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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Don Ferguson, author of Reptiles in Love: Ending Destructive Fights and Evolving Toward More Loving Relationships

Dr. Don Ferguson is a staff psychologist at Dean Medical Center in Madison, Wisconsin, where he was formerly the clinical administrator for psychiatry. Dr. Ferguson has over twenty years of experience as a teacher, trainer, and practitioner in the field of relationships and couple therapy.

Visit his websites, www.reptilesinlove.com  and www.donfergusonseminars.com which provide a wealth of information on seminars and advice for couples.

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http://psychjourney.libsyn.com:80/index.php?post_id=167293# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Dr. Catherine McCall, author of Lifeguarding: A Memoir of Secrets, Swimming, and the South

Catherine McCall has done regular commentary for regional public radio and her writing has appeared in various publications including the New York Times, the Wilmington Star-News, and the North Carolina Literary Review.  A psychiatrist based in Wilmington, North Carolina, Caroline holds an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

She graduated from Emory College (B.A. in Chemistry and Psychology) and its medical school. At Emory, she completed a residency in general psychiatry and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry, serving as chief resident in her final year. After all that schooling, she moved to the beach, started a private practice in psychiatry and stepped up her focus on writing. That focus eventually led her to do commentaries on public radio on to receive an MFA in creative nonfiction from UNCW. Her first book, Lifeguarding: A Memoir of Secrets, Swimming and the South
(Harmony Books, Random House, July 2006) was her MFA thesis.  Visit her website.

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http://psychjourney.libsyn.com:80/index.php?post_id=167654# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Betty Jean  Lifton, author of Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter 
re-issued in September 2006 by Other Press.

Betty Jean Lifton, Ph.D., is an outspoken advocate for an open adoption system. A former member of the Ethics Committee of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, and a former board member of the American Adoption Congress, she believes that children should have the right to know the truth about their adoption and be allowed to get in touch with their birth parents if they choose to do so.  She should know, Lifton found her birth mother despite years of struggle.

She is now an adoption counselor with a practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York.  She offers telephone counseling across the country.  Visit her website.


Visit her website www.bjlifton.com

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. David Kuhl, M.D., author of What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom for the End of Life, published by Public Affairs.

Dr. David Kuhl, began his career in pallative (Hospice) care fifteen years ago, providing medical care for people with cancer in his private practice. He later developed a pallative care program for persons with cancer and AIDS at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver.  The team at St. Paul's has attended thousands of people at the end of life.

A Soros Faculty Scholar and frequent speaker across North America on pallative care and decision-making at the end of life, Dr. Kuhl is currently developing a program for doctors on communicating with patients about difficult subjects.  Purchase his accompying book, Facing Death, Embracing Life: Understanding What Dying People Want

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http://psychjourney.libsyn.com:80/index.php?post_id=168807# Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, author of Listening To Depression: How Understanding Your Pain Can Heal Your Life
interviews Dr. Edward (Ned) Hallowell, M.D. about his book, CrazyBuzy, Overstetched, Overbooked and About To Snap!

Visit Dr. Honos-Webb's website and blog.

Are you looking for practical, how-to solutions to life as personal
challenges? Bestselling author, Dr. Ned Hallowell offers
groundbreaking advice on how to learn the art of forgiveness, how to raise happy
children, how to manage worry, and many other important health issues.

A graduate of Harvard College and Tulane School of Medicine, Dr. Hallowell is
a child and adult psychiatrist and the founder of The Hallowell Center
for Cognitive and Emotional Health in Sudbury, MA. He was a member of the
faculty of the Harvard Medical School from 1983 to 2004.

Dr. Hallowell is considered to be one of the foremost experts on the topic of
ADD. He is the co-author, with Dr. John Ratey, of the national bestsellers about
ADD, Driven to Distraction, and Answers to Distraction. In January
of 2005, Drs. Hallowell and Ratey released their much-awaited new book on ADD,
Delivered from Distraction.

Dr. Hallowell is a frequent speaker on health issues, and has been frequently
featured in the national media, including "60 Minutes", "The Jane Pauley Show",
PBS, NPR, "20/20", "The Today Show", "Dateline", "Oprah", "Good Morning
America", US News and World Report, Newsweek, USA Weekend and the Harvard
Business Review.

Dr. Hallowell lives in the Boston area with his wife, Sue, a social worker, and their three children. Visit his website.

http://psychjourney.libsyn.com:80/index.php?post_id=168875# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney
interviews Mr.
Alex Beam, author of Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental
Hospital

Journalist Alex Beam worked at Newsweek and Business Week before joining the Boston Globe. His award-winning twice weekly column for the Globe has appeared
since 1987.  In addition to his journalistic work, Beam is the author of two
novels about Russia, Fellow Travelers,
(1987) and The Americans Are Coming, (1991), both published by St. Martin
Press.  He has also written for the Atlantic Monthly, Slate, and Forbes. He
lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with his wife and three sons.

