Shrink Rap Radio Psychology Interviews: Exploring brain, body, mind, spirit, intuition, leadership, research, psychotherapy and more!

Shaili Jain, M.D. is a Bristish born American Physician of Indian ancestry. She is a psychiatrist and PTSD specialist and currently serves as the Medical Director for Integrated Care at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System. She is a trauma scientist affiliated with the National Center for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, a consortium which is widely regarded as the world's leading center of excellence on PTSD, and a Clinical Associate Professor affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Jain’s work is widely accredited for elucidating the role of paraprofessionals and peers in the treatment of American veterans with PTSD. Her work has been published in some of the most prestigious medical journals, such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, Psychiatric Services and the Journal of Traumatic Stress, in addition to being featured in national publications such as The New York Times. Her medical essays and commentary have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Psychology Today, Kevin MD, STAT, public radio and elsewhere.

Dr. Ciarán Mc Mahon is an award-winning a historian and philosopher of psychology, living in Dublin, Ireland. A former Government of Ireland Scholar, he has published on the theoretical history of psychological language, digital wellness, organised cybercrime, and the psychology of social media. He is an occasional lecturer at the School of Psychology, University College Dublin and a regular tweeter at @cjamcmahon.

Shira Gura is a master S.T.U.C.K. coach and trainer. She is the creator of The S.T.U.C.K. Method®, author of the book Getting unSTUCK: Five Simple Steps to Emotional Well-Being (winner of the 2017 International Book Award in self-help), and host of the Getting Unstuck podcast. Trained in occupational therapy, psychology, and yoga, Shira is passionate about meeting people around the world via her courses, workshops and retreats, and guiding them to get unstuck in their lives and in their relationships.

Mark B. Constantian, MD, FACS has lived and practiced in the Nashua, New Hampshire area as a plastic surgeon since 1978. He is a native of Massachusetts where his father and great-grandfather practiced medicine. Dr. Constantian is a graduate of Columbia College, and received his Bachelor of Medical Sciences degree from Dartmouth Medical School and his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He completed his general surgical training at the University of Virginia Hospital and Boston University Medical Center, his plastic surgery training at the Medical College of Virginia, and was certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery in 1979.Dr. Constantian teaches regularly at regional, national, and international plastic surgery meetings, is Past President of the New England Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, The Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons and The Rhinoplasty Society, a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and has been an Associate Editor of the International journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He is Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery (Plastic Surgery) at the University of Wisconsin Medical Center.

Dr.Graeme Moffat has two decades of experience in neurotechnology, neuroscience, digital health, brain health, medical physics, scholarly publishing, medical devices, and data science. He has helped established collaborations using Muse® technology in hundreds of brain research labs and institutes around the world and has presented Muse®’s scientific and educational work at international research meetings including the Society for Neuroscience and Advances in Meditation Research. Prior to joining Muse®, Graeme served as Chief Scientist with Meta (now Chan-Zuckerberg Meta), as Managing Editor of Frontiers in Neuroscience while it grew to become the largest open access scholarly journal series in the field, and as a research engineer on cochlear implants with Oticon Medical and the Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique in France. He holds a BSc in physics from McMaster University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Université Aix-Marseille.

Michael Gellert is a Jungian analyst practicing in Los Angeles and Pasadena. He sees individuals and couples, and offers a Jungian Writing Workshop. He was formerly Director of Training at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and a humanities professor at Vanier College, Montreal. He managed an employee assistance program for the City of New York and has been a mental health consultant for the University of Southern California and Time magazine. Michael was educated in rabbinic Judaism, studied theology at Loyola College, Montreal, and trained with the renowned Zen master Koun Yamada in Japan for two years. He is the author of Modern Mysticism, The Fate of America (for which he received a letter of appreciation from Bill Clinton and which was given to Barack Obama by one of his advisors), and The Way of the Small (which received The Center for Spirituality & Practice’s Book Award for One of the Best Spiritual Books of 2007). His new book is The Divine Mind: Exploring the Psychological History of God’s Inner Journey. Michael’s website is michaelgellert.com.

Ricky Greenwald, PsyD, is the founder and executive director of the Trauma Institute & Child Trauma Institute, affiliate professor at the SUNY University at Buffalo School of Social Work, and a fellow of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Greenwald is the author of numerous professional articles as well as several books, including EMDR in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy (1999), Trauma and Juvenile Delinquency (editor; 2002), Child Trauma Handbook (2005), EMDR Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment (2007), Treating Problem Behaviors (2009), and Progressive Counting (2013). His work has been translated into over a dozen languages. Dr. Greenwald is a leading expert in EMDR, the developer of PC, and a pioneer in intensive trauma-focused psychotherapy.

