Dr. Shaw has undertaken a lot of research on moral injury, which is the damage done to one’s conscience or moral compass when that person perpetrates, witnesses, or fails to prevent acts that transgress one’s own moral beliefs, values, or ethical codes of conduct.

Most research to understand moral injury has been with military Service Members and Veterans, as the nature of war and combat create situations where people may have experiences that contradict the values they live by in civilian life.

Examples of potentially morally injurious events in the context of war include killing or harming others, when officers have to make decisions that affect the survival of others, and when medics are not able to care for all who were harmed in a conflict.

The mission of the Great Philosophical Problems thinktank is to provide a unifying definition, and accompanying phenomenology, for the construct of Moral Injury to address suicide in veteran and wider civilian populations. Like the social lexicons provided by PTSD, they set out to provide the moral grammar for the “Signature Wound” of contemporary war.

Dr. Shaw is currently working with the head ethicist at The US Army War College, Dr. Timothy Mallard, on a submission for the Australian Royal Commission Into Defence and Veteran Suicide to launch the international definition of Moral Injury.

Dr. Shaw has a Ph.D. in Moral Injury and a Research Master's investigating the implications of Just War Theory. He has taught ethics at the University of Sydney and is also a leading voice in the critique of philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and the Just War Tradition.

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DR. SUZIE SHEEHY is a physicist, science communicator and academic who divides her time between research groups at the University of Oxford and University of Melbourne. She is currently focused on developing new particle accelerators for applications in medicine.  Her 2023 book The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics and Improbable Experiments Changed The World  is her first book.

Andre Sólo is the force behind Sensitive Refuge, the world’s largest website for sensitive people, and the author of Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World. An author, researcher, and speaker, Sólo serves as editor-in-chief of Sensitive Refuge and Chief Make-It-Happen Officer of Introvert, Dear. A highly sensitive person himself, for much of his life he thought he had to hide it, before coming to understand it is one of humanity’s most powerful — and most overlooked — traits. Now, Sólo is a recognized expert and passionate advocate for sensitive people. He writes about sensitivity at Forbes and Psychology Today, has spoken at Amazon and internationally,  and has been featured in HuffPost, the Washington Post, Vogue, MSNBC, The Telegraph, and numerous podcasts. Andre can be found in both New Orleans and Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he spends his time cavorting with misfits, collecting too many houseplants, and chasing after his extremely plucky toddler.

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Amanda Thorpe M.A. is a registered music therapist in the UK. She also has an extensive career as a songwriter, performer, and recording artist, as well as a community musician and special needs tutor, using song to facilitate wellbeing and cognitive functioning for over 20 years. She has worked in a range of corporate, clinical and community settings, on both an individual and group basis. Her current work is with both children and adults in the fields of Acquired Brain Injury, Early Intervention and Mental Health, in a variety of settings including the NHS, child and family centres, and privately.

Originally trained in Psychology at UCL, Amanda also studied Communications Design at Pratt Institute and the School of Visual Arts, obtained an MA in Music Therapy from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and is a fellow Neurologic Music Therapist. She is a certified MATADOC assessor and trained in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy with the Association of Psychological Therapies. She provides client-centred music therapy informed by psychodynamic and neurological music therapy practices, to address both functional and/or emotional aims to improve overall wellbeing.

Amanda Thorpe's UK Treatment Center

Amanda Thorpe performing "Brother, can you spare a dime?"

Amanda Thorpe performing "Strange Fruit"

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Dr. Tom Murray, an international trainer, educator, and couples and sex therapist, is a widely sought-after expert in sexuality and intimate relationships. He authored the 2022 book, Making Nice with Naughty: An intimacy guide for the rule-following, organized, perfectionist, practical, and color within the line types.

For 20+ years, Murray has worked with everyday folks to embrace their weirdness, shed labels and shame, lean into anxiety, and build better and stronger relationships.

Murray’s doctorate is in marriage and family counseling from the University of Florida. Clinically, he combines a pull-no-punches, no-beating-around-the-bush style. His integrated therapy approach has helped folks quiet the mind-chatter that interferes with happiness, intimacy, and quality sexual relationships.

