Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider Podcast, interviews Mr. Jason Emerson, author of The Madness of Mary Lincoln published by Southern Illinois University Press.

Jason Emerson is an independent historian and freelance writer writing from Fredericksburg, Va.  He has published articles and book reviews in both scholarly and popular publications, links to some of which can be found on this page.

He has worked as a National Park Service park ranger at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Gettysburg National Military Park, and the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (the Arch) in St. Louis; a costumed interpreter at the Genesee Country Museum in Mumford, NY, a professional journalist, a newsletter publisher, and a freelance writer. Currently, he is a stay-at-home dad while he writes. Visit his website.

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Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider Podcast, interviews Attorney Richard A. Epstein, author of Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection For Private Property published by Oxford University Press.

Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1972. He has also been the Peter and Kristin Bredford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute since 2000. He is the author of numerous books and has written for National Review and The Boston Globe.

Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Michael B. Donner.

Topic: The Ethical Use of the Listerv: Privacy and Professional Conduct 

Read the article in the Nov/Dec issue of the California Psychologist Journal 

Dr. Donner is the Chair of the California Psychological Association Ethics Committee, The Ethics Chair for the Alameda County Psychological Association, and a member of the Ethics and Impairment Committee of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Center for Psychoanalysis. He has been on the faculty at a variety of educational institutions teaching Law and Ethics for mental health professionals.  He has a forensic practice and has served as a court appointed Special Master, Chemical Dependency Evaluator, Child Custody Evaluator, and as an expert witness for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences and expert reviewer for the California Board of Psychology.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Robert Klitzman, author of When Doctors Become Patients published by Oxford University Press, USA.

Dr. Klitzman  is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the School of Public Health, also a Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is the Director of the Ethics, Policy, and Human Rights Core of the HIV Center, and the Co-Founder of the Center for Bioethics at Columbia. He has written widely about ethical issues concerning genetics, HIV, and other areas in academic journals, as well as the New York Times and other publications.
 
His books include: Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS,
Being Positive: The Lives of Men and Women with HIV, The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals, and Mad Cow Disease, A Year-long Night: Tales of A Medical Intern. Visit his website.  Contact Dr. Klitzman by email at rlk2@columbia.edu.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Nicki McClusky, LCSW, about life coaching.

Nicki McClusky has a dual practice in therapy and coaching, head-quartered in St. Louis , Missouri. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Professional Counselor; serving her patients for the last 27 years. Nicki is a Fellow in the American Psychotherapy Association, and is an active member (and past board member) of the Missouri Society for Clinical Social Work.

Nicki has studied coaching through Mentor Coach, The Institute for Life Coach Training, and is currently completing her next level of coaching certification through the International Coach Academy. She serves her Life, Spirit and Voice Coaching clients in person and internationally by phone. Visit her website and blog.

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Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider, interviews Mr. Garry Cooper, LCSW, about the treatment of depression and his C.E. course Depression: The Therapist's Toolkit offered online through the Zur  Institute.

Garry Cooper, LCSW, is a contributing editor of Psychotherapy Networker magazine. His “Clinician’s Digest,” appearing in each issue, is read by over 55,000 psychotherapists, psychiatrists and social workers. The Digest covers the latest news, research, trends and ideas that affect mental health and the clinical and business aspects of therapy. His psychotherapy practice, in Oak Park, IL, has recently celebrated its 25th year working with adults, couples and adolescents on the usual issues. Cooper is also a writing coach and free-lance editor. His essays and other non-psychological writing have appeared in magazines and newspapers. His latest work appears in the Spring, 2007 issue of Another Chicago Magazine.

Learn more about  the classes offered by Garry Cooper, LCSW CEU at the Zur Institute.

Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider, interviews Dr. Parker Wilson about mindfulness in psychotherapy.

In his South Denver based practice, Dr. Wilson specializes in the treatment of psychological trauma, addiction and compulsion, grief, depression, and family and couple's issues.

Over the years, Dr. Wilson has worked with thousands of people who have been victimized by childhood abuse, become addicted to alcohol and substances, are battling depression and grief, are grappling with intimacy/sexual issues, or are just struggling to stay together as a person, a couple, or a family.

Over the last decade, Dr. Parker Wilson has studied with some of the greatest Buddhist meditation masters in the world and he has brought the wisdom of mindfulness to bear in his psychotherapy. Dr. Wilson's practice and deep understanding of Buddhist mindfulness serves as the bedrock that Mindful Healing Psychotherapy is built upon. Mindfulness is the primary foundation upon which a client begins to cultivate a profound awareness of his or her own mind (thoughts, feelings, memories, beliefs, perceptions, fantasies, memories, and judgments.) This increased awareness in the client' level of mental balance, clarity, peace, stability and happiness.  From here, the unpacking process of psychotherapy can truly begin.  Visit Dr. Wilson's website.

Dr. John Riolo, host of  The Insider,  interviews Dr. Philip Zimbardo, author of The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil  published by Random House.

Philip Zimbardo is internationally recognized as the 'voice and face of contemporary American psychology' through his widely seen PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, his classic research, The Stanford Prison Experiment, and authoring the oldest current textbook in psychology, Psychology and Life, in its 18th Edition. Past president of APA, and the Western Psychological Association, Zimbardo has received numerous awards for his research, teaching, and writing.

Zimbardo has been a Stanford University professor since 1968 (now an Emeritus Professor), having taught previously at Yale, NYU, and Columbia University. He has been given numerous awards and honors as an educator, researcher, writer, and service to the profession. Recently, he was awarded the Havel Foundation Prize for his lifetime of research on the human condition. Among his more than 300 professional publications and 50 books is the. His current research interests continue in the domain of social psychology, with a broad spread of interests from shyness to time perspective, madness, cults, vandalism, political psychology, torture, terrorism, and evil.

Zimbardo has served also as the Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP) representing 63 scientific, math and technical associations (with 1.5 million members), and now is Chair of the Western Psychological Foundation. He heads a philanthropic foundation in his name to promote student education in his ancestral Sicilian towns. Zimbardo adds to his retirement list activities: serving as the new executive director of a Stanford center on terrorism -- the Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research on Terrorism (CIPERT). He was an expert witness for one of the soldiers in the Abu Ghraib Prison abuses, and has studied the interrogation procedures used by the military in that and other prisons as well as by Greek and Brazilian police torturers.

Noted for his personal and professional efforts to actually 'give psychology away to the public', Zimbardo has also been a social-political activist, challenging the U.S. Government's wars in Vietnam and Iraq, as well as the American Correctional System.  Visit his websites  Philip Zimbardo.com and  The Lucifer Effect.org

Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Elliot Aronson, co-author of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts written by Dr. Elliot Aronson and Dr. Carol Tavris published by Harcourt.

Elliot Aronson is one of the most distinguished social psychologists in the world. His books include The Social Animal and The Jigsaw Classroom. Chosen by his peers as one of the 100 most influential psychologists of the twentieth century, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the only psychologist to have won all three of the American Psychological Association's top awards-- for writing, teaching, and research. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.

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