Jared Cooney Horvath PhD, MEd, is a neuroscientist and educator with expertise in human learning, memory, and brain stimulation. He has conducted research and lectured at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, the University of Melbourne and over 50 international schools. Jared currently serves as director of the Science of Learning Group and NeuroEducation, two teams dedicated to bringing the latest in brain and behavioural research to education and business alike. His work has been featured in numerous popular publications. The title of his 2019 book is Stop Talking, Start Influencing: 12 Insights From Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick. Search for his 2018 TEDx presentation titled, “Your Brain, Your life” on Youtube.com.

Melissa Glaser is a licensed professional counselor who’s been providing clinical psychotherapy services for the past 28 years. While maintaining a private practice, Melissa has held an array of positions in the field of psychology including several clinical leadership positions in non-profit organizations and stints in an urban hospital emergency room and an urban city school-based health center. She took a leave from her work as the Director of Behavioral Health for Catholic Charities to serve on the Newtown Recovery and Resiliency Team. She is also the author of the 2018 book, Healing a Community: Lessons for Recovery after a Large-Scale Trauma.

Kristin Smedley is an award-winning non-profit leader, TEDx speaker, and author - ­ but she never planned on any of that. Kristin did plan to be a teacher and impact thousands of children, but then a rare disease happened. Two of her three children were diagnosed as blind. She had to learn the tools of blindness and build a team of experts that would help her navigate this path that she had not been trained for. Kristin’s two blind sons are now thriving as gifted high school and college students, elected student council officials, baseball championship winners, International Braille competition finalists, and social butterflies. In 2011 Kristin founded the Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation, the only patient organization in the world for her sons’ blindness, CRB1 LCA/RP. Kristin has led the CRBF to raise over $1 Million, introduced the first ever legislation in the United States in Braille, and has moved rare eye diseases from rarely talked about to being discussed in key circles worldwide. Kristin was one of only twelve people in the world to testify at the FDA on behalf of the first ever gene therapy to treat blindness. In February 2019 Kristin published her first book, Thriving Blind: Stories of Success Without Sight It has already achieved #1 New Release on Amazon.

William F. Pettit Jr., M.D., is co-owner with his wife, Dr. Linda Pettit of 3 Principles Intervention LLC. Dr. Pettit has presented the Three Universal Principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought as the essence of his psychiatric practice since 1983. As of June,2017 Drs. Pettit have relocated to Phoenix Arizona. Through December of 2018, Dr. Pettit practiced tele-psychiatry two mornings a week. In addition he does 3 Principles consultations and teaching nationally and internationally. Moved by what he has witnessed in the past 35 years, Dr. Pettit is dedicating scheduled time to writing a book “Stories of Hope, One Cause, One Cure” A graduate of Creighton University, Omaha, NE and the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, Dr. Pettit completed his psychiatric residency at the Philadelphia Naval Regional Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA and Portsmouth Naval Regional Medical Center in Portsmouth VA. He is board-certified in Psychiatry, and has been previously certified in Adolescent Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine and Addiction Medicine. Pettit served as a physician in the United States Navy for over 9 years, including 3 years as a Navy Flight Surgeon and 3 years as Chief of Psychiatry of the Navy Nuclear Submarine base at Groton, Connecticut. Presently, Dr. Pettit holds appointments as Adjunct Clinical Professor at Creighton University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and as Adjunct Clinical Professor at Michigan State University School of Osteopathic Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. Formerly he served as, Adjunct Professor at Sienna Heights University and Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry at West Virginia University (WVU), where he was the Medical Director of the Sydney Banks Institute at WVU. In addition, Dr. Pettit had previously held an appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Des Moines, Iowa Osteopathic School of Medicine.  Dr. Pettit is a recognized educator in the Three Principles Understanding, and has presented at many national and international conferences and consulted to numerous clients and organizations both nationally and internationally.

Victor Yalom, PhD, is the founder, CEO and resident cartoonist of Psychotherapy.net, producers and publishers of over 300 training videos in the fields of counseling, psychotherapy, social work, and addiction treatment. He maintained a full time practice psychology practice in San Francisco for over 25 years, and currently continues to co-lead a psychotherapy group and see occasional clients. He has conducted workshops in existential-humanistic and group therapy in the US, Mexico, and China.  He has produced over 75 training videos, and continues to be inspired the many master therapists he has been privileged to work with, including existential-humanistic psychologist James Bugental, and his father Irvin Yalom.  In his spare time he enjoys painting, welding, woodwork, and most recently table-tennis (having migrated off the tennis court after developing tennis elbow). More information on Victor and his artwork is at sfpsychologist.com.

