On this episode of the Psychology Talk Podcast, we have the pleasure of speaking, once again, with Dr. Michael Alcée, a clinical psychologist based in Tarrytown, New York. Michael is not only a mental health educator at the Manhattan School of Music but also an award-winning author. His innovative work marries the worlds of psychology and creativity, offering fresh insights into the human condition. His acclaimed book, Therapeutic Improvisation: How to Stop Winging It and Own It as a Therapist, highlights his unique approach to therapy and personal growth. Join us as we explore Michael’s groundbreaking perspectives on OCD and the hidden strengths that lie within. His new book is entitled Upside of OCD: Flip the Script to Reclaim Your Life.Dr. Hoye & Dr. Alcée cover the creative side of OCD and dive into the heart of what makes OCD "tick."  Discover how to meet OCD in a new light, combining the older, more mechanistic models of treatment, such as CBT and exposure therapy, with the emotional side of the disorder.  They unravel OCD's paradoxes and find the gems hiden in plain sight.  This epsiode should add more insight, and quite possibly flip your OCD script. Dr. Alcée's website The Book: The Upside of OCD: Flip the Script to Reclaim Your LifeThe Psychology Talk Podcast is a unique conversation about psychology around the globe. Your host Dr. Scott Hoye discusses psychology and mental health trends with practitioners and experts to keep you informed about issues and trends in the industry. Dr. Hoye is a clinical psychologist and the director of Chicago Psychology Services, in Chicago, IL., USA.https://psych-talk.comhttps://www.instagram.com/psychtalkpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/psychtalkpodcasthttps://chicagopsychservices.com   Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/psychology-talk-podcast--3571902/support.

Our guest on this episode of the Psychology Talk Podcast is Dr. Karyne Messina. Dr. Messina is a psychologist and child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst. In addition to maintaining a full-time private practice in Chevy Chase, Maryland, she is on the medical staff of Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland which is part of Johns Hopkins Medicine. She is a podcast host for the New Books Network and chair of the Department of Psychoanalytic Education’s (DPE) Scholarship and Writing section which is part of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA). Dr. Messina speaks about her new book, The Power of Community: a 45 Day Plane to Stop Trump from Turning our Democracy into his Autocracy. Dr. Hoye and Dr. Messina cover a range of topics about the importance of bolstering our democracy and its systems in face of the “stress test” it has been facing.  Topics include ways to build community and increase democratic principles in the US, the dangers the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 can hold for our country if fully implemented, and psychoanalytic principles that play out in the political field. Purchase the book: The Power of Community: a 45 Day Plane to Stop Trump from Turning our Democracy into his Autocracy Dr. Messina’s Website Dr. Messina's article on Project 2025. The Psychology Talk Podcast is a unique conversation about psychology around the globe. Your host Dr. Scott Hoye discusses psychology and mental health trends with practitioners and experts to keep you informed about issues and trends in the industry. Dr. Hoye is a clinical psychologist and the director of Chicago Psychology Services, in Chicago, IL., USA.https://psych-talk.comhttps://www.instagram.com/psychtalkpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/psychtalkpodcasthttps://chicagopsychservices.com   Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/psychology-talk-podcast--3571902/support.

Our guest this episode is Dr. Karyne Messina. Dr. Messina is a psychologist and child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst. In addition to maintaining a full-time private practice in Chevy Chase, Maryland, she is on the medical staff of Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland which is part of Johns Hopkins Medicine. She is a podcast host for the New Books Network and chair of the Department of Psychoanalytic Education’s (DPE) Scholarship and Writing section which is part of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA).Today she discusses her new book, Barbie & the great American Identity Crisis.Taking her viewing of the recent Greta Gerwig film Barbie, Dr. Messina takes the reader on a journey, reflecting on how Barbie as a phenomenon has shaped the American social fabric.  She covers such topics as:    --The implications of Barbie for feminism     --Social and gender roles    --What Barbie might experience through a course of psychoanalysis     --The effects of Racism & Patriarchy on the course of environmental issues·     --The global consequences of all of the aboveJoin us for an engaging conversation to learn about the development of this doll and it’s implications and effects on society at large.    The Psychology Talk Podcast is a unique conversation about psychology around the globe. Your host Dr. Scott Hoye discusses psychology and mental health trends with practitioners and experts to keep you informed about issues and trends in the industry. Dr. Hoye is a clinical psychologist and the director of Chicago Psychology Services, in Chicago, IL., USA.https://psych-talk.comhttps://www.instagram.com/psychtalkpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/psychtalkpodcasthttps://chicagopsychservices.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/psychology-talk-podcast--3571902/support.

