Psychjourney Audio Book Club

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

Length-50 minutes, 53 seconds

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.

Dr. Norman Doidge, M.D

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.

The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain

Length-40 minutes, 57 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Louis Cozolino author of The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain published by Norton.

Dr. Cozolino has diverse clinical and research interests and holds degrees in philosophy and theology, in addition to his doctorate in clinical psychology. He has conducted empirical research in schizophrenia, child abuse, and long-term impact of stress. Recently, his interests have turned to a synthesis of the biobehavioral sciences and psychotherapy. He is the author of The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain and The Making of a Therapist: A Practical Guide for the Inner Journey, as well as numerous articles and chapters on various topics. He maintains a clinical and consulting practice in Los Angeles. Visit his website.

The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain

Length-33 minutes, 44 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Louis Cozolino, the author of The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brian published by Norton.

Dr. Louis Cozolino

Dr. Cozolino has diverse clinical and research interests and holds degrees in philosophy and theology, in addition to his doctorate in clinical psychology. He has conducted empirical research in schizophrenia, child abuse, and long-term impact of stress. Recently, his interests have turned to a synthesis of the biobehavioral sciences and psychotherapy. He is the author of The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain and The Making of a Therapist: A Practical Guide for the Inner Journey, as well as numerous articles and chapters on various topics. He maintains a clinical and consulting practice in Los Angeles. Visit his website.

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, to be near her husband, Rich. Visit her website.