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THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST
How To Tell If Your Adult Child Is Hurting By Listening To Them? A Clinical Psychology Podcast Episode.

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2025 41:12


The majority of listeners of The Psychology World Podcast are between 40 and 50 years old and from conversations I've had with listeners, a lot of them have children or younger family members. As a parent, they want to protect, love and make sure their child is okay and happy whatever their age. No one wants their adult child to be suffering in silence and feel like they have no place to go, but for a wide range of reasons, sometimes an adult child doesn't want to open up despite their suffering. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast episode, you'll learn about the phrases adult children might use to subtly communicate or hint that there is something wrong and they're hurting and suffering. These phrases offer us a chance to explore and help them open up so we can discover why our adult child is suffering and most importantly, how to help them. By the end of this psychology podcast episode, you'll understand how to tell if your adult child is hurting by listening to them, how to help an adult child and more. If you enjoy learning about parenting, developmental psychology and mental health then this is a great episode for you.In the psychology news section, you'll learn about how satire sharpens the blade of criticism, how emotional typecasting of emergency callers may mislead investigations, and how cisnormativity impacts transgender and non-binary people. LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetIntroduction To Psychotherapies: A Clinical Psychology Introduction To Types of Psychology Therapy- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/introduction-to-psychotherapies Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#psychotherapy #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #clinicalmentalhealth #clinicalpsychologist #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

Arroe Collins Like It's Live
An American Pope Has Confessed To A Love Affair Joni Marie Iraci Gives Us The Thriller Vatican Daughter

Arroe Collins Like It's Live

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2025 14:41


Though the Catholic Church is not new nor immune to scandals and corruption, the premise of an action-filled thriller, Vatican Daughter is sure to stir some controversy.Author Joni Marie Iraci's novel is sure to shock and entertain readers with a story that is based on little-known facts that take us into a cauldron of secrecy, hypocrisy, and power. “When you write about what goes on behind the walls of the Vatican, you realize that, like any corporation, leadership will go to great extent to protect their organization from the public exposure of a scandal, even when the price involves deadly violence.”When the first American pope is about to ascend the throne of St. Peter, he confesses his affair with a female journalist who's about to give birth to his child. The confession given to a corrupt traditional cardinal, sparks a murderous spree as the baby is taken and kept sequestered behind the walls of the Vatican. The injured mother is taken to Venice where she is kept in a Benedictine convent secretly guarded by an unscrupulous Vatican spy.Twelve-years pass before the mother fully recovers. The child, shielded from the outside world, is wise beyond her years and at great risk. She challenges the hypocrisy around her. Under the tutelage of the kindly Bibliotheca of the Vatican Archives, she gains access to hidden Vatican documents and begins to question the validity of Vatican teachings.With vivid detail, Vatican Daughter takes the reader on a suspenseful journey through the cities of Rome and Venice as one woman attempts to expose Vatican treachery and retrieve her kidnapped daughter from behind the walls of the most powerful entity on earth.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST
How Do Scientists Understand Sex, Gender and Gender Identity? A Social Psychology Podcast Episode.

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 16:59


One of the biggest criticisms against transgender individuals that I hear is that “science” says there are only two genders and a lot of transphobic people rely on “science” to back up their transphobic views. However, the reality is that science clearly shows us that there are more than two genders and there are big differences between sex, gender and gender identity. These are important distinctions to make because as aspiring and qualified psychologists, we are scientists first and foremost. Therefore, the way that we operationalise these terms is important in our clinical work and research. As a result, in this social psychology podcast episode, you'll learn how do scientists operationalise sex, gender and gender identity. You'll learn what is sex, gender and gender identity and most importantly, why science says there are more than two genders. If you enjoy learning about gender, social psychology and clinical psychology then this will be a great episode for you.LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetDevelopmental Psychology: A Guide To Developmental and Child Psychology- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/developmentalpsychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#genderidentity #transgender #socialpsychology #psychotherapy #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #clinicalmentalhealth #clinicalpsychologist #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST
What Are The Seven Types of Rests? A Clinical Psychology Podcast Episode.

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2025 43:40


The majority of people think that if they're exhausted then the best way to fix their exhaustion is to get physical rest through sleep. Whilst this is important, it is not the only type of rest a person needs to combat fatigue and exhaustion. In fact, a lot of therapists and professionals, like Saundra Dalton-Smith, explain that rest is the most underused safe and effective alternative therapy that we have available to us. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast episode, you're going to learn about the seven types of rest that our body as well as mind need so we can combat exhaustion and fatigue. By the end of this episode, you'll understand why physical, mental and creative rest are important for our mental health amongst four others. If you enjoy learning about mental health, self-care and rest then this will be a brilliant episode for you.In the psychology news section, you'll learn about why the "Reading The Mind In the Eyes" task might not be fit for purpose, why autistic traits might help us learn from failure, and when is it time to walk away from someone you intend to marry?LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetIntroduction To Psychotherapies: A Clinical Psychology Introduction to Types of Psychological Therapy- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/introduction-to-psychotherapies Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#rest #physicalrest #mentalrest #socialrest #creativerest #spirtualrest #psychotherapy #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #clinicalmentalhealth #clinicalpsychologist #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST
Why Do We Celebrate Pride Month? A Social Psychology Podcast Episode.

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025 24:03


To kick off Pride Season 2025 on The Psychology World Podcast, I wanted to look at why we celebrate Pride Month. Since thankfully in June a lot of cities, communities and companies come together to celebrate Pride Month. They put up flags and companies change their logos to represent all the different genders, sexualities and the diversity of the human experience. Also, the LGBT+ community and their allies come together to party, celebrate and have a good time. Yet some people might argue that this is all pointless because they might believe that the LGBT+ community has equal rights, they don't need a month to celebrate it and it doesn't need to be shoved down their throats. However, the reality is that there are still a lot of rights, even within liberal countries that LGBT+ individuals do not have access to and the discrimination, hate crimes and intolerance that LGBT+ people face every day still exist. Therefore, in this social psychology podcast episode, you'll learn why do we celebrate Pride Month, why Pride Month isn't about pointless parties and why Pride Month is about protesting for equal rights. If you enjoy learning about LGBT+ psychology, the psychology of discrimination and social activism then this will be a perfect episode for you.LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetSocial Psychology: A Guide To Social and Cultural Psychology- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/socioculturalpsychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#Pride #PrideMonth #PrideEvents #LGBT #CelebratePride #socialpsychology #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

