Dr. Kevin Keough interviews Dr. C. Scott Littleton about his study and research into and first hand experiences with UFO's. A native Californian, C. Scott Littleton received his B.A., M.A.,and Ph.D from UCLA, and has taught anthropology at Occidental College in Los Angeles for many years. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at UCLA in1957. In 1991 he received The Graham L. Sterling Memorial Award, given annually to a distinguished member of the Occidental College faculty. Heâs also received grants from the John Randolph and Dora HaynesFoundation (1963), the American Council of Learned Societies (1972, 1978), the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (1983), and The American Philosophical Society (1983). In 1960-61, he was a Haynes Foundation-Town Hall Fellow. He is considered an expert in comparative mythology and folklore, as well as in traditional Japanese culture, having lived and taught in Tokyo on several occasions. Littleton is the author of 8-9 scholarly books, including The New Comparative Mythology (3rd Edition, University of California Press, 1982), From Scythia to Camelot: A Radical Reinterpretation of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table,and the Holy Grail (paperback edition, Garland Publishing Inc., 2000), and Understanding Shinto (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and numerous articles in professional journals. He has also researched the mythological dimensions of the UFO phenomenon, and his article "Divine Rebels, Alien Dissidents: Does the Mythology Surrounding Lucifer, Prometheus, and the Ancient Mesoamerican Deity QuÃÂtzalcoatl Reflect a Pro-Human Faction in the 'Alien Raj'?" has appeared in UFO Magazine. He has authored one science fiction novel. His latest book, 2500 Strand: Growing Up In Hermosa Beach, California, during World War II  is scheduled for release within the next few weeks.  Visit Dr. Littletonâs website. Visit Dr. Keough's website and blog.

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Part one of a two part interview-  Conversation will be concluded in part twoDr. Kevin Keough, clinical psychologist and host of North Star Guardians and Warrior Traditions, interviews Kyoshi Gary Moro of Yachigusa-Ryu Aiki-Bugei Dojo in San Francisco, CA.Gary Moro started his martial arts training with Hiroshi Yachigusa in 1975. His studies began with the art of Aikijutsu, based on the system developed by Yachigusa Sensei's family which had been influenced by Jukishin-Ryu, Shinkage-Ryu and various other Japanese sword and spear arts.  In traditional Japanese Ryu there are no belts to represent promotions, and Hiroshi Yachigusa did not believe in awarding certificates to denote achievement. Though not his custom, in 1989 he granted Gary Moro to the rank of Kyoshi (instructor). During his martial arts career, Kyoshi Moro has also studied various other martial arts, including Karate, Judo, Kenpo, Arnis, and two forms of Kung Fu. Though he has over 30 years of training in the martial arts, he still considers himself a student of them. Always interested in learning new information, Gary Moro continues to attend numerous martial arts seminars each year, exposing himself to different arts, philosophies, and martial technique. Some of the instructors he has trained with formally are: Neil Laughin (Judo), Joseph Wong (Long Fist Kung Fu), Michael Daivs (Serrada Eskrima), Ralph Castro (Kenpo), Joseph Halbuna (Kajukenbo), Kenneth Leung (Kung Fu) Tobias Johnston (Karate/Kobudo), Joseph McCullan (Western Boxing) and Kyong Lee (Kuk Soo Won).  Visit Kyoshi Moro's website and blog.

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Dr. Kevin Keough, clinical psychologist and host of North Star Guardians and Warrior Traditions  interviews Mr. Marc "Animal" MacYoung about martial arts, self defense, and warrior training.Marc MacYoung has been called a Renaissance man in the study and management of violence. He has more then 35 years of training in 8 different martial arts systems including wing chun and Tai Chi. Perhaps, more importantly he has 47 years of experience in training in city jungles. Mr. MacYoung is the author of 15 books and 7 DVD's covering a broad range of topics in self-defense. He provides training to military personnel, police officers, bodyguards, and the general public.  His website, No Nonsense Self Defense is the largest and most visited web site on self-defense in the world.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Jason Sokol, author of  There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975 published by Vintage. Jason Sokol grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts, the birthplace of basketball. He attended Oberlin College, and double-majored in History and Philosophy. Jason graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1999 with Highest Honors in History. From 1997 to 2000, he worked variously for the Springfield Union-News, the New Haven Advocate, and The Nation. Jasons writings on American history, politics, and race have appeared in those publications, among several others.  He received his doctorate in American History from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Leon Litwack. His dissertation would become the basis for There Goes My Everything. Jason moved to Brooklyn, New York in 2005 and served as a Non-Resident Fellow at Harvard? W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. In that capacity, he worked on assorted television projects dealing with African-American History. Jason is now a Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University. He lives in Ithaca, New York, with the playwright Nina Louise Morrison. Jason was recently named one of America's "Top Young Historians" by the History News Network.  Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Riche' Richardson, author of Black Masculinity And the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta published by the University of Georgia Press. Professor Richardson is a Southerner who was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. She joined the English Department faculty at UC Davis in the fall of 1998. Her scholarly essays have appeared in journals such as American Literature, The Mississippi Quarterly, and the Forum for Modern Language Studies. She is the co-editor, with Jon Smith, of the new book series, The New Southern Studies, at the University of Georgia Press. Professor Richardson regularly gives lectures and serves on panels at national conferences. Professor Richardson recently completed a two-year term on the Executive Council for the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, and also serves on that organization's Publication Committee. Most recently, she was elected to the Southern Literature Discussion Group in the Modern Language Association (2006-09). In addition to being a scholar, she is an artist who makes mixed-media appliquà art quilts. Her body of art work will be featured in an upcoming exhibition in Montgomery, Alabama, which will be accompanied by a catalog and site online.  Visit her webpage.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Tanya Biank, author of Army Wives: The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage published by St. Martin's. Tanya Biank is a Fulbright scholar and graduate of Penn State University. She holds a bachelorâs degree in journalism and was a member of the University Scholarâs program. Tanya comes from a family of combat veterans and active-duty service members. During her fatherâs thirty-year career in the Army, she grew up on military posts throughout the world and considers the Army home. As an Army brat and Army wife,Tanya understands, appreciates and respects military families. She is frequently interviewed about military family life issues and speaks regularly to both military and civilian groups about the military.   