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.

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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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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider", Vice-President of Psychjourney, interviews Attorney & Founding Partner Dorothy Clay Sims.

Dorothy Clay Sims is founding partner of her own law firm Sims, Amat, Stakenborg, & Henry in Ocala, Florida and was the first woman chair of the Worker's Compensation Section of the Florida bar in 22 years. She was president of the Marion County Bar Association; co-founder/past president, Florida Worker's Advocates; CEO, Florida Academy of Impairment Rating, Inc.; and co-founder, International Forensic Medical Association.

Sims has carved a significant niche deposing defense doctor witnesses in brain injury, malingering, and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) cases that lead to favorable trial outcomes and frequent awards to plaintiffs nationwide. Sims is CEO of MD in a Box, an online business she founded in 2005 to provide other lawyers real-time access to fully trained medical doctors during deposition or trial while they cross-examine the opposing doctor.  Visit her website.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider", Vice-President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Maia Szalavitz.

Ms. Maia Szalavitz is a journalist who covers health, science, and public policy. Her most recent book, co-written with leading child trauma expert, Bruce D. Perry, MD. PhD, is The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing (Basic 2007).

She is also the author of Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids (Riverhead 2006) and co-author, with Dr. Joseph Volpicelli, M.D., Ph.D. of the University of Pennsylvania, of Recovery Options: The Guide You and Your Loved Ones Can Understand and Treat Alcohol and Other Drug Problems (John S. Wiley, 2000).

She is a Senior Fellow at Stats.org, a media watchdog organization, which investigates coverage of science and statistics.

She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Elle, Newsday, New York Magazine, New Scientist, Newsweek, Salon, Redbook, O: The Oprah Magazine, and other major publications. She has appeared on Oprah, CNN, MSNBC's News with Brian Williams, and NPR.

Maia Szalavitz has also worked in television--first as Associate Producer and then Segment Producer for PBS' Charlie Rose, then on several documentaries including a Barbara Walters' AID special for ABC and as Series Researcher and Associate Producer for the PBS documentary series, Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home.  Visit her website.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider", interviews Stephen A. Karp, MSW.

Stephen A. Karp, MSW is the Executive Director of the National Association of Social Workers, CT Chapter, a position he held from 1989 –1999, and again since August 2001.

Mr. Steve Karp obtained his MSW in 1983 from Fordham University  with a concentration in community organization. Mr. Karp has a long history of involvement with NASW, first as a volunteer , then as the Political Director for the New York State Chapter. He served the CT Chapter and was later the Director of Chapter Services and Continuing Education at the national office of NASW from 1999-2001.

Prior to working for NASW Steve spent over ten years in the fields of aging and developmental disabilities, where he did a combination of direct service and administration. He has been an adjunct professor of social work, teaching at several colleges and universities and on the advisory board for the Institute for the Advancement of the Practice of Political Social Work at the UCONN School of Social Work and the Office of Managed Care Ombudsman. 

Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Richard McNally, author of Remembering Trauma published by Belknap Press.

 Richard J. McNally received his B.S. in psychology from Wayne State University in 1976, and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1982. He completed his clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Behavior Therapy Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Temple University School of Medicine. In 1984 he was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School where he established the Anxiety Disorders Clinic and directed the university counseling center. He moved to the Department of Psychology at Harvard University in 1991 where he is now Professor and Director of Clinical Training.

He has more than 290 publications, most concerning cognitive aspects of anxiety disorders (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD], panic disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder), including the books Panic Disorder A Critical Analysis (Guilford Press, 1994) and Remembering Trauma (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2003). Recent laboratory studies concern cognitive functioning in adults reporting histories of childhood sexual abuse, including those reporting to having repressed and recovered their memories of trauma. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health.

He served on the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-IV PTSD and simple phobia committees, and now serves on the DSV-V fear circuitry and stress-induced disorders workgroup. He is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, winner of the 2005 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology, and on the Institute for Scientific Information’s “Highly Cited� list for psychology and psychiatry [top 0.5% of published authors worldwide in terms of citation impact. Visit his webpage.

Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Ofer Zur, author of Boundaries in Psychotherapy: Ethical and Clinical Explorations published by the American Psychological Association (APA).

Ofer Zur, Ph.Dis a licensed psychologist, forensic consultant, and a pioneer of the managed-care-free private practice movement. In his nationwide workshops he has taught about ethics, private practice, burnout, and consulting to thousands of psychotherapists. He also presented the first course ever on dual relationships and how they can increase clinical effectiveness. For many years he taught courses on ethics, research, psychology of gender, and psychology of war at graduate schools, such as the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP, Alameda, CA) and the California School of Integral Studies (CSIS, San Francisco, CA), where he also served as the associate program director.

 He has written dozens of articles in professional journals on topics, such as dual relationships, effective therapy, private practice development, therapists families, burnout, victims, gender roles, and the psychology of peace and war. Visit his website.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Jerry Finn, Ph.D., M.S.W. 

Topic: Using technology and the Internet in social work practice.

Dr. John Riolo, The Insider, interviews Leonard Reich, Ph.D and Andrew Kolbasovsky, Psy.D., authors of Mental Health Provider's Guide to Managed Care: Industry Insiders Reveal How to Successfully Participate and Profit in Today's System

Leonard Reich, Ph.D., is the Vice President of Mental Health Services of the Health Insurance Plan of New York. He was in private practitioner for 10 years.

Andrew Kolbasovsky, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist and Director of Clinical Development and Behavioral Medicine for the Mental Health Services of the Health Insurance Plan of New York.

 
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