Mental health and film composers
Today we talk with film composers Caitlin Yeo and Craig Morgan who are making positive changes for the health and wellbeing of their fellow composers. The statistics demonstrate that this sort of freelance creative work is filled with high level stressors and this is...
Pivot Toward What Matters in Your life with Steven C. Hayes
Wow! I’ve come away from my conversation with Dr. Steven Hayes regarding him as both a Rock Star and Senior Statesman in our field. His new book, A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters is not so much a manual for therapists as a self-help book for...
Integrative psychotherapy with Fabio Sinibaldi
Fabio Sinibaldi, MBPsS (Neuropsych. Div. & Psychobiol. Sect.), PsyD is an expert in Applied Neurosciences and PsychoNeuroEndocrineImmunology, Fabio combines these sciences with an evolutionary and ethological vision of mankind. With an international career...
SoP September 2019
The Science of Psychotherapy September 2019 September is one of my favorite months....
Ernest and Kathryn Rossi
Earnest and Kathryn Rossi are not ones to stop learning and discovering new things. We catch up with them this week to find out what's currently on their minds! In the interview Earnest mentions the cortical homonculus and you can find that here ...
Professor Geoffrey Goodhill and basic research on neural function
Matt and Richard talk to Prof Goodhill from the Queensland Brain Institute and his work with Zebra Fish and mapping the brains of these fish and learning how neural networks develop. Professor Goodhill's lab, which Matt was lucky enough to see first hand, is looking...
Courtney Armstrong and memory reconsolidation
COURTNEY ARMSTRONG, MEd. LPC, is a licensed professional counselor and Nationally Board Certified Fellow in Clinical Hypnotherapy who specializes in grief and trauma recovery. With a career spanning more than two decades, she is the founder of the Institute for Trauma...
Live Each Day with Best-Selling Author Jim McCarthy
I’m struck by the fact that Jim McCarthy’s happiness workshops and his 2019 book, Live Each Day: A Surprisingly Simple Guide to Happiness, lean so heavily on our mortality. I think many people might initially be shocked to discover that the happiness workshop they...
Couple Rescue Skill-Builder (free resource)
COUPLE RESCUE SKILL-BUILDER Communication Skills for Restoring and Maintaining Togetherness Robin Ticic and Bruce Ecker are offering a free, short, powerful self-help handbook for couples that concisely guides development of mindfulness, mutual respect and loving...
Predicting Suicide with Artificial Intelligence
The lead article in APA’s July 2019 issue of the Monitor on Psychology is titled “Better Ways to Prevent Suicide.” It’s the first article in a series titled “More Impact Together,” which will highlight the interdependent ways in which psychologists work together to...
Education and the brain
Richard Hill, Matthew Dahlitz, chat with educator Karen Ferry and International Association of Applied Neuroscience Secretary Jonathan Wills about education and the brain. In this episode Jonathan mentions this video below: You can find Karen's book The Teachers Guide...
Paul Kraus Interview on Trauma-Informed Counseling
I am so impressed by Licensed Professional Counselor Paul Krauss, M.A. He’s a relatively young 37 years old and yet, he has sought out an incredible amount of post-master’s clinical experience and training. I’m particularly impressed by his creation of the The...
SoP August 2019
The Science of Psychotherapy August 2019 August has always felt like a transitional month. In...
Brain Grow with Dr David Collins
This week we talk to psychologist Dr. David Collins who has a great program for schools called BrainGrow (you can find it at http://braingrow.com.au/). We talk about how Dr. Collins is using an understanding of neuroscience to help children in their social, emotional...
AEDP with Diana Fosha and Marion Swetenham
Today we talk with Diana Fosha, PhD, who is the developer of AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), a healing-based, transformation-oriented model of psychotherapeutic treatment. We also talk with Marion Swetenham who owns the Mindful Directions...
Marketing with Nick Tadic
We have spent years learning about human behavior, developing our counseling skills, getting the right qualifications and registrations, but we don't always learn that much about business. And if you are in private practice you are a business owner! One of the really...
Marketing Tips With Nick Tadic
The Science of Psychotherapy has a partner digital media specialist, and his name is Nick Tadic. Not only is he a super nice guy, but he knows a lot about digital marketing and is helping us, and hopefully will help you, in our digital marketing efforts. So to this...
The Parent-Child Neuropsychotherapy Protocol™
A Relational and Developmental Neurogenomics Approach To Working With Youth and Their FamiliesPart 1 Members PDF Download Members Text Only Introduction The Parent-Child Neuropsychotherapy Protocol™ (the protocol) (Dahlitz & Hill, 2019a, 2019b) provides a...
The Globalization of Psychotherapy and Associated Research
Neuroscience is one of the most exhausting areas in research and one of the most complicated and difficult to understand. The complexity of the human brain, how it is structured and how this structure and function is reflected on our behavior, personality and choices...
Researchers Discover a Brain Circuit That Might Be Targeted to Treat Eating Disorders
-AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORDS-START--AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORDS-END- Appetite and eating may seem pretty straightforward—we eat when we are hungry—but the story of how our appetite is regulated is a complicated one, involving many different signaling molecules distributed in...
Shrink Rap Radio #649: Working with Attachment and Trauma with Daniel Brown
https://youtu.be/lZcb_yVyflE Today’s interview with Dr. Daniel Brown PhD on understanding and treating attachment disorders was nothing short of amazing. Actually, it’s Dan Brown, himself, who strikes me as a sort of superman in terms of all that he’s accomplished. No...
Consciousness, Integration & Individuation Through Active Imagination
Members PDF Download Members Text Only Members Audio Not a subscriber? Several years have passed since the split brain studies conducted by Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga (1962). We know the brain is differentiated, and that the two hemispheres specialize in the...
Evidence Links Abnormally Formed Proteins With Schizophrenia Pathology in Some Patients
Abnormally formed proteins may be involved in the pathology that causes schizophrenia in a subset of patients, new research suggests.
SoP 39: Trauma, Therapy, and Natural Lifemanship
This week Richard and Matt talk to Tim Jobe and Bettina Shultz-Jobe from Natural Lifemanship - an equine-assisted psychotherapy practice in Texas that's helping people and horses together recover and thrive. Tim Jobe, BS has witnessed powerful transformations and...