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http://psychjourney.libsyn.com:80/index.php?post_id=169317# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Ms. Molly Bruce Jacobs, author of Secret Girl: A Memoir.Brucie Jacobs, born in Baltimore, Maryland, graduated from Cornell University where she studied Mandarin Chinese. After working for the National Council for Us-China Trade in Washington, D.C., she went on to receive a law degree from Columbia University, practiced law for several years, and then turned to writing full-time. Her essays and articles have appeared in Redbook, Baltimore Magazine, The Baltimore Sun, three of the books in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and other publications.  Her short stories have been published in numerous literary journals.Brucie is also a painter. She works with encaustics-that is, painting from molten, pigmented beeswaz.  Her technique involves applying layer after layer of wax on rigid, wood panels, and fusing each layer with heat from a blow torch.  Visit her website www.mollybrucejacobs.com Share your comments about the book and the interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club blog.photo credit: Gary Adams

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Stephen Hinshaw, author of The Years of Silence are Past: My Father's Life with Bipolar Disorder published by Cambridge University Press.

Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. After receiving his B.A. from Harvard in 1974, summa cum laude, he directed day school and residential programs for children with developmental disabilities for three years. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA in 1983. He taught in the Psychology Department at UCLA from 1986-1990 and joined the Berkeley faculty in 1990.

Hinshaw has authored over 170 articles, chapters, and reviews on child psychopathology. His books include Attention Deficits and Hyperactivity Disorder, and The Mark of Shame: Stigma and Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change. Visit his website.

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http://psychjourney.libsyn.com:80/index.php?post_id=169651# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Pamela Spiro Wagner, co-author of Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizoprhenia, co-authored with her twin sister, Dr. Carlolyn Spiro, M.D. Pamela Spiro Wagner is a prize-winning writer and poet who suffers from schizoprhenia. She has been writing about her illness for many years, most recently at WAGblog. Born in Tacoma Washington, one of a pair of identical twins, she grew up in North Haven Connecticut, went to high school in New Haven, and attended Brown University from 1970-1975, whence she graduated magna cum laude. She subsequently attended medical school for one and a half years, before being hospitalized for psychiatric care.  She never returned.She did however, start to write, and despite more then 60 hospitalizations in the following years, she never stopped writing.Her prose and poetry have been published in Tikkun, Schizorphenia Bulletin, Trinity Review, The Connecticut Writer, LA Weekly, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine, among others.She won the 1993  Mental
Health Media Award; took second place in the 1997 Mental Illness Awareness
Media Awards; first place in theTunxis Poetry Review twice, and First Place
in the 2002 BBC World Service International poetry awards. She lives in Wethersfield CT with her cat, Eemie. She
is now recovering from schizophrenia after more than 35 years of chronic illness.

http://psychjourney.libsyn.com:80/index.php?post_id=169971# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Ms. Lynn Melville, author of Boomerang Love: Getting Unhooked from Abusive Borderline Relationships published by Melville Publications. Lynn Melville
has served as Executive Director of the Mental Health Association in
her hometown. Working with an all-volunteer board and community
volunteers, she worked to educate people about mental health issues.
Since the publication of her book, she's been very busy educating
domestic violence victims about this disorder and telephone-coaching
people all over the country who are struggling to leave these
Borderline relationships.Visit her website and blog.Share your comments about the book and interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club blog.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Noelle C. Nelson, author of Dangerous Relationships: How to Identify and Respond to the Seven Warning Signs of a Troubled Relationship published by  Insight Books.

Noelle C. Nelson, Ph.D. is an internationally respected psychologist, author and seminar leader. She believes that we can accomplish great things, whether in business or in home, when we connect with the value in ourselves and in others.

As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Nelson has empowered countless inviduals to be happier, healthier and more successful at work, at home and in relationshops. Dr. Nelson shares her proactive and positive outlook in her books, articles, workshops and seminars. Dr. Nelson holds advanced degrees in clinical psychology from the United States International University (M.S., Ph.D.) and sociology degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles (B.A.) and the Sorbonne, Paris.  Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Rene Denfeld, author of All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families published by Public Affairs.

Rene Denfeld was raised by a single mother of five in a racially mixed family in Portland, Oregon. Her articles on feminism sparked debate and led to her first book contract at the age of twenty-two. That book, The New Victorians, was an international bestseller. She has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times Magazine, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Rene has made many media appearances, from Good Morning America to CNN. She lives in Porland, Oregon, with her partner and their three children. Visit her website.

