Dr. Yang Jwing- Ming was born in Taiwan in 1946. He has studied Wu Su since the age of fifteen under different instructors, most notably Cheng Gin-Gsao, White Crane, Pai Huo Kao (Tao Tai Chi Chuan, Yangâs division) and Li Mao-Ching (Long Fist). His academic career is well rounded as well, as he received a M.S. degree in Physics from the National Taiwan University in 1971 and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 1978.

He started working for Texas Instruments in Houston in 1980, founded the Yangâs Martial Art Academy in Boston in 1982, then left TI in 1984 to devote all his time to the YMAA, which has since expanded into the Yangâs Oriental Arts Association, Inc. He has published a large amount of material, most of which under Unique Publications and his own YMAA Publication Center.

  Read an article about Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming and the YMAA Retreat Center by Jennifer Sexton,  published Sept 07, Inside Kung Fu magazine

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Donate to the nonprofit YMAA Retreat Center.

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Dr. Yang Jwing- Ming was born in Taiwan in 1946. He has studied Wu Su since the age of fifteen under different instructors, most notably Cheng Gin-Gsao, White Crane, Pai Huo Kao (Tao Tai Chi Chuan, Yangâs division) and Li Mao-Ching (Long Fist). His academic career is well rounded as well, as he received a M.S. degree in Physics from the National Taiwan University in 1971 and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 1978.

He started working for Texas Instruments in Houston in 1980, founded the Yangâs Martial Art Academy in Boston in 1982, then left TI in 1984 to devote all his time to the YMAA, which has since expanded into the Yangâs Oriental Arts Association, Inc. He has published a large amount of material, most of which under Unique Publications and his own YMAA Publication Center.

  Read an article about Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming and the YMAA Retreat Center by Jennifer Sexton,  published Sept 07, Inside Kung Fu magazine. Watch the YMAA Netcast. Donate to the nonprofit YMAA Retreat Center.

As director of parentchildhelp.com, Mary provides training nationally and internationally for families and professionals, including medical personnel, educators, and social service providers who serve families. Licensed as a parent educator and early childhood teacher, she has pioneered efforts to bring topics such as temperament, neurobiology, the importance of sleep, and emotion coaching into homes, schools, medical practices, and businesses. She is as comfortable as a keynote speaker for major professional conferences as she is working one on one with families in their homes or teachers in their classrooms.

Known for her real-life examples, Mary links research-based information with typical challenging behaviors and provides practical solutions that really work. Her presentations have helped hundreds of thousands of parents and professionals to understand children better, and themselves as well.

Maryâs work has been featured in The New York Times, Parenting magazine, Good Housekeeping, Parent Magazine, Working Mother, First for Women, and Speaker Magazine and on Good Morning America, National Public Radio, Good Morning Canada, Fox Nine News Good Day, and many other national and local television, radio, magazine, and newspaper venues.

She has also presented at the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, National Conference.

A former director of one of Minnesota's largest Early Childhood Family Education programs, Mary is the founder of the Spirited Child and Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles workshops. She also provides individual parent consultations for families and professionals.

Mary graduated with honors from the University of Minnesota with a master's degree in Family Social Science and from Iowa State University with a Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education.

Born on a third-generation dairy farm, Mary lives with her husband in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the proud mother of one son and one daughter â now adults with whom she loves to spend time. Visit her website.

David J. Linden, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His laboratory has worked for many years on the cellular substrates of memory storage in the brain. You can see a list of some of his labâs recent scientific papers here.

He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and two children. Visit his website.

Paul Joannides is a research psychoanalyst, which means he went to school for way too long. He is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Sex Education. Paul is also the cow superintendent at his county fair. He lives on a remote bay in the beautiful Northwest with his wife, daughter, dogs and small herd of livestock. 

Paul writes (and rewrites, and rewrites, and rewrites) the Guide, typesets it, and handles the marketing. In all of the years he has been working on The Guide, the new 5th edition is the first he's ever been happy with. Visit his website.

Stephen Murdoch has been working as a journalist and writer since 1999. He has written on a wide range of subjectsâfrom legal policy and psychology, to travel and topical commentary. In 2006, Murdoch was a weekly columnist for the Santa Barbara News-Press. He has also contributed to Newsweek, Marketplace (a radio show carried by many NPR stations), The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Lawyer, The Boston Globe and other publications.