As a journalist specializing in the military, Tanya writes about the military lifestyle and has traveled around the world with troops. She has appeared on several national television and radio shows discussing military issues. Her coverage of the 2002 Fort Bragg Army wife murders led to Congressional inquiries and changes in Army programs and policy, Her book, Army Wives: The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage (St. Martinâs Griffin, May 2007) is the basis for the Lifetime Television series drama, ARMY WIVES starring Emmy winner Kim Delaney (NYPD Blue) and Catherine Bell (JAGappears Sunday nights at 10 PM on Lifetime and is produced by Touchstone Television and the producers of Greyâs Anatomy, The Mark Gordon Company. Tanya serves as a show consultant.   Tanyaâs book âArmy Wivesâ was originally published in hardcover as Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives (St. Martinâs Press, Feb. 2006).Tanya is a columnist for Military.com and LifetimeTV.com. She is a regular contributor to several military-related publications including Military Spouse Magazine, Military Officer Magazine, CinCHouse.com and the Better Business Bureauâs Military Line. She currently lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband Michael, who is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army assigned to the Pentagon. The couple has an infant son. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Barbara Bizantz Raymond, author of The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption published by Carroll & Graf. Barbara Bisantz Raymond is an adjunct professor, adoptive mother, and writer. She has received two awards for feature writing from Women in Communications, and was an author of a child care section that won the National Magazine Award for Public Service. She contributed to The Handbook of Magazine Article Writing, and has written for The New York Times, USA Today, Working Mother, Parents, Writer's Digest, Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, McCall's, and Ladies' Home Journal. She lives in New York City.Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Keith Sawyer author of Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration published by Basic Books. R. Keith Sawyer is one of the country's leading experts on the science of creativity. He studies creativity, everyday conversation, children's play and everyday social life. He is particularly interested in group dynamics and collaboration. He is the author of numerous books including Pretend Play as Improvisation (1997), Creating Conversations (2001) and Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation (2006). His topics of research include business innovation, organizational dynamics in work teams, children's play and preschool, artistic and scientific creativity and language and conversation research.  Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Professor Ann Fessler, author of The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade published by Penguin. Ann Fessler is a Professor of Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and a specialist in video-installation art. She won a prestigious Radcliffe Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, at Harvard University, to complete her extensive research for this book. The original video-installation project out of which this book grew traveled to museums around the country. She is also the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; the LEF Foundation, Boston; the Rhode Island Foundation; the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities; Art Matters, New York; and the Maryland State Arts Council. Her award-winning short videos have been screened widely at festivals and in gallery installations. Visit her website.

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Dr. Kevin Keough, interviews Ms. Cora Daniels, M.A., author of Ghettonation: A Journey Into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless published by Doubleday. Cora Daniels is an author and award-winning journalist. Her work has appeared in Fortune, the New York Times, Essence, O: The Oprah Magazine, USA Today, Heart & Soul, FSB: Fortune Small Business, and Savoy. She has been a staff writer at Fortune and an editor at Working Mother magazine and is currently a contributing writer for Essence. A sought after expert on diversity and business issues she has served as a commentator on ABC News, CNN, CNBC, BET, NPR, and the Charlie Rose Show. In 2002 she spearheaded Fortune's first ever search for the 50 most powerful Black executives in America. In 2005 her much acclaimed Fortune cover story The Bravest Generation, about the original Black corporate pioneers, created national attention for this overlooked part of civil rights history. As an author Cora has been called "dynamic", and "perceptive" and "a powerful voice from the younger generation." Her first book, Black Power Inc., was dubbed "thought provoking" by the Washington Post and a "must read" by Black Issues Book Review. Her much anticipated second book, Ghettonation: A Journey Into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless (Doubleday) will be released March of 2007. Cora is a native New Yorker and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of Yale University with a BA in history and has a masters degree in Journalism from Columbia University.   Visit her website .

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr.  Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War  published by Viking Adult. Joe Bageant writes an online column that has made him a cult hero among gonzo-journalism junkies and progressives. He has been interviewed on Air America and comments on Americaâs long history of religious fundamentalism in the BBC/Owl documentary The Vision: Americans on America. Until recently he worked as a senior editor for the Primedia History Magazine Group. Bageant and his wife recently downsized their lives in America so that Joe could spend half the year in Belize, where he writes and sponsors a small development project with the Black Carib families of Hopkins Village.  Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Mr. Julian Sher, author of Caught in the Web: Inside the Police Hunt to Rescue Children from Online Predators  published by Carroll & Graf. Julian Sher is an award-winning writer and investigative journalist, TV producer and author of five books including Angels of Death: Inside the Biker Gangs Crime Empire, which has been translated into four languages and sold in seven foreign countries. He wrote and directed the New York Times-CBC TV investigation called Nuclear Jihad which recently won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. His freelance writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, CNN.com, the Toronto Globe and Mail and Walrus, Canada's leading current affairs magazine. His Web page, JournalismNet,is ranked among the top ten journalism sites in the world by Google. He lives in Montreal, Canada. Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Sue Palmer author of Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About It  published by Orion. Sue Palmer is a writer, broadcaster and consultant on the education of young children. She is a regular contributor to the Times Educational Supplement and other journals, and author of more than two hundred books, TV programs and software for 3 to 12 year-olds including the popular skeleton materials, used in over 10,000 schools. She is also a popular speaker, addressing thousands of teachers each year across the UK and around the world, and acts as an independent adviser to many organizations, including the Department for Education and Skills and the BBC. In 2006 she published Toxic Childhood, about the impact of contemporary lifestyles on child development. Visit her website .

