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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Attorney Dawn
Davenport, author of The Complete Book Of International Adoption: A Step-by-Step Guide
to Finding Your Child published by Broadway.

Dawn Davenport is an adoption expert, writer, attorney, and
speaker specializing in international adoption. Her book, The Complete Book of International Adoption: A Step by
Step Guide to Finding Your Child (Random House/Broadway, Nov.
2006), and website, help families through the international adoption process.

She has published on adoption in national and regional publications,
including Conceive Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor,
and USA Today. She is interviewed frequently about adoption, including
numerous times on National Public Radio. Her research has been featured on CBS
News 60 Minutes and People Magazine. Ms. Davenport has served as a
background consultant to CBS News 60 Minutes and ABC News Primetime Live on
adoption issues. She loves to speak at infertility and adoption conferences to
help others on their journey to find their child. Perhaps most important, she is
a mom of four by birth and adoption and cares passionately about this issue. 
Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Hella Winston, Ph.D., author of Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels, published by Beacon Press.

Hella Winston was born and raised in New York City. A Magna Cum Laude graduate of Barnard College with a B.A. in Religion, she is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

In addition to her work on Hasidic Jews â drawing upon what has been hailed as unprecedented field work among the Satmar and Boboz sects â Winston has also been involved in extensive Sociological research and writing in other areas, including the Sociology of Education, the Sociology of the Professions, and the interaction between culture and identity.

She is the co-author of âChildren of the Digital Divide,â with Paul Attewell, which appears in an edited collection entitled Disadvantaged Teens and Computer Technologies (Waxman, 2002). The paper reflects some of the fruits of a two-year, NSF-funded ethnographic study of the influence of computers on the academic achievement of disadvantaged youth. She is also working with Cynthia Fuchs Epstein on a study of the process of identity formation among Public Interest lawyers. Winstonâs writing has also appeared in Lilith magazine, New York Newsday, and The East Hampton Star.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Myrna B. Shure, Ph.D., author of Thinking Parent, Thinking Child: How to Turn Your Most Challenging Everyday Problems into Solutions published by McGraw Hill.

Myrna B. Shure is a developmental psychologist and professor of psychology at Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA), developed the "I Can Problem Solve" (ICPS) program, on which Raising a Thinking Preteen and her two previous books are based. She has won three awards from the American Psychological Association (1984, 1986, 1993) and one from the National Mental Health Association (1982) for her work developing the ICPS program.

Her programs, I Can Problem Solve, for schools, and Raising a Thinking Child, for families, have been recognized as exemplary mental health programs by the National Association of School Psychologists, and as model violence and substance abuse prevention programs by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has recognized Dr. Shure's Raising a Thinking Child as a model prevention program for families, and that book was also a 1996 Parent's Choice Award winner. Visit her website .

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Richard J. McNally, author of Remembering Trauma published by Belknap Press.

Richard J. McNally received his B.S. in psychology from Wayne State University in 1976, and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1982. He completed his clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Behavior Therapy Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Temple University School of Medicine. In 1984 he was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School where he established the Anxiety Disorders Clinic and directed the university counseling center. He moved to the Department of Psychology at Harvard University in 1991 where he is now Professor and Director of Clinical Training.

He has more than 290 publications, most concerning cognitive aspects of anxiety disorders (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD], panic disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder), including the books Panic Disorder A Critical Analysis (Guilford Press, 1994) and Remembering Trauma (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2003). Recent laboratory studies concern cognitive functioning in adults reporting histories of childhood sexual abuse, including those reporting to having repressed and recovered their memories of trauma. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health.

He served on the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV PTSD and simple phobia committees, and now serves on the DSV-V fear circuitry and stress-induced disorders workgroup. He is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, winner of the 2005 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology, and on the Institute for Scientific Information's "Highly Cited" list for psychology and psychiatry [top 0.5% of published authors worldwide in terms of citation impact.] Visit his webpage.

Visit Dr. Riolo's websites, Your Advocate Online and The Insider.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider", interviews Stephen A. Karp, MSW.

Stephen A. Karp, MSW is the Executive Director of the National Association of Social Workers, CT Chapter, a position he held from 1989 â1999, and again since August 2001.

Mr. Steve Karp obtained his MSW in 1983 from Fordham University , with a concentration in community organization. Mr. Karp has a long history of involvement with NASW, first as a volunteer , then as the Political Director for the New York State Chapter. He served the CT Chapter and was later the Director of Chapter Services and Continuing Education at the national office of NASW from 1999-2001.

Prior to working for NASW Steve spent over ten years in the fields of aging and developmental disabilities, where he did a combination of direct service and administration. He has been an adjunct professor of social work, teaching at several colleges and universities and on the advisory board for the Institute for the Advancement of the Practice of Political Social Work at the UCONN School of Social Work and the Office of Managed Care Ombudsman. 