In the 1990s, before becoming a writer, Murdoch was a human rights lawyer in Cambodia and practiced civil litigation in Washington. Murdoch currently lives in Santa Barbara, California with his wife and three daughters. Visit his website.

Dennis Cass is a writer, journalist, and occasional teacher and public speaker. His work has appeared in the New York Times magazine, GQ, Slate, Harper's Magazine, and Restaurant Business, where he once wrote an informative, exceptionally well-crafted article about pudding. He lives with his wife and son in Minneapolis, MN, and wouldn't have it any other way. Visit his blog.

Norman Doidge, M.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet. He is on the Research Faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, in New York, and the University of Torontos Department of Psychiatry.  He is a four time recepient of Canadas National Magazine Gold Award. He has presented his scientific research on effective therapies at the White House.  A native of Toronto, he divides his time between Toronto and New York. Visit his website. 

Victoria Pitts-Taylor received her PhD at Brandeis University. She is Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, Univ of New York. 

Dr. Taylor is the author of In The Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification as well as a number of articles and book chapters. In 2002-2003 she won a Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award from the American Sociological Association. Visit her webpage.

Michael J. Breus, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine. He was one of the youngest people to have passed the Board at age 31 and, with a specialty in Sleep Disorders and Neuropsychological Testing, is one of only 159 doctors in the world with his credentials and distinction. He is the co-founder of SoundSleep Solutions, a direct-to-consumer, sleep-related information Web site, and currently serves as Chairman of the Clinical Advisory Board for Sleep Holdings, LLC, the only publicly traded sleep diagnostic and therapy company in the world.  Visit his website.

Brian Wansink (Ph.D. Stanford 1990) holds the John S. Dyson Endowed Chair in the Applied Economics and Management Department at Cornell University, where he is Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab. Previously, he was a professor at Dartmouth College, the Vrije Universiteit (The Netherlands), the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, INSEAD (France), and he was a visiting scientist at the U.S. Army Research Labs in Natick, MA.

He is a Fulbright Senior Specialist in food marketing and nutrition, and in addition to writing Mindless Eating, he is author of the books Marketing Nutrition, Asking Questions, and Consumer Panels. His award-winning academic research on food has been published in the worlds top marketing, medical, and nutrition journals. It has been presented, translated, reported, and featured in television documentaries on every continent but Antarctica.

An Iowa native, he lives with his family in Ithaca, NY, where he is a mediocre saxophone player in a rock-and-roll band and where he regularly enjoys both French food and French fries. Visit his website

Nordine Zouareg is an International Celebrity Fitness Coach who works with clients from around the world. Nordine has come a long way from being born in the back of a truck in the Sahara desert and contracting Rickets to becoming an acclaimed fitness expert worldwide.  

His unique philosophy, which is based on his personal experience as well as the knowledge he has gathered during his 25 years working in the field, addresses the true reasons why people are constantly failing to reach their health and fitness goals. In Mind Over Body he provides all the information and encouragement that have helped his clients to release stress, increase energy, lose fat, and develop muscle tone quickly, effectively, and forever.  Visit his website.

Harriet A. Washington has been a fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. As a journalist and editor, she has worked for USA Today and several other publications, been a Knight Fellow at Stanford University and has written for such academic forums as the Harvard Public Health Review and The New England Journal of Medicine. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards for her work. Washington lives in New York City. Visit her website.

 Richard Tarnas is a professor of philosophy and cultural history at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he founded the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He also teaches archetypal studies and depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara.  Born in 1950 in Geneva, Switzerland of American parents, he is a graduate of Harvard University and Saybrook Institute. 

 From 1974 he lived and worked for ten years at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, studying with Joseph Campbell, Huston Smith, Gregory Bateson, and Stanislav Grof, and serving as its director of programs and education.  He is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a history of the Western world view from the ancient Greek to the postmodern that became both a best seller and a required text in many universities.  His most recent book, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, just published in paperback by Plume, won the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network in England. Visit his website.

Dr. Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of award-winning books of philosophy, history, and poetry. Her Doubt: A History (HarperCollins, 2003) demonstrates a long, strong history of religious doubt from the origins of written history to the present day, all over the world. Hecht's The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism and Anthropology (Columbia University, 2003), won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2004 prestigious Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.

