Psychjourney Podcast

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Fred Luskin, author of Forgive For Love: The Missing Ingredient for a Healthy and Lasting Relationship published by HarperOne.

Fred Luskin, Ph.D. is the author of Forgive for Good and one of the world's leading researchers and teachers on the subject of forgiveness. He is the director of the Stanford Forgiveness Project, a series of research projects that investigate forgiveness methods. He holds an appointment at the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation as a senior fellow and is an associate professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He lives in Palo Alto, California. Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Terri Apter, author of What Do You Want From Me?  Learning to Get Along with In-Laws published by W.W. Norton & Co.

Terri Apter is a writer, psychologist, and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge University. Her books include The Confident Child (winner of the Delta Kappa Gamma International Educator’s Award) and The Sister Knot. She lives in Cambridge, England.  Visit her website.

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Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions interviews "Doc" George J. Thompson, co-author of The Verbal Judo Way of Leadership: Empowering the Thin Blue Line from the Inside Up written by George J. Thompson and  Gregory A. Walker published by Looseleaf Law Publications.

Dr. George J. Thompson is the President & Founder of the Verbal Judo Institute, a tactical training and management firm now based in Auburn, NY. Doc Thompson, aka "Doc Rhino," has an eclectic background, having taught English on the High School level (4 yrs), English Literature on the university level (10 yrs), and served as a full and part-time police officer. Also a martial artist, he holds Black Belts in Judo & Taekwondo. Doc has created the only Tactical Communication course in the world.

Dr. Thompson has written four books on Verbal Judo, each analyzing ways to defuse conflict and redirect behavior into more positive channels. The Institute offers Basic & Advanced courses in the Tactics of Verbal Judo. Doc received his B.A. from Colgate University (1963), his Masters & Doctorate in English from the University of Connecticut (1972), and he completed post-doctoral work at Princeton University in Rhetoric & Persuasion (1979). Widely published in magazines & periodicals, his training has been highlighted on such national shows as NBC, ABC, & CBS News, CNN, 48 Hours, Inside Edition, LETN, In the Line of Duty, and Fox news, as well as in the LA Times, NY Post, Sacramento Bee, and other publications.

Aside from his well known Police & Correction courses, Doc "Rhino" has designed special courses for educators, medical personnel, government & business employees, and the airlines. The Verbal Judo Institute has branch offices in Australia and Canada, and a national Team of instructors who teach from coast to coast. Doc has taught over 175,000 police officers, and his course is required in numerous states across the country.

On a personal note, Doc and Pam are the proud parents of three-year old, Tommy Rhyno Thompson, and Doc, a survivor of throat cancer, has returned to active teaching. He also currently offers VJ training on the internet, at www.vjou.com., and has two more books forthcoming, Verbal Judo Leadership: The Hard Right (with Gregory Walker), and Hammett's Moral Vision, the book publication of his doctoral thesis.  Visit his website.

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. P.M. Forni, author of  The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude published by St. Martin's Press.

P.M. Forni is an award-winning professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he has taught for the past twenty years. He graduated from the University of Pavia in 1974 and received his Ph.D. in Italian at UCLA in 1981.

In 1997 Dr. Forni co-founded the Johns Hopkins Civility Project. An aggregation of academic and community outreach activities, the JHCP aimed `at assessing the significance of civility, manners and politeness in contemporary society. He was also the co-director of "Reassessing Civility: Forms and Values at the End of the Century," an international symposium which took place at Hopkins in March 1998. He now directs The Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins.

Reports on his work have appeared on The New York Times, The Times of London, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times. He has been a on a number of radio and television shows, including ABC's World News Tonight, CBS Sunday Morning and BBC's Outlook. For years he was a regular on-the-air contributor to the Baltimore NPR affiliate station and the nationally syndicated radio show The Satellite Sisters. Visit his website.

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Professor Andra Medea, author of Conflict Unraveled: Fixing Problems at Work and in Families published by PivotPoint Press.

Andra Medea is a specialist in conflict management who has taught for Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.  Her model, the Conflict Continuum, forms the basis of her book, Conflict Unraveled: Fixing Problems at Work and in Families. Her work is a valuable tool for administrators, HR professionals, educators, parents, mediators and others who cope with conflict.  Her latest book is Going Home without Going Crazy: How to Get Along With Your Parents & Family (Even When They Push Your Buttons) Visit Andra's website.

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Ms. Andra Medea, author of Going Home Without Going Crazy- How to  Get Along with Your Parents & Family (Even When They Push Your Buttons)

Topic: Learn how to understand conflict within your family and work toward resolution.

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