Misophonia: Interview with Dr Jane Gregory author of Sounds Like Misophonia: How to stop small noises from causing extreme reactions
Release Date: 02/26/2024
Your Anxious Child
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info_outline Face-Blindness or Prosopagnosia-interview with Dr Sherryse CorrowYour Anxious Child
Dr Sherryse Corrow is a professor of psychology at Bethel University in St Paul University, Minnesota. She is talking with me today about her research into face-blindness or Prosopagnosia. Developmental Prosopagnosia is a condition that has been estimated to effect 1 in 50 with very profound implications for those with this condition. Quite simply, the world is going to be a much more anxious place if you can't identify faces. Dr Corrow explains how this condition shows up in children, how adults can begin to identify it and some of the research into Prosopagnosia. Dr Corrow can be...
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info_outlineDr Jame Gregory is a clinical psychologist and researcher based at the University of Oxford. She has written with Adeel Ahmod a very helpful book on Misophonia that clinicians, those with misophonia and significant others will truly benefit by. She helps clarify why misophonia often gets attached to a significant person and details a program of therapy that can lessen the severity of this condition. It is really a must read for anyone concerned with this condition, but first listen to the podcast because her passion for this material is so evident.