How does a life unfold? Is it a continuous, linear story, or a more circuitous experience? In this interview, we speak with Dr. Stanly Krippner. Dr. Krippner is a pioneer and author in the fields of developmental psychology, parapsychology, trauma and PTSD, and has pioneered work in cross-cultural studies with indigenous healers from around the globe. He has held faculty positions at Saybrook University and is currently faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies.Dr. Krippner joins us to discuss his autobiography, A Chaotic Life: the Menoirs of Dr. Stanley Krippner. This 3-volume set is published by the University Professors Press. In it, Dr. Krippner elucidates the fractal like quality hiis life spurred on by encounters with cultural luminaries, such asMicky Hart from the Grateful DeadAlan WattsMartin Luther KingNative American Medicine Man Rolling ThunderAlbert EllisDr. Krippner also sheds light on the people behind the scenes who had made such meetings possible. We discuss these encounters in this interview, his long career and research, as well as his process of writing his memoir about these fractal events that changed the course of his life in so many ways. Links: Dr. Krippner's website The book: A Chaotic Life The Psychology Talk Podcast is a unique conversation about psychology around the globe. Your host Dr. Scott Hoye discusses psychology and mental health trends with practitioners and experts to keep you informed about issues and trends in the industry. Dr. Hoye is a clinical psychologist and the director of Chicago Psychology Services, in Chicago, IL., USA.https://psych-talk.comhttps://www.instagram.com/psychtalkpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/psychtalkpodcasthttps://chicagopsychservices.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/psychology-talk-podcast--3571902/support.

On this episode of the Psychology Talk Podcast, Richard Dixey joins Dr. Hoye. Richard is a senior faculty member at Dharma College in Berkeley, California. He’s a research scientist and a lifelong student of Buddhism who holds advanced degrees in biophysics and the history and philosophy of science. Dixey directed a bioelectronic research unit at a London hospital before becoming CEO of his own biotech company. He moved to the US in 2007 to devote himself to teaching meditation, deepening his own practice, and running the Light of Buddhadharma Foundation in India with his wife Wangmo.Richard discusses his new book which is really like a pocket meditation guide or mentor, Three Minutes a Day: A Fourteen-Week Course to Learn Meditation and Transform Your Life.Three Minutes a Day BookRichard Dixey's WebsiteThe Psychology Talk Podcast is a unique conversation about psychology around the globe. Your host Dr. Scott Hoye discusses psychology and mental health trends with practitioners and experts to keep you informed about issues and trends in the industry. Dr. Hoye is a clinical psychologist and the director of Chicago Psychology Services, in Chicago, IL., USA.https://psych-talk.comhttps://www.instagram.com/psychtalkpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/psychtalkpodcasthttps://chicagopsychservices.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/psychology-talk-podcast--3571902/support.

On this episode of the Psychology Talk Podcast, Dr. Hoye speaks with Soo Jin Lee, LMFT and Linda Yoon, LCSW. They are licensed therapists who have drawn on their firsthand knowledge of how mental health issues often went unaddressed not only in their own immigrant families, but in Asian and Asian American communities. They are co-directors of Yellow Chair Collective. They provide therapy to clients of diverse backgrounds with an emphasis on serving the Asian American community.Diversity and inclusion are at the heart of their practice, and they’ve successfully created a safe, affirming space that allows individuals to dig deep into all the pieces that make them who they are.They discuss their new book, WHERE I BELONG, which was created to help heal and to dismantle the pervasive stigma aroundhttps://yellowchaircollective.com seeking help, particularly in the Asian community.Where I Belong includes therapeutic tools, journal prompts, and grounding exercises to empower readers to identify their strengths and resilience across generations. validates the experiences of Asian and Asian Americans and helps them understand how they fit into the broader context of family history and the trauma experienced by previous generations.Their Book:Where I BelongTheir Practice: https://yellowchaircollective.comCAATCH - Community of Asian American Therapists in Chicagolandhttps://www.caatch.info/The Psychology Talk Podcast is a unique conversation about psychology around the globe. Your host Dr. Scott Hoye discusses psychology and mental health trends with practitioners and experts to keep you informed about issues and trends in the industry. Dr. Hoye is a clinical psychologist and the director of Chicago Psychology Services, in Chicago, IL., USA.https://psych-talk.comhttps://www.instagram.com/psychtalkpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/psychtalkpodcasthttps://chicagopsychservices.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/psychology-talk-podcast--3571902/support.

