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Sam Vaknin is a professor of psychology and the author of "Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited".  We talked about what narcissism is, how it has become an epidemic, and why Donald Trump will never see a therapist.

Dean Baker is the co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and is one of the few economists who predicted the collapse of the housing bubble.  You can read his blog at http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/

Dr. James Fallon is a neuroscientist, biologist, professor at UC Irvine, the founder of a stem cell research company, and author, who discovered one day as he was examining the brain scans of criminals that he had the brain of a psychopath.  He’s since given a Ted Talk (link) on the subject that’s been viewed over two million times, and I reached out recently to see if he wanted to talk. Our conversation ranged from Putin's brain to how violence passes through generations.

Glenn Greenwald is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who exposed the Snowden/NSA spying story in 2013.  He is also a co-founder of The Intercept.

Professors William Ripple and Christopher Wolf are two of the authors of "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice", regarding the potentially calamitous effects of climate change on the not too distant horizon.  We talk about human extinction, climate denial, and what you can do to make a difference.

For those concerned about global environmental and climate challenges, the Alliance of World Scientists is still accepting signatures from scientists to sign their paper. There are currently about 21,000 scientist signatories from 184 countries that have added their names to this paper. If you are a scientist, you can sign at http://scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/

 There is also an invitation for nonscientist individuals and all organizations to endorse the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice at http://www.scientistswarning.org/

Elyn Saks is the author of the bestselling memoir "The Center Cannot Hold", about her experience as an academic living with schizophrenia.  She is currently Associate Dean and Professor at USC Gould School of Law, has won a MacArthur Genius Grant, and has her own Ted Talk about mental illness.  In this episode I talked to Elyn about her life, her work, and the stigma surrounding mental health.  If you want to know more about her, watch her Ted Talk here:https://www.ted.com/talks/elyn_saks_seeing_mental_illness or read her excellent book.

I sit down and talk to Pulitzer Prize winning biographer, Steven Naifeh, who co-wrote Van Gogh: The Life and Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, and whose art is featured in galleries around the world.  Find out why Van Gogh did not commit suicide, how Pollock's father peeing on a rock, along with his mother's sewing, changed the course of western art, and more!

His books are available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Steven-W.-Naifeh/e/B000APPQ3Q