The Pulp Writer Show
Episode 253: Self-Publishing Platforms

The Pulp Writer Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 23:09


In this week's episode, we take a look at the major self-publishing platforms that I use, and examine the pros and cons of each. This coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Dragonskull: Doom of the Sorceress, Book #8 in the Dragonskull series, (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills) at my Payhip store: DOOM50 The coupon code is valid through June 24, 2025. So if you need a new audiobook this summer, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates   Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 253 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is May 30th, 2025, and today we are looking at the current major self-publishing platforms and what they offer indie authors. Before we get to our main topic, we'll have Coupon of the Week and an update on my current writing projects.   So let's start with Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Dragonskull: Doom of the Sorceress (book number eight in the Dragonskull series, as excellently narrated by Brad Wills) at my Payhip store. That code is DOOM50. And as always, we will have the coupon code and the links to the store in the show notes. This coupon code is valid through June 24th, 2025. So if you are setting out on summer travels this summer and you need an audiobook to listen to while you're in the car or plane, we have got you covered. So now for an update on my current writing and audiobook projects. Ghost in the Corruption (as I mentioned last week) is now out and available at all the ebook stores: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google Play, Apple Books, Smashwords, and Payhip. It is selling well. So thank you all for that. Now that Ghost in the Corruption is finished, what am I working on next? Well, back in 2023, I finished the Dragonskull and The Silent Order series back to back, so I declared Summer 2023 to be my Summer of Finishing Things. Well, it looks like Summer 2025 is going to be the Super Summer of Finishing Things because I intend to finish three series back to back.   First up is Shield of Power, the sixth and final book of The Shield War series. As of this publishing, I am 26,000 words into it, which puts me on Chapter 6 of 29. So I think it's going to end up being around 100,000-110,000 words long, and I am hoping it will be out in June, though it might slip to July depending on how things go. Once that is done, the next one up will be Stealth and Spells Online: Final Quest, which will be the third and very definitely final book of the Stealth and Spells Online trilogy. Believe it or not, I have been working on Final Quest on the side for so long that I passed the 100,000 word mark in that book this week. In fact, it's been a side project for so long that I don't remember how long I've been working on it, and I had to look up the metadata to check that I indeed started chipping away on it on October 18th, 2024. So I am very pleased that I'm nearly done with the rough draft and because of that reason, if all goes well, it'll come out very quickly after Shield of Power, since I think the rough draft will end up at about 125,000 to 130,000 words or in that neighborhood. Once Stealth and Spells Online: Final Quest is finished, I will then write Ghost in the Siege, which will be the sixth and final book of the Ghost Armor series. I am 1,500 words into that and hoping for that to come out in August or September, if all goes well. Once The Shield War, Stealth and Spells Online, and Ghost Armor are finished, I will finally be free to return to the Rivah and Nadia series. I realized that through all of 2024 and the first half of 2025, I had five unfinished series at the same time, and that was just too much for me to keep track of as a writer, and I think it may have been too much for the readers because it was too much of a wait between the different series as I worked my way through them. So five series at the same time is too much, so hence the Super Summer of Finishing Things. Going forward, I've decided that three unfinished series at the same time will be my maximum, which after the Super Summer of Finishing Things will be Cloak Mage, Half-Elven Thief, and a new epic fantasy series that I will set in the realm of Owyllain.   In audiobook news, Brad Wills started working on Shield of Battle this week and Hollis McCarthy started working on Ghost in the Corruption, so hopefully before probably about July or thereabouts, we will have those audiobooks available for you to listen to. So that is where I'm at with my current writing projects.   00:03:49 Main Topic of the Week: Self-Publishing Platforms for Ebooks [Note: Information in this Episode is Very Likely to Change]   So now let's move on to our main topic for the week, which is the main self-publishing platforms for ebooks. Today we will do a brief overview of the self-publishing platforms I currently use: Amazon/KDP, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google Play, and Draft2Digital/Smashwords. The reason I wanted to do this is because there are many scammy platforms for self-publishing out there, but fortunately there are also many legitimate ones. Today we'll compare several of the most popular ones for ebooks. Just to make things easier for comparison, we'll be using the term platform to discuss both retailers and aggregators and we're not going to talk about options for self-publishing print or audio formats today. We're going to focus solely on ebooks.   First of all, what should you look for in a publishing platform? The first thing is to make sure you retain complete ownership of your content in all formats. Some of these scammer ones try to claim all rights to anything you try to post or sell through them, so that is definitely a red flag to watch out for. Make sure that you understand any exclusivity requirements of any programs that you sign up for such as KDP Select, such as if other formats like audio are also included in their requirements, how long exclusivity lasts, et cetera. If the platform requires exclusivity, that is definitely something to pay attention to. Make sure you do your research carefully to understand how pricing, royalties, and payments work on each individual platform. Sometimes some of them will pay quarterly, some of them pay monthly, and some of them pay you last month's royalties at the end of the month. Some of them like Amazon run like two months behind.   Finally, and this is a big one, you should not have to pay any money in order to upload your work. If they are asking for money upfront, it is probably a scam. Now, there are some aggregators that don't take a percentage and instead charge you a yearly fee. I'm not talking about them in this podcast episode because I don't use them, but they are out there. One example would be Book Funnel, which does charge a yearly fee for you to use but provides a valuable service in being a backend for running your own store on like Payhip or Shopify, and there's a couple of other useful services in that way, but they're not a storefront and they don't take a percentage of any royalties. They just charge a yearly fee. So they're not the topic with this episode.   All the platforms I've talked about today do not have any fees in order to upload. Reputable sites like Amazon or Kobo will instead take a percentage of each book's sale. It's also good to have a few realistic expectations before you start using self-publishing platforms, and one of them is that the platform is not a marketer. For example, many people complain that KDP doesn't showcase their books and they get lost in the millions of books available. However, none of these services are promising that you'll make the front page of their site just by publishing there. It's a common delusion among new indie authors that when you publish your first book, that's all you have to do and people will flock to it. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.   In fact, since Amazon makes a small fortune off book ads, it's not in their interest to give away screen space for free, and this isn't to knock on Amazon, that's just the way the retail industry works. For example, if you go into a Target or a Walmart or another big box retailer, note the products that are prominently displayed on the aisle displays or the endcaps of the aisles. They didn't just get there randomly. The manufacturers of those products paid big money to Amazon and Target and Walmart and the other big box retailers to have their products featured there. In many cases, online commerce is no different.   Getting your book uploaded onto a platform is just the first step. Promoting and marketing the book is up to you and strategies for those will vary based on which ones you choose to use. For example, if you choose to make your work exclusive to just one platform, it's not a good idea to run Facebook ads in countries where that platform either doesn't exist or where it's not terribly popular. Today we're going to be just focusing on comparing the platforms, not how to best to market from them. So what are the options?   #1: First up is the most common platform people use and it's the 800 pound gorilla in the self-publishing space, and that is Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing. And what are the pros and cons of KDP?   Pro: They are the biggest force in ebook publishing in many countries, including the United States. Some authors find that as much as 80 to 95% of their ebook sales come from Amazon, even if they are not exclusive with Amazon. For myself, it's usually about 50 to 60% of my sales on any given month are from Amazon and the rest come from the other retailers.   Heavy readers are generally very familiar with the Kindle Store interface and Library setup, and many readers are kind of locked into Amazon because they own Kindle devices, subscribe to Kindle Unlimited, and have large Kindle Libraries. So those are all the pros of publishing with KDP.   Cons: If you're expecting a large portion of your sales to come from the print version of your book or if print sales are very important to you, be aware that many bookstores and libraries either can't or won't buy print books from Amazon, so you should find an additional platform for the print version such as Ingram Spark or maybe Barnes & Noble's print division. One big concern about going exclusive with Amazon is that you're losing readers who don't have Kindle books in their countries, people who are boycotting Amazon for a variety of reasons, people who are locked into another platform such as Apple or Kobo, or people who want to self-archive their ebooks since Amazon doesn't allow that anymore. If you're already wide, you'll have to look carefully at what percentage of your sales are non-Amazon and if this percentage is an amount you'd be comfortable risking losing in order to be exclusive. Occasionally authors do complain about the customer service available to KDP, especially if it's urgent. For myself, I've not personally had any huge problems with KDP customer service. That said, I think you should expect a lead time of about one to two business days on anything you ask because I usually go through the email form.   Does KDP offer a subscription service? Yes. Kindle Unlimited (KU) readers pay a set amount and can read an unlimited number of books each month, although they're limited as to how many they can have in their library at any one time. Promotions happen regularly, usually based around big sales like Prime Day, and it can make a subscription as cheap as $0.99 for a three month period. Some also receive free subscriptions by buying certain Amazon products such as a new Kindle or Kindle Fire.   The downside of being in Kindle Unlimited is the exclusivity. You can't be in KU without being exclusive with Amazon, or at least the specific book in question has to be exclusive. Not all of your books have to be exclusive, and many authors such as myself will usually put one series in KU and then make sure everything else is wide. You must agree to be exclusive with them for ninety days and that time period is renewable.   What does KDP pay in terms of royalty? For $2.99 to $9.99, they give you 70% of the sale price. Under $2.99 and above $9.99, it's 35%. So that is sort of an encouragement from Amazon to price your ebooks in the $2.99 to $9.99 range. Currently I price new novels at $4.99 and do short stories at $0.99 cents.   What do I do? I have all of my titles available through KDP. I have a smaller portion of my collection exclusive through KDP Select/KU, and I have only recently increased that amount of Select titles due to the economic downturn. I suspect that KU users are likely to hold onto their subscriptions while cutting other expenses because honestly, KU is a pretty good deal for readers and the monthly subscription costs is about the same as one tradpub frontlist ebook, but with a KU subscription, they could read thousands of books for the same price. The value of KU is really very strong for frequent romance, LitRPG, science fiction, and fantasy readers. There's a strong population in the KU subscriber base often referred to as binge readers. They care more about variety, discovering new books, and the ability to read a lot over the ability to read specific authors or stories.   So overall, I think if you are self-publishing and even if you don't like Amazon very much or don't plan to go exclusive, it's still in your best interest to publish your ebook with them, even if you are wide and intend to do all the other retailers just because Amazon really is the biggest ebook platform out there at the moment. #2: Now, the next self-publishing platform we're going to look at is Barnes & Noble Press, which as the name implies, belongs to Barnes & Noble. The Pros: some people are never, ever going to let go of their Nooks or they already have a large personal ebook library through the Nook so they feel locked into that platform. These readers are the majority of people buying ebooks through Barnes & Noble, but fortunately that group tends to read a lot. There's also a lot of trust in Barnes & Noble as a brand, and that inspires people to continue buying from them.   In fact, for a while in the indie author space at the end of the 2010s and the start of the 2020s, it was a regular prediction that Barnes & Noble was going to go out of business soon, but then the company was bought by a private equity firm, and while private equity firms often have a deserved bad reputation for stripping a company of assets and then selling it off at a bargain basement price (such as the fate of Red Lobster), that does not seem to be the case of what happened with Barnes & Noble and the company really has been strengthening in recent years. So they may be here to stay for a while.   The downsides of publishing with Barnes & Noble Press is that Barnes & Noble is relatively a minor player in the ebook market, though usually in the top four of most indie author ebook sales if they're wide. They have shifted their focus to selling print books instead of Nook devices, especially in the retail space.   Do they offer a subscription service? They do not. However, nothing about Barnes & Noble requires exclusivity, which is nice, and the royalty structure is pretty good. It's 70% over all titles over $0.99. So if you want, you could price your ebook at $0.99 or $19.99 and still make 70%, which you couldn't do with those prices on Amazon.     #3: The next self-publishing platform we'll look at is Kobo Writing Life, which is the ebook platform to publish on Kobo, which is owned by Rakuten. Pros: Kobo is strong in the international market and will help you to reach readers in many countries. Based on my sales data, in Canada and Australia, Kobo is significantly bigger than Amazon for ebook sales. Kobo has also had a surge of recent media attention in the US as people seek out alternatives to Amazon and Kindle devices.   