Have you ever wondered just what makes the creative act special? Is it a confluence of events and timing, or is it a special state, a trance state, that is demarcated from ordinary time? This episode of the Psychology Talk Podcast takes a deep dive conversation on the creative trance and the trickster. Dr. Tobi Zausner is a research psychologist, a clinician in private practice, and an award-winning visual artist with works in major museums and in private collections around the world. Dr. Zausner writes and lectures widely on psychology and human potential at academic conferences and charitable events, as well as teaching in graduate programs. Dr. Krippner has published numerous papers, book chapters and books. He is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He has lectured and published widely on human potential, parapsychology and transpersonal psychology, indigenous healing, and humanistic psychology. Dr. Zausner is the author of the new book, The Creative Trance. Dr. Krippner is the author of a paper entitled, Trance & the Trickster. He also has an upcoming autobiography entitled, A Chaotic Life. There is a hegemony of waking consciousness in the western mindset that has eclipsed the natural inner landscape of revery and imagination that we still bump up against with indigenous cultures, and that the arts. The Creative Trance & the Trickster work outside the bounds of “normal time and space” and bring us all back to our roots in the as creatures rooted in the earth and capable of imaginal life.https://www.tobizausner.com/index.htmlThe Creative Trancehttps://stanleykrippner.weebly.comTrance & the TricksterThe Psychology Talk Podcast is a unique conversation about psychology around the globe. Your host Dr. Scott Hoye discusses psychology and mental health trends with practitioners and experts to keep you informed about issues and trends in the industry. Dr. Hoye is a clinical psychologist and the director of Chicago Psychology Services, in Chicago, IL., USA.https://psych-talk.comhttps://www.instagram.com/psychtalkpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/psychtalkpodcasthttps://chicagopsychservices.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/psychology-talk-podcast--3571902/support.

Dr. Karyne Messina, a clinical psychologist, discusses the concept of projective identification and blame shifting in relationships. Her book, 'It’s Not Me, It’s You!' guides readers on how to recognize narcissistic manipulation and protect themselves. The podcast explores the dynamics of blame shifting in narcissistic behavior, the prevalence of human trafficking, therapy's role in social dynamics, and strategies to counter narcissistic manipulation.

On this episode of the psychology Talk Podcast, our guest Dr. Brent Willock takes us on an unprecedented rollercoaster as he discusses his latest book, "The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius."Brent Willock earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan. After several years on staff in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical Center, he relocated to Toronto to become Chief Psychologist at the university-affiliated C.M. Hincks Treatment Center. He was Adjunct Faculty, York University, Associate Faculty Member, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, and taught at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.Prepare to be captivated by a narrative that unravels the complexities of the human mind, law, and justice. With Dr. Willock's expert, psychological analysis, we navigate the intricacies of this gripping story that challenges our understanding of guilt, innocence, sleep, and the capacity of the human mind for dissociation. Dr. Willock explores the Pistorius case through the eyes of neuroscience and psychology. He also provides case law example from the Parks case in Canada from the 1980s, a similar murder trial. This episode, laike his book, is likely to be controversial, but also extremely informative regarding the issues at hand in the Pistorius case, and gives credence to an alternative perspective.Dr. Willock also covers somnambulism and how it plays out over the lifespan, parasomnias, and sleep terrors. This discussion may lead you to question cultural assumptions about waking life and the idea that we are a singularity and in control of our fullness of selves.The Psychology Talk Podcast is a unique conversation about psychology around the globe. Your host Dr. Scott Hoye discusses psychology and mental health trends with practitioners and experts to keep you informed about issues and trends in the industry. Dr. Hoye is a clinical psychologist and the director of Chicago Psychology Services, in Chicago, IL., USA.https://psych-talk.comhttps://www.instagram.com/psychtalkpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/psychtalkpodcasthttps://chicagopsychservices.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/psychology-talk-podcast--3571902/support.