Dan Everett, Ph.D. is author of Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazon Jungle, as well as Professor of Linguistics, Anthropology, and Biological Sciences and Chairman of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University in Normal, IL.
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#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.
#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, [...]
#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
#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 [...]
#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 [...]
#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 [...]
#176 – The Dave and Jerry Show #13
October 5, 2008
sleep and speech recognition areas in the monkey brain, the universal human propensity for storytelling.
#172 – The Dave and Jerry Show #12: Tweets for Twits?
September 8, 2008
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.
#167- Shrink Rap Radio LIVE#11 – Chumps for Chimps!
August 8, 2008
Apes, legal personhood and the plight of Nim Chimpsky.”
#163 – Exercise and The Brain with John Ratey, MD
July 11, 2008
John J.Ratey, M.D. is author of the new book, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and The Brain. Dr. Ratey is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has a private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
#161 – Shrink Rap Radio LIVE! #10
June 28, 2008
Jerry Trumbule, M.A., ABD and I get together on blogtalkradio to discuss psychology. I later put the show up here. In this show, the discussion focuses on whether Google and the Internet are making us stupid. In the course of the discussion, we refer to three different articles. The a recent Atlantic article by Nicholas [...]
#154 – The Good News on Memory
May 23, 2008
Dr. Sue Halpern is author of the book, Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from The Front Lines of Memory Research. She is also scholar in residence at Middlebury College in Vermont.
#149 – Shrink Rap Radio LIVE #8
April 21, 2008
Jerry Trumbule, M.A., A.B.D. and Dr. Dave do a live session, discussing issues relating to their longstanding interests in psychology and technology. In particular, the discussion focuses on the Internet as a prosthesis for the brain, memory, elephants that paint, and other delights. The photo above is Jerry as a young scientist of 9 years [...]
#143 – Shrink Rap Radio LIVE! #7
March 16, 2008
Jerry Trumbule, M.A., ABD and I speak on a live episode about the brain, communication, autism, animal intelligence, and Second Life. In particular. We comment on this video on YouTube. We also talk about an amazing presentation by Here is a link to her “must see” video. (Psychology podcast by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.)
#142 – The Happiness Hypothesis
March 14, 2008
Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D. is a social and cultural psychologist and author of the 2006 book,
#136 – Shrink Rap Radio LIVE! #6
February 3, 2008
This is one of our LIVE shows that my longtime friend
#127 – The Authoritarian Personality with Dr. Robert Altemeyer
December 19, 2007
a book on this topic available for free .
#123 – The Mind in The Exploratorium
December 7, 2007
I recently visited the San Francisco Exploratorium and Dr. Richard Brown was kind enough to give me the guided tour which you will hear here. You can join us on the tour right now! Dr. Richard Brown is a Neuropsychologist on the staff at the San Francisco Exploratorium. Housed within the walls of San Francisco’s [...]
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