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., co-author of Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes by Sharon Lamb, Ed.D., and Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., published by St. Martin's Griffin.Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., is a mom, professor, and community activist. Her acclaimed work on girls social and psychological development has consistently broken new ground and challenged old perceptions.   She is the co-author, with Carol Gilligan, of Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development, a 1992 New York Times Notable Book of the Year that helped spark an international debate about the lives of girls and redefine our understanding of female development.  Dr. Brown has written three other acclaimed books on girls social and psychological development: Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls' Anger, Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girls, and most recently Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters From Marketers Schemes (with Sharon Lamb; 2006 winner of a MS Books For A Better Life Award. Dr. Brown received her doctorate from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology. She is Professor of Education and Human Development at Colby College in Maine and co-creator of the nonprofit Hardy Girls Healthy Women  She has also consulted for numerous film and television projects, including shows on PBS, and Fox Childrens Network.  Dr. Brown lives in Waterville, Maine with her partner Dr. Mark Tappan and their twelve-year-old daughter, Maya. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Sam Binkley, author of Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s published by Duke University Press. Sam Binkley is professor of sociology at Emerson College. His research and teaching interests focus on questions of identity formation in the context of contemporary cultures of consumption with a focus on the role of lifestyle movements, from the counterculture movements of the 1960s and 70s to contemporary anti-consumersit movements. He has also published in the Journal of Consumer Culture; the Journal of Material Culture; Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies; Consumption, Markets and Culture; Cultural Studies and the Journal for Cultural Research. Visit his blog.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Tim Kasser, author of The High Price of Materialism published by the MIT Press. After receiving his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Rochester in 1994, Dr. Kasser accepted a position at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he is currently an associate professor of psychology.    He has authored numerous scientific articles and book chapters on materialism, values, and goals, among other topics. His books include, The High Price of Materialism, Psychology and Consumer Culture, (co-edited with Allen D. Kanner.  Dr. Kasser also serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences. In the last several years, he has become increasingly involved with activist groups who work against the commercialization of children and who work towards a more inwardly rich lifestyle than what is offered by consumerism. He lives with his wife, two sons, and assorted animals in the Western Illinois countryside.  Visit his webpage.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Katherine Parkin, author of Food Is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America  published by University of Pennsylvania Press. Katherine Parkin is an assistant professor of History  at Monmouth University.  She received her B.A. in History and Sociology/Anthropology from Lake Forest College and her Ph.D. in History from Temple University (2001). The American/Popular Culture Association awarded Food is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America ( University of Pennsylvania Press ) the 2006 Emily Toth Award for best book in feminist popular culture.  Visit her webpage.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Caroline Moorehead, author of Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees published by Henry Holt and Co. Caroline Moorehead wrote a column on human rights first for The Times and then for the Independent (1980-91) and made a series of TV programmes on human rights for the BBC (1990-2000). She has written the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross (1998); and has helped to set up a Legal Advice Centre for refugees in Cairo, where she has also started schools and a nursery. Currently she works as a volunteer on the legal team for the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, while also continuing to review and write on human rights in many different papers. Her books include Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life, and  Selected Letters of Martha Gelhorn.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Christopher Noxon, author of Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grown-up published by Crown. Christopher Noxon has worked as a costumed character at Universal Studios, a speechwriter for Michael Milken, and a music supervisor for the television series, Weeds. He has also written for the New York Times Magazine, Salon, and GQ.  He lives with his wife and three children in Los Angeles.  Visit his website www.christophernoxon.com and the Rejuvenile website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. James Baughman, author of Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961 published by the John Hopkins University Press.  James L. Baughman became Director of the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of  Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. An Ohio native, he earned his B.A.at Harvard, and his M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. While earning his doctorate, Baughman worked for Facts on File, the Kirkus News Service and WNET-TV. Baughman has been a member of the UW faculty since 1979,teaching the history of mass communication and news and editorial writing. He has also been a lecturer in the History Department. Baughman was awarded the UW's Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003 for his efforts in the classroom and the Wisconsin Alumni Association's Ken and Linda Ciriacks Alumni Outreach Excellence Award in 2005. Baughman has written extensively on the history of the American news media and broadcasting. He is the author of three books, Television's Guardians: The Federal Communications Commission and the Politics of Programming; Henry R. Luce and the Rise of the Modern American News Media; and Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Broadcasting, and Filmmaking in America since 1945. He has recently published a book on the rise of television during the 1950s (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). Baughman was a member and chair of the Wisconsin Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and was chair of the Erik Barnouw Award Committee of the Organization of American Historians, which honors outstanding historical documentaries.