The Con of Kobo, and this is a fairly small one, is that their US market share is still fairly small compared to Amazon or Barnes & Noble or some of the others. But as I mentioned, they're a lot stronger in Canada and Australia, and they do reach a lot of different countries, more than Amazon does.   Does Kobo have a subscription service? Yes, Kobo Plus. Kobo Plus is significantly less expensive than Kindle Unlimited, and there's an additional tier that allows you to add audiobook content to the plan. The library isn't quite as extensive as KU though, though. I should note that in the years since Kobo has been introduced, I'd say about half of my revenue from Kobo (sometimes 60% of my revenue from Kobo) comes from Kobo Plus and not from direct ebook sales. So it's getting to the point where the majority of their ebook revenue I suspect, is coming from Kobo Plus and not direct Kobo sales.   Do they require exclusivity? No, which is another strong selling point for Kobo Plus. For their royalty structure, ebooks over $2.99, you get 70% and any books over below $2.99, you get 45%, which is a more generous term than Amazon in terms of the royalty rate for below $2.99 and above $9.99.   So what do I do? I currently use it as one of the platforms for my ebooks. It's been a pretty strong seller for me consistently over the years, and every Kobo book that I have is also available in Kobo Plus, which probably explains the revenue split I was talking about earlier. #4: The next platform we'll look at is Draft2Digital/Smashwords, which we'll do as one because Draft2Digital and Smashwords are in the process of merging. Draft2Digital is technically what's called an aggregator, where you upload your book and then they can publish on a variety of different platforms for you, and in exchange, they take a small cut of the sales. Draft2Digital is, in my opinion, probably the most effective way to get your ebooks through Apple and Smashwords. Apple does have its own direct uploading service, but I've never used it because there are a bit too many hoops to jump through.   Draft2Digital does, as I mentioned, have a way to publish on multiple storefronts at once while managing uploads and sales reporting through just one interface. They're not a storefront in and of themselves, although since Draft2Digital does own Smashwords, Smashwords essentially acts as their storefront for them. Although Draft2Digital lists Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble as an option, most authors will upload to these sites separately, and in fact, that's what I do for myself.   The Pros of Draft2Digital is that it's a definite time savings using Draft2Digital to publish across multiple platforms, especially with platforms like Apple that are more difficult or time consuming to learn. This is also a convenient way to make your work accessible to library platforms like Overdrive/Libby, Hoopla, and Bibliotheca, if that is important to you. Library sales have never been a huge priority of mine, but I've never been opposed to them either, so I usually just flip those switches on and then don't think about it again.   The Cons for Draft2Digital are that there was a period after the Smashwords migration where they received complaints about customer service and difficulty in setting up tax information, though I think that is mostly ironed out now.   One potential hazard for Draft2Digital with a very specific subset of writers is that if you are a writer of, shall we say, very hard erotica, the sort that ends up in very restricted categories on most stores, you will probably have trouble publishing through Draft2Digital. This is not, however, a problem that's unique to Draft2Digital. Amazon has what is called the “erotica dungeon”, where if you publish certain kinds of, like we said, very harsh erotica, your book isn't searchable on the Amazon store. You can link to it directly, but it will never show up on any search results. Kobo in particular has had problems with erotica.   Back in the 2010s, Kobo was also distributing ebooks to some British retailers, and these British retailers suddenly got upset when they noticed that these kinds of hard erotica were showing up on their store pages, which was not a good look for the company. And so there was a kerfuffle until that was all sorted out. My frank opinion with that is if you are writing these kinds of erotica, the big stores and Draft2Digital will never be on your side, and so you are better off pursuing a sort of a Patreon/running your own store on Shopify or Payhip strategy, but that is a bit of a digression.   So in terms of royalties, Draft2Digital takes 10% of the book's retail price per copy sold, which is in addition to whatever amount is taken by the specific storefront. So you are paying a bit of money in exchange for convenience for just uploading your book to Draft2Digital and having it push out the book to all the different stores for you.   What I do is I use Draft2Digital for Apple mainly because for a while I was using Smashwords, but Smashwords in the 2010s was a bit more persnickety than is now, and you needed to prepare a specially formatted doc file to publish on Smashwords and sometimes getting it through the Smashwords processing onto Apple was a bit of a pain. Draft2Digital took epub files, which are much easier to work with, and after a while I switched over all my Apple publishing to Draft2Digital entirely. So that's why I use Draft2Digital for Apple and for various library services that tend to be a minor amount of sales. Because of the difficulties on publishing direct to Apple, I do find that that 10% is good trade off in terms of selling books on Apple for me.   #5: Now onto Google Play's ebook self-publishing platform, which is, I think its full name is the Google Books Partner Center, which lets you publish books to the Google Play Store for sale on Android devices.   The Pros are that for writers interested in the international market, Google Play is another strong choice for a platform since the international mobile device market is very Android heavy. The iPhone (Apple) tends to be concentrated mainly in the US and a few of the wealthier countries like the UK and Canada, but Android has a much more international reach in general than the iPhone. Google Play also has some interesting promotional options for ebooks, such as offering the buyer a chance to subscribe to a specific series.   The cons are that some authors report that their sales reporting doesn't always consistently generate reports, and others are annoyed that it only generates a CSV file, (which isn't that much of a hardship for people who are familiar with Excel).   For myself, I found that there is a bit of a reporting lag on Google Play where it will sometimes take as long as five or six days for sales to show up on the dashboard, though usually it's only a delay of two days, though sometimes during the month you'll get these bigger lags and sometimes processing new material on the Google Play Store can be slow, and it can sometimes take two to three days for things to appear, though it usually gets worked out in the end. Does Google Play have a subscription service? It does not, nor does it require exclusivity, which is another point in its favor. And the royalties, the data is quite nice here. It is 70% for all price points in the countries listed on their support page, which only excludes a handful of countries like India, South Korea, and Japan (because of currency conversion regions or other local laws).   So those are the ebook publishing platforms that I currently use, and because I use them myself, I would recommend them. Hopefully that is helpful to you as you are looking for places to self-publish your book as you set out to become an indie author.   So that is it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the backup episodes at https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.  

