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Shrink Rap Radio – Laughter As Medicine

We’ve all heard that laughter is the best medicine. If you’re old enough you may recall Norman Cousins 1979 book, Anatomy of An Illness . Norman Cousins was the editor of the Saturday Review magazine and he had come down with a serious, life threatening disease and he decided to treat himself using laughter. I seem to recall that he checked himself out of the hospital and into a hotel room where he watched old Marx Brothers movies and Laurel and Hardy comedies. In other words, he watched videos ...

Sep 19, 2011•34 min

Shrink Rap Radio – Unlock Your Psychological Wealth

Are you as wealthy as you’d like to be? Probably the first thing that comes to mind in response to that question is your bank account, stock portfolio, or real estate holdings. Seems like you can never have too much money, let alone enough. Yet, all the great spiritual traditions emphasize inner wealth over material wealth. In fact, some spiritual traditions even suggest that material wealth may be an obstacle. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS So there are definitely other...

Sep 05, 2011•32 min

Shrink Rap Radio – The Secret Lives of The Brain

Most of what you do, think and believe is generated by parts of your brain to which you have no access. Sigmund Freud was the first to popularize this notion, asserting that only 5% or so of our thoughts and behavior is motivated by conscious intention. Now, 100 years later, the tools of brain science are able to document this in very specific detail. It turns out that we each have a multitude of inner selves, each responsible for different sorts of duties. Who is mad at who when you get angry a...

Aug 22, 2011•33 min

Shrink Rap Radio – Stop Chasing Happiness! Embrace Acceptance!

Happiness. We all want it. Right? Our U.S. Bill of Rights even guarantees us the right to pursue it. At the same time, it can sometimes feel like you are on a hamster-wheel in desperate pursuit of that sometimes-elusive goal. According to my guest, the pursuit of happiness can turn into a nightmare. Russ Harris, M.D. is the author of The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living . Dr. Harris is an Australian physician, psychotherapist and executive coach. As a general practitioner ...

Aug 08, 2011•33 min

Shrink Rap Radio – What You Can Learn from Asperger’s Syndrome

We’re used to thinking of developmental disorders as “Dis-abilities.” A newer term is “the differently abled and, at first, you might think that’s just a euphemism. Research studies of savants, for example, reveal that some show incredible artistic, musical, or memory abilities. People along the autism scale experience the world differently than those of us who are “neurotypicals.” By studying these neuro-atypical outliers we are able to shine a light on the functioning of the brain, and perhaps...

Jul 25, 2011•31 min

Shrink Rap Radio – Understanding The Criminal Personality

The newspapers and TV are full of stories of bad actors all the way from petty criminals to serial killers to miscreants at the highest levels of business and government. I think, at some level, most of us are fascinated with criminality. Just look at all the TV crime shows out there, from Hawaii Five Oh to the long running Law and Order franchise, and so many others. And, of course, crime fiction books are a popular genre. In psychology, there has been the notion of the Psychopathic Personality...

Jul 11, 2011•40 min

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