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http://psychjourney.libsyn.com:80/index.php?post_id=171226# Deborah Harper, President of Psychourney, interviews Professor Brooke Kroeger, author of Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are.Brooke Kroeger has worked in every print medium. At Newsday, she served as UN Correspondent and as a deputy metropolitan editor for New York Newsday.
This followed an eight-year stint overseas in the Scripps Howard of
United Press International with postings in Brussels, London and Tel
Aviv. She was Tel Aviv bureau chief for three years before returning to
London to serve as the agency's chief editor for Europe, The Middle
East and Africa. She started with the wire service in its Chicago
bureau, and over the course of four years, wrote about everything from
local and state politics to sports. She is currently professor and chair of the Journalism Department at New York University.Over the years, her freelanced work has appeared in numerous women's magazines as well as the New York Times, Newsday, Prologue, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.  Visit her website.Share your comments about the book and interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club blog

http://psychjourney.libsyn.com:80/index.php?post_id=171339# Deborah Harper, President of Psychourney, interviews Dr. Carolyn S. Spiro, M.D., co-author of Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia  published by St. Martin Press.This is part two of a two part interview.  Dr. Spiro's  twin sister and co-author, Pamela Spiro Wagner, was interviewed earlier about her life and the book.  Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizoprhenia won them the 2006  Literary Award from NAMI.   The book was also a finalist in the 2006   Connecticut Book Award.Dr. Carolyn S. Spiro, M.D., is a psychiatrist who
specializes in the treatment of adults with anxiety and mood disorders
(OCD, mood swings) as well as the diagnosis and treatment of
neuropsychiatric Lyme disease. Dr. Spiro attended Harvard Medical
School and completed a year of medical residency before she went into
psychiatry at HarvardÃïïs Mass. Mental Health Center. Completing the
residency, she, her husband and new daughter moved to Connecticut. She
was a unit chief and Asst. Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale
Psychiatric Institute for three years until her son was born when she
left the pressures of academia for private practice and more time with
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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews  Ms. Miriam Katin, author of We Are On Our Own, a graphic novel published by Drawn and Quarterly.Born in Hungary, during WWII, Miriam Katin immigrated to Israel in 1957 where she served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a graphic artist. She has lived in New York City since 1990, working as a background designer for MTV and Disney.  Visit her website.Share your comments about the book and interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club blog.

http://psychjourney.libsyn.com:80/index.php?post_id=171977# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Professor Nahid Rachlin, author of Persian Girls: A Memoir  published by Tarcher/Penguin.Nahid Rachlin is the author of the critically acclaimed novels, Jumping Over Fire, Married to a Stranger, and The Heart's Desire, as well as a collection of short stories, Veils.  Currently an associate fellow at Yale, Rachlin teaches at the New School and the Unterberg Poetry Center in New York.  Visit her website. Share your comments on the boook and interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club blog.

http://psychjourney.libsyn.com:80/index.php?post_id=172020# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Janet Golden, author of Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome published by Harvard University Press.

 

Janet Golden, PhD. is a professor of history at Rutgers University where she specializes in the history of medicine, history of childhood, womenÃïïs history and American social history. She is the author or editor of seven books, and author or co-author of numerous articles. Her most recent books are Message In A Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Children and Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health published by Harvard Press 2006, and  co-edited with Richard Meckel and Heather Munro Prescott, Greenwood Press, 2004.

Dr. Golden is a recipient of many grants and fellowships including those awarded by the National Institutes of Health, The National Endowment for the Humanities, the Commonwealth Fund, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.  She is currently writing, with Professor Lynn Weiner, a history of babies in twentieth century America. Visit her webpage.

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http://psychjourney.libsyn.com:80/index.php?post_id=172327#  Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Luis J.
Rodriguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in
L.A.The son of Mexican immigrants, Luis J. Rodriguez began
writing in his early teens and has won national recognition as a poet,
journalist, fiction writer, childrenÃÂÃÂÂÃÂÂs book writer, and critic. Currently
working as a peacemaker among gangs on a national and international level,
Rodriguez helped create Tia ChuchaÃÂÃÂÂÃÂÂs CafÃïàand Centro Cultural, a multiarts,
multimedia cultural center in the Northeast San Fernando Valley. Visit his website and his blog.Share your comments on the book and interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club blog.

