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Over the years, Prof. Brett Kahr has worked in numerous settings, ranging from the British National Health Service, to various universities, to the British Broadcasting Corporation, where he served for many years as Resident Psychotherapist on B.B.C. Radio 2, broadcasting to 15,000,000 people weekly and chairing the B.B.C.’s mental health campaign. He has also held appointments as Special Media Adviser to the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, and he is the current Chair of the Media Advisory Group for the British Psychoanalytic Council as well as the Chair of its new Academic Membership Committee.

Author of twelve books and series editor of more than fifty-five additional titles, his publications include D.W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait, which won the Gradiva Award for Biography; Sex and the Psyche – a study of the traumatic origins of sexual fantasies – which became a Sunday Times best-seller; as well as Tea with Winnicott, chosen as a “Book of the Year” in The Guardian; and, also, Coffee with Freud. Most recently, he has published How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist. His upcoming books include Bombs in the Consulting Room: Surviving Psychological Shrapnel and, also, Celebrity Mad: Why Otherwise Intelligent People Worship Fame.

Dr David Luke is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich where he has been teaching an undergraduate course on the Psychology of Exceptional Human Experience since 2009. His research focuses on transpersonal experiences, anomalous phenomena and altered states of consciousness, especially via psychedelics, having published more than 100 academic papers in this area, including nine books, most recently DMT Dialogues: Encounters with the Spirit Molecule (2018), and Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience (2017). When he is not running clinical drug trials with LSD, doing DMT field experiments or observing apparent weather control with Mexican shamans he directs the Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness salon at the Institute of Ecotechnics, London, and is a cofounder and director of Breaking Convention: International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness. He has given over 250 invited public lectures and conference presentations, won teaching, research and writing awards, organised numerous festivals, conferences, symposia, seminars, retreats, expeditions, pagan cabarets and pilgrimages, and has studied techniques of consciousness alteration from South America to India, from the perspective of scientists, shamans and Shivaites. He lives life on the edge, of Sussex.

Are there actually gifts that come along with growing older? Are there ways we can deepen them as we move along? My longtime friend and colleague Susan Stewart, affirmatively answers these and other questions in her 2018 book, Winter’s Graces: The Surprising Gifts of Later Life.

For more information about Susan Stewart, PhD please see our show notes at shrinkrapradio.com. Now, here’s the interview!

By the way, you can see the video of the full interview on YouTube by going to https://youtu.be/5vwTYX6BLow and/or you can see a clip from it by going to https://youtu.be/fUfQEiTx2gI

Susan Stewart, PhD, is an emerita professor of psychology at Sonoma State University, a retired psychotherapist, and a workshop facilitator. A baby boomer who turned seventy-two just before publishing this book, she belongs to a women’s group that has been meeting for forty-eight years. She is blessed with two grown sons, Avery and Logan, and four grandchildren—Lukas, Lona Louisa, Madison, and Natalie, ages four, six, nineteen, and twenty-two, respectively, at the time of this book’s publication. Susan is a singer and cellist and loves to dance. Susan invites you to visit her website.

Joseph R. Lee, LCSW, Certified Jungian Analyst

Joseph R. Lee is a certified Jungian Analyst and licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Virginia Beach, Virginia at DepthPsychotherapy.net. He works with adults and teens. He is currently the president of The Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts, www.cgjungphiladelphia.org, which provides a public seminar and trains Jungian Analysts. He is accredited by the I.A.A.P., and received his Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. He lectures nationally on the Hermetic Kabbalah with a focus on its reinterpretation through modern idioms.

Lisa Marchiano, LCSW, Certified Jungian Analyst

Lisa Marchiano is a licensed clinical social worker and certified Jungian analyst in private practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her MSW from New York University and completed analytic training at the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She is also a mom. Lisa is on the faculty of the Philadelphia Jung Institute. Her writings have appeared in Quillette,the journal Psychological Perspectives and in PSYCHED She blogs on parenting for Psyche Central at Big Picture Parenting, and on Jungian topics at www.theJungSoul.com. Lisa is building an online community where mothers can explore the profound changes that motherhood brings. Please come by and visit at motherhoodtransformation.com.

Deborah Stewart, LCSW, Certified Jungian Analyst

Deborah Stewart is a Jungian Analyst and Licensed Clinical Social Worker who is relocating her private practice from Brooklyn, NY to Cape Cod in June 2018 at DeborahCStewart.comShe is a member of the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts, where she co-chairs and teaches in the seminar and contributes to the Association’s blog. She is an active member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and participates in other professional organizations. She has a special interest in trauma and is the author of Encounters with Monsters: The Significance of Non-Human Images of Trauma in the Psyche.

 The Three Dreams From Listeners We Analyzed in This Session

 Dream #1

 Female, 45, artist – journalist

Dream: I am in session with my female psychologist. I am telling her something and she does not know the answer or is unsure of it. So she gets out her black cell phone and makes a call, to a mentor or superior I assume. The next thing we are standing on a spiral stairs, my psychologist is one or two steps higher than me, we are both around the middle. On top of the stairs there is a black woman, probably in her 60s, very smartly dressed in black. She seems serious but not stern, like someone with natural authority / gravitas. She has a black cell phone and I gather that she is the person my therapist called. She says (the answer is) blue bird (blue jay?). Then I look down my hands and I see I am holding a blue bird in them.

Context: I'm not in therapy so I have no therapist. My older children (18, 20) have left home and we have had a few losses in our lives. I am married and feel like my life has been in transition for the past five years.

