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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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider", interviews Dr. Douglas Gentile, co-author of Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research and Public Policy published by Oxford University Press.

Dr. Douglas Gentile is a developmental psychologist, and is assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State University and the Director of Research for the National Institute on Media and the Family.  His experience includes over 20 years conducting research with children and adults. Dr Gentile has authored numerous studies, including "The Effects of Violent Video Game Habits on Adolescent Aggressive Attitudes and Behaviors, and others. He is the editor of the book Media Violence and Children. Visit his website.

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Dr. John Riolo, Vice-President of Psychjourney, and host of The Insider Podcast, interviews Michael Pittaro, M.P.A, co-author of Crimes of the Internet written by Frank Schmalleger, Ph.D and Michael Pittaro, M.P.A  published by Prentice Hall.

Michael Pittaro, M.P.A is the Executive Director of the Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse in Allentown, Pennsylvania and an Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In addition to teaching, he serves as a criminal justice curriculum specialist for the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s Degree Granting Team and as a criminal justice subject matter expert for the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS), Washington, D.C. Most recently, Professor Pittaro’s criminal justice associate degree program, which he chairs, was ranked in the nation in a June 2007 report titled,  “Top 100 Associate Degree Producers,” in the publication -  Community College Week, 19(21).  

Professor Pittaro holds a master’s degree in public administration (summa cum laude - 2000) and a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice (Who’s Who Among Students in Colleges and Universities – 1989) from Kutztown University, Pennsylvania. He is presently a 4.0 doctoral student and student ambassador enrolled in Capella University’s School of Public Safety where he is pursuing his PhD degree in criminal justice. 

Prior to teaching, he worked for the Northampton County Department of Corrections in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he served in a number of administrative roles, including time spent as the lead Internal Affairs Investigator, Inmate Treatment Division Coordinator, Criminal Records Administrator, and Field Investigations Officer.  He has nearly 20 years of professional field experience working with both juvenile and adult criminal offenders and victims. He has also served as a youth advocate and mentor, a group facilitator for sexual offenders, a drug and alcohol counselor, and most recently as a child custody supervisor Northampton County Pennsylvania’s Orphans Court.

Professor Pittaro has authored several journal articles and has contributed to several book publications. Most recently, he authored the nation’s first and only criminal justice ‘quick study’ academic reference guide. In addition to co-editing this particular volume, he also assisted the copyeditor in the final production stages of John Dempsey’s Introduction to Private Security text (Wadsworth, 2007); and is on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences. Professor Pittaro is a member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the American Society of Criminology, and the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Justice Educators.  Visit his website.

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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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