Psychjourney Podcast

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Terrie Williams, author of Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting published by Scribner.

Terrie M. Williams is a licensed clinical social worker and founder of the Terrie Williams Agency. She has served as public relations advisor to clients such as Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, and the NBA, and many corporations. Her Stay Strong Foundation is dedicated to youth and mental health advocacy and mentoring. Visit her websites www.healingstartswithus.net and www.blackpain.org

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Kelly Lambert, author of Lifting Depression: A Neuroscientist's Hands-On Approach to Activating Your Brain's Healing Power published by Basic Books.

Kelly Lambert, Ph.D., is Chair of Psychology at Randolph-Macon College and the author, with Craig Howard Kinsley, of the text Clinical Neuroscience.  Lambert has published widely in Nature, Scientific American, Behavioral Neuroscience, and other scientific publications.  Her “smart rats” research has been featured on ABC’s World News Tonight and other media.  A professor for over 20 years, she enjoys conducting neuroscience research with her students and sharing those finding to help people live more fulfilled and enjoyable lives.  She and her family live in Mechanicsville, Virginia.  Visit her website.

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.

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

 

Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider, interviews Mr. Garry Cooper, LCSW, about the treatment of depression and his C.E. course Depression: The Therapist's Toolkit offered online through the Zur  Institute.

Garry Cooper, LCSW, is a contributing editor of Psychotherapy Networker magazine. His “Clinician’s Digest,�? appearing in each issue, is read by over 55,000 psychotherapists, psychiatrists and social workers. The Digest covers the latest news, research, trends and ideas that affect mental health and the clinical and business aspects of therapy. His psychotherapy practice, in Oak Park, IL, has recently celebrated its 25th year working with adults, couples and adolescents on the usual issues. Cooper is also a writing coach and free-lance editor. His essays and other non-psychological writing have appeared in magazines and newspapers. His latest work appears in the Spring, 2007 issue of Another Chicago Magazine.

Learn more about  the classes offered by Garry Cooper, LCSW CEU at the Zur Institute.

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.

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.

 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.

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.

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.

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Adrienne Martini, author of Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood

Adrienne Martini has been a theatre technician, apprentice massage therapist, bookstore bookeeper and pizza joint waitress.  Eventually someone started paying her for her words and an editorial mercenary was born. She is a former editor for Knoxville, Tennessee's Metro Pulse and recently picked up an AAN award for feature writing. During the day, she fields freelance gigs and crams knowledge into the heads of college students in Upstate New York.  At all hours, she is mom to Maddy and Cory, and wife to Scott.  Visit her blog.

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A moving seminar from Dr. Lara Honos-Webb about her new book, The Gift Of Depression: How Listening To Your Pain Can Heal Your Life

Listen to an audio interview with Dr. Lara on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club