Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider podcasts interviews Bryant L. Welch, J.D., Ph.D., author of State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind  published by Thomas Dunne Books about medical necessity.

Dr. Bryant Welch, a nationally-prominent psychologist/attorney for thirty years, provides expert witness evaluations and testimony for psychological trauma, psychological injury, discrimination and civil rights matters, and malpractice. He also provides expert testimony in front of professional licensing boards.

Dr. Welch graduated from Harvard College in 1968 and Harvard Law School in 1972 before receiving the Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976. He is a Research Associate graduate of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.

From 1986 to 1993 Dr. Welch initiated and ran the American Psychological Association Practice Directorate leading Organized Psychology through one of its most successful advocacy eras. Under Dr. Welch's leadership psychologists gained access to practice in Medicare, hospitals, and psychoanalysis. He was also one of the first critics to warn of the dangers of the managed health care system.

 

Dr. Welch is an outstanding public speaker. A past president of the Harvard debate council and successful national debater, he has provided testimony on psychological matters to all levels of government including the White House, Congress, and the Federal Judiciary. He has been widely recognized as an effective advocate for mental health services and for civil rights.

Dr. Welch has appeared on all major networks and been quoted in most major news sources on mental health related matters. He has received numerous awards from national and state mental health organizations and held academic appointments with several universities including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, George Washington University, and the University of South Carolina at Beaufort.

Most recently Dr. Welch has published his first book, State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind, (Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martins Press, June, 2008).

Dr. Welch has been married to his wife, Debbie, for forty years. They currently reside in Hilton Head Island, SC and have two adult sons.  Visit his website.

Dr. John Riolo, host of the Insider, interviews Ms. Carmella Broome, author of Carmella's Quest: Taking on College Sight Unseen published by Red Letter Press.

Carmella Broome works for a private counseling agency in the midlands of South Carolina. She holds an Educational degree in Counselor Education Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of South Carolina and is licensed as a Professional Counselor and as a Marriage and Family Therapist/Intern in the state of SC. She works with adolescents,adults, couples, and families and is passionate about relationship issues.She has a particular interest in young adults and all the transitions and choices faced during that phase of life.

Carmella's first book, Carmella's Quest: Taking On College Sight Unseen  describes a part of her own young adulthood.  It is the story of Carmella's first year at a small Christian college in upstate SC .  Carmella has been legally blind since birth due to complications related to  prematurity.  Her struggles with wanting to just be like everyone else while dealing with the day to day  limitations and frustrations of having limited vision are discussed in her book along with the usual college issues of  relationships,  academics, and differentiation.  Visit her blog.

Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider podcast, interviews Mr. Jason Emerson, author of Lincoln the Inventor published by Southern Illinois University Press.

Jason Emerson is an independent historian freelance writer living in Cazenovia, NY. He has published numerous articles and book reviews in both scholarly and popular publications.

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. Visit his website.

Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider, interviews Dr. John Sotos, M.D., author of The Physical Lincoln published by CreateSpace.

Dr. John Sotos, a cardiologist, earned his MD degree and completed all of his medical training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

He wrote the classic clinical text Zebra Cards: An Aid to Obscure Diagnoses, which catalogs unusual and striking manifestations of disease largely unknown to physicians.

In 2003 Dr. Sotos established that President William Howard Taft had severe obstructive sleep apnea during his Presidency. This grew from his larger work, the award-winning web encyclopedia of The Medical History of American Presidents. It has been the Yahoo! Site of the Day and has twice been a USA Today Hot Site.

Dr. Sotos is currently CEO of Apneos Corporation, a colonel in the Air National Guard, and a medical technical advisor for the television series House, MD.   Visit The Physical Lincoln website.

Dr. John Riolo, The Insider, interviews Professor Jon L. Mills, author of Privacy: The Lost Right published by Oxford University Press.

 Jon Mills is Dean Emeritus, Professor of Law, and Director of Center for Governmental Responsibility at the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law. As a researcher and teacher, he directed major studies including international projects in Brazil, Poland, Haiti, and Central America. In addition to teaching at the College of Law, he has taught in Costa Rica,Brazil, the University of Warsaw and Cambridge University.

He has authored books, law review articles and reports on constitutional law, environmental issues, Voting Rights, and Ethics inGovernment.

As an expert on constitutional issues, he has been quoted by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and Washington Post among others. He has appeared on CNN, National Public Radio, ABC, BBC and other media. He also produced an Emmy winning show on the Florida Everglades.

 In public service, Mr. Mills served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. During his ten years in the Legislature, he was a member of Florida's highly successful 1998 Constitution Revision Commission, and was named its most valuable member.As a lawyer, Mr. Mills has appeared in federal courts and the Florida Supreme Court on issues including voting rights and various constitutional issues. He is a fellow of the American Bar Association (ABA) and in 2007 he was appointed to the Advisory Committee to the ABA's World Justice Commission.

He is a scuba diver, licensed pilot and studied karate. He is married to Beth Mills and has two daughters, Marguerite and Elizabeth. Visit his webpage.

Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider podcast interviews Dr. Mary Gresham about therapy and the economy.

Dr Gresham  has degrees in clinical psychology from Tulane, Emory and Georgia State.She has been practicing in Atlanta for 20 years and has special interests in the psychology of women and especially women and money issues. In her practice she has been running a ongoing women's therapy group for 15 years.  Visit her website.

Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider podcast, interviews Mr. Marty Beckerman, author of Dumbocracy: Adventures with the Loony Left, The Rabid Right, and Other American Idiots published by The Disinformation Company.

Marty Beckerman, 25, has written for Playboy, Reason, Discover, Huffington Post and New York Press. He has been featured by the New York Times, the New York Post, MSNBC, Fox News Channel and National Public Radio. Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, Beckerman lives in New York City. Visit his website.

Dr. John Riolo, host of the Insider Podcast, interviews Dr. Louis Hoffman about politics, psychology and ethics.

Dr. Louis Hoffman is a core faculty member at the University of the Rockies and in private practice through the Center for Growth, P.C. in Colorado Springs, CO. He is co-editor/contributor to Spirituality and Psychological Health, The God Image Handbook for Spiritual Counseling and Psychotherapy, Brilliant Sanity: Buddhist Approaches to Psychotherapy, and the forthcoming Existential Psychology East-West.

He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the University of the Rockies Press as well as serving on the editorial boardsfor PsycCRITIQUES: APA Review of Books and the Journal of HumanisticPsychology.

Dr. Hoffman has also begun traveling to China once a year to
provide training in existential psychotherapy in various locations in Hong
Kong and mainland China. Visit his website.

Dr. John Riolo, host of the Insider Podcast, interviews Mr. A. J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible published by Simon & Schuster.

 

A.J. Jacobs is the editor of What It Feels Like and the author of The Two Kings: Jesus and Elvis, The Know-It-All, and America Off-Line. He is the senior editor of Esquire and has written for The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, New York magazine, New York Observer, and other publications.   Visit his website.

Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider", interviews Bryant Welch, J.D., Ph.D., author of State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind published by Thomas Dunne Books.

Bryant Welch, J.D., Ph.D. has more than thirty-five years of experience in law, psychology, and politics. He spent seventeen years in Washington, D.C.,where he built the American Psychological Association's Practice Directorate, and has held faculty appointments at the University of North Carolina and , where he lives with his wife, Debbie.  Visit his website.

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