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Harriet A. Washington, author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present published by Doubleday. Harriet A. Washington has been a fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. As a journalist and editor, she has worked for USA Today and several other publications, been a Knight Fellow at Stanford University and has written for such academic forums as the Harvard Public Health Review and The New England Journal of Medicine. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards for her work. Washington lives in New York City. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Maia Szalavitz, author of Help At Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids published by Riverhead. Maia Szalavitz is a journalist who covers health, science and public policy. She is co-author, with Dr. Joseph Volpicelli, M.D., Ph.D. of the University of Pennsylvania, of Recovery Options: The Complete Guide: How You and Your Loved Ones Can Understand and Treat Alcohol and Other Drug Problems (John S. Wiley, 2000). She is the co-author of The Boy Who Was Raised as A Dog and Other Stories from A Child Psychiatrist's Notebook, co-written with Dr. Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD. Her second book, Help at Any Cost, an investigation into boot camps and tough love programs, was published by Riverhead Books in February 2006. Visit the STATS website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, author of Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women published by New York University Press. Sharpley-Whiting is Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and French at Vanderbilt University where she also directs the Program in African American and Diaspora Studies and serves as Director of the W.T.Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies. A graduate of Brown University (1994), she is the 2006 winner of the Horace Mann Medal, an award given annually to a Brown Graduate School alumnus or alumna who has made significant contributions in his or her field inside or outside of academia. She is the first humanities professor to receive this distinction.  She lectures widely throughout the U.S., Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean Basin, and Africa. The author of four books, Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms (1998), Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears and Primitive Narratives (1999), Negritude Women (2002), she has also co-edited three volumes, including Fanon: A Critical Reader (1995), Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions (1996), and The Black Feminist Reader (2000). She is currently on tour with Rap Sessions: Community Dialogues on Hip-Hop. This years dialogue is on Gender and Hip-Hop: Does Hip-Hop Hate Women?  She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Kristin Henderson, author of While They're At War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront published by by Houghton Mifflin.Kristin Henderson is an author and a frequent contributor to the Washington Post Magazine (read the latest). Her writing has also appeared in Military Spouse Magazine and various literary journals, and she's the recipient of a Bread Loaf nonfiction fellowship. She regularly lectures on the challenges faced by military families and has appeared on BBC's "Outlook", NPR's "All Things Considered" and "Fresh Air", NBC's "Weekend Today Show", MSNBC, Air America, and C-SPAN.   Kristin, a Quaker, is married to a Navy chaplain who served with the Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq. Her latest book, While They're At War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront is an in-depth portrait of military spouses in wartime. Her critically praised memoir, Driving by Moonlight: A Journey Through Love, War, and Infertility, details her own experience during her husband's deployment to Afghanistan following 9/11, as well as her struggle with infertility. She has participated in the Marine Corps' Key Volunteer family support program and Compass, the Navy's spouse mentoring program.   Kristin is a member of the National Military Family Association, the National Writers Union, and Military Reporters and Editors. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. David Schmid, author of Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture published by the University of Chicago Press. David Schmid is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the University at Buffalo's English Department, where he teaches courses in British and American fiction, cultural studies, and popular culture. Born and raised in England, he received his B.A. from Oxford University his M.A. from the University of Sussex, and his Ph.D. from the Modern Thought and Literature program at Stanford University. He has published on a variety of subjects, including celebrity, Dracula, crime fiction, and African-American literature anthologies. He is the author of Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2005, and he is currently working on two book-lengths projects: Mean Streets and More: Space in Crime Fiction and The Scarlet Thread: A History of Homicide in American Popular Culture.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Paul R. Amato, co-author of Alone Together: How Marriage Is Changing written by Paul R. Amato, Alan Booth, David R. Johnson, Stacy J. Rogers published by Harvard University Press.Paul R. Amato is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Demography, Human Development, and Family Studies at Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include marital quality, the causes and consequences of divorce, and parent-child relationships over the life course. He has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters, along with five books, including (with Alan Booth, David Johnson, and Stacy Rogers) Alone Together: How Marriage in America is Changing (Harvard University Press, 2007). He received the Reuben Hill Award from the National Council on Family Relations for the best-published article on the family in 1993, 1999, and 2001. He received the Stanley Cohen Distinguished Research Award from the American Association of Family and Conciliation Courts in 2002, the Distinction in the Social Sciences Award from Pennsylvania State University in 2003, and a Distinguished Career Award from the Family Section of the American Sociological Association in 2006. View his webpage

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Joanie Farley-Gillispie, Ph.D., co-author of Cyber Rules: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet published by Norton. Joanie-Farley-Gillispie, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco and Marin Counties, where she works for juvenile justice. She is a Certified National Trainer, APA HIV Office of Prevention and Education (HOPE), and has taught law and ethics for mental health providers. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Professor Rachel Rubin and Professor Jeffrey Melnick, co-authors of Immigration and American Popular Culture: An Introduction published by New York University Press. Rachel Rubin is associate professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts. She is the author of Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature.  Visit her web page. Jeffrey Melnick is associate professor of American Studies at Babson College. He is the author of A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song and Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South.  View his web page. 

