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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Caroline Moorehead, author of Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees published by Henry Holt and Co.

Caroline Moorehead wrote a column on human rights first for The Times and then for the Independent (1980-91) and made a series of TV programmes on human rights for the BBC (1990-2000). She has written the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross (1998); and has helped to set up a Legal Advice Centre for refugees in Cairo, where she has also started schools and a nursery. Currently she works as a volunteer on the legal team for the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, while also continuing to review and write on human rights in many different papers. Her books include Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life, and  Selected Letters of Martha Gelhorn.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Caroline Moorehead, author of Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees published by Henry Holt and Co.

Caroline Moorehead wrote a column on human rights first for The Times and then for the Independent (1980-91) and made a series of TV programmes on human rights for the BBC (1990-2000). She has written the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross (1998); and has helped to set up a Legal Advice Centre for refugees in Cairo, where she has also started schools and a nursery. Currently she works as a volunteer on the legal team for the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, while also continuing to review and write on human rights in many different papers. Her books include Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life, and  Selected Letters of Martha Gelhorn.

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Dr. Kevin Keough, host of Public Forum, interviews Dr. Les Carter, author of Grace and Divorce: God's Healing Gift to Those Whose Marriages Fall Short published by Jossey-Bass.

Dr. Les Carter is a psychotherapist in private practice in Southlake, Texas.  He is the best selling author of 20 books including The Anger Workbook: A 13-Step Interactive Plan to Help You and his latest, Enough About You, Let's Talk About Me. Over the years he has conducted many seminars across America focusing on emotional and spiritual well being.  Visit his website.

Visit Dr. Keough's website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Nancy D. Wiseman, author of Could It Be Autism? A Parents Guide To The First Signs And The Next Steps published by Broadway.

 

Since 1999, Nancy Wiseman has made a significant contribution to changing policy, improving awareness, and changing pediatric practice in how we screen, refer, and detect young children today. As the founder and president of First Signs, a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate professionals and parents about the early warning signs of autism and other developmental disorders, Nancy is dedicating her life to improving the lives of children and families affected by developmental disorders.

Before devoting herself to First Signs, Nancy worked in corporate communications for over 20 years. She has counseled thousands of parents nationwide and she has appeared in interviews with USA Today, Parents, and NBC's Today Show. She is the author of Could It Be Autism? A Parent's Guide to the First Signs and Next Steps. Nancy is the 2006 recipient of the American Academy of Pediatrics Dale Richmond/Justin Coleman Award for her outstanding achievement in the field of child development. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Michael Breus, author of Good Night: The Sleep Doctor's 4- Week Program to Better Sleep and Better Health published by Dutton.

Michael J. Breus, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine. He was one of the youngest people to have passed the Board at age 31 and, with a specialty in Sleep Disorders and Neuropsychological Testing, is one of only 159 doctors in the world with his credentials and distinction. He is the co-founder of SoundSleep Solutions, a direct-to-consumer, sleep-related information Web site, and currently serves as Chairman of the Clinical Advisory Board for Sleep Holdings, LLC, the only publicly traded sleep diagnostic and therapy company in the world.  Visit his website. 

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Professor Jennifer Finney
Boylan, author of Shes Not There: A Life In Two Genders
published by Broadway.Since 1988, Jenny Boylan has been a professor of creative writing and American
literature at Colby College, in Waterville, Maine. Boylan was a visiting
professor at University College Cork, Ireland, in 1998-99.  She was promoted to
the rank of full Professor in May of 2001, and was chosen by students as the
Charles Walker Bassett "Professor of the Year" in 2000.  At present she is Director of Creative Writing at Colby.

Her books include The Planets, and The Constellations, 
and Remind Me To Murder You Later. Her stories have
appeared in such literary magazines as Confrontation, Florida
Review, Quarterly West, Western Humanities Review,
Writer's Digest and Southwest Review. She lives in Maine with
her family. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Katherine Parkin, author of Food Is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America  published by University of Pennsylvania Press.

Katherine Parkin is an assistant professor of history at Monmouth University . She received her B.A. in History and Sociology/Anthropology from Lake Forest College and her Ph.D. in History from Temple University (2001). The American/Popular Culture Association awarded Food is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America ( University of Pennsylvania Press ) the 2006 Emily Toth Award for best book in feminist popular culture.  Visit her webpage.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Victoria Pitts-Taylor, author of Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture published by Rutgers University Press.

Victoria Pitts-Taylor received her PhD at Brandeis University. She is Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, Univ of New York. 

Dr. Taylor is the author of In The Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification as well as a number of articles and book chapters. In 2002-2003 she won a Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award from the American Sociological Association. Visit her webpage.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Norman Doidge, M.D., author of The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science published by Viking Adult.