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider", interviews Stephen A. Karp, MSW.

Stephen A. Karp, MSW is the Executive Director of the National Association of Social Workers, CT Chapter, a position he held from 1989 â1999, and again since August 2001.

Mr. Steve Karp obtained his MSW in 1983 from Fordham University  with a concentration in community organization. Mr. Karp has a long history of involvement with NASW, first as a volunteer , then as the Political Director for the New York State Chapter. He served the CT Chapter and was later the Director of Chapter Services and Continuing Education at the national office of NASW from 1999-2001.

Prior to working for NASW Steve spent over ten years in the fields of aging and developmental disabilities, where he did a combination of direct service and administration. He has been an adjunct professor of social work, teaching at several colleges and universities and on the advisory board for the Institute for the Advancement of the Practice of Political Social Work at the UCONN School of Social Work and the Office of Managed Care Ombudsman. 

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Jonathan Haidt, author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truths in Ancient Wisdom published by Basic Books.

Jonathan Haidt is associate professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. His research examines morality, the moral-emotions, and the intuitive foundations of liberal and conservative's worldviews. He is the co-editor of Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Mindy Lewis, author of Life Inside: A Memoir published by Washington Square Press.

Mindy Lewis is a writer, painter, and graphic designer based in New York City. Her essays have been published in two anthologies and in Newsweek, Body & Soul, Poets & Writers and Lilith magazines. A finalist in The Writer's Voice 1999 New Voice Creative Non-Fiction Awards. She has been a resident at Vermont Studio Center, Palenville Interarts, Byrdcliffe Colony, and Banff Center for the Arts.  Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Kenneth Adams, author of When He's Married To Mom: How To Help Mother-Emeshed Men Open Their Hearts To True Love and Commitment published by Fireside.

Dr. Kenneth M. Adams began his professional career in 1981 treating children, adolescents, and their families.  In 1985 he began private practice with the Children of Alcoholic Parents program, an outpatient progrm for treatment of adults who had grown up in alcoholic families. It was there, that he began to notice that many of these clients had addictions and emeshment issues, two of his primary specialties today. He wrote his first professional article in in 1987 on covert incest and sex addiction in alcoholic families and has since written three books and numerous peer reviewed articles.

Dr. Adams maintains his clinical practice and directorship at Kenneth M. Adams and Associates. Visit his website.

 

 

 

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Mark Regnerus, author of Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers published by Oxford University Press.

Mark Regnerus is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin (PhD, 2000, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and a faculty associate at the university's Population Research Center. He is the author of over 25 published articles and book chapters.

Winner of the Best Article Award twice from the American Sociological Association's section on the Sociology of Religion, Regnerus is also a collaborator on the National Study of Youth and Religion, and Principal Investigator of a NIH grant entitled, "Race, Religion, and Adolescent Sexual Norms and Conduct." He is currently co-investigator (along with Weinreb) of the NIH-funded Malawi Religion Project, is an editorial board member of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, and a council member for the American Sociological Association's Section on the Sociology of Religion.

Results from his published research have been featured in USA Today, The Washington Post, Detroit News, Time Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, and Christianty Today, among other media outlets. He lives in Austin with his wife Deeann and two children.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Peniel E. Joseph, author of Waiting' Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power In America published by Henry Holt.

Peniel E. Joseph teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at SUNY-Stony Brook. The recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Ford Foundation, his work has appeared in Souls, New Formations, and the Black Scholar, and he is the editor of a forthcoming anthology entitled, The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil-Rights Power Era. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit his website.

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Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, author of Listening to Depression: How Understanding Your Pain Can Heal Your Life interviews Michael Neill, author of You Can Have What You Want: Proven Strategies for Inner and Outer Sucess published by Hay House.

Michael Neill is an internationally renowned success coach and licensed Master Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). He has written hundreds of articles in the areas of business success, money, relationships, health, happiness, well-being, and spirituality, and his weekly coaching column is syndicated in newspapers and magazines worldwide. He is the author of the audio series The 7 Myths of Success. Visit his website.

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

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interview Ms. Kat Albrecht, author of The Lost Pet Chronicles: Adventures of a K-9 Cop Turned Pet Detective with Jean Murphy, published by Bloomsbury USA.

Kat Albrecht is an award-winning former police bloodhound handler, crime scene investigator, search and rescue manager, and police officer turned investigative pet detective. She is the founder of Missing Pet Partnership, a national nonprofit organization working to establish community-based lost-pet services.

Kat lives in Clovis, California, with her three dogs and three cats.  Visit her website. For suggestions on how to find a lost pet, visit Missing Pet Partnership.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. John Higgs, author of I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary published by Barricade Books.