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Cris Beam, author of Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers published by Harcourt. Cris Beam is a journalist who has written for several national magazines as well as for public radio. She has an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at Columbia and the New School. She lives in New York.  Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Sara Miles, author of Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion- The Spiritual Memoir of a twenty-first century Christian published by Ballentine. Sara Miles is the author of How to Hack a Party Line: The Democrats and Silicon Valley and co-editor of Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan and the anthology Opposite Sex. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Out, The Progressive, La Jornada, and Salon, among others.  She has written extensively on militar affairs, politics, and culture. The Founder of St. Gregory's Food Pantry, she lives in San Francisco, California with her family. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychourney, Ms. Mary Roach, author of Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife  published by Norton. Journalist and former Salon com. columnist Mary Roach has written for Outside, GQ, Vogue, and The New York Times Magazine. She writes the humor column "My Planet" in Reader's Digest and is contributing editor for the science magazine Discover. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Ed. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews, Ms. Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers published by Norton. photo credit: Phyllis ChristopherJournalist and former Salon com. columnist Mary Roach has written for Outside, GQ, Vogue, and The New York Times Magazine.  She writes the humor column "My Planet" in Reader's Digest and is contributing editor for the science magazine Discover.  She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Ed.  Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. John Higgs, author of I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary published by Barricade Books. John Higgs has spent 10 years writing and producing in a wide range of media, making him the only man who can boast of producing both a long running series for BBC Radio 4 and a best selling videogame for the PlayStation 2. He created the innovative historical and geographical quiz show X Marks The Spot for BBC Radio 4. The series has now been running for eight years. Videogames that he has produced include Crash and Burn, and ATV: Quad Power Racing 2, which has sold over three quarters of a million copies. In between these very different endevours he has worked extensively in television and animation, writing and producing programmes including Audrey & Friends, Pen Monkeys, and TooMuch TV, for which he earned a Best Children's Entertainment Programme BAFTA nomination. He has written for publications including The Guardian, The Independent and Mojo, and is a judge in two categories for the BAFTA Games Awards. He has a degree in Computer Science. He lives in Brighton with his partner and two children. Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Peniel E. Joseph, author of Waiting' Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power In America published by Henry Holt. Peniel E. Joseph teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at SUNY-Stony Brook. The recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Ford Foundation, his work has appeared in Souls, New Formations, and the Black Scholar, and he is the editor of a forthcoming anthology entitled, The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil-Rights Power Era. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Mark Regnerus, author of Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers published by Oxford University Press. Mark Regnerus is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin (PhD, 2000, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and a faculty associate at the university's Population Research Center. He is the author of over 25 published articles and book chapters. Winner of the Best Article Award twice from the American Sociological Association's section on the Sociology of Religion, Regnerus is also a collaborator on the National Study of Youth and Religion, and Principal Investigator of a NIH grant entitled, "Race, Religion, and Adolescent Sexual Norms and Conduct." He is currently co-investigator (along with Weinreb) of the NIH-funded Malawi Religion Project, is an editorial board member of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, and a council member for the American Sociological Association's Section on the Sociology of Religion. Results from his published research have been featured in USA Today, The Washington Post, Detroit News, Time Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, and Christianty Today, among other media outlets. He lives in Austin with his wife Deeann and two children. Visit his website.

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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.  This is part two of a two part interview. 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.

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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.  This is part one of a two part interview. 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.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Hella Winston, Ph.D., author of Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels published by Beacon Press. Hella Winston was born and raised in New York City. A Magna Cum Laude graduate of Barnard College with a B.A. in Religion, she is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In addition to her work on Hasidic Jews â drawing upon what has been hailed as unprecedented field work among the Satmar and Boboz sects â Winston has also been involved in extensive Sociological research and writing in other areas, including the Sociology of Education, the Sociology of the Professions, and the interaction between culture and identity. She is the co-author of âChildren of the Digital Divide,â with Paul Attewell, which appears in an edited collection entitled Disadvantaged Teens and Computer Technologies (Waxman, 2002). The paper reflects some of the fruits of a two-year, NSF-funded ethnographic study of the influence of computers on the academic achievement of disadvantaged youth. She is also working with Cynthia Fuchs Epstein on a study of the process of identity formation among Public Interest lawyers. Winstonâs writing has also appeared in Lilith magazine, New York Newsday, and The East Hampton Star.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Attorney Dawn Davenport, author of The Complete Book Of International Adoption: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Your Child published by Broadway. Dawn Davenport is an adoption expert, writer, attorney, and speaker specializing in international adoption. Her book, The Complete Book of International Adoption: A Step by Step Guide to Finding Your Child (Random House/Broadway, Nov. 2006), and website,  help families through the international adoption process. She has published on adoption in national and regional publications, including Conceive Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, and USA Today. She is interviewed frequently about adoption, including numerous times on National Public Radio. Her research has been featured on CBS News 60 Minutes and People Magazine. Ms. Davenport has served as a background consultant to CBS News 60 Minutes and ABC News Primetime Live on adoption issues. She loves to speak at infertility and adoption conferences to help others on their journey to find their child. Perhaps most important, she is a mom of four by birth and adoption and cares passionately about this issue.  Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Janja Lalich, co-author of Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships with Madeleine Tobias published by Bay Tree Publishing. Janja Lalich, Ph.D. is a researcher, author, and educator specializing in cults and extremist groups, with a focus on charismatic relationships, political and other social movements, ideology and social control, and issues of gender and sexuality. She has served as a consultant to educational, mental health, business, media and legal professionals, as well as to members, former members, and families of members of controversial groups. She is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Chico. Her recent book is Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults. Dr. Lalich has written and lectured extensively and is author, co-author, or editor of numerous books, articles, and chapters. Her most recent book is Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships. Her other books include Crazy Therapies: What Are They? Do They Work? and Cults in Our Midst both coauthered with the renowned cult expert and clinical psychologist Dr. Margaret Thaler Singer. Also Dr. Lalich was guest editor of Women Under the Influence: A Study of Women's Lives in Totalist Groups, a special issue of the Cultic Studies Journal (vol. 14,1,1997).  