Hecht's first poetry book, The Next Ancient World won the Poetry Society of America's 2002 Norma Farber First Book Award. Her most recent poetry book, Funny, won the University of Wisconsin's 2005 Felix Pollak Poetry Prize, and Publisher's Weekly called it one of the most original and entertaining books of the year. Her book reviews appear in The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Hecht earned her Ph.D. in the History of Science and European Cultural History from Columbia University in 1995 and now teaches at New York University and The New School University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband John, and their two children.  Visit her website.

Along with Dr. Redford Williams, she researched and assembled the ten skills taught in the Williams LifeSkills workshops. Over the past several years, she has worked with a variety of groups, led numerous LifeSkills workshops, and trained many facilitators.

Dr. Virginia Williams co-authored Anger Kills: 17 Strategies to Control the Hostility That Can Harm Your Health and LifeSkills: 8 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships, Communicate More Clearly and Improve Your Health

Dr. Redford Williams, MD. has authored or co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in scientific and medical journals. He has authored or co-authored nine books, including Anger Kills: 17 Strategies to Control the Hostility That Can Harm Your Health and LifeSkills: 8 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships, Communicate More Clearly and Improve Your Health.

He received his BA at Harvard College and his MD at Yale, where he also did his internship and residency training in internal medicine. He has been at Duke University Medicine Center since 1972. He is Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychology, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Behavioral Medicine Research Center.Visit their website.

Dr. Cozolino has diverse clinical and research interests and holds degrees in philosophy and theology, in addition to his doctorate in clinical psychology. He has conducted  empirical research in schizophrenia, child abuse, and long-term impact of stress. Recently, his interests have turned to a synthesis of the biobehavioral sciences and psychotherapy. He is the author of The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain and The Making of a Therapist: A Practical Guide for the Inner Journey, as well as numerous articles and chapters on various topics.  He maintains a clinical and consulting practice in Los Angeles. Visit his website.

Journalist and former Salon com. columnist Mary Roach has written for Outside, GQ, Vogue, and The New York Times Magazine. She writes the humor column "My Planet" in Reader's Digest and is contributing editor for the science magazine Discover. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Ed. Visit her website

Stephen Kiernan was born in Newtonville, NY the sixth of seven children. A graduate of Middlebury College, he also received an MA degree from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA degree from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. In over two decades as a journalist he has won 40 awards, including the Bechner Institute's Freedom of Information Award, the Gerald Leob Award for financial journalism (two time commentary finalist) and the 2003 George Polk Award. He has taught at Middlebury College and the New England Young Writers Conference, and has worked on the staff of the Breadloaf School of English and the Breadloaf Writers Conference. He has served on the board of The Brautigan Library and the Young Writers Project.

At present Stephen is traveling the country, speaking to civic groups, colleges, senior centers and churches about ways to improve the end of life.

Stephen has also performed on the guitar for many years. In addition to recording 3 CDs of solo instrumentals, he has composed music for dance, the stage, documentaries and TV specials. He lives in Vermont with his two amazing sons.  Visit his website.

Daniel B. Smith is a new York based journalist and author. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Granta, and n+1.

Jonathan Haidt is associate professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. His research examines morality, the moral-emotions, and the intuitive foundations of liberal and conservative's worldviews. He is the co-editor of Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Visit his website.

]]> Happiness Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:16:00 GMT http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=200417# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:38:53 happiness research, positive psychology, philosophy of happiness, ancient wisdom, jonathan haidt,cognitive psychotherapy Psychjourney Clean http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=196807# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews David Kessler, author of The Needs of the Dying: A Guide for Bringing Hope, Comfort, and Love to Life's Final Chapter published by Harper.

David Kessler is the author of The Needs of the Dying, which received praised by Mother Teresa. It has now been published in over 11 countries worldwide. He also co-authored Life Lessons and On Grief and Grieving with Elisabeth  Kubler-Ross. He is Director of Palliative Care for Citrus Valley Health Partners, which has three hospitals and a hospice in the Los Angeles area with over 900 physicians and 2000 nurses. His volunteerism includes serving as a member of the Red Cross Disaster Team and as a Specialist Reserve Officer for the Los Angeles Police Department, serving on its critical incident stress team.

