Psychjourney Audio Book Club

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction

MP3 File  Length-57 minutes, 9 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. David Sheff, author of  Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction published by Houghton Mifflin Co.

Mr. David Sheff

David Sheff’s books include, Game Over, China Dawn, and All We Are Saying. His many articles and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Wired, Fortune, and elsewhere.  His piece for the New York Times Magazine, “My Addicted Son,” won an award from the American Psychological Association for “Outstanding Contribution to Advancing the Understanding of Addiction.” Sheff and his family live in Inverness, California.  Visit his website.

My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey

MP3 File

Length-55 minutes, 11 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interview Mr. Steve McKee the author of My Father’s Heart: A Son’s Journey published  by Da Capo Lifelong Books.

Mr. Steve McKee

Steve McKee is the author of My Father’s Heart: A Son’s Journey, Coach, and The Call of the Game. My Father’s Heart” is based on a pair of articles that Steve wrote for The Wall Street Journal, where he has worked since 1994. He is currently an editor on the Journal’s Global Copy Desk. He was for a time the first sports editor of the Journal’s Friday Weekend Journal, and in 2001-2002 he was the original writer of the online Journal’s popular sports column, “The Daily Fix.” Steve was also the sports columnist for the Journal’s daily coverage of the 2002 Winter Olympics from Salt Lake city.  Visit his website www.steve-mckee.com

Fatherloss: How Sons of All Ages Come to Terms with the Deaths of Their Dads

Length-50 minutes, 1 second

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Neil Chethik, author of Fatherloss: How Sons of All Ages Come to Terms with the Deaths of Their Dads

Neil Chethik

Neil Chethik is an author, speaker and expert specializing in men's lives and family issues. He is an author of two acclaimed books, Father Loss: How Sons of All Ages Come to Terms With the Deaths of Their Dads and VoiceMale: What husbands Really Think About Their Marriages, Their Wives, Sex, Housework and Commitment.

Previously, Neil was a staff reporter for the San Jose Mercury News, and writer of "VoiceMale," the first syndicated column on men's personal lives. He is currently Writer-in-Residence at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Ky., where she lives with his wife, Kelly Flood, and son, Evan. Visit his website.

My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives

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Length-41 minutes, 37 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Michael J. Diamond, author of My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives published by Norton.

Michael J. Diamond is a practicing clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst and was recently named Distinguished Psychoanalyst of the Year by the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is also an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles. Visit his website.

Highway 61: A Father-and-Son Journey through the Middle of America

44 minutes, 14 seconds

Deborah Harper, President  of  Psychjourney interviews Dr. William McKeen, author of Highway 61: A Father-Son Journey Through the Middle of America published by Norton.

Dr. William McKeen is the author of five books and editor or three more. He has been copy editor and reporter at several newspapers, and was staff editor at The Saturday Evening Post and production editor for The American Spectator. His latest book, Highway 61, is a memoir of a 6,000-mile road trip with his college-age son. In addition to his anthology, Rock and Roll is Here to Stay, Mckeen has written critical biographies of Tom Wolfe, Hunter Thompson, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles. He is working on a full-scale biography of Hunter Thompson, an anthology about childhoods in Florida and a rock'n'roll book called Rip This Joint.

McKeen specializes in media history, popular culture and literary journalism. He has earned his B.A. in history and his M.A. in journalism from Indiana University and his Ph.D. in education from the University of Oklahoma. He is married and has seven children. Visit his website.

Life Death, and Bialys: A Father/Son Baking Story

Length-1 hour, 10 minutes, 23 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews lawyer Dylan Schaffer, author of Life, Death & Bialys: A Father/Son Baking Story published by Bloomsbury USA.

Dylan Schaffer

Dylan Schaffer has been a criminal defense lawyer in the Bay Area for 15 years. He writes the Misdemeanor Man legal thriller series. His first book, Misdemeanor Man, won Mystery Ink’s 2004 Gumshoe for best debut. Misdemeanor Man and the second in the series, I Right the Wrongs, were Booksense selections. His new book, a memoir called Life, Death & Bialys: A Father/Son Baking Story was a Chicago Tribune 2006 best book of the year and a 2006 Barnes & Nobles Discover New Writers selection." Visit his website.

Six Lessons for Six Sons: Part Two

Length-44 minutes, 18 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Joe Massengale author of Six Lessons for Six Sons: An Extraordinary Father, A Simple Formula for Success published by Three Rivers Press.

Mr. Joe Massengale

Boxer, preacher and businessman, George Forman says about our guest, Mr. Joe Massengale, "The lessons Joe Massengale learned back in the piney woods around Marshall, Texas, and gave to his sons to take into the world are some of the same ones I hope my children, my congregation, the kids in my youth center and my customers get from me." Entrepreneur Joe Massengale is the owner of Joe's Expert Tree Service. Visit his website.