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How To Overcome Infidelity And Rebuild Trust? A Social Psychology Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 37:18


Discovering your partner cheated on you, betrayed your trust and shattered your relationship is an awful feeling that no one should ever have to go through. It can lead the other partner feeling unsure who to trust, weakened and it can make them question everything they knew about the relationship beforehand. Yet it is possible to overcome infidelity and rebuild trust in the relationship so it can survive. Therefore, in this social psychology podcast episode, we're going to look at how to overcome infidelity and rebuild trust so the relationship can survive and thrive. If you enjoylearning about relationships, social psychology and infidelity then this is a great episode for you.In the psychology news, you'll learn about how the "mind's nose" might actually be a thing, what is the gateway to conscious perception, and a new ADHD treatment might be on the horizon.LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetPsychology of Relationships: The Social Psychology of Friendships, Romantic Relationships and More- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/humanrelationships Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#infidelity #infidelityrecovery #overcominginfidelity #cheating #socialpsychology #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #clinicalmentalhealth #clinicalpsychologist #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts #short

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What Is Chronic Illness For Psychologists? A Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 49:27


As aspiring and qualified psychologists, our work mainly focuses on helping people with mental health difficulties. For example, how their depression, social anxiety or trauma responses negatively impact their lives and cause them significant levels of psychological distress. Then we use our psychological knowledge to create interventions to help them. However, less often, we're taught to think about how physical health and chronic illness can impact our clients in their daily functioning, their quality of life and their mental health. That's right. Your physical health and chronic illness can directly impact your mental health. Therefore, in this clinical psychology mixed with health psychology podcast episode, you'll learn more about chronic illness. By the end, you'll understand what is chronic illness, how chronic illness impacts people and how does chronic illness impact mental health. If you enjoy learning about health psychology, life as a clinical psychologist and more then this is a great episode for you.In the psychology news section, you'll learn about why cold memories cue our bodies to warm up, how to make someone feel valued by flexing your memory, and "think outside the box and question everything".LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetWorking With Children and Young People: A Guide To Clinical Psychology, Mental Health and Psychotherapy- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/working-with-childrenna-d-young-people Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#clinicalhealthpsychology #healthpsychology #chronicillness #psychotherapy #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #clinicalmentalhealth #clinicalpsychologist #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

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What Is Exam Stress For Psychology Students? A University Psychology Student Life Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 41:33


For the past six years that I've been running this podcast,I've had to sit university psychology exams. Every year, I hear from other students that they are stressed out, concerned and they are nervous about their revision, their exams and the results day itself. Recently, I gave a series of talks at a local college in Canterbury to help 17 and 18 year olds how to cope with exam stress, so I want to share this knowledge with you. By the end of this clinical psychology podcast episode, you'll understand what is exam stress, how to identify exam stress and how to cope with exam stress during revision, your exam and results day. As what as you'll learn what to do if your mind goes blank during an exam. If you're a psychology student worried about exams, then this is a perfect episode for you.In the psychology news section, you'll learn about whether pink noise really helps you focus, how café music influences your coffee break, and how losing a coin toss makes it feel less fair. LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetThird Year Survival Guide: A Psychology Student's Guide To The Final Year of Their Undergraduate Degree. - https://www.connorwhiteley.net/third-year-survival-guide Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#examstress #examstressmanagement #psychologystudents #universitylife #universitystudent #universitystudents #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #podcast #podcasts

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What Are Binaural Beats? A Cognitive Psychology Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 39:38


At the time of writing, exam season for psychology students is just getting underway. I had my only exam three days ago and I know the second-year psychology students had their developmental psychology exam at the same time. Exam season involves a lot of revision, a little stress and students trying everything under the sun to improve their concentration and revision. Binaural beats are one such technique because they are meant to improve our concentration, be good for studying amongst other things. Yet what are binaural beats, how do binaural beats work, how effective are they and more. By the end of this cognitive psychology podcast episode, you'll know the answers to all those questions and more about binaural beats. If you enjoy learning about biological psychology, cognitive psychology and how to improve your concentration then this will be a great episode for you.In the psychology news section, you'll learn that proximity to family impacts punishment attitudes, barriers to discussing racial trauma in therapy, and how victim-blaming leads to shorter sentences for rapists. LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetBiological Psychology- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/biologicalpsychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#binauralbeats #biologicalpsychology #cognitivepsychology #biopsychology #psychotherapy #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #clinicalmentalhealth #clinicalpsychologist #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

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What Are Social Graces in Clinical Psychology? A Psychotherapy and Social Psychology Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 47:18


Whenever a client comes into our therapy room or whenever you meet a psychologist, they have certain privileges and disadvantages that you don't have. Also, you'll both have different life experiences, perspectives and focuses that you will share and you will differ in. This is because every one of us is wonderfully unique with our own thoughts, feelings and lived experiences. Yet as aspiring and qualified psychologists, we need to acknowledge that we have certain social graces or privileges that our clients don't have and vice versa. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast episode, you'll going to learn what are social graces, what are some types of social graces and how social graces can impact the therapy process. If you enjoy learning about psychotherapy, clinical psychology and privilege then this will be a great episode for you. In the psychology news section, you'll learn about research, community and therapeutic echoes within kink, how gossip is more appealing to anxiety, and is panic buying really panicked? LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetMoral Psychology: Introduction To The Social Psychology, Biological Psychology and Applied Psychology of Morality- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/moral-psychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#socialgraces #psychotherapy #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #clinicalmentalhealth #clinicalpsychologist #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

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Why Psychologists Do Not Only Deal With Crazy People. A Clinical Psychology Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 37:19


I don't think anyone can go through their psychology journeywithout encountering any myths about psychology. A few years ago at a gender reveal party, I was talking to my brother's dad (we have different ones) and he explained how he needed to see a psychologist because of an injury before he could go to work. Yet when he was younger and even now, he wouldn't do it because everyone back then knew psychologists only saw “crazy” people. After I explained the types of people who psychologists actually helped, he was more relaxed about going. This is just one out of the millions of myths that psychology and psychologists face every day. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast episode, you'll learn about the “crazy people” myth about psychology, who psychologists help and more about clinical psychology in the real world. If you enjoy learning about psychology myths, careers in psychology and mental health then this is a great episode for you.In the psychology news section, you'll learn about how insecurity increases the liking gap, how stress-based insomnia spreads to partners, and how much misconduct should there be in research. LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetMyths About Clinical Psychology: A Psychology Student's And Professional's Guide To Myths About Clinical Psychology- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/myths-about-clinical-psychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#psychotherapy #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #clinicalmentalhealth #clinicalpsychologist #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

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How To Reduce Conflict Between Parents? A Social Psychology And Developmental Psychology Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2025 40:08


If you're a UK listener living in Kent then you might have heard on the radio recently an advert by Kent County Council about the awful and damaging impact consistent arguing and parental conflict can have on child development. After hearing this advert a few times, I wanted to learn more and it's really interesting how parental conflict negatively impacts a child's development at no fault of their own. Therefore, in this social psychology podcast episode, you'll learn how parental conflict damages a child's development, how to reduce conflict between parents and more. If you're interested in child psychology, conflict reduction and social psychology then this will be a great episode for you.In the psychology news section, you'll learn how the precision of a memory can be seen in the eyes, why soldiers can kill without moral injury, and how long does it take to get over an ex?LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetDevelopmental Psychology: A Guide To Developmental and Child Psychology- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/developmentalpsychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#parentalconflict #coparents #parenting #parentingtips #parentingadvice #conflictreduction #developmentalpsychology #childpsychology #childdevelopment #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

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I survived. Highs, Lows and Lessons From Rape 1-Year On. A Clinical Psychology Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2025 63:44