Norman Doidge, M.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet. He is on the Research Faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, in New York, and the University of Toronto's Department of Psychiatry. He is a four time recepient of Canada's National Magazine Gold Award. He has presented his scientific research on effective therapies at the White House.

A native of Toronto, he divides his time between Toronto and New York. Visit his website

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Janine Latus, author of If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation published by Simon & Schuster.

Janine Latus is a freelance writer, radio commentator, and regular speaker on domestic abuse issues. She has also taught writing and journalism at several universities and is on the board of directors of the American Society of Journalists and Authors . Her work has appeared in O, the Oprah magazine, More, Woman's Day, Family Circle, Parents, All You, American Baby. She has written for WomensWallStreet.com and her commentaries have aired on Public Radio International's Marketplace, and she routinely speaks at conferences, workshops and press events. If I Am Missing or Dead is her first book. She lives in Virginia. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Tim Kasser, author of The High Price of Materialism published by the MIT Press.

After receiving his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Rochester in 1994, Dr. Kasser accepted a position at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he is currently an associate professor of psychology.  

 He has authored numerous scientific articles and book chapters on materialism, values, and goals, among other topics. His books include, The High Price of Materialism, Psychology and Consumer Culture, (co-edited with Allen D. Kanner. 

Dr. Kasser also serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences. In the last several years, he has become increasingly involved with activist groups who work against the commercialization of children and who work towards a more inwardly rich lifestyle than what is offered by consumerism. He lives with his wife, two sons, and assorted animals in the Western Illinois countryside.  Visit his webpage.

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The prolific author of numerous articles in addition to his eight books, Herb Goldberg is an ardent mens advocate and explorer of the hidden dynamics of gender and relationships and Professor of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles. A gifted writer who is passionate that his readers understand the complexity of the deeper, unconscious aspects of human behavior, Dr. Goldberg communicates the excitement of the personal journey.

His titles include The Hazards of Being Male: Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege,  Money Madness: The Psychology of Saving, Spending, Loving, and Hating Money (with Robert T. Lewis),The New Male: From Macho to Sensitive But Still All Male ,The New Male-Female Relationship , What Men Really Want.

 Dr. Goldberg has appeared on numerous talk shows and has been featured in publications such as Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, USA Today, Mens Health, and Psychology Today. He has been a regular guest on CNN programs, as well as having been interviewed several times in years past by Charlie Rose and Larry King. Radio interviews have numbered in the hundreds. Selections from his books, as well as original articles and interviews have regularly appeared in publications such as Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Mens Health, Mademoiselle, Psychology Today, Vogue, Womens Day, Ladies Home Journal, New Woman, McCalls, Harpers Bazaar, and Womens Digest, among others.  Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Allan V. Horwitz, co-author of The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder written by Dr. Allan V. Horwitz and Dr. Jerome C. Wakefield and published by Oxford University Press.

Allan V. Horwitz earned a doctoral degree in Sociology from Yale University where he was trained in psychiatric epidemiology and in deviance and social control. He came to Rutgers in 1975 as an assistant professor and is currently a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research.

 Professor Horwitz has studied a variety of aspects of mental health and illness, including the social response to mental illness, family caretaking for dependent populations, the impact of social roles and statuses on mental health, and the social construction of mental disorders. His current work integrates biological and sociological perspectives in distinguishing between normal and dysfunctional types of depression.

He has published over 50 articles and chapters in the main journals in his field. In addition, he has published several books including The Social Control of Mental Illness (Academic Press 1982; new edition Percheron Press 2002); The Logic of Social Control (Plenum Press 1990); and Creating Mental Illness (University of Chicago Press 2002). He is also the co-editor, with Teresa Scheid, of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems (Cambridge University Press 1999.  Visit his webpage.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Sam Binkley, author of Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s published by Duke University Press.

Sam Binkley is professor of sociology at Emerson College. His research and teaching interests focus on questions of identity formation in the context of contemporary cultures of consumption with a focus on the role of lifestyle movements, from the counterculture movements of the 1960s and 70s to contemporary anti-consumersit movements. He has also published in the Journal of Consumer Culture; the Journal of Material Culture; Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies; Consumption, Markets and Culture; Cultural Studies and the Journal for Cultural Research. Visit his blog.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., co-author of Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes by Sharon Lamb, Ed.D., and Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., published by St. Martin's Griffin.

Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., is a mom, professor, and community activist. Her acclaimed work on girls social and psychological development has consistently broken new ground and challenged old perceptions. 

