Psychjourney Podcast

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Nick Flynn, author of The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir published by W. W. Norton & Company.

Nick Flynn is the award-winning author of Some Ether, Blind Huber, The Ticking is the Bomb and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. He teaches at the University of Houston.  Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Shaunti Feldhahn, author of The Male Factor: The Unwritten Rules, Misperceptions, and Secret Beliefs of Men in the Workplace published by Broadway Business.

SHAUNTI FELDHAHN is the best-selling author of For Women Only:What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men and For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women. Her books have sold two million copies and have been translated into fifteen different languages. A longtime nationally sydicated columnist, she holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University, has worked on Wall Street, and now lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, author of The Power of Women: Harness Your Unique Strengths at Home, at Work, and in Your Community  published by Times Books.

Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema is a professor of psychology at Yale University. She has been conducting research on women's mental health for twenty years. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema is the author of the bestselling Women Who Think Too Much and Eating, Drinking, Overthinking, and The Power of Women: Harness Your Unique Strengths at Home, at Work, and in Your Community.

Her award-winning research has been funded by major grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, and several private foundations. Visit her website and blog.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. R. Douglas Fields, author of The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science published by  Simon & Schuster.

R. Douglas Fields is the Chief of the Section on Nervous System Development and Plasticity at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Adjunct Professor in the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program at the University of Maryland, College Park.  In 2004 Dr. Fields founded the scientific journal Neuron Glia Biology, where he is the Editor-in-Chief, and he is a scientific advisor to Scientific American Mind and Odyssey magazines. He is an internationally recognized authority on neuron-glia interactions, brain development, and the cellular mechanisms of memory.  Dr. Fields received advanced degrees at UC Berkeley, San Jose State University, UC San Diego, and he held postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford University, Yale University, and the National Institutes of Health before starting his research laboratory at the NIH in 1994.  The author of over 150 articles in scientific journals and books, he also enjoys building guitars, rock-climbing, and scuba diving. Visit his website.

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Dr. Kevin Keough, co-host of the Psychjourney podcast, interviews Ms. Therese Borchard author of  Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes published by Center Street.

Therese Borchard is the author of the hit daily blog “Beyond Blue” on Beliefnet.com, which is featured weekly on The Huffington Post and was voted by PsychCentral.com as one of the top 10 depression blogs. Her memoir, Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes, has just been published by Hachette Book Group/Center Street, who will also release, in April 2010, a handsome volume of her therapy notes, called “The Pocket Therapist: An Emotional Survival Kit.”

Therese is becoming a top go-to expert in the field of pop-psychology. Her work has recently been cited in The Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, USA Today, Guideposts, and on Time.com, CNN.com, and Yahoo! She has been featured in O magazine, Psychology Today, Parenting, More, Redbook, Ladies’ Home Journal, and the Washington Post. Therese is the editor of The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World, and I Love Being a Mom: Treasured Stories, Memories, and Milestones. With Michael Leach, she is co-editor of A Celebration of a Married Life

Therese moderates the popular depression support group, Beyond Blue, on Beliefnet’s social networking site, is a regular guest on Sirius Satellite Radio, and writes a syndicated column, “Our Turn,” for Catholic News Service. She lives with her husband, Eric, and their two “spirited” children in Annapolis, Maryland.  Visit her website. 

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Dr. Kevin Keough, co-host of the Psychjourney podcast, interviews Paul R. Linde, M.D., author of Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist published by the University of California Press.

Paul R. Linde, M.D. is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He's worked as a clinician/teacher in the Psychiatric Emergency Service at San Francisco General Hospital since 1992 and in several other high-intensity psychiatric settings over the years.

A writer of medical/psychiatric nonfiction, his second book, Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist, was released by the University of California Press in September 2009. He has also written for JAMA, the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and DoubleTake magazine. Dr. Linde also created, produced, and hosted a weekly health program on KALW-FM in San Francisco from 2002 to 2004.

He lives in the Bay Area with his wife, two sons, and a rambunctious one-eyed dog.  Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. J.D. Trout, author of Why Empathy Matters: The Science and Psychology of Better Judgement published by Penguin.

J.D. Trout is a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, and an adjunct professor at the Parmly Sensory Sciences Institute. He writes on the nature of scientific and intellectual progress, as well as on the contribution that psychological science can make to human well-being. He is the author of Measuring the Intentional World, and co-author of Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment. Visit his website and blog.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Leslie Davenport, LMFT, MA, author of Healing and Transformation Through Self Guided Imagery published by Celestial Arts.

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Robyn Okrant, author of Living Oprah: My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk published by Center Street.

Robyn Okrant is a writer, filmmaker, performer, and yoga teacher. A graduate of Bennington College, she also holds an MFA in performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives with her husband and two cats in Chicago. Visit her website and blog.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. David Sutton (pictured) and Dr. Peter Wogan, co-authors of Hollywood Blockbusters: The Anthropology of Popular Movies published by Berg.