When some advanced civilizations in our galalxy realized sometime around 2050 AD Earth time that our planet had gone quiet the Galactic Counsel Empowered Flog, the planet closest to Earth, to visit and provide information as to what might have

Sharing Stories With Psychotherapist Al Galves

Sep 21st, 2020 58m

Psychotherapist Al Glaves and I will talk about how the medical model of mental illnesses was created and how it is fed by the American Public's acceptance of its harmful and erroneous beliefs. We will speak about the factors that motivate the

How The False Stories of Mental Illness Can Steal Your Life. Part 3

Sep 15th, 2020 41m

In Part 3 of this series I will discuss the differences between a relationship with a Psychotherapist or other mental health professional that will help rather than hurt those seeking help for emotional pain, difficult relationships or problems

How the False Stories of Mental Illness and Health Can Steal Your Life, Part 2

Sep 11th, 2020 43m

A second episode dealing with the myths of mental illness and health and the various ways in which your life can be ruined. I will continue my discussion of the basic information the public requires to interact with the professionals that compr

How The False Stories Of Mental Illness and Mental Health Can steal Your Life

Sep 9th, 2020 45m

A person writes on Twitter "I had so many dreams. Had so many things I wanted to do. I was told I needed to wait for the right cocktail of meds ...so I could be balanced. Days turned into months and years. 20 years gone. Never got to start my l

The Story of Race in America as told by Isabel Wilkerson

Aug 26th, 2020 34m

Today I will discuss some of my reactions to Wilkerson's argument that race based on skin color formed the basis of a caste here in America. I will discuss the incredible, mind altering statement that "there are no black peope in Africa.'' I w

The Mysterious Story of the Self

Aug 24th, 2020 41m

Today I will discuss the nature of the self and try to convince my listeners that beginning a sentence that expresses a psychological fact should not be "I am" but "I do" thereby changing the nature of our selves from nouns to verbs. This smal

The Destructive Myths of Race and Intelligence

Aug 10th, 2020 46m

I will deconstruct the concepts of race and intelligence and describe how these basically unscientific and invalid concepts have been used to divide and dehumanize human beings and justify the enslavement and murder of millions as well as conv

Stories About Human Nature and How They Shape Politics

Jul 27th, 2020 27m

Are human beings the products of their genes, how they are treated by other human beings in their environments or by a combination of both? Are some human beings basically good and some basically evil? Do we have any control as to how human be

A Discussion of Dr. Mary Trump's Book About Donald Trump

Jul 20th, 2020 43m

A critical discussion about Mary Trump's psychological insights about how her family's dynamics shaped the personalities of its members. Dr. Trump is a clincal psychologist and provides a well written, easy to read, and in my opinion an import

Stories About Police Brutality, "Racism" and Dehumanization

Jun 22nd, 2020 30m

I will present an arguement that America's current attempts to deal with "racism" and police brutality are best understood as common elements of authoritarian political structures. Authoritarianism is the dominant type of politics both in our

The Story of ADHD and the "Diseasing" of America's Children

Jun 12th, 2020 52m

My Co-host is Sue Parry, retired Occupational Therapist and Mother of three grown sons who were all diagnosed "at-risk" for ADHD, Conduct Disorder and various learning disabilities when they were of school age. Her personal experiences with th

A Story For a Graduate Student in Clinical Psychology

Jun 8th, 2020 36m

I am a familiar with a young person about to start graduate studies in School Psychology which means that this individual will be emersed in much of the same theories and ideas as Clinical Psychology. I hope this individual (and all others en

How Psychiatric Stories Create "Mental Illnesses" and Undermine Democracy Part 2

Jun 6th, 2020 31m

A further discussion on how confusing moral labels with medical diagnoses damages both individuals and the democracy we strive to live in. Morally judging unhappiness, confusion, a host of normal human emotions and a wide number of problems pe

How Psychiatric Stories Create "Mental Illnesses"and Undermines Our Democracy

Jun 2nd, 2020 35m

This will be the first in a series of podcasts that have two goals. The first is to try and convince the public to reject any and all attempts by professionals working in the mental health industry (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers

The Myth of Intelligence and Intelligence Testing

May 27th, 2020 41m

There is no real thing called intelligence that can actually be measured although people do differ in the skills that they excercise in varying situations. After years of struggling to define just what intellience might be many psychologists g

The Myth of Mental Health, Part 2

May 26th, 2020 42m

I will continue to develop ideas preresented yesterday but left unfinished when Bob Eben called in a told his life affirming story. I will discuss, love, joy, creativity as well as education, the arts and good citizenship.

The Myth of Mental Health

May 25th, 2020 40m

It is often assumed that health, whether mental or physical, means the absence of illness. While I will not try and describe physical or medical health I will try and discuss the thorny topic of mental health. I have argued that mental illnesse

The Dual Myths of "Schizophrenia" and "Psychoses"

May 18th, 2020 44m

I will begin my discussion of schizophrenia with a statement from my book "Psycho'therapy' and the Stories We Live By: "One of the saddest expressions of a ruined identity are the words 'I am a schizophrenic.' To have one's total identity confl

Stories About Hospitals (Medical Illnesses) and "Hospitals" ("Mental Illness")

Apr 27th, 2020 53m

Mental Illnesses are moral judgements about a variety of often unwanted, troubled and troubling behaviors that on the surface seem to be illogical and make little or no sense that pose as medical diganoses. In my own writings and podcasts I pu

Sharing Stories About Surviving the Pandemic without Psychiatric Bullshit

Apr 25th, 2020 28m

My fear is that people will be convinced that their emotional reactions to the pandemic will represent some form of "mental illness" and that they will turn to Big Pharma to help them get through. Let's discuss what we are experiencing as we l

Reactions to the Pandemic and the Myth of Mental Illness, Part 2

Apr 17th, 2020 47m

Andrew Solomon, in his article "Don't Ignore Clinical Mental Illness" points out that people who have existing, long term mental illnesses are especially at risk at having their symptoms severely increased by the pandemic and therefore in need

Psychological Reactions to the Pandemic and the Toxic Myth of Mental Illness

Apr 15th, 2020 39m

Today's discussion is based on an Op-Ed article in the New York Times entitled "Don't Ignore Clinical Mental Illness" by Andrew Solomon, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University Medical Center. The author writes "Within weeks (of

A discussion with Scott McLain about Thomas Szasz and The Stories We Live By

Apr 13th, 2020 1h

Scott is a graduate of the University of Michigan, a musician and living in Spain as an educator. We will discuss our mutual interest in Szasz's ideas and how we both became convinced that the ideology of psychiatry is based on an unscientific

Stories About Psychotherapy and Psycho"therapy:" No more Diagnoses

Apr 2nd, 2020 37m

A discussion based on my book Psycho"therapy" and the Stories We Live By which is my attempt to seperate my idea of what the field might look like once the corrupt, illogical and toxic notions of "mental illnesses and disorders," and the Diagno