John Higgs has spent 10 years writing and producing in a wide range of media, making him the only man who can boast of producing both a long running series for BBC Radio 4 and a best selling videogame for the PlayStation 2.

He created the innovative historical and geographical quiz show X Marks The Spot for BBC Radio 4. The series has now been running for eight years. Videogames that he has produced include Crash and Burn, and ATV: Quad Power Racing 2, which has sold over three quarters of a million copies.

In between these very different endevours he has worked extensively in television and animation, writing and producing programmes including Audrey & Friends, Pen Monkeys, and TooMuch TV, for which he earned a Best Children's Entertainment Programme BAFTA nomination. He has written for publications including The Guardian, The Independent and Mojo, and is a judge in two categories for the BAFTA Games Awards. He has a degree in Computer Science.

He lives in Brighton with his partner and two children. Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Harriet Brown, author of Mr. Wrong: Real-Life Stories About The Men We Used to Love published by Ballantine Books.

Harriet Brown is the award-winning author of the Good-bye Window: A Year in the Life of A Day Care Center and the Promised Land, a collection of poems. Her poems have appeared in Poetry and Prairie Schooner, among other literary magazines. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and other national publications. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Madison, Wisconsin. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Daniel B. Smith, author of Muses, Madmen, and Prophets, Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucinations, published by Penguin Press.

Daniel B. Smith is a new York based journalist and author. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Granta, and n+1.

 

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Stephen P. Kiernan, M.A., M.F.A., author of Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System published by St. Martin's Press.

Stephen Kiernan was born in Newtonville, NY the sixth of seven children. A graduate of Middlebury College, he also received an MA degree from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA degree from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. In over two decades as a journalist he has won 40 awards, including the Bechner Institute's Freedom of Information Award, the Gerald Leob Award for financial journalism (two time commentary finalist) and the 2003 George Polk Award. He has taught at Middlebury College and the New England Young Writers Conference, and has worked on the staff of the Breadloaf School of English and the Breadloaf Writers Conference. He has served on the board of The Brautigan Library and the Young Writers Project.

At present Stephen is traveling the country, speaking to civic groups, colleges, senior centers and churches about ways to improve the end of life.

Stephen has also performed on the guitar for many years. In addition to recording 3 CDs of solo instrumentals, he has composed music for dance, the stage, documentaries and TV specials. He lives in Vermont with his two amazing sons.  Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz, author of The Brightening Glance, Imagination and Childhood published by Pantheon.

Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz is a professor in the Honors College and Department of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The author of Inside Pictures Books, she has written and lectured extensively on children's aesthetic and psychological development.  A visual artist and dancer, she has taught at Columbia, Stanford, and New York University, among other academic institutions. She lives in Baltimore. Visit her webpage.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Nan Mooney, author of I Can't Believe She Did That!: Why Women Betray Other Women at Work published by St. Martins Griffin.

Nan was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, graduated from Scripps College, and has worked in both the film and publishing industries. Along the way, she's held numerous other jobs including, but not confined to: actor, nanny, office temp, exerciser of polo ponies, caterer, fact-checker, and- most dangerous of all- floor demonstrator for an at-home waxing device. Nan is the author of My Racing Heart: The Passionate World of Thoroughbreds and the Track (2002). Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Slate.com, The Daily News, The Seattle Weekly, Hamptons, Jitney Magazine, The Blood-Horse and various other publications.

She currently works as a teacher and freelance writer, living in (and in times battling with) New York City.  Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Roy Richard Grinker, author of Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism published by Basic Books.

Roy Richard Grinker is Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Institute for Ethnographic Research at George Washington University. He is the author of four other books including the widely acclaimed In The Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnball and editor-in-chief of Anthropological Quarterly. He has appeared on the Discovery Channel, and the National Geographic Channel, and on regional and national NPR. Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews lawyer Dylan Schaffer, author of Life, Death & Bialys: A Father/Son Baking Story published by Bloomsbury USA.

Dylan Schaffer has been a criminal defense lawyer in the Bay Area for 15 years. He writes the Misdemeanor Man legal thriller series. His first book, Misdemeanor Man, won Mystery Ink's 2004 Gumshoe for best debut. Misdemeanor Man and his second book in the series, I Right The Wrongs, were Booksense selections. His new book, a memoir called Life, Death & Bialys: A Father/Son Baking Story was a Chicago Tribune 2006 best book of the year and a 2006 Barnes & Nobles Discover New Writers selection. Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman, author of From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava with Melinda Roth, published by Lyons Press.

Jay Kopelman is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, stationed at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, CA in September 2004, as the Special Operations Forces Liaison Officer for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (IMEF), Jay deployed to Iraq to train the Iraqi Special Forces. In October, he was assigned as the liaison officer to an Iraqi Army battalion, and in November they entered Fallujah to battle insurgents for control of the city. It was there that he met and adopted Lava, a five week old puppy abandoned during the during the invasion.