Rape and other forms of sexual violence is beyond awful. It is one of the worse, most traumatic and devastating things that can happen to a person. During sexual violence, someonetakes everything away from you, your control, your consent, your ability to do anything at all. You just go into survival mode and the consequences of sexual violence are immense. There isn't a single area of your life that sexual violence isn't impacted by. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast episode, to mark the one-year anniversary of my rape, I want to explain the highs, lows and lessons from the past year as I survived my rape and everything I had to deal with afterwards. There were a lot of awful, horrific things that I had to deal with as a rape survivor in the past year, but there have been some highs too. By the end of this clinical psychology podcast episode, you'll know some of the negative mental health consequences of sexual violence, how sexual violence can destroy lives and how people can deal with sexual trauma. This is a great, deeply personal episode that you're going to learn a lot from.In the psychology news section, you'll learn how delusional themes are more varied than previously thought, what teenage girls think about the gender mental health gap, and a new study on conscious preception.AND in the personal update, I share the results of a fascinating paper I read about an intervention to counteract Stereotype Threat in older adults, amongst other interesting things.LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetApplied Psychology: Applying Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology and More To The Real World- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/applied-psychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#sexualviolence #sexualtrauma #sextraumasurvivor #rapesurvivor #sexualassault #rape #forensicpsychology #criminalpsychology #ptsd #suicide #depression #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #clinicalmentalhealth #clinicalpsychologist #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

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How Does Childhood Trauma Impact Relationship Boundaries? A Clinical Psychology and Trauma Psychology Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 39:10


After something personal happened last night, all I can think about today is trauma and considering this psychology podcast episode is already likely to be late going out, I didn't want to argue with myself. I just wanted to do an episode on something I was already thinking about because what we experience in our childhood can have a massive impact on our relationships. For example, what we think a healthy relationship and boundaries look like and how we believe the social world works. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast episode, you'll learn about how childhood trauma impacts relationships, how trauma survivors can improve their relationship boundaries and a lot more useful and insightful information. If you enjoy learning about mental health, trauma outcomes and a bit of social psychology then this is a great episode for you.In the psychology news section, you'll learn about whether women really talk more than men, how the menstrual cycle links to mental health, and why nailing a habit takes longer than we think.LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetDevelopmental Psychology: A Guide To Developmental and Child Psychology- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/developmentalpsychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#childhoodtrauma #childabuse #relationshipboundaries #boundaries #relationships #healthyboundary #healthyboundaries #healthyrelationships #socialpsychology #relationshippsychology #relationship #relationships #psychotherapy #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #clinicalmentalhealth #clinicalpsychologist #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

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What To Do When Depression Makes It Impossible To Get Out of Bed? A Clinical Psychology Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 34:39


With depression being one of the most common mental health conditions in the world, a lot of a clinical psychologist's workload will be supporting people with depression. A common depression symptom is what's known as “Leaden Paralysis” and one of the effects of the symptoms is that everyday tasks take a million times more energy to complete. This can make the “simple” task of getting out of bed feel impossible for people with depression. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast episode, you'll learn what is leaden paralysis, why leaden paralysis impacts people's mental health and what to do when depression makes it impossible to get out of bed. If you enjoy learning about mental health, Major Depressive Disorder and psychotherapy then this will be a great episode for you.In the psychology news section, you'll learn how patience is a coping strategy and not a virtue, why non-human animals also see shrinking social circles in old age, and how access to effective mental health treatment is scarce worldwide.LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetCBT For Depression: A Clinical Psychology Introduction To Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Depression- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/cbt-for-depression Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#depression #majordepressivedisorder #leadenparalysis #psychotherapy #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #clinicalmentalhealth #clinicalpsychologist #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

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Introduction To Psychometrics and Psychological Measurements. A Psychology Statistics Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2025 39:03


Whilst statistics might be a psychological topic that lots of aspiring and qualified psychologists dread, learning about psychometrics and psychological measurements is a lot of fun and it is really interesting. We need to understand how to create good psychometric measurements so we can measure the behaviour we intend to and not any other variables. This is even more important for aspiring and qualified clinical psychologists where the quality and accuracy of our psychometric measurements could be the difference between people receiving or being denied mental health support. This statistics topic is critical to understand and appreciate. Therefore, in this psychological statistics podcast episode, you'll learn what are psychometrics, what are psychological measurements and a lot more insightful facts that will deepen your understanding of statistics.In the psychology news section, you'll learn about what we mean when we talk about "the ick", trouble finding words is common in long covid, and how holiday benefits last longer than we thought. LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxset401 Psychology Statistics Questions For Psychology Students: A Guide To Psychology Statistics, Research Methods and More- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/401-psychology-statistics-questions Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#psychometrics #psychologystatistics #psychologymethods #statistics #statisticsfordatascience #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

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What Is Educational Psychology? A Careers In Psychology Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 46:55


Please subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any new episodes.Recently through my university, I received a job advert for an Assistant Educational Psychologist position starting in September with the only experience requirement being that you have worked at least one year full-time with children. This was perfect for me because I've been working with children and young people part-time for six years, so I will definitely be applying to this position next week. However, my understanding of educational psychology is very surface level, so in case I become an educational psychologist, it would be very useful to have a greater understanding of educational psychology. Therefore, in this careers in psychology podcast episode, you'll learn what is educational psychology, what do educational psychologists do, what are the potential careers within educational psychology and more. If you enjoy learning about psychology careers, applied psychology and the psychology of learning then this will be a great episode for you.In the psychology news section, you'll learn about what are boomeraskers, what is the cycle of narcissisms and ostracism, and how a theory about dementia got flipped on its head.LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:Please subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any new episodes.FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetRetrieval-Based Learning- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/retrieval-based-learning Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#educationalpsychology #educationalpsychologist #educationalpsychologists#education #educationmatters #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

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What Is Media Psychology? A Cyberpsychology and Careers In Psychology Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2025 37:51


I first became aware of media psychology in 2024 when I kept seeing media psychology training courses being advertised in The Psychologist magazine by the British Psychology Society. I had never heard of media psychology before but I checked out the courses and £100 wasn't a bad price. In the future, I might take one of the courses so I can deepen my understanding of what is media psychology, what do media psychologists do and the various roles that media psychologists play on production sets. However, until that time, in this cyberpsychology podcast episode, you'll explore what is media psychology, what topics do media psychologists study and more. If you're interested in the intersection between applied psychology, careers in psychology and technology then this will be a brilliant podcast episode for you.In the psychology news section, you'll learn the schoolyard effects of online misogyny, sensory atypicalities in Borderline Personality Disorder, and how a mother's immune during pregnancy could impact her child's dementia risk. LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetCareers In Psychology: A Guide To Careers In Clinical Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Business Psychology and More- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/careers-in-psychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#mediapsychology #psychologycareer #media #socialmedia #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts #short

