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Join Dr. Klein in discussing a personal story regarding Covid and enjoy keen analysis the vast issues causing problems in our medical systems. 

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Dr. Klein addresses the contentious topic of government-run-healthcare, otherwise known as Medicare-for-all.  Dr. Klein believes that universal healthcare will negatively impact the provision of psychotherapy in the nation. Tune in for a candid and logical discussion of a most important issue facing the American culture and economy. 

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Fmr. Major Nico Marcolongo is a veteran of the Iraq conflict who served 14 years as a Marine Corps Officer. 

His educational experience includes a bachelors degree in Mandarin from UC Davis and Masters work in non-profit administration and organization. 

As a Major in the Marine Corps, Nico was an intelligence officer in the Iraq theatre. He has an impressive intuition and organized understanding of the historical context through which war efforts occur. To this end, he and I discuss the Afghan war, its precedent, its outcome, and the factors at play in the final months. 

Fmr. Major Marcolongo has been involved with humanitarian organizations from the ground up, which assist veterans in managing the wounds of war, both physical and psychological. He co-founded athletic programs at Naval Medical Center San Diego which evolved into therapies for injured combat veterans. He has been involved in numerous initiatives for the troops. He has been a part of the Challenged Athletes Foundation since 2008, where he is current a senior manager of Operation Rebound. 

You can donate to Operation Rebound or the CAF by visiting challengedathletes.org and clicking Operation Rebound. 

Major Marcolongo and I discuss the need to support the troops in the second section of the podcast. 

If you subscribe to Thinking Kind now through Patreon or Locals, I will donate all funds accrued from your membership in September 2021 to Operation Rebound. Just go to ThinkingKind.com and follow the link for subscriptions. 

So let’s get into it on the Thinking Kind Podcast with Dr. Lucas Klein and Fmr. Major Nico Marcolongo. 

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Dr. Klein has the distinct pleasure of speaking with Dr. David Cohen, Professor and Associate Dean at the UCLA School of Social Welfare. Dr. Cohen is a widely published scholar; his research looks at psychoactive drugs (prescribed, licit, and illicit) and their desirable and undesirable effects as socio-cultural phenomena “constructed” through language, policy, attitudes, and social interactions. Drs. Klein and Cohen discuss the broken American psychiatric system, drugs and the use of the medical model for explaining and attending to mental distress, homelessness, and more.  This is a complex and wide reaching episode!

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Please join Dr. Klein in his discussion with Fred Schmitt, a talented poet, organizational consultant, and beloved family member.  The two read some of Freds poems, discuss matters of substance and selfhood, and reflect on being as such!

Dr. Klein interviews Bill Craib. Bill is an executive at the Human Capital Institute, a formally trained broadcast journalist, an author, and a blogger and podcaster for his Project to Find America. 
Join in and listen to a discussion about the vexing matters of American political engagement and non-engagement, economic perils, our devolved media behavior, and our national difficulty to marshal evidence toward the evaluation of strongly held beliefs. 
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America has not become more secular. We have simply displaced our religious impulses onto our politics. Tune in as Dr. Klein describes the new American tradition of witch burning! 

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This is the first poetry reading. I hope that you will submit your poems to me through www.thinkingkind.com. I will review each weeks submissions, select one that resonates with me, and read it on air. 

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Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, and informal philosopher, Lucas A. Klein, Ph.D., forcefully illustrates the divide between Postmodernism and the classical philosophers.  Ours is a time fraught with tension between the will to build and the impulse to destroy. 

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Reason and evidence have been under attack. The academy and our social discourses have devolved into movements that value personal conviction and disregard evidence as irrelevant. 

The host, a clinical and forensic psychologist as well as psychoanalyst, makes a compelling case as to how the technological shifts have amplified this problem. He then walks the listener through a basic philosophy introduction, and finally describes ideal methods of public discourse. 

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