Feelings: it wasn't emotionally charged. Mostly surprise to see the bird in my hands.

Needs explaining: I'm not in therapy now (never did Jungian therapy).

Stefan J. Malecek, Ph. D. is the author of four previous Paul Marzeky novels, and Crucible of Shame, a clinical book discussing the origins of addiction and “mental illness.” He worked in many aspects of psychiatry while serving in Vietnam during the war there, before earning his Ph.D. He retired from private practice in 2013, and has been happily living on the island of Maui and writing full-time since. He is at work on a book presenting his unique take on the retirement years in Transcendental Retirement (forthcoming in 2019), and the fifth book of the Paul Marzeky Mystery Series, The Gilded Edges of Shadow.

Matt Jaremko has taught clinical psychology at the University level for almost 20 years, mostly at four institutions: University of North Texas, University of Richmond, University of Mississippi and University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Dallas. This academic activity has been balanced by the operation of an independent practice of clinical psychology for over 25 years. He estimates having taught over 2000 students through the years and delivered over 35000 hours of psychological services to around 10,000 clients. During a career spanning 40 years he has also engaged in stress and trauma research activity as shown by over 30 publications and nearly a hundred presentations at professional meetings. In addition, chemical dependency and dual diagnosis has been a point of focus in his clinical practice.

 

* Roger Duncan is a Systemic Family psychotherapist and author who has been involved in nature based practice for thirty years and his book “Nature in Mind Systemic Thinking and Imagination in Ecopsychology and Mental Health” was published in July 2018.

* Roger studied biology and trained as a Waldorf teacher, and Wilderness rites of passage guide with The School of Lost Borders in California before becoming a psychotherapist.

* He was one of the pioneer tutors of the Ruskin Mill Education Trust, an educational charity in the UK, where he was involved in the development of therapeutic education programs for adolescents with complex and challenging behaviour in the woodlands and wilderness settings and had a leadership role in senior management.

* He currently works with Looked after children and adolescent refugees within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in the NHS. Roger also works in private practice with individuals, families and organisations. His intention is to find innovative ways to bring experiential encounters with the imaginal world into mainstream culture.

* If you would like to communicate directly with Roger Duncan, please let him know via the Comments section of this episode.

Dr. Adam Harcourt is a board-certified Functional Neurologist, diplomate of both the American Board of Functional Neurology and the American Board of Vestibular Rehabilitation, he is certified in Functional-Neuro Orthopedic Rehabilitation and holds a Doctorate of Chiropractic. He owns Imagine X Functional Neurology, with offices located in Santa Barbara and Beverly Hills, CA. He is also a Professor of Clinical Neurology for Carrick Institute, where he teaches and trains doctors from all over the world. He has also created and teaches a 150-hour fellowship on migraine called “Mastering Migraine”, which is based on his years of research and novel treatments of migraine. He performs research with Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, and volunteers as Board President for Jodi House Brain Injury Support Center in Santa Barbara, CA. Dr. Harcourt has become THE go-to doctor for Migraine, Concussion and Dizziness patients. He has created 1-week programs for each of these conditions for which patients travel from all over the world to his offices in California. His novel programs were created from years of research (some of which is his own), his passion for finding and treating the root cause of these conditions, and years of seeing hundreds of these cases.

Since 1972, Zurich-trained Jungian analyst and Alchemical Psychotherapist, Robert Bosnak, has led dream groups and explored dreaming with individuals, in both analytical and didactic contexts, developing a method called Embodied Imagination®.

Embodied Imagination®, in the work with dreams and waking memories, is practiced individually and in groups in psychotherapy, medicine, theater, art and creative research. It has been used as a rehearsal technique of the Royal Shakespeare Company in England, applied in medical research and psychotherapy in Japan, China and a variety of locations in the Western world. It is the focus of the dreamwork at the Santa Barbara and Malinalco Healing Sanctuaries:  http://www.santabarbarahealingsanctuary.com

Robert Bosnak has authored several books. They are: A Little Course in Dreams, Christopher’s Dream, Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming, and Embodiment: Creative imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel.He is a co-founder of the International Society for Embodied Imagination, the National Nightmare Hotline (866-DRMS911), and since 1997, www.cyberdreamwork.com. 

 He is past president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and was visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology at Kyoto University in Japan. He is now based in Santa Barbara, California where he is the Executive Director of the Santa Barbara and Malinalco Healing Sanctuaries. He is in private practice in Los Angeles.Robert’s interest in Alchemy has been channeled into the first in a series of novels entitled Red Sulphur: The Greatest Mystery in Alchemy. Books 1 and 2, 2015.

Kathy Kain has been practicing and teaching bodywork and trauma recovery skills for over 37 years. She teaches in Europe, Australia, Canada, and throughout the U.S. She is a Senior Faculty member for the Sensory Experiening Trauma Institute, and was a senior trainer for 12 years in the Somatic Psychotherapy training program based in Sydney, Australia, which helped develop her expertise in the integration of touch into the practice of psychotherapy and trauma recovery, as well as in somatic approaches to working with developmental and complex trauma. She offers training in those areas of specialty in her Touch Skills Training for Trauma Therapists as well as the Somatic Resilience and Regulation: Early Trauma program that she co-teaches with Steve Terrell. Kathy has two new books being released in 2018: Nurturing Resilience; Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma, co-authored with Stephen J. Terrell, PsyD, and The Tao of Trauma; East Meets West for Integrative Healing, co-authored with Alaine Duncan, M.Ac., L.Ac., Dipl.Ac.