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Jozef Ritman over de Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Dan Brown, de Katharen en Amsterdam als Spirituele Hoofstad | #214

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2025 114:44


Lieve vrienden,   Er staat weer een bijzondere aflevering voor jullie klaar! Dit keer met Jozef Ritman, bekend van The Ritman Library en directeur van Embassy of the Free Mind. Al decennialang is hij met zijn familie bezig met het verzamelen, ontsluiten en behouden van eeuwenoude kennis over spiritualiteit, alchemie, rozenkruizers, vrijmetselarij en de hermetische filosofie.   Zijn vader noemde het al het Ad Fontes-principe: "Je gaat terug naar de bron." En precies dat is de rode draad van dit gesprek. Want, zoals Jozef zegt: "De meeste mensen herkennen die kern vanuit hun eigen intuïtie, ook al begrijpen ze het in hun bovenkamer nog niet meteen.”   In deze aflevering praten we over de kracht van boeken, de zoektocht naar verborgen kennis en waarom deze oude wijsheid juist nu zo belangrijk is. "Boeken zijn dragers van ideeën, en ideeën kunnen werelden veranderen." Maar dat vraagt wel om een open blik: "Als je alleen in het zichtbare gelooft, mis je de helft van de realiteit."   We bespreken de rol van het hermetisme, de universele wetmatigheden van het bestaan en hoe deze inzichten generaties vrijdenkers hebben geïnspireerd. "Er is een innerlijk weten in de mens, iets wat niet opgelegd hoeft te worden. Het hermetisme helpt je om dat te herkennen."   Daarnaast deelt Jozef zijn kritische blik op de moderne samenleving, waarin we volgens hem te veel vastzitten in materialisme en rationaliteit. "De spirituele armoede van deze tijd is misschien wel groter dan de materiële armoede. We zijn verleerd om vragen te stellen die er echt toe doen."  

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Why Feminists Do Not Hate Men? A Social Psychology Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 34:26


To celebrate International Women's Day, I want to focus on the myth in society that feminists are men-hating individuals. I flat out hate it whenever this myth pops up because feminists do not hate men in the slightest and it is often misogynistic men using the idea of misandry as a just cause to threaten and insult women that pelt this myth. Therefore, in this social psychology podcast episode, you'll learn what is feminism, why feminists do not hate men and why sexist men push this awful and anti-feminist myth. If you enjoy learning about social psychology, social activism and more then this will be a great episode for you.In the psychology news section, you'll learn how pandemic kids struggle to identify false beliefs, what influences people's ability to bring dreams into the waking world, and what makes a "favourite" child. LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetSocial Psychology: A Guide To Social and Cultural Psychology- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/socioculturalpsychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#feminism #socialpsychology #feminist #feministmovement #internationalwomensday #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts #short

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Are Infants Moral? A Social Psychology and Developmental Psychology Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 35:00


Please subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any new episodes.If you've been listening to The Psychology World Podcast for a while then you might have noticed that from time to time I report on research concerning the morality of infants. I've always found it is interesting and I like how research is starting to recognise that infants can be naturally moral. And yet this challenges a lot of traditional theories that have a lot of research support. Resulting in a rather large paradox for researchers. In this developmental psychology episode, you'll learn are infants moral by learning about a range of social and developmental factors that help to make infants moral (and immoral too). If you like learning about morality, prosocial behaviour and child psychology then you'll enjoy today's episode.In the psychology news section, what are the five new rules for first-impressions, why kids are so gross and what is the Big Brother Effect. LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:Please subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any new episodes.FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetMoral Psychology: An Introduction To the Social Psychology, Biological Psychology and Applied Psychology of Morality- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/moral-psychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#morality #developmentalpsychology #childpsychology #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

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How Does A Consistent Sleep Schedule Improve Mental Health? A Clinical Psychology Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2025 33:10


Last week at the time of writing, I was seriously ill for two main reasons. Firstly, I was really exhausted and ill because of malnourishment caused by my anorexia. Thankfully, I'm managing to get a handle on it and I'm finally starting to eat a little more. Secondly, I was really sick because I was my sleep schedule was so awful and inconsistent that my lack of eating and lack of sleep was causing me to get very ill. So much so that for the first time in my life I was actually needing to take naps because I was so fatigued and my headache was so bad. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast episode, you'll going to learn how does a consistent sleep schedule improves our mental health, why does this happen and how can we improve our sleep schedule so we can improve our mental health. If you're interested in clinical psychology, biological psychology and the importance of consistent sleep then this will be a brilliant episode for you.In the psychology news section, you'll learn if feeling powerful makes us more likely to be unfaithful, why seeing might be believing when it comes to paranoid, and why men overestimate women's preference for masculinity?LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetBiological Psychology- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/biologicalpsychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#sleep #sleeping #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #clinicalmentalhealth #clinicalpsychologist #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

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How To Support a Loved One with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? A Clinical Psychology Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2025 39:08


Please subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any new episodes.In last week's psychology podcast episode, we looked at What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder because I live with someone with OCD and I wanted to understand the condition more. In this week's podcast episode, I wanted to take a step closer towards understanding how to help someone with OCD outside of the therapy room, because I know first-hand how distressing OCD can be on the person themselves and the people around them. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast episode, you'll learn how obsessive-compulsive disorder impacts relationships, the people who live with the person with OCD and how can you support someone with OCD without reinforcing their maladaptive beliefs and coping mechanisms. If you enjoy learning about mental health, obsessive-compulsive disorder and more then this will be a great episode for you.In the psychology news section, you'll learn about the dangers of beauty filters, identity questioning in quarantine, and the possibility of Vagus nerve stimulation in depression treatment.LISTEN NOW!If you want to support the podcast, please check out:Please subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any new episodes.FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxsetIntroduction To Psychotherapies: A Clinical Psychology Introduction To Types of Psychological Therapies- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/introduction-to-psychotherapies Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca.Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast#obsessivecompulsivedisorder #ocd #ocdawarenessweek #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #clinicalmentalhealth #clinicalpsychologist #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