Dr. Lalich is the founder and director of the Center for Research on Influence & Control, a cult research and resource center. Over the years she has met with and interviewed hundreds of current and former members of groups and their families. She has also been a consultant to attorneys, mental health professionals, health professionals, educators, and the media. She is often interviewed about cult-related events. A member of the American Sociological Association, the Association for the Sociology of Religion, and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Dr. Lalich presents regularly at academic and lay conferences. She has appeared on Meet the Press, national and local news programs, talk shows, cable documentaries, as well as on radio and Internet programs, such as NPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge and Morning Edition, the BBC's Thinking Allowed, and Time/CNN Impact and Omni magazine's LiveScience online. She can be reached at 530-898-5542 or JLalich@csuchico.edu. Visit the Safe Passage Foundation website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Jonathan Black, author of  Yes You Can!: Behind the Hype and Hustle of the Motivation Biz  published by Bloomsbury USA.Jonathan Black was managing editor of Playboy for sixteen years and before that, executive editor at GQ. He is contributor to many national magazines as well as the New York Times. As a consultant, Black works with corporate clients through his business, Pulse Communications ("Media Made Smart"). He has advised on in-house communications, newsletters, even speeches. He lives in Chicago.  Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Dr. Richard McKenzie, author of The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage published by Dickens Press. Richard McKenzie is the Walter B. Gerken Professor of Enterprise and Society in the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. Professor McKenzie has written more than Twenty-five books and monographs. Professor McKenzie grew up at Barium Springs Home for Children (near Charlotte, North Carolina), an experience that led him to write The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage and that caused him to edit Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century. He is executive producer of documentary film on The Homecomings:The Forgotten World of America's Orphanages that has been selected for screenings at several film festivals around the country and that received the Best Documentary Award in the Sedona (AZ) International Film Festival in early 2005.  He is married to Karen Albers McKenzie and has four children.  Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, author of Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road Through The Twenties, published by Oxford University Press. Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is a research professor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the editor of the Journal of Adolescent Research, and of three forthcoming encyclopedias: The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Adolescence (four volumes); the Encyclopedia of Adolescence (four volumes); the Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media, and the Encylopedia of Emerging Adulthood. He has published widely on adolescence and emerging adulthood. He received his Ph.D. in developmental psychology in 1986 from the University of Virginia, and did three years of postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago.  Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. William Julius Wilson co-author of There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America written by William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub and published by Knopf. William Julius Wilson is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Education and the Institute of Medicine. He is also past President of the American Sociological Association, and is a MacArthur Prize Fellow. In 1998 he was awarded the National Medal of Science. His books include Power, Racism and Privilege (1973), The Declining Significance of Race (1978), The Truly Disadvantaged (1987), When Work Disappears (1996) and The Bridge over the Racial Divide (1999). Two new co-authored works were published in fall 2006, There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America, and Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context  Visit Dr. Wilson's website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Sarah E. Igo  author of  The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public, published by Harvard University Press. Sarah E. Igo is an assistant professor of American intellectual and cultural history at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in History from Princeton University (2001). Igo has held fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Whiting Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. She is the recent recipient of the Early Career Award from the Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences and the Forum for the History of the Human Sciences. She is currently a visiting fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale. She is currently at work on a history of modern privacy. Visit her webpage.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Dr. Nicholas DiFonzo, co-author of Rumor Psychology Social and Organizational Approaches written by Nicholas DiFonzo and Prashant Bordia, and published by the American Psychological Association.Nicholas DiFonzo earned his Ph.D. in Social & Organizational Psychology from Temple University in 1994 where he was awarded the Marianthi Georgoudi Dissertation Award for philosophical and theoretical contributions to the field of Psychology.  He is currently Professor of Psychology at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a member of numerous professional associations including the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychologists. DiFonzo currently serves as consulting editor for The Journal of Social Psychology. Dr. DiFonzo has published approximately 30 articles, book chapters, and technical reports pertaining to the topic of rumor. Dr. DiFonzo has also given approximately 30 presentations and invited addresses at academic conferences on these topics, as well as several seminars to business audiences on the topic of managing rumors. Visit his website

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Virginia Vitzthum author of I Love You, Let's Meet: Adventures In Online Dating published by Little Brown.Virginia Vitzthum has written for publications including the Village Voice, Ms., Elle, Washington City Paper and salon.com, where she was the sex columnist. She has also written a play and a screenplay. She lives alone, mostly happily, in Brooklyn, NY. I Love You, Let's Meet: Adventures in Online Dating is her first book. Visit her website

