Psychjourney Audio Book Club

Get It Done When You're Depressed

MP3 File   Length-44 minutes, 27 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Julie A Fast, co-author of Get It Done When You're Depressed, with  John D. Preston, Psy.D., ABPP, and published by Alpha Penguin.

Ms. Julie A. Fast

Julie A. Fast, author of Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder and Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner, is a critically acclaimed four-time author, national speaker, and sought after expert in the field of bipolar disorder and depression. She is regarded as a mental health pioneer for her groundbreaking, comprehensive approach to treating bipolar disorder and depression using both mainstream and proven alternative therapies.

Julie's work has helped thousands of people on medication as well as those who have difficulties tolerating medications find ways to successfully manage their condition and reclaim their lives. 

Julie runs Bipolar Happens, an internationally popular online resource for people with bipolar disorder. You can read about her books at www.juliefast.com

Manic: A Memoir

MP3 File

Length-29 minutes, 6 seconds

Jamie Mason, co-host of the North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Ms. Terri Cheney, author of Manic: A Memoir published by William Morrow.

Ms. Terri Cheney

After graduating Vassar College with honors, Ms. Cheney attended UCLA School of Law. She then specialized in intellectual property and entertainment litigation at several prominent L.A. firms, including Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. Over the course of her sixteen-year career, Ms. Cheney represented many celebrities and major motion picture studios, including Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Universal, Columbia, etc. Her pro bono work ranged from counseling local theaters to petitioning the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the ACLU.

After years of secretly struggling with manic depression, Ms. Cheney decided to leave the law and devote her advocacy skills toward a cause that is closer to her heart: writing about her illness, and encouraging the mentally ill to tell their own stories. In recognition of her efforts, she was appointed a member of the Community Advisory Board of the UCLA Mood Disorders Research Program, the nation’s largest nonprofit research consortium regarding manic depression. She also founded a weekly community support group at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute.

Ms. Cheney currently lives in Los Angeles.  Visit her website.

Visit Jamie Mason's website and blog.

And a Sword Shall Pierce Your Heart: Moving from Despair to Meaning After the Death of a Child

Length-50 minutes, 18 seconds

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.

Charlote M. Mathes, LCSW, Ph.D

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.

The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder

Length-35 minutes, 51 seconds

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.

Dr. Allan Horwitz

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  the 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.

A Secret Sadness: The Hidden Relationship Patterns That Make Women Depressed

Length-55 minutes, 3 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Valerie E. Whiffen, author of A Secret Sadness: The Hidden Relationship patterns that make women depressed published by New Harbinger.

Dr. Valerie E. Whiffen

Valerie E. Whiffen, Ph.D., has been a professor and clinical psychologist in private practice since 1988 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is a professor of psychology in the APA-accredited Clinical Psychology program at the University of Ottawa. She teaches graduate courses in Psychopathology, Basic Clinical Skills and Interpersonal Therapy, and she supervises the training of clinical psychology doctoral students who are learning to do interpersonal therapy with depressed women and couple therapy with couples who are struggling with one partner’s depression. She serves as a peer reviewer for several professional journals and granting councils.

Whiffen has authored numerous chapters in professional books and more than forty journal articles and she is coauthor of Attachment Processes in Couple and Family Therapy with Susan Johnson. Her primary research interest is gender and depression. She is currently engaged in two major funded research projects. One is a longitudinal study examining the interpersonal influences on adolescent girls’ depression, and the second is a longitudinal study of how couples cope with a diagnosis of breast cancer. Visit her website