Dog Lovers

Puppy Chow is Better than Prozac: The True Story of a Man and the Dog Who Saved His Life

MP3 File  Length-30 minutes, 26 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Bruce Goldstein, author of Puppy Chow is Better than Prozac: The True Story of a Man and the Dog Who Saved His Life  published by Da Capo Press.

Mr. Bruce Goldstein and Ozzy

Bruce Goldstein is a full-time doggie daddy, an expressionist painter, a screenwriter, and a first-time author. A Staten Island graffiti artist turned New York City commercial artist, Goldstein has worked at several of the most respected, creative advertising agencies, including Chiat/Day, Deutsch and Hill Holliday. His work has appeared in The Bark magazine and New York Dog. Goldstein received a B.F.A. in Advertising Design from The Fashion Institute of Technology in 1992. He lives in Manhattan with his furry roommate, Ozzy.  Visit his website www.puppychowisbetterthanprozac.com

Leaping For Candy

Dogs and people at play

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Saying Good-Bye to the Pet You Love: A Complete Resource to Help You Heal

Length-38 minutes, 52 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Lorri A. Greene, co-author of Saying Good-Bye to the Pet You Love: A Complete Resource to Help You Heal with Jacquelyn Landis published by New Harbinger Publications.

Dr. Lorri A Greene

Lori A Greene, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been helping people grieve the loss of their pets for more then twenty years. In 1986, Greene cofounded the San Diego County Pet Bereavement Program, one of the few programs in the Unities States offering continuous support for those who have lost companion animals. Dr Greene conducts frequent pet-loss support groups, and she speaks nationally and internationally on the topic of pet loss and the human animal bond. She maintains a private practice in San Diego, CA. Visit her website

Miracle Dog: How Quentin Survived the Gas Chamber to Speak for Animals on Death Row

Length-44 minutes, 57 seconds

Randy Grim and Quentin

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Randy Grim, author of Miracle Dog: How Quentin Survived the Gas Chamber to Speak for Animals on Death Row published by Blue Ribbon Books

Randy Grim is founder and President of Stray Rescue in St. Louis, Missouri. In October 2002, he received the first Guardian Award for his work with Stray Rescue. Grim and his volunteers have received the Red Cross Life Saver Award for rescuing a dog wrapped in 30 pound chains and drenched in battery acid, and the St. Louis FOCUS Award for innovative solutions. Grim is the subject of the critically acclaimed book, The Man Who Talks to Dogs: America's Wild Street Dogs and Their Unlikely Savior and the author of Miracle Dog: How Quentin Survived the Gas Chamber To Speak for Animals on Death Row.

Animal Planet, National Geographic, People Magazine, The Today Show, and numerous other media have featured Grim. Visit the Stray Rescue website. Listen to Randy's radio show Animal Tails.

Make a tax-deductible donation to Stray Rescue of St. Louis

The Man Who Talks to Dogs: The Story of Randy Grim and His Fight to Save America's Abandoned Dogs

Length-44 minutes, 57 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of PsychjourneyDeborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Randy Grim, subject of The Man Who Talks to Dogs: The Story of Randy Grim and His Fight to Save America's Abandoned Dogs written by written by Melinda Roth, and published by St. Martin’s Press.

Randy Grim

Randy Grim is founder and President of Stray Rescue in St. Louis, Missouri. In October 2002, he received the first Guardian Award for his work with Stray Rescue. Grim and his volunteers have received the Red Cross Life Saver Award for rescuing a dog wrapped in 30 pound chains and drenched in battery acid, and the St. Louis FOCUS Award for “innovative solutions.”

Grim is the subject of the critically acclaimed book, The Man Who Talks to Dogs: America’s Wild Street Dogs and Their Unlikely Savior and the author of Miracle Dog: How Quentin Survived the Gas Chamber To Speak for Animals on Death Row. Animal Planet, National Geographic, People Magazine, The Today Show, and numerous other media have featured Grim. Visit the Stray Rescue website. Listen to Randy's radio show Animal Tails.

Make a tax-deductible donation to Stray Rescue of St. Louis.

A Three Dog Life

Length-33 minutes, 1 second

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Abigail Thomas, author of A Three Dog Night published by Harcourt.

Ms. Abigail Thomas

Abigail Thomas, the daughter of renowned science writer Lewis Thomas (The Lives of a Cell, etc.), is the mother of four children and the grandmother of twelve. Her academic education stopped when, pregnant with her oldest daughter, she was asked to leave Bryn Mawr during her first year. She’s lived most of her life on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and was for a time a book editor and for another time a book agent. Then she started writing for publication. A Three Dog Life  is her fifth book; the most recent, Safekeeping, is also a memoir. She teaches fiction writing in the graduate program at The New School and lives in Woodstock, New York.  Visit her website.

Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship

Length-43 minutes, 48 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Alice Kuzniar, Ph.D. author of Melancholia’s Dog: Reflections On Our Animal Kinship published by University of Chicago Press.

Dr. Alice Kuzniar

Alice Kuzniar, Ph.D., is a professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where she has been teaching since 1983 apart from invitations as a guest professor at Princeton University, Rutgers University, and the University of Minnesota. She received her B.A. from the University of Toronto, and her Ph.D. from Princeton.

She is the author and editor of several books and articles, including a book on the German Romantic authors Novalis and Holderlin for which she won the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Award, and a book titled, The Queer German Cinema, on gay and lesbian cinema from the 1920’s to the present.

She lives with her two whippets, Claire and Zephyr, and three white rabbits. The whippets don’t harm the rabbits, but do help in corralling them when they escape!