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Alice Kuzniar Ph.D, author of Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship published by University of Chicago Press.Alice  Kuzniar is a professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where she has been teaching since 1983 apart from invitations as a guest professor at Princeton University, Rutgers University, and the University of Minnesota. She received her B.A. from the University of Toronto, and her Ph.D. from Princeton.  She is the author and editor of several books and articles, including a book on the German Romantic authors Novalis and Holderlin for which she won the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Award, and a book titled, The Queer German Cinema, on gay and lesbian cinema from the 1920's to the present.She lives with her two whippets, Claire and Zephyr, and three white rabbits. The whippets don't harm the rabbits, but do not help in corralling them when they escape.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Ronald L. Mallett, author of Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality  published by the Avalon Publishing Group.Ronald L. Mallett, Ph.D. is a professor of physics at the University of Connecticut.  He received his BS in physics in 1969, MS in 1979 and Ph.D in physics in 1973, all from the Pennsylvania State University. He has published many papers on black holes and relativistic cosmology in professional journals.  His time-travel research has been featured in an hour-long TV special on the Learning Channel, "The World's First Time Machine," as well as in publications as diverse as Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Astronomy Magazine, and New Scientist.  Visit his webpage.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Jean M. Twenge, Ph.D., author of Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled, and More Miserable Then Ever Before published by Free Press.Dr. Jean M. Twenge, Ph.D, is Associate Professor of psychology at San Diego State University. She received a BA and MA from the University of Chicago in 1993 and a Ph.D. form the University of Michigan in  1998. She has published over fifty scientific articles on topics such as generational differences, the effects of social rejection, and gender roles. Her research has appeared in Time, USA Today, and The Washington Post, and she has been featured on Today and Dateline and the National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Visit her website

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. David Plotz, author of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank  published by Random House.David Plotz is deputy editor of Slate, where he has worked since it was launched in 1996. At Slate, he's been a feature writer, political columnist, media columnist, and gofer, among lots of different jobs. He has also freelanced for many magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Reader's Digest, Rolling Stone, New Republic, Washington Post, and GQ. He won an Online Journalism Award in 2002 for a Slate piece on Enron, and was an OJA finalist for the Seed series in 2001. He graduated from Harvard College in 1992 with a degree in Social Studies.He is married to Hanna Rosin, a reporter for the Washington Post. They live in Washington, D.C., with their two children.  Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Professor Stephanie Coontz, author of Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage published by Penguin.Stephanie Coontz teaches history and family studies at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and is Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families, which she chaired from 2001-2004.  She is the author of six book, including The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap and The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families .Coontz has testified about her research before the House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families in Washington, DC, and addressed audiences across America, Japan, and Europe. She has appeared on the Today Show, Oprah Winfrey, Crossfire, and NPR. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, The Observer/Guardian, The Times of London, Wall Stree Journal and many other television shows and periodicals.A former Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Coontz has also taught at Kobe University in Japan and the University of Hawaii at Hilo. The Council on Contemporary Families first-ever "Visionary Leadership" Award in 2004 is among the many awards she has received. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Tamara Draut, M.P.A, author of Strapped: Why Americas' 20- and 30- Somethings Can't Get Ahead (Doubleday, 2006)Tamara Draut is the Director of the Economic Opportunity Program at DEMOS, a public policy center based in New York City. At DEMOS, Tarmara oversees DEMO research, policy and advocacy work on issues related to economic security and mobility.Tamara's research focuses on the growing debt burdens facing low-and middle-income households,and more broadly, the challenges confronting households trying to work or educate their way into the middle class. She has conducted groundbreaking research on household debt, serving as the principal investigator of a national survey of indebted households.Tamara's research has been covered extensively by dozens of newspapers and magazines including the New York Times, Washington Post, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. Her writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and The Boston Review.  She is a frequent television commentator and has appeared on the Today Show, ABC World News Tonight, CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight and Fox News. Tamara holds an M.P.A. from Columbia University and a B.S.J. from Ohio University. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Janet Golden, author of Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome published by Harvard University Press.  Janet Golden, PhD. is a professor of history at Rutgers University where she specializes in the history of medicine, history of childhood, women's history and American social history. She is the author or editor of seven books, and author or co-author of numerous articles. Her most recent books are Message In A Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Children  published by Harvard University Press 2006,and Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health  co-edited with Richard Meckel and Heather Munro Prescott, Greenwood Press, 2004. Dr. Golden is a recipient of many grants and fellowships including those awarded by the National Institutes of Health, The National Endowment for the Humanities, the Commonwealth Fund, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.  She is currently writing, with Professor Lynn Weiner, a history of babies in twentieth century America. Visit her webpage.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Luis J. Rodriguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.The son of Mexican immigrants, Luis J. Rodriquez began writing in his early teens and has won national recognition as a poet, journalist, fiction writer, children's book writer, and critic. Currently working as a peacemaker among gangs on a national and international level, Rodriguez helped create Tia Chucha's Cafe and Centro Cultural, a multiarts, multimedia cultural center in the Northeast San Fernando Valley in California.  Visit his website and blog.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychourney, interviews Professor Brooke Kroeger, author of Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are.Brooke Kroeger has worked in every print medium. At Newsday, she served as UN Correspondent and as a deputy metropolitan editor for New York Newsday. This followed an eight-year stint overseas in the Scripps Howard of United Press International with postings in Brussels, London and Tel Aviv. She was Tel Aviv bureau chief for three years before returning to London to serve as the agency's chief editor for Europe, The Middle East and Africa. She started with the wire service in its Chicago bureau, and over the course of four years, wrote about everything from local and state politics to sports. She is currently professor and chair of the Journalism Department at New York University.Over the years, her freelanced work has appeared in numerous women's magazines as well as the New York Times, Newsday, Prologue, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.  Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Rene Denfeld, author of All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families published by Public Affairs. Rene Denfeld was raised by a single mother of five in a racially mixed family in Portland, Oregon. Her articles on feminism sparked debate and led to her first book contract at the age of twenty-two. That book, The New Victorians, was an international bestseller. She has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times Magazine, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Rene has made many media appearances, from Good Morning America to CNN. She lives in Porland, Oregon, with her partner and their three children. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney  interviews Mr. Alex Beam, author of Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital Journalist Alex Beam worked at Newsweek and Business Week before joining the Boston Globe. His award-winning twice weekly column for the Globe has appeared since 1987.  In addition to his journalistic work, Beam is the author of two novels about Russia, Fellow Travelers, (1987) and The Americans Are Coming, (1991), both published by St. Martin Press.  