Psychjourney Podcasts

The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey

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Length- 39 minutes, 36 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Trysh Travis, author of The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey published by the University of North Carolina Press.

Trysh Travis received her BA from New York University in 1987, designing her own major in Media Studies and American Culture. She taught high school English in New York City for three years before earning an MA in English from the Breadloaf School at Middlebury College and a PhD in American Studies from Yale University.

Trysh Travis is assistant professor of women's studies at the University of Florida. Professor Travis is a literary historian of the 20th-century U.S., studying the gendered history of the book with a focus on reading communities and the publishing industry. Her book, The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey, will be published by the University of North Carolina Press in fall 2009. Her writings on radical feminist publishing, contemporary spirituality, and popular culture have appeared in journals like Book History, American Quarterly, and Men and Masculinities as well as in publications like The Chronicle of Higher Education and Bitch magazine.  Visit her website.

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Packaging Boyhood: Saving Our Sons from Superheroes, Slackers, and Other Media Stereotypes

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Length-38 minutes, 49 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Sharon Lamb and Dr. Mark Tappan, co-authors of Packaging Boyhood: saving our sons from superheroes, slackers, and other media stereotypes with Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown published by St. Martin's Press.

 

Dr. Sharon Lamb is Distinguished Professor of Mental Health at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology. She is on leave from Saint Michael’s College in Vermont where she is a Professor of Psychology.  Originally from the Chicago area, she received her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and her child psychology training at Mass. General Hospital in Boston. Sharon co-authored Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes with Lyn in 2006 and is thrilled to be able to continue working with Lyn and her partner Mark on Packaging Boyhood.  Sharon is author of The Secret Lives of Girls: What Good Girls Really Do, and Sex, Therapy, and Kids: Addressing their Concerns through Talk and Play (a book for psychotherapists). 

 
 

Dr. Mark Tappan is Professor of Education and Human Development and Chair of the Education Program at Colby College.  He received his A.B. in Religion from Oberlin College, his M.A. in Education from the Ohio State University, and his Ed.D. in Human Development from Harvard University.  He is co-editor (with Martin Packer) of Narrative and Storytelling: Implications for Understanding Moral Development and Cultural and Critical Perspectives on Human Development.

Mark grew up in suburban Philadelphia but he now lives in Waterville, Maine with his partner Lyn Brown, their daughter Maya, their dog Heidi, and four cats. At Colby he teaches courses on education and social justice, contemporary children and youth, and boys development and education. Students in his “Boys to Men” course also work with local elementary and middle-school boys on media literacy and leadership development. Visit their website.

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Caught in Play: How Entertainment Works on You

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Length- 50 minutes, 41 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Peter G. Stromberg, author of Caught In Play: How Entertainment Works On You published by Stanford University Press.

Peter G. Stromberg is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of Language and Self-Transformation: A Study of the Christian Conversion Narrative (1993) and Symbols of Community: The Cultural Systems of a Swedish Church (1986). Visit his website.

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The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships

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Length-54 minutes, 19 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Joyce Catlett, MA, co-author of The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships with Dr. Robert W. Firestone published by Karnac.

Joyce Catlett, MA, author and lecturer, has collaborated with Dr. Robert Firestone in writing ten books and numerous professional articles. Most recently, she co-authored Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice (New Harbinger, 2002) and Creating A Life of Meaning and Compassion: The Meaning of Psychotherapy(APA Books, 2003). 

Ms. Catlett began her career in psychology in 1972, working with autistic children at the Camarillo State Hospital Children's Treatment Center in Camarillo, CA. A founding member of Glendon Association, she has been a national lecturer and workshop facilitator in the areas of child abuse prevention and couple relations. With Glendon, she has co-produced 37 video documentaries on a wide range of mental health topics. Ms. Catlett was also instrumental in the development and training of instructors in the Compassionate Child Rearing Education Program and in training mental health professionals in Voice Therapy Methodology.  Visit the Glendon Association website and The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships website.

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Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter. . . But Really Do

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Length-30 minutes, 20 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Karen Fingerman, co-author of Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem To Matter...But Really Do with Melinda Blau    published by W.W. Norton & Co.

Psychologist Karen Fingerman, who coined the term “consequential strangers,” is the Berner Hanley Professor and Director of Adult Family Research at Purdue University. An internationally known scholar whose work focuses on social relationships, emotions, and aging, she has authored over sixty articles and chapters. Mother of two, she lives in West Lafayette, Indiana. She is also a self-proclaimed chocoholic. Visit her website.

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School Bus Drivers Can Halt Sexual Predators Video

From STN EXPO 2007: Acclaimed author, law enforcement professional and member of one of Florida's Child Abduction Response Teams Dr. Duane Dobbert discusses how school bus drivers can help identify sexual predators and bring them to justice. More about Dr. Dobbert at www.drduanedobbert.com

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Psychopathy, Perversion, and Lust Homicide: Recognizing the Mental Disorders That Power Serial Killers

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Length-1 hour, 12 minutes, 58 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Duane L. Dobbert, author of Psychopathy, Perversion, and Lust Homicide: Recognizing the Mental Disorders that Power Serial Killers published by Praeger.

Dr. Duane L. Dobbert is a 38 year veteran of the Criminal Justice Profession; serving in clinical, administrative, consulting, teaching, research, and expert witness capacities. Dr. Dobbert is a Fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners and the American Board of Psychological Specialties. He has consulted in hundreds of criminal justice jurisdictions through-out the United States. Dr. Dobbert has developed and presented training programs pertaining to the nature and identification of sexual predators to law enforcement officers, educators, mental health counselors, and attorneys.

Dr. Dobbert is also the author of Praeger Publisher’s, Halting the Sexual Predators among Us: Preventing Attack, Rape, and Lust Homicide, released in 2004 and Understanding Personality Disorders released in 2007.

Most recently, Dr. Dobbert authored the training program, School Bus Drivers: The 1st Line of Defense Against Sexual Predators. He has trained thousands of School Bus Drivers in "live" audience and DVD formats. Dr. Dobbert is currently a Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University and Capella University. Visit his website.

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The Anatomy of Evil

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Length-42 minutes, 2 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Michael H. Stone, MD, author of The Anatomy of Evil published by Prometheus Books.

Michael H. Stone, MD (New York, NY) is professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the author of ten books, most recently Personality Disorders: Treatable and Untreatable, and over two hundred professional articles and book chapters. He is also the host of Discovery Channel's former series Most Evil and has been featured in the New York Times, Psychology Today, the Christian Science Monitor, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post, the London Times, the BBAC, and Newsday, among many other media outlets.

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