A second discussion about what I believe to be "good" therapy and how the elements of non-coercion, respect, uncritical listening, help those seeking help come to own and change their life stories

My personal view about the value of good psychotherapy, which is always a process in which concerned human beings try and change the stories that they live by. I put quotation marks around "therapy" to suggest the non-medical, metaphorical nature of the process that helps people deal with metaphorical illnesses.

A discussion about the universal emotion of anxiety and its important role in human adaptation. The discussion will extend to all so called mental illnesses and disorders and how they can be transformed in our personal and collective stories.

A discussion based on a New York Times Op-Ed piece entitled "Good Grief" by well known psychiatrist Allen Francis. The show will issue a challenge to Dr. Francis or any other professional working in the mental health industry to justify his position.

Our media are filled with stories about the moral transgressions of various and sundry celebrities. It would appear that these individuals are "sick" and can be redeemed through therapy and heart felt apologies. Moral judgments are passe and we are to forgive everything.

We either renew or die, grow or shrink, look forward or backward, create or destroy. A discussion of the experience of positive and negative transformation and some of the factors that determine the psychological direction we choose to take.

Individual and social crises are opportunities for change in that they reflect that what has been has become intolerable. It is at these moments that we either grow or shrivel, bring out the best or worse in ourselves and experience some form of transformation.

The hidden politics of Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology and the Drug Industry undermined American Democracy and changed independent creative citizens into passive helpless patients.

The search for perfection, permanence and obedience makes life miserable for us as individuals and now threatens life on this planet.

A discussion that begins with an article in the New York Times' "Week in Review" and ends with a different explanation of how war effects those who fight humanity's endless wars.