 She is the co-author, with Carol Gilligan, of Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development, a 1992 New York Times Notable Book of the Year that helped spark an international debate about the lives of girls and redefine our understanding of female development.  Dr. Brown has written three other acclaimed books on girlsÃÂÃÂÂÃÂÂ social and psychological development: Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls' Anger, Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girls, and most recently Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters From Marketers Schemes (with Sharon Lamb; 2006 winner of a MS Books For A Better Life Award.

Dr. Brown received her doctorate from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology. She is Professor of Education and Human Development at Colby College in Maine and co-creator of the nonprofit Hardy Girls Healthy Women  She has also consulted for numerous film and television projects, including shows on PBS, and Fox Childrens Network. 

Dr. Brown lives in Waterville, Maine with her partner Dr. Mark Tappan and their twelve-year-old daughter, Maya. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Charlote M. Mathes, LCSW, Ph.D., author of  And a Sword Shall Pierce Your Heart: Moving from Despair to Meaning After the Death of a Child published by Chiron Publications.Charlotte M. Mathes, LCSW, Ph.D., is a certified Jungian analyst, a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. She received her doctoral degree in psychoanalysis from the Union Graduate School in Cincinnati and is a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors as well as a board certified supervisor for clinical social workers. Dr. Mathes has been in private practice in New Orleans for twenty years. She lectures and leads seminars in Jungian psychology, family therapy, and bereavement. For more information, please visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Dennis Cass author Head Case: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying To Understand My Brain published by HarperCollins.

Dennis Cass is a writer, journalist, and occasional teacher and public speaker. His work has appeared in the New York Times magazine, GQ, Slate, Harper's Magazine, and Restaurant Business, where he once wrote an informative, exceptionally well-crafted article about pudding. He lives with his wife and son in Minneapolis, MN, and wouldn't have it any other way. Visit his blog.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. David Quammen, author of The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution published by W.W. Norton.

David Quammen is the author of The Song of the Dodo and Monster of God, is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award, most recently for a National Geographic story on Darwin.  He has also written for Harperâs, Rolling Stone and New York Times Book Review.  He wrote a column, called âNatural Actsâ for Outside magazine for fifteen years (for which he won two National Magazine Awards.) Quannen lives in Bozeman, Montana. 

 

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Sue Palmer author of Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About It  published by Orion.

Sue Palmer is a writer, broadcaster and consultant on the education of young children. She is a regular contributor to the Times Educational Supplement and other journals, and author of more than two hundred books, TV programs and software for 3 to 12 year-olds including the popular skeleton materials, used in over 10,000 schools. She is also a popular speaker, addressing thousands of teachers each year across the UK and around the world, and acts as an independent adviser to many organizations, including the Department for Education and Skills and the BBC. In 2006 she published Toxic Childhood, about the impact of contemporary lifestyles on child development. Visit her website .

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Lisa Alther, author of Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree- The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors published by Arcade Publishing.

Lisa Alther was born in 1944 in Kingsport, Tennessee, where she went to public schools.  She was graduated from Wellesley College with a BA in English literature in 1966. After attending the Publishing Procedures Course at Radcliffe College and working for Atheneum Publishers in New York, she moved to Hinesburg, Vermont, where she has lived for thirty years, raising her daughter. She taught Southern Fiction at St. Michael's College in Winooski, Vermont and Southern fiction at East Tennessee State Univ. in Johnson City, TN.

Alther is the author of five novels -- Kinflicks, Original Sins, Other Women, Bedrock, and Five Minutes in Heaven.  Her reviews and articles have appeared in many periodicals, including the New York Times, Art and Antiques, Los Angeles Times,  and the Boston Globe.

 Having lived in London and Paris, she currently divides her time between Vermont and New York and Tennessee. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr.
Thomas Ottavi, author of Why Is Johnny So Detached? A School Professional's Guide to Understanding and Helping Students With
Attachment Issues published by YouthLight, Inc.Thomas M. Ottavi, Ph.D. is a practicing licensed
psychologist and Director of Clinical Services with Hillcrest Family Services which serves the mental health and social services needs of many communities in eastern Iowa.  He earned his bachelors in Psychology from University of St. Thomas, his doctorate from the Counseling Psychology program at the University of Iowa, with a pediatric psychology clinical internship at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

He has over 13 years experiences in psychological evaluation, therapy, school and agency consultation, with hundreds of school cases, professionals, and parents for students having attachment or trauma issues and significant disruptions of their early years that impact school functioning.

He has led numerous workshops and training sessions for school professionals, health and mental health professionals, foster-parents and adoptive-parents who help youth with attachment, trauma, and neglect issues at local, regional, national, and international conferences.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Mr. Julian Sher, author of Caught in the Web: Inside the Police Hunt to Rescue Children from Online Predators  published by Carroll & Graf.

