Category Archives: Social Issues
#294 – The Dark Side of Seligman’s Comprehensive Soldier Fitness with Stephen Soldz PhD
February 16, 2012
#287 – ePsychotherapy with Ofer Zur, PhD
November 20, 2011
Ofer Zur, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and forensic consultant practicing in Sebastopol, California. He is the director of the Zur Institute, which offers over 100 online courses and is one of the most extensive online CE programs for psychologists, counselors, LPC, social workers, MFTs and nurses. His teaching, consulting with therapists, and writing focus [...]
#284 – A Jungian Vision to Save The Planet with Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD
October 22, 2011
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M. D, is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker who draws from spiritual, feminist, Jungian, medical and personal wellsprings of experience. She is the author of Like A Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet (2011), The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, [...]
#279 – Grief, Ritual, and The Soul of The World with Francis Weller, M.A.
September 18, 2011
Francis Weller, M.A., MFT is a psychotherapist and author of the 2011 book, Entering The Healing Ground: Grief, Ritual and The Soul of The world. He has been in private practice since 1983. During that time, he developed a style of working with people called Soul-Centered Psychotherapy. Weller says his approach to working with the [...]
#277 – At The 2nd World Congress on Positive Psychology: Part 2 with Dr. Ed Diener & Others
September 3, 2011
click here). You’ll definitely get more out of this by viewing those as you listen. Also, included in this episode, are a few of the interviews I conducted with other presenters and attendees. I hope these will help convey the diversity and excitement of the event.
#276 – At The Second World Congress on Positive Psychology: Part 1 with Dr. Martin Seligman & Others
August 27, 2011
#273 – Victimization Nation with Ofer Zur, PhD
August 5, 2011
ZurInstitute.com provides dozens of free articles and guidelines for psychotherapists and the public.
#271 –“Happy,” The Movie, with Roko Belic
July 21, 2011
HAPPY. HAPPY combines powerful human stories from around the world with cutting edge science to give us a deeper understanding of our most valued emotion.
#264 – Beyond Forgiveness, Reflections on Atonement with Phil Cousineau
May 19, 2011
Phil Cousineau is editor of the 2011 book Beyond Forgiveness: Reflections on Atonement. Phil is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, teacher and editor, lecturer and travel leader, storyteller and TV host. His fascination with the art, literature, and history of culture has taken him from Michigan to Marrakesh, Iceland to the Amazon, in a worldwide [...]
#258 – Revolution and The Quest for Happiness in The Middle East with Doug Davis, PhD
February 21, 2011
Here is the link to Doug’s Blog which he references in the interview.
#257 – The Slippery Slope of Reality (1) with Jerry Trumbule
February 12, 2011
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 in this first episode of a three-part series is an article that appeared in the December 13, 2010 issue of The New Yorker, titled
#247 – The Myth of American Innocence with Barry Spector
September 25, 2010
Barry Spector is a Harvard grauduate who writes about American history and politics from the perspectives of myth, indigenous traditions and archetypal psychology. He has published three articles in Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche and is the author of the 2010 book, Madness At The Gates Of The City: The Myth Of American Innocence. (
#243 – Exploring Behavioral Economics with Dan Ariely
August 6, 2010
Dan Ariely, Ph.D. is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University, where he holds appointments at the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, the School of Medicine, and the department of Economics. He is also a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight. In addition, [...]
#241 – Jung in The Louisiana Gulf with Richard Chachere
July 9, 2010
Richard Chachere has lived in Lafayette, Louisiana for the last 32 years practicing Jungian therapy, after founding The Acadiana Friends of Jung in 1978, and after attending the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego and working in analysis with Jack Sanford and getting to know the Southern California Jungian community, especailly the work [...]
#240 – Unconscious Mental Factors in HIV Infection with Peter B. Todd
June 25, 2010
Peter B. Todd B.A. (Honors, Psychology), MAPS graduated from Sydney University in 1968, becoming a member of the Australian Psychological Society in 1975. He started to work as a post graduate research psychologist at the School of Surgery, St. George Hospital (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) after his undergraduate degree in 1973. This [...]
#234 – Psychoanalysis in Ireland with Paul Moore
April 8, 2010
Paul Moore B.A. Psych., M. Phil., M.Sc. is a psychologist and psychotherapist working in private practice in Dublin, Kilkenny & Carlow, Ireland. Paul is also a lecturer in psychology, teaching introductory psychology and social psychology on the undergraduate programme, at Carlow Institute of Technology, in the Life Long Learning department. He teaches courses in the [...]
#217 – Happiness and Health with Dacher Keltner
August 28, 2009
Dacher Keltner, Ph.D. received his BA in Psychology and Sociology from UC Santa Barbara in 1984 and his PhD in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 1989. After a post-doc at UCSF with Paul Ekman, in 1992 he took his first academic job, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and then returned to Berkeley’s Psychology Department [...]
#215 – Archetypal Work with Inner-City Youth with Kwame Scruggs
August 12, 2009
G. Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D. is the founder and executive director of Alchemy, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Akron, Ohio, that he established in 2003 to assist urban male youth to develop a sense of personal purpose in life, while utilizing strategies to successfully function as members of a family, school, community and the [...]