He has also written for the Atlantic Monthly, Slate, and Forbes. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with his wife and three sons.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Tom Shactman, MFA, author of Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish Tom Shachtman is an author, filmaker and educator. He has written or co-authored more then two dozen books, as well as television documentaries, magazine articles, and stage dramas, and has taught at major universities. He has written articles for the New York Times, Newsday, and environmental monthlies, and currently writes a regular column, "The Long View" for the Lakeville Journal. (CT) He taught writing for fifteen years at New York University's  School of the Arts and for five years at Harvard's Extension School; he holds a B.S. in psychology and M.F.A. in theater, and has lectured at many colleges and universities.  Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Sonia Shah,author of Body Hunters: How the Drug Industry Tests Its Products On the World's Poorest Patients Sonia Shah is an independent journalist and author of  Body Hunters and Crude: The Story of Oil.  Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Orion, The Nation, and elsewhere. She lives in Boston. Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Mr. Victor Rivers author of  A Private Family Matter:A MemoirIn 1978, the Miami Herald dubbed Victor Rivas (AKA Victor Rivers) "The Longest Long Shot" when he became the first Cuban American to be out for two seasons with the Miami Dolphins. He had defied the odds by surviving a violent upbringing and by playing in the postion of offensive guard- usually reserved football players much larger than he was at the time.  Coming next to Hollywood in 1979, again as a long shot, he went on to attain starring roles in television, film and on stage.Today Victor Rivers is a veteran star of more than two dozen films, with a worldwide following for such memorable roles as Magic Mike, the prision gang warlord in the cult hit BLOOD IN/BLOOD OUt and as Joaquin Murrietta, Antonio Bandera's ill-fated brother in THE MASK OF ZORRO.In 1999 Victor became the national spokesperson for the National Network to End Domestic Violence.  Today having broken the cycle of violence, Victor Rivas Rivers is also a devoted husband and father- what he believes are his two most important roles.  Visit his website.  Watch a video receiving the 21 Leaders for the 21st Century Award.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Judith Rich Harris, M.A., author  of No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality published by Norton. Judith Rich Harris is an independent investigator. Her previous book, The Nurture Assumption, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.Judith Rich Harris graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis in 1959 and was awarded the Lila Pearlman Prize in psychology. In 1961 she received a master's degree in psychology from Harvard University. Harris has also written college textbooks, articles for leading scientific journals, and shorter pieces for publications such as the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe.  Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Mr.Tom Rath,  author of Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live WithoutTom Rath is co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller How Full Is Your Bucket? -- a book that draws on decades of research to explore the differences between leading an enthusiastic life and a miserable one.Rath has been with the Gallup Organization for 12 years and currently leads Gallup's workplace and leadership consulting worldwide.  He also serves on the board of VHL.org, an organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.Rath earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Michigan.  He is currently pursuing graduate degrees at John Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Washington, D.C.  Visit his website.Share your comments about the book and interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club blog.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Gene Cheek,  author of The Color of Love: A Mother's Choice in the Jim Crow SouthGene Cheek describes himself as a blue-collar son of the South.  He was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolin on March 2, 1951. He spent the first twelve years of his life living in various parts of Winston-Salem. He presently lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dave Marcus, author of What It Takes Me Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get In Trouble And How Four Of Them Got OutDave Marcus has had an eclectic career that has taken him from dodging mortar fire in Africa to teaching Huckelberry Finn in a classroom in rural Massachusetts. Marcus shared a Pulitzer Prize, spend a year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, and worked as a high school teacher before publishing a book about American teenagers.For his work on a series about violence about women around the world, Marcus shared the top honor in journalism, the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.  Earlier, he was part of a team of finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism, for a series called "Hidden Wars."  Visit his website. Share your thoughts about the book and interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club blog.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Bella DePaulo, PhD, author of Singled Out: How Singles are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After Bella DePaulo, PhD, is a social psychologist who did her graduate work at Harvard.  She is currently a visiting professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara.  DePaulo is single and living happily ever after in Summerland, CA.  Visit her website at www.belladepaulo.com Share your thoughts on the book and interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club Blog.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Dr. Leigh Baker, author of Protecting Your Children From Sexual Predators Leigh M. Baker, PhD., psychologist, consultant, expert witness and author, has specialized in the treatment of traumatized individuals, children and their families for twenty years.  She is an expert in the area of sexual abuse and the evaluation and treatment of very young children, under the age of five.  She has written numerous articles and published three books on the topic of child sexual abuse.  Visit Dr. Baker's website. Share your comments on the book and the interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club blog.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Mr. Pete Earley, author of Crazy: A Father's Search Through  America's Mental Health Madness. Pete Earley, a former reporter for The Washington Post, is the author of seven works of nonfiction. According to the Washingtonian magazine, he is one of ten journalist/authors in America "who have the power to introduce new ideas and give them currency." Earley is also the author of two novels. Visit his website www.peteearley.com Visit Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider's" new website, The Insider's Guide To Law and Ethics In Mental Health.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Kevin O'Keefe, author of The Average American: The Extraordinary Search For The Nation's Most Ordinary CitizenKevin O'Keefe has held several high-profile management posts in the professional sports industry and has served as media and marketing consultant for more than a dozen Fortune 500 companies.  A respected magazine reporter, he now runs his own marketing consulting firm. O'Keefe lives in New York City with  his wife Kathy.  Visit his website  The Average AmericanShare your comments on the book and interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club blog.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney  interviews Maggie Mahar,  author of  Money Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So MuchBefore becoming a financial journalist, Maggie Mahar was an English professor at Yale University, teaching 19th and 20th century poetry and prose. In 1982, she began covering financial markets, freelancing for Money magazine, Institutional Investor, and the New York Times, before joining Barron's as a senior writer in 1986.  Share your comments about the book and interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club Blog.

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