The Philosophy of Psychedelics – Chris Letheby
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My guest today is Dr Chris Letheby, a philosopher working on issues related psychedelics, lecturer in philosophy at the University of Western Australia and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Adelaide. Chris is also the author of the book Philosophy of Psychedelics, which was published in 2021 by Oxford University Press.
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A guide to seeing a psychologist – Ros Knight
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My guest today is Ros Knight, former President of the Australian Psychological Society (Australia's largest professional organisation of psychologists) and Clinical Director at Macquarie University for 14 years.
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Incorporating the Numinous into Psychological Practice - Ralph Piedmont #2
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I speak with Ralph Piedmont, Professor of Pastoral Counselling at Loyola University, Maryland, and a past president of the APA's Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. Ralph is also co-author (with Teresa Wilkins) of the recently published book, Understanding the Psychological Soul of Spirituality. We discuss spirituality as a clinically-relevant personality trait, and how one can go about integrating spirituality into clinical practice.
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The Psychological Soul of Spirituality - Ralph Piedmont
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I speak with Ralph Piedmont, Professor of Pastoral Counselling at Loyola University, Maryland, and a past president of the APA's Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. Ralph is also co-author (with Teresa Wilkins) of the recently published book, Understanding the Psychological Soul of Spirituality.
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The Wandering Mind - Jonathan Smallwood
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My guest today is Professor Jonathan Smallwood (@the_mindwanders), Professor of Psychology at Queens University in Canada.
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Technoboosting mindfulness - Jay Sanguinetti
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Today's guest is Dr. Jay Sanguinetti, Research Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, Science Director of the Sonification Enhanced Mindful Awareness Lab and Associate Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona.
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Mindfulness, Interoception and Depression - Norm Farb
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In this episode I speak with Norm Farb, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. Dr. Farb studies the neuroscience of the self and emotion with a focus on how cognitive biases shape the emotional reactions that influence well-being. And how all these are affected by mindfulness meditation. For example, his previous work highlights that resilience against depression stems more from the growth of mindfulness-related skills, such as interoception, than the eradication of residual depressive symptoms.
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The Phenomenology of Schizophrenia - Josef Parnas #2
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Today we speak again with Professor Josef Parnas, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Copenhagen and a co-founder of the Center for Subjectivity Research.
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Phenomenology and Schizophrenia - Josef Parnas
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Today we speak with Professor Josef Parnas, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Copenhagen and a co-founder of the Danish National Research Foundation: Center for Subjectivity Research. Professor Parnas has been involved in research into the schizophrenia spectrum for about 40 years, with a focus on the associated anomalous self-experiences.
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Empirically-based Diagnosis and Categorisation - Robert Krueger
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Today I speak with Prof. Robert Krueger, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Hathaway Distinguished Professor, and the Director of Clinical Training at the University of Minnesota. Prof. Krueger’s work is centred on developing an empirically-based system of grouping and delineating psychopathology. Prof. Krueger was a member of the DSM-5 Personality and Personality Disorders Work group, and is an architect of HiTOP a new, dimensional classification system of psychiatric problems.
info_outlineToday we speak with Dr Nicolas Van Dam, Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.
Nicholas is a clinical psychologist and directs the Decision Making and Affective Learning in Emotional Conditions lab or DALEC lab. There he investigates the things that make us most like robots, including predictable and algorithmic processes in decision making models, and the things that make us least like robots, including interoception, self-awareness, introspection and meditation. The focus of both streams of work is to help those with high-prevalence psychiatric conditions, such as anxiety, depression and substance-use disorders.
In this conversation, we talk mindfulness. We discuss the state of mindfulness-related research and the implications for therapists and clinicians.