Following his return to the United States, based on his experiences in Iraq, Jay was asked to help train the Marines who would return to Iraq as advisors to the Iraqui armed forces and the police. He currently serves as the Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for advisor training at I MEF.

Jay lives in La Jolla, CA, with his wife, Pam: son Mattox; stepson Sean; their two dogs, Lava and Koda, and Cheddar the cat.  Both Jay and his wife, an anthropologist, are avid surfers who make annual pilgrimage to Costa Rica. They also spend time skiing, camping, waterskiing/wakeboarding and rock climbing. Visit his website.  Watch a video of Jay and Lava.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews, Ms. Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers published by Norton. photo credit: Phyllis ChristopherJournalist and former Salon com. columnist Mary Roach has written for Outside, GQ, Vogue, and The New York Times Magazine.  She writes the humor column "My Planet" in Reader's Digest and is contributing editor for the science magazine Discover.  She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Ed.  Visit her website.

 

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychourney, Ms. Mary Roach, author of Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife published by Norton.

Journalist and former Salon com. columnist Mary Roach has written for Outside, GQ, Vogue, and The New York Times Magazine. She writes the humor column "My Planet" in Reader's Digest and is contributing editor for the science magazine Discover. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Ed. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Babette Rothschild, LCSW, author of Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma  published by Norton.After living for nine years in Copenhagen, Denmark, Babette returned to her native Los Angeles where she maintains a small private practice while spending most of her time traveling the globe giving lectures, professional trainings, international consultation, and writing more books. She is the author of three books, all published by Norton, The Body Remembers, The Body Remembers CASEBOOK, and Help For the Helper. Visit her website.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider", Vice-President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Maia Szalavitz.

Ms. Maia Szalavitz is a journalist who covers health, science, and public policy. Her most recent book, co-written with leading child trauma expert, Bruce D. Perry, MD. PhD, is The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing (Basic 2007).

She is also the author of Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids (Riverhead 2006) and co-author, with Dr. Joseph Volpicelli, M.D., Ph.D. of the University of Pennsylvania, of Recovery Options: The Guide You and Your Loved Ones Can Understand and Treat Alcohol and Other Drug Problems (John S. Wiley, 2000).

She is a Senior Fellow at Stats.org, a media watchdog organization, which investigates coverage of science and statistics.

She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Elle, Newsday, New York Magazine, New Scientist, Newsweek, Salon, Redbook, O: The Oprah Magazine, and other major publications. She has appeared on Oprah, CNN, MSNBC's News with Brian Williams, and NPR.

Maia Szalavitz has also worked in television--first as Associate Producer and then Segment Producer for PBS' Charlie Rose, then on several documentaries including a Barbara Walters' AID special for ABC and as Series Researcher and Associate Producer for the PBS documentary series, Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home.  Visit her website.

Visit Dr. Riolo's new website Law and Ethics In Mental Health

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider", Vice-President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Maia Szalavitz.

Ms. Maia Szalavitz is a journalist who covers health, science, and public policy. Her most recent book, co-written with leading child trauma expert, Bruce D. Perry, MD. PhD, is The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing (Basic 2007).

She is also the author of Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids (Riverhead 2006) and co-author, with Dr. Joseph Volpicelli, M.D., Ph.D. of the University of Pennsylvania, of Recovery Options: The Guide You and Your Loved Ones Can Understand and Treat Alcohol and Other Drug Problems (John S. Wiley, 2000).

She is a Senior Fellow at Stats.org, a media watchdog organization, which investigates coverage of science and statistics.

She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Elle, Newsday, New York Magazine, New Scientist, Newsweek, Salon, Redbook, O: The Oprah Magazine, and other major publications. She has appeared on Oprah, CNN, MSNBC's News with Brian Williams, and NPR.

Maia Szalavitz has also worked in television--first as Associate Producer and then Segment Producer for PBS' Charlie Rose, then on several documentaries including a Barbara Walters' AID special for ABC and as Series Researcher and Associate Producer for the PBS documentary series, Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home.  Visit her website.

Visit Dr. Riolo's new website Law and Ethics In Mental Health

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Dr. Kevin Keough interviews Solicitor Adrian C. Laing, author of R.D. Laing: A Life published by Sutton Publishing.

Adrian C. Laing, is a practicing Solicitor Advocate of his own firm Laing and Co, and regularly writes and presents on issues relating to media and entertainment law. Adrian studied law at Exeter University and was called to the Bar (Inner Temple, London) in 1979 (aged 21). He subsequently studied under Michael Foucault at the College de France, Paris.

Adrian is the co-author (with his wife Deborah Fosbrook) of two leading law titles: 'The A-Z Contract Clauses'