His work has been discussed in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Business Week, and Life Magazine, and has been featured on CNN-Cross Fire, NBC, MSNBC, PBS, Entertainment Tonight and Sally Jessy Raphael. He has also written for the Boston Globe, LA Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle.  For more information visit his website.

James Gardner, the author of The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos, is a widely published science essayist and complexity theorist. His science essays and peer-reviewed scientific papers have appeared in Nature, Biotechnology, Wired, World Link (the scientific journal of the Santa Fe Institute), Acta Astronautica (the scientific journal of the International Academy of Astronautics), the International Journal of Astrobiology, and the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society.His first book, BIOCOSM, was selected by Amazon.com's editors as one of the ten best science books of 2003.

Gardner is a former Oregon State Senator and a partner in the Portland law and lobbying firm of Gardner & Gardner. He is a graduate of Yale College and the Yale Law School, where he was Article Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following law school, he served as a law clerk for Judge Alfred T. Goodwin on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Justice Potter Stewart on the United State Supreme Court.  Visit his website.

Robert Sylwester is an Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Oregon who focuses on the educational implications of new developments in science and technology. He is the author of several books and many journal articles. The Education Press Association of America has given him two Distinguished Achievement Awards for his syntheses of cognitive science research, published in Educational Leadership. He has made more than 1,400 conference and inservice presentations on educationally significant developments in brainÃïÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂstress theory and research. He writes a monthly column for the Internet journal Brain Connection

 Tobi Zausner, Ph.D. has an interdisciplinary doctorate in Art and Psychology. She is also an art historian and an award-winning visual artist with works in major museums and in private collections around the world. Dr. Zausner writes and lectures widely on the psychology of art, teaches at the G. Jung Foundation in New York, and is an officer on the Board of A.C.T.S (Arts, Crafts, and Theatre Safety), a non-profit organization investigating health hazards in the arts. For more information, please visit her website.

]]> Creativity and Illness Fri, 9 Mar 2007 07:15:00 GMT http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=190417# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:50:47 creativity, illness, creativity and illness, art, artist, art history, art therapy, psychology Psychjourney Clean http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=189257# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Daniel Nettle, Ph.D., author of Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile, published by Oxford University Press.

Daniel Nettle is Lecturer in Biological Psychology at the Open University. He is the author of Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity, and Human Value and co-author of Vanishing Voices (with Suzanne Romaine). He lives in the U.K. Visit his website.

]]> Happiness Tue, 6 Mar 2007 03:50:00 GMT http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=189257# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:31:29 happiness, joy, positive psychology, biological psychology, psychology, emotions, biology of emotions Psychjourney What is happiness? Clean http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=185682# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter, published by New World Library.

One of the world's foremost experts on animal emotions, Marc Bekoff is professor emeritus of Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and co-founder with Jane Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals He has won many awards for his scientific research including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a prolific writer with more then 200 articles as well as two encyclopedias to his credit.

The author or editor of numerous books, including the Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare, The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition, Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions, and Heart and the Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. 

In 2005 Marc was presented with the Bank One Faculty Community Service Award for the work he had done with children, senior citizens and prisoners.

Visit his website and Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Citizens for Responsible Animal Behavior Studies .

]]> Animal Emotions Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:27:00 GMT http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=185682# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:35:47 animal rights, animal emotion, animal psychology, ethical treatment of animals, marc bekoff, animal cognition Psychjourney Clean http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=185240# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Peggy Orenstein, author of Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, An Oscar, An Atomic Bomb, A Romantic Night and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother published by Bloomsbury USA.

Peggy Orenstein is an internationally recognized writer, editor and speaker about issues affecting girls and women, her previous books include Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World (Doubleday/Anchor), and the best-selling SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap (Doubleday/Anchor)

A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, Orenstein has also written for such publications as Vogue, Elle, Discover, More, Glamour, Mother Jones, Salon, Parenting, "O: The Oprah Magazine," and The New Yorker. Her work has been included in many anthologies, including The Best American Science Writing (2004).

