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The Metamorphosis of a Film Director. Stephen Gyllenhaal, Hollywood.
My guest today is Stephen Gyllenhaal, film and television director, writer and producer. His producing credits include dozens of films and TV shows, amongst them Shattered Mind, about a woman with dissociative identity disorder, the feature documentaries Exquisite Continent on dream interpretation and In Utero about prenatal psychology. Stephen interviewed me for this movie and that’s how we first met.
Stephen is the father of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and actor Jake Gyllenhaal. A few years ago he made a big career pivot, went to Amsterdam, studied with Franz Rupert, had an epiphany and on his return to LA founded the Identity Development Institute.
Stephen spoke with me about his difficult childhood with two alcoholic parents. His escape to a small college in CT and how he fell in love first with movies and then making movies. He says, “It made me feel sane.” Over time he sought out every type of psychotherapy under the sun and saw up to 40 therapists. All this time he was garnering Emys and a multitude of Academy awards for his movies and TV work. His productions were often based on deeply flawed characters with psychological trauma.
In 2016 he was introduced to the work of Dr. Franz Ruppert who developed the theories and practice of Identity oriented Psycho Trauma Theory (IoPT) over the last 30 years. Stephen says that just one single session had a profound effect on him. He offered to demonstrate it if I agreed to participate. And I did for 10 minutes. I can attest to the fact that this approach is powerful. No wonder Stephen is putting a lot of his time and energy into establishing it in the US.
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Next week my guest will be Michael Levin PhD, an American developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor. Levin is director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. He is also co-director of the Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms with Joshua Bongard. Levin is co-editor in chief of the Bioelectricity Journal and founding associate editor of Collective Intelligence.
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By ThomasMy guest today is Stephen Gyllenhaal, film and television director, writer and producer. His producing credits include dozens of films and TV shows, amongst them Shattered Mind, about a woman with dissociative identity disorder, the feature documentaries Exquisite Continent on dream interpretation and In Utero about prenatal psychology. Stephen interviewed me for this movie and that’s how we first met.
Stephen is the father of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and actor Jake Gyllenhaal. A few years ago he made a big career pivot, went to Amsterdam, studied with Franz Rupert, had an epiphany and on his return to LA founded the Identity Development Institute.
Stephen spoke with me about his difficult childhood with two alcoholic parents. His escape to a small college in CT and how he fell in love first with movies and then making movies. He says, “It made me feel sane.” Over time he sought out every type of psychotherapy under the sun and saw up to 40 therapists. All this time he was garnering Emys and a multitude of Academy awards for his movies and TV work. His productions were often based on deeply flawed characters with psychological trauma.
In 2016 he was introduced to the work of Dr. Franz Ruppert who developed the theories and practice of Identity oriented Psycho Trauma Theory (IoPT) over the last 30 years. Stephen says that just one single session had a profound effect on him. He offered to demonstrate it if I agreed to participate. And I did for 10 minutes. I can attest to the fact that this approach is powerful. No wonder Stephen is putting a lot of his time and energy into establishing it in the US.
When you listen to this podcast, if you like it, pl check the subscribe button.
There is no cost or obligation involved but it helps me gain traction in the field.
Next week my guest will be Michael Levin PhD, an American developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor. Levin is director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. He is also co-director of the Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms with Joshua Bongard. Levin is co-editor in chief of the Bioelectricity Journal and founding associate editor of Collective Intelligence.
Please tune in.
If you liked this podcast
- please tell your friends about it,
- subscribe to this podcast wherever you listen to podcasts and/or write a brief note on apple podcasts,
- check out my blogs on Psychology Today at
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/contributors/thomas-r-verny-md