All the psychology you need to know and just enough to make you dangerous... This podcast features renowned psychologist,Dr. David Van Nuys , brining you in-depth interviews on a broad array of psychological topics including: psychotherapy, dreams, consciousness, depth psychology, business psychology, developmental psychology, mind/body psychology, personal growth, psychology and art, research psychology, social issues, and spirituality. The roster of world-class guests includes: Philip Zimbardo, Charles Tart, Irvin Yalom, Jonathan Haidt, Sara Lazar, Robert Altemeyer, Stanley Krippner, Arnold Mindell, Dacher Keltner, Michael Meade, and David Barlow among others.

Chi's Bio For most of my life, I battled addiction, depression, and low self-esteem. In my 20’s, I spent a total of 16 months in silent retreat, including a month in darkness. I went to Burma twice to take temporary monastic vows and practice with the monks. I tried really hard to heal myself. Still, I was unfulfilled. I lacked discipline and was unable to keep up a practice on my own. I constantly fell back into patterns of misery.I was desperate. In my longing for happiness, I finally took the plunge into my first psychedelic experience with five tabs of LSD (the recommended starting dose is ~1 tab). Wow! What a shock to my psyche. For a long time, I thought psychedelics were “dangerous” and “bad.” I wrote them off as drugs for immature people. Now, I realized I’d been told a lie all along. As Terrence McKenna says, “psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.” Soon after my LSD journey, I had my first experience with magic mushrooms, and my life has been transformed ever since. I’m honored to be called by the mushroom to serve as a humble messenger for the psilocybin vision of love, interconnectedness, and peace. I am happy to be able to serve those who are called to experience the magic. My job is to listen, hold space, practice patience, and love. Leti’s Bio When I was 9, I took my mom’s side in her bitter divorce with my dad. I cut off contact with him, “the bad guy,” and didn’t see or speak with my dad for 25 years. While living with my mom, I was driven by fear of not being the perfect daughter. I didn’t want to cause my mom worry so I created a mental checklist for myself — be quiet (invisible when possible), study hard, go to college, get a good job, and get a steady boyfriend. I accomplished these things, but still felt incomplete. After college, I worked 16 years at a big organic cosmetics company trying to fit into the corporate world. My desires to be seen as a perfect daughter manifested themselves in my relationships with my bosses and co-workers. I became successful and started making a lot of money, but I knew the corporate world would never fulfill me. After realizing how much joy yoga and meditation brought in my life, I finally mustered up the courage to leave my high-paying job and started diving deeper into my practice. When I had my first psilocybin journey in Thailand, I felt I had discovered a miracle. The more journeys I have and the more people I guide through their own experiences, the more my heart opens to the beautiful and sad mystery of life. Magic truffles have helped me connect with mother earth and higher consciousness. They’ve helped me work through deep traumas. In my mind truffles are the healers and I am just their humble servant. My life is dedicated to creating safe, caring, and loving environments so people can experience the healing powers of magic psilocybin truffles.

Steve Curtis is an investor, entrepreneur, adventurer and revolutionary thought leader. Raised by a low-income single mother, Steve started his first business at 19 with a $500 credit card and grew it into a business with a half-billion dollar valuation before he sold it. Today, he leads a group of globally-impactful companies and non-profits spanning natural pharmaceuticals, consumer package goods, film, hospitality, technology and venture capital. Steve’s career trajectory changed radically at age 24 when he was diagnosed with a terminal cancer for which there was no cure and only 2 years left to live. Steve hired an MD, built a research team and traveled the world to develop a cure. From researchers at global expert centers like Yale and Stanford to healers and shamans in far-off jungles, he sought to cure the incurable. Learning he couldn’t make a drug fast enough, he followed the trail of “spontaneous remission," setting the prognosis-defying goal of summiting Everest instead. Five years later, he had done both. Healing without the use of any modern medicine, he was left with unquestionable truth and a vision for changing medicine globally. Steve channeled his passion into writing a book to teach his insights, creating a foundation to advance research in healing, and developing a number of businesses that all center around creating the state of awareness that allowed him to heal. Steve has become an influential thought leader in international politics and has influenced the lives of millions of people through the products he has created. His venture capital business is advancing new perspectives in science, medicine and technology with investments in AI, quantified self, VR, AR, spiritual science, block-chain, and psychedelic medicine.