Dr. Murray has appeared in numerous venues, including the Huffington Post and The Daily Mail, as well as radio, television and podcasts, including the Practice of Being Seen and Shrink Rap Radio. He’s a highly acclaimed presenter at local, regional, and national conferences on various mental health and relationship topics. Dr. Murray has published numerous articles in professional journals and has had faculty affiliations with UNC Greensboro, Walden University, Northwestern University’s Family Institute, and Adler University.

Dr. Murray lives in Greensboro, NC, along with his two sons.

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Dr. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. He is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute which focuses on the development of mindsight, teaches insight, empathy, and integration in individuals, families and communities. 

Dr. Siegel has published extensively for both the professional and lay audiences. His five New York Times bestsellers are: Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence, Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, and two books with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D: The Whole-Brain Child, and No-Drama Discipline. His other books include IntraConnected:The Integration of Self, Identity, and Belonging;, The Developing Mind, The Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology, Mindsight, The Mindful Brain, The Mindful Therapist, and Becoming Aware. He has also written The Yes Brain and The Power of Showing Up with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D. Dr. Siegel also serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which currently contains over eighty textbooks. 

For more information about his educational programs and resources, please visit: www.DrDanSiegel.com and www.mindsightinstitute.com.

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Prof. Pigliucci has a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee. He currently is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. His research interests include the philosophy of science, the nature of pseudoscience, and practical philosophies like Stoicism and New Skepticism.

Prof. Pigliucci has been elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science “for fundamental studies of genotype by environmental interactions and for public defense of evolutionary biology from pseudo-scientific attack.”

In the area of public outreach, Prof. Pigliucci has published in national and international outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. He is a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a Contributing Editor to Skeptical Inquirer. He writes on practical and general philosophy at Medium.

At last count, Prof. Pigliucci has published 178 technical papers in science and philosophy. He is also the author or editor of 16 books, including the best selling How to Be A Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (Basic Books). Other titles include Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (University of Chicago Press), and the most recent The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders (Basic Books).

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Alun Parry is the author of How To Remove Trauma Response: A Memory Reconsolidation Guidebook for Therapists & Coaches - released on September 24th 2022.He is a psychotherapist based in Liverpool in the North West of England. He is the Director of The Liverpool Psychotherapy Practice. His specialism is helping adults finally remove the effects of childhoods that felt scary or hard.He is also the founder of FRESHTherapists.com which shows therapists and coaches how to use memory reconsolidation to remove the legacy of trauma for their clients. He runs the Memory Reconsolidation Coaching Academy.

Alun's Course for the general public on memory reconsolidation

Alun's book website with free bonus materials

Alun's website for therapists with articles and training materials

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Deborah Korn, PsyD, is an internationally renowned pioneer and expert in EMDR Therapy and the coauthor of Every Memory Deserves Respect: EMDR, the Proven Trauma Therapy with the Power to Heal. Dr. Korn is on the faculties of the EMDR Institute in CA and the Trauma Research Foundation in Boston. As a member of the EMDR International Association, she presents and consults internationally on the treatment of adult survivors of childhood abuse and neglect. In addition to teaching, consulting, and maintaining a private practice in Cambridge, MA, Dr. Korn is actively involved in mental health advocacy, criminal justice reform, and combating systemic racism.

DVN 2007 interview with Francine Shapiro, EMDR creator

DVN 2014 interview with Jeffrey Magnavita PhD

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Bernard Beitman, M.D., is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to systematize the study of coincidences. A graduate of Yale Medical School, he did his psychiatric residency at Stanford University. The former chair of psychiatry of the University of Missouri-Columbia medical school for 17 years, he writes a blog for Psychology Today on coincidence and is the coauthor of the award-winning book Learning Psychotherapy. He is also the author of Meaningful Coincidences: How and Why Synchronicity and Serendipity Happen.

The founder of The Coincidence Project, he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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