous individuals unleash their hidden potential. With origins as a coach and school administrator, it’s easy to see what led him to co-found a company dedicated to business learning. His innovative, creative methods draw people into a business by tapping into basic human curiosity and intelligence. By fully engaging people in their work, they become ready, willing and able to deliver on company strategies, producing real results.
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#180 - Consciousness and Technology with Nova Spivack
October 31, 2008
Nova Spivack is one of the leading voices of the emerging Semantic Web, what is sometimes referred to as Web 3.0. Nova founded Radar Networks to develop the next-evolution of social software, Twine, based on the Semantic Web. Twine is a unique, Semantic Web application that that helps users organize, share and discover information around their interests, with networks of like-minded people.
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#179 - A Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy with Dr. Stan Tatkin
October 24, 2008
Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, founder/developer of A Psychobiological Approach To Couples Therapy™ integrates neuroscience, infant attachment, arousal regulation, and therapeutic enactment applied to adult primary attachment relationships. He maintains a practice in Calabasas, California, and runs a bi-weekly clinical study group for medical and mental health professionals (www.ahealthymind.org/csg) and training programs in Seattle and San Francisco.
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#178 - Intuition and The Voyager Tarot with Dr. James Wanless
October 17, 2008
James Wanless, Ph.D., is a former political science professor and creator of the best-selling Voyager Tarot and author of Intuition@Work. A popular keynote motivational speaker and seminar leader, Wanless travels the world teaching the 21st century skills of creativity, personal sustainability, intuition and leadership. You can view his work on websites www.voyagertarot.com and www.greenwisdomcards.com.
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#177 – A Live Presentation on Technology and The Millennials
October 11, 2008
This is presentation I gave at Sonoma State University. As in several previous semesters, Dr. Shepherd Bliss invited me to be a guest speaker in his psychology class, The Person in Society. I tried to make the session interactive, though I ended up talking more than I intended. You will hear comments and reactions from a number of students in the class as well as some very spirited rejoinders from Shepherd.
My comments on technology will be familiar from conversations you’ve heard here between me and my friend Jerry Trumbule. In particular, I refer to the Atlantic Magazine article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?“, to the Business Week article “Marketing to Millennials,” to the Esquire article “The Unspeakable Odyssey of The Motionless Boy,” and a Santa Rosa Press Democrat article “Baby Online.”
#176 - The Dave and Jerry Show #13
October 5, 2008
Jerry Tumbule, M.S, ABD and I have another one of our wide ranging conversations. As usual, it is both personal and psychological. Among the topics we discuss are the impact of cell phones upon sleep and health, self-awareness in elephants and other large-brained creatures, speech recognition areas in the monkey brain, the universal human propensity for storytelling.
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#175 - Toltec Wisdom Teachings with Allan Hardman
September 26, 2008
Allan Hardman describes himself as a relationship coach, author, teacher, and Toltec Master, trained by Miguel Ruiz in the tradition of The Four Agreements. He teaches in Sonoma County, CA, and guides “Journeys of the Spirit” to sacred sites and tropical beaches in Mexico and beyond. He is the author of The Everything Toltec Wisdom Book, and contributor to two books with Deepak Chopra, Dr. Andrew Weil, Caroline Myss, and others.
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#174 - Murder Most Psychological with Dr. Roberta Isleib
September 19, 2008
Roberta Isleib, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist with a mystery series starring a Connecticut psychologist and advice columnist. Her mystery series debuted in 2007 with Deadly Advice. Book three, Asking For Murder, has just been released. She says the work of the detective in a mystery has quite a bit in common with long-term psychotherapy: Start with a problem, follow the threads looking for clues, and gradually fill in the big picture. Read More
#173 – Prison Dreams and Fairy Tales
September 13, 2008
Dana Houck D.Min, Ed.D. is currently a psychotherapist working in Minnesota in private practice and is working part time as a licensed School Counselor working with troubled youth in Rural Minnesota Schools. He worked as a prison Psychologist for over ten years before recently retiring. While working in the prison setting he lead numerous groups of men using myths, fairytales and dream work to assist their development and uncovering the reasons they brought themselves to prison. Read More
#172 - The Dave and Jerry Show #12: Tweets for Twits?
September 8, 2008
What you have here is another session between Jerry Trumbule and me. For the moment, I’ve decided to back off from calling these episodes Shrink Rap Radio LIVE, since we are no longer doing the in the call-in format. So, rejecting the few renaming suggestions I’ve received, I think I like The Dave and Jerry show.
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#171 - The View From A University Counseling Center
September 5, 2008
Tom Murray, PhD., is the Director of Counseling and Disability Services at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Dr. Murray’s is a licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed professional counselor, and board certified in clinical hypnotherapy. Read More
#170 - From Dreambody to Worldwork
August 29, 2008
Drs. Arnold and Amy Mindell come out of the Jungian tradition and have been doing pioneering work around the world.
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#169 - Way of The Scottish Ninja
August 22, 2008
Jock Brocas is author of the book Powers of The Sixth Sense: How To Remain Safe in A Hostile World. In addition to being an author, Jock is also an expert in security and martial arts, as well as a professional psychic medium. Read More
#168 - An International Conference on Shamanism
August 16, 2008
Juliette Hanauer, Dr. Jurgen Kremer, and Gail Hayssen are organizers and presenters at the upcoming 25th Annual International Conference on the Study of Shamanism and Alternative Modes of Healing which will take place August 30 through Sept 1, 2008 at the Santa Sabina Retreat Center in San Rafael, CA.
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#167- Shrink Rap Radio LIVE#11 - Chumps for Chimps!
August 8, 2008
Jerry Trumbule, MS, PhD (abd) and I engage in a discussion about the ethics of animal research, with a focus on his experiences working with chimpanzees. Jerry was inspired to go down memory lane by a recent episode on the Australian Broadcasting Company’s All In The Mind. titled,
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#166 – A Jungian View of The Feminine in Film
August 1, 2008
John Beebe, M.D., is co-author, along with Virginia Apperson of the new book, The Presence of The Feminine in Film. You may recall that Dr. Beebe, was my guest on show #140 which dealt with Jungian Typology. Dr. Beebe is a Jungian analyst in practice in San Francisco. He received degrees from Harvard College and the University of Chicago medical school. He is a past President of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where he is currently on the teaching faculty, as well as Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California Medical School, San Francisco. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association .
An avid film buff, Beebe frequently draws upon American movies to illustrate how the various types of consciousness and unconsciousness interact to produce images of Self and shadow in the stories of our lives that Jung called individuation. Dr. Beebe is particularly well known for his elaboration in C.G. Jung’s theory of psychological types.
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#165 - Irritable Male Syndrome
July 25, 2008
Jed Diamond, Ph.D. has been a licensed psychotherapist for over 43 years and is the author of seven books including the international best-selling Male Menopause and Surviving Male Menopause that has thus far been translated into 32 foreign languages and the recently released The Irritable Male Syndrome: Understanding and Managing the 4 Key Causes of Depression and Aggression, which is also developing a world-wide readership. Click here to go to his online community.
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