 

http://psychjourney.libsyn.com:80/index.php?post_id=172344# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Luis J. Rodriguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.The son of Mexican immigrants, Luis J. Rodriquez began writing in his early teens and has won national recognition as a poet, journalist, fiction writer, children's book writer, and critic. Currently working as a peacemaker among gangs on a national and international level, Rodriguez helped create Tia Chucha's Cafe and Centro Cultural, a multiarts, multimedia cultural center in the Northeast San Fernando Valley in California.  Visit his website and blog.Share your comments on the book and interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club blog.

http://psychjourney.libsyn.com:80/index.php?post_id=172433# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. William M. Reddy, author of The Navigation of Feelings: A Framework For The History Of Emotions published by Cambridge University Press.William M. Reddy, Ph.D., is a cultural historian who teaches at Duke University. He has been studying the history of emotional experience since 1995, and is currently writing a history of romantic love. Dr. Reddy has held fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Fullbright program, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and visiting fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for History, and the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris. His current research is supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California. Visit his webpage.Share your comments about the book and interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club blog.

http://psychjourney.libsyn.com:80/index.php?post_id=173069# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Thomas Blass, author of The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram  published by Basic Books.Thomas Blass, PhD., is an internationally recognized expert on obedience to authority and on the research and legacy of Stanley Milgram.After receiving his B.A. in mathematics and Ph.D. in social psychology from Yeshiva University, Dr. Blass held research postions at the University of Maryland Psychiatric Institute, Shappard-Pratt Hospital, and Downsate Medical Center. For most of his career he has been at the Department of Psychology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, where he is currently Professor of Psychology.In addition to his interests in obedience and the work of Stanley Milgram, Dr. Blass has researched a variety of topics over the years, including tactics of social influence, attitutional, and other self-report measures relevant to social behavior, and psychological perspectives on the Holocaust. Visit his website.Share your comments about the book and interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club blog.

http://psychjourney.libsyn.com:80/index.php?post_id=173671# Deborah Harper,President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr.
Daniel S.  Hanson, M.A., author of Room For J: A Family Struggles With Schizophrenia  published
by Beavers Pond Press.Daniel S.
Hanson is an experienced leader, an author, and a teacher. For 30 years
he held key executive postions with four Fortune 500 companies. His experiences
as a leader inside corporate America promted him to write about creating and
sustaining caring environments that bring out the best in people and the
organization.  He is the author of A Place To Shine: Emerging From the Shadows at Work and Cultivating Common Ground: Releasing the Power of Relationships at
Work. Dan is currently a member of the faculty at Augsburg College where he
teaches courses in Communication.Dan and his wife Sue are also the
parents of a son Joel who struggles with a severe mental illness.  It is this
experience which promoted Dan to write Room For J: A Family Struggles With Schizophrenia.  Dan  and
Sue are comitted to help other parents like them who struggle to care for
someone who does not willingly accept their care.  Dan and Sue live on a small
lake in Maple Grove, MN. Visit Dan's
webpage and the NAMI
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http://psychjourney.libsyn.com:80/index.php?post_id=174399# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Dr.
Richard Restak, MD, author of The Naked Brain: How the Emerging Neurosociety is Changing How We
Live, Work, and Love  published by Harmony.Dr. Restak is a graduate of Georgetown
University School of Medicine. Post Graduate training included a rotating
internship at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, psychiatric residencies at
Mount Sinai Hospital and Georgetown University Hospital and a residency in
neurology at George Washingon Hospital in Washington D.C. Concurrently, he is
Clinical Professor of Neurology at George Washingon Hospital University School of Medicine and Health
Sciences.Dr. Restak has written over 18 books on the human brain,
two of which were main selections of the Book Of The Month Club. He has penned
dozens of articles for national newspapers including  the Washington Post, New
York Times, Los Angeles Times,
and USA Today.As a regular
lecturer, both nationally and internationally, he has presented communtaries for
both Morning Edition and All Things Considered on National Public Radio and has
made numerous appearances on leading television talk shows.  Visit his website.Share
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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Pamela Carlton, MD., co-author with Deborah Ashin of Take Charge of Your Child's Eating Disorder: A Physician's Step-By-Step Guide To Defeating Anorexia and Bulimia, published by Marlowe and Company.

Pamela Carlton, MD, a specialist in adolescent eating disorders, is a physician in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is invited to speak at major eating disorder conferences and also consults with eating disorder programs across the country.  Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Darrin McMahon, author Happiness: A HIstory published by Grove Press.Darrin M. McMahon is a professor of history at Florida State Unversity. Professor McMahon was educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Yale University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1997. He is the author of Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity, and Happiness: A History, which has been or is being, translated into nine foreign languages.  Visit his webpage.Share your comments on the book and interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club blog.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. David Tolin, co-author of Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring Saving and Hoarding (with Drs. R. Frost and G. Steketee) published by Oxford University Press.Dr. Tolin is the founder and Director of the Anxiety Disorders Center at the Institute of Living.  He is also Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Dr. Tolin received his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas, and completed a predoctoral internship at Tufts University School of Medicine/VA Medical Center, Boston.Dr. Tolin's research and clinical interests include cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders in adults and children, and cognitive obsessive-compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and panic disorder.  Dr. Tolin is the author of over 90 journal articles and book chapters and over 140 research presentations to national and international organizations.  Visit his website.Share your comments about the book and the interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club blog.