She has been a guest lecturer and keynote speaker at numerous college campuses; at state, regional and municipal conferences on gender equity and on juvenile justice; at the National Education Association's National Conference on Women and Minorities and at the conference of the Canadian Teachers Federation. She has published editorials relating to her research in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and USA Today and has appeared on, among other programs, Nightline, Good Morning America, The Today Show, NPR's Fresh Air and Morning Edition and CBC's As It Happens. Visit her website .

]]> Infertility Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:14:00 GMT http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=185240# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:58:15 infertility, infertility treatment, conception, pregnancy, miscarriage, motherhood, parenting, marriage Psychjourney One Womanâs Quest to Become A Mother Clean http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=184013# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews  Ms. Sharon Begley, author of Train Your Mind Change Your Brain: How A New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential To Transform Ourselves published by Ballantine Books.

Sharon Begley, science columnist for The Wall Street Journal , inaugurated the paper's "Science Journal" in 2002. She was previously the senior science writer at Newsweek, covering neuroscience, genetics, physics, astronomy, climatology and anthropology.

The co-author of the 2002 book The Mind and the Brain, she has won many awards for her articles and an honorary degree for contributions to the public understanding of science. Share

She has been a frequent guest on radio and television, including The Charlie Rose Show, Today Weekend, CBS's The Early Show, and Imus in the Morning. She lives with her family in Pelham, New York. Learn more about neuroplasticity.

]]> Neuroplasticity Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:36:00 GMT http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=184013# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:36:05 neuroplasticity, neuroscientists, brain science, mind, Dali Lama, , Buddhists monks, meditation Psychjourney Clean http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=180387# Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, co-authors of Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change published by Stillpoint Press.

As authors, Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman have broken new ground in the study of personal and social change. Their published works offer a compelling blend of first-person testimony, in-depth analysis and tough investigative journalism. Their books include Dark Hero Of The Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener The Father of Cybernetics  and Holy Terror: The Fundamentalist War on America's Freedoms in Religion, Politics, and Our Private Lives.

Flo Conway graduated from the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in journalism.  She earned her master's degree and was advanced to doctoral candidacy at the University of Oregon, where she pioneered the first interdisciplinary program in communication. Jim Siegelman graduated with honors in philosophy from Harvard, where he also served as president of the Harvard Lampoon. He conducted graduate study in philosophy, linguistics, and semiotics as recipient of the Fiske Fellowship to Trinity College, Cambridge.

Conway and Siegelman's writings on many timely topics has kept them at the fore of the media. They have appeared on Good Morning America,the Today show, TheTonight Show,Prime Time Live, 20/20, 48 Hours, NBC Nightly News,CNN Late Edition, Larry King, and more than 300 radio and television programs inthe U.S., Canada and Europe. They have lectured at more than 40 colleges anduniversities, where their books have long been required texts, and addressed numerous professional associations, mainline religious denominations, and civic organizations. Articles by or about them have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Science Digest and many other periodicals.  Visit their website.

]]> Cults Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:49:00 GMT http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=180387# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:50:23 cult, new cults, mind control, snapping, brainwashing, pursuasion, breaking free of cults, psychology Psychjourney The science of mind control Clean http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=179588# Psychjourney, interviews Mr. David Plotz, author of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank  published by Random House.

David Plotz is deputy editor of Slate, where he has worked since it was launched in 1996. At Slate, he's been a feature writer, political columnist, media columnist, and gofer, among lots of different jobs. He has also freelanced for many magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Reader's Digest, Rolling Stone, New Republic, Washington Post, and GQ. He won an Online Journalism Award in 2002 for a Slate piece on Enron, and was an OJA finalist for the Seed series in 2001. He graduated from Harvard College in 1992 with a degree in Social Studies.

He is married to Hanna Rosin, a reporter for the Washington Post. They live in Washington, D.C., with their two children.  Visit his website.

]]> Human Reproduction Thu, 8 Feb 2007 00:41:00 GMT http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=179588# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:49:08 genetics, sperm bank, infertility, sperm donors, reproductive technology, psychology Psychjourney The quest for super babies Clean http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=175385# Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Chip Walter, author of Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human published by Walker Publishing Company.

Chip Walter is a science journalist, documentary filmaker, and former CNN bureau chief. He is a coauthor (with William Shatner) of I'm Working On That and author of Space Age. Walter teaches science writing at Carnegie Mellon University, is senior manager of strategic communications and public information at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center (UPMC) and lives in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Visit his website.