Julian Sher is an award-winning writer and investigative journalist, TV producer and author of five books including Angels of Death: Inside the Biker Gangs Crime Empire, which has been translated into four languages and sold in seven foreign countries. He wrote and directed the New York Times-CBC TV investigation called Nuclear Jihad which recently won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.

His freelance writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, CNN.com, the Toronto Globe and Mail and Walrus, Canada's leading current affairs magazine. His Web page, JournalismNet,is ranked among the top ten journalism sites in the world by Google. He lives in Montreal, Canada. Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. David Richo, author of The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know published by Shambhala.

David Richo, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, teacher, and writer who draws on Jungian, Buddhist, and poetic perspectives in his work. He leads popular workshops at the Esalen Institute, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara City College. He is the author of How to Be an Adult, How to Be an Adult in Relationships, and Shadow Dance: Liberating the Power and Creativity of Your Dark Side . He lives in Santa Barbara and San Francisco, California.  Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Linda Kohanov, author of The Tao of Equus: A Woman's Journey of Healing and Transformation Through the Way of the Horse published by New World Library.

Linda Kohanov is an author, speaker, riding instructor, and horse trainer who specializes in Equine Experiential Learning and Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy. In 1997, she founded Epona Equestrian Services, a Tucson-based collective of riding instructors and counselors exploring the healing potential of working with horses. In addition to formal equine-facilitated psychotherapy sessions, Epona offers equine experiential learning programs in stress reduction, parenting skills, leadership techniques, consensus-building relationship models, mindfulness, intuition, creativity, sensory awareness, and womenÃïïs empowerment.

Kohanov has fifteen years experience as a radio producer and announcer and has also worked as a music critic and print journalist, writing for such publications as CD Review, Down Beat, JAZZIZ, Jazz Times, Pulse! and New Age Journal.  Her books include  Riding Between The Worlds: Expanding Our Potential through the Way of the Horse and  Spirit Horses.

She lives with her husband, composer and musician Steve Roach, and their horses outside Tucson, Arizona.  Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews
Ms. Beverly Engel, MFCT author of The
Jekyll and Hyde Syndrome: What to Do If Someone in Your Life Has a Dual
Personality - or If You Do   published by Wiley.Beverly Engel, MFCT is an internationally recognized
psychotherapist and an acclaimed advocate for victims of sexual, physical, and
emotional abuse. She is the author of 18 self-help books, including 3 best
selling books on emotional abuse: The
Emotionally Abusive Relationship, The
Emotionally Abused Woman, and Encouragements
for the Emotionally Abused Woman.  Engel is a licensed
marriage and family therapist, and has been practicing psychotherapy for 30
years.

In addition to her professional work, Beverly frequently lends her expertise
to national television talk shows. She has appeared on Oprah, CNN, Starting
Over, Sally Jesse Raphael, Donahue, and other programs in the United States and
Canada. She has regularly contributed to Psychology Today, and has been
featured in a number of newspapers and magazines, including The Chicago
Tribune, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times,
Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, and Shape.

Beverly has also participated in several radio and Internet programs,
including Airtalk with Larry Mantle, The Joan Hamburg Show, Psychology Today
(answering emails with show host Robert Epstein, Ph.D.), and responding to
viewer mail on Channel One. She is also a dynamic speaker, workshop leader, and
teacher. Engel lives in San Luis Obispo, CA. Visit her website .

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Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcasts, interviews Dr. Jeffrey Brantley, MD., author of Calming Your Anxious Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You of Anxiety, Fear, and Panic  published by New Harbinger Press.

Jeffrey Brantley, MD, is a consulting associate in the Duke Department of Psychiatry and the founder and director of the Mindfullness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke University's Center for Integrative Medicine.

Dr. Brantley completed his psychiatry residency at the University of California at Irvine Medical Center. He is Board Certified in psychiatry and worked for 14 years in community mental health and private practice. Dating back to medical school, meditation has been a focal point of Dr. Brantley's private life, as well as an integral part of his work with persons seeking healing in their lives. Dr. Brantley has been practicing meditation for over 25 years personally, and has been teaching programs in mindfulness meditation for over 10 years.

As the founder and Director of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at the Center for Integrative Medicine Dr. Brantley teaches intensive courses on mindfulness meditation and conducts extensive experiential programs and group lectures. Dr. Brantley is the author of Calming Your Anxious Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You of Anxiety, Fear, and Panic, and Five Good Minutes: 100 Morning Practices to Help You Stay Calm & Focused All Day Long available from New Harbinger Press.