]]> Human Evolution Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:34:00 GMT http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=175385# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:51:08 human evolution, science writing, anthropology, human nature, chip walter, social psychology Psychjourney A fascinating introduction to the development of the human species Clean http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=174437# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Pamela Carlton, MD., co-author with Deborah Ashin of Take Charge of Your Child's Eating Disorder: A Physician's Step-By-Step Guide To Defeating Anorexia and Bulimia, published by Marlowe and Company.

Pamela Carlton, MD, a specialist in adolescent eating disorders, is a physician in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is invited to speak at major eating disorder conferences and also consults with eating disorder programs across the country.  Visit her website.

]]> Eating Disorders Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:15:00 GMT http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=174437# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:32:16 eating disorders, bulima, anorexia, adolescent medicine, psychiatry, psychology Psychjourney Clean http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=174398# Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Richard Restak, MD, author of The Naked Brain: How the Emerging Neurosociety is Changing How We Live, Work, and Love  published by Harmony.

Dr. Restak is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine. Post Graduate training included a rotating internship at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, psychiatric residencies at Mount Sinai Hospital and Georgetown University Hospital and a residency in neurology at George Washingon Hospital in Washington D.C. Concurrently, he is Clinical Professor of Neurology at George Washingon Hospital University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Dr. Restak has written over 18 books on the human brain, two of which were main selections of the Book Of The Month Club. He has penned dozens of articles for national newspapers including  the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today.

As a regular lecturer, both nationally and internationally, he has presented communtaries for both Morning Edition and All Things Considered on National Public Radio and has made numerous appearances on leading television talk shows.  Visit his website.

]]> Your Brain Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:13:00 GMT http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=174398# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:27:23 mind and body, brain, neurologist, neurology, mind, psychology, psychiatry Psychjourney emerging research on social neuroscience Clean http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=172444# Psychjourney, interviews Dr. William M. Reddy, author of  The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework For the History Of Emotions, published by Cambridge University Press.
William M. Reddy, Ph.D., is a cultural historian who teaches at Duke University. He has been studying the history of emotional experience since 1995, and is currently writing a history of romantic love. Dr. Reddy has held fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Fullbright program, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and visiting fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for History, and  the Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Paris. His current research is supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California.  Visit his webpage.

]]> Emotions Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:41:00 GMT http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=172444# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:44:48 emotions, feelings, social history, social psychology, history, historian Psychjourney A new theory of emotions Clean http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=159561# Psychjourney  interviews  Dr. Paul O. Radde, author of  Thrival! How to Have an Above Average Day Every Day

Paul O. Radde Ph.D,  is a D.C. and Colorado liscenced psychologist, executive coach, and organizational consultant, and the principal of his international consulting compan, Thrival Systems (R), now headquarted in Superior, CO. Visit his website.

Dr. Wood has served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the executive committe of The Institute of Pennyslvania Hospital, and is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona Progam in Integrative Medicine. Visit her website.

If you ask Dr. Taylor what she does in life that absolutely energizes her, she will likely reply, I'm a brain function specialist and I help people thrive.

A recipient of the American Medal of Honor for Brain-Function (American Biographical Institute, 2002) Arlene Taylor, PhD. holds earned doctorates in Health and Human Services with an emphasis on women's issues, and in Clinical Pastoral Counseling with an emphasis on issues of abuse, addiction, and recovery.  Visit her website.

]]> Your Brain Wed, 6 Dec 2006 06:39:00 GMT http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=158583# deborah@psychjurney.com 00:54:00 mind body, brain, brain function, mind, psychology, psychiatry, stress, mental health Psychjourney Get to know your own unique brain Clean http://mindandbody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=158576# Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Dr. Deborah Rozman, co-author of Transforming Stress: The Heartmath Solution For Relieving Worry, Fatigue, And Tension

Deborah Rozman, Ph.D, Co-Founder- President, Co-Ceo of Quantum Intech.  Since 1986 Deborah has worked with Doc Childre, founder of HeartMath.  Dr. Rozman has twenty years of experience as a psychologist, educator, author, editor and business executive. She is also a psyhologist and author with numerous publications, and a key spokesperson on HRV, stress, education and performance.  Visit her website