The Pulp Writer Show
Episode 237: 5 Tips For Outlining Your Novel

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2025 20:22


In this week's episode, we take a look at five tips for outlining your novel. I also take a look at audiobook sales for 2024. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Wizard-Thief, Book #2 in the Half-Elven Thief series, (as excellently narrated by Leanne Woodward) at my Payhip store: WIZARD50 The coupon code is valid through February 21, 2025. So if you need a new audiobook for spring, we've got you covered! 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates   Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 237 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is January 31st, 2025, and today we're discussing five tips for outlining your novel. Before we get to that, we will have Coupon of the Week, an update on my current writing projects, Question of the Week, and then a look at how my audiobooks performed in 2024.   First up, Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Wizard Thief, Book Number Two in the Half-Eleven Thief series (as excellently narrated by Leanne Woodward) at my Payhip store. That coupon code is WIZARD50. Both the coupon code and the link to the store will be in the show notes for this episode. This coupon code will be valid through February the 21st, 2025. So if you need a new audiobook to get you through the February doldrums, we have got you covered. And now an update on my current writing and audiobook projects. I am very, very, very pleased to report that Shield of Deception, the fourth book in The Shield War series, is done. As soon as I am finished recording this episode, I'm going to start publishing it at all the stores. So by the time this episode goes live, you should be able to get it at your favorite ebook store. I'm very pleased this is done because I think this is the longest book I have written in the last four years, which of course I picked to do over the Christmas holiday and was in the process of switching over to a new desktop computer. Great planning on my part, but the book is done and hopefully you should be able to enjoy it soon at your favorite ebook store.   Now that Shield of Deception is done, my next project will be Ghost in the Assembly and I'm pleased to report I'm 20,000 words into that. So I'm hopefully on track to have that come out sometime in March. My secondary project is also going to be Shield of Battle, the fifth book in the Shield War series, and hopefully that will be in April, if all goes well.   In audiobook news, Cloak of Masks is now finally available at all audiobook stores: Audible, Amazon, Apple, Google Play, Chirp, and all the others. A reminder that you can also get Ghost Armor Omnibus One, the combination of the first three Ghost Armor books (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy), at Audible, Apple, and Amazon.   00:02:15 Question of the Week   Now it's time for Question of the Week, which is intended to inspire enjoyable discussions of interesting topics. This week's topic: do you watch the special features on the DVD when you watch a movie? I'm talking about the making of and the director and cast and crew interviews and so forth. Not all DVDs have them of course, but some do. We have a few responses to this question.   Justin says: It depends on the movie. The special features in Monty Python and the Holy Grail Special Edition are a must-see in my opinion.   John says: I watched all the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition extras. Really great material. I know I've watched others, but I can't recall offhand. Definitely the gold standard.   Tom says: My general pattern is to watch the trailer, then the movie, then the deleted scenes. Sometimes I'll watch parts of the special features if their name caches my eye, not often though.   James says: With On-Demand through my cable provider, I just watch the movies. Being part of the PC Master Race, I've never had a gaming console to play DVDs on. I haven't bought a DVD in ages. I used to belong to Redbox, but they're not even in business anymore. Elizabeth says: Sometimes, or play in another language with English subtitles.   Brandy says: Sometimes. I watched The Lord of the Rings special features and enjoyed it. I also watch historical extras or look them up.   Bonnie says: I think I may have once? I usually just watch the movie, haven't watched anything in ages, though.   Juana says: Yes. After the feature things are interesting!   Tracy says: I do.   For myself, the inspiration for this question was that I couldn't think of anything to watch, so I was watching the special features on The Lord of the Rings Extended Editions box set, which a few people have already mentioned. I really think those are the gold standard for DVD special features. Not too many special features have middle aged literature professors discussing the origins of the book that inspired the movie. There's like six discs worth of special features in the Extended Edition Lord of the Rings DVDs, and if you watch all of them, it's really a very interesting and comprehensive documentary on how those three movies were made. If you get the Oppenheimer Blu-ray, the special features that come with that are also quite interesting and worth watching in my opinion.   00:04:18 Audiobook Sales in 2024   Now let's talk a little bit about how my audiobooks did in 2024. Ebook sales were down a bit from 2023 to 2024, but my audiobook sales were up from 2023 to 2024. So here are my Top 10 bestselling audiobooks of 2024. It's nice to note that audio (at least for me) was up, in 2024 in a time of general economic contraction. So that's nice. Now my Top 10 audiobooks:   The Ghosts: Omnibus One 2. Frostborn: The Gorgon Spirit 3. Frostborn: The Dark Warden 4. Frostborn: The Broken Mage 5. Frostborn: The World Gate 6. Frostborn: The False King 7. Frostborn: Excalibur 8. Frostborn: The Dwarven Prince 9. Dragonskull: Omnibus One 10. Frostborn: The High Lords   So I have to admit, it's nice to see the Frostborn books still in the Top 10 there because they've long ago made back their production costs. So now it's just a pure profit at this point, which is nice. And it's also amusing that The Ghosts Omnibus One remains my bestselling audiobook of all time just because it's so long. Now let's see how those sales broke down by vendor because as you know, I sell my audiobooks through several different platforms. And so let's see how they did:   ACX (Audible, Amazon, Apple): 76.54% 2. Google Play: 9.84% 3. Storytel: 5.08% 4. Hoopla: 2.73% 5. Spotify: 2.27% 6. Chirp: 1.05% 7. Under 1%: Kobo, Scribd, Audiobooks.com, Overdrive, TuneIn, Bibliotheca, Nook, and Anyplay     So as we can see, Audible in the form of ACX is still pretty dominant, but there is growth on the other platforms, especially Google Play. I was not expecting Google Play to come in second. I would've thought it would've been Chirp or Spotify, but it seems Google Play did very well for me for audiobooks for 2024. So thanks for listening everyone, or at least listening to the audiobooks. We're not done with the podcast yet, so let's now move on to our main topic.   00:06:34 Main Topic: 5 Tips for Creating an Outline for Your Novel   Now let's move on to our main topic, five tips for creating an outline for your novel. In the fiction writing community, there's generally two schools of thoughts, outliners (of which I am definitely one), and discovery writers, who feel that starting with outlines sort of drains the process of its fun and magic. Though I heard an interesting point from one of Brandon Sanderson's videos recently where he said that all outliners do have a little bit of discovery writer in them because if you look at your outline, it'll say something like “there is a chase scene.” Then when you get to that part of the book, you write out eight to ten pages of the chase scene or whatever that you come up with on the spot and then later refine and improve through editing. So that's a good point, but I do think outlining is more useful in general for writing than not outlining is.   So why outline? As I mentioned, many writers do not outline, but I do think outlining does help, especially with beginning writers. For one, it saves time because if you follow the outline, you're less likely to go down a blind alley and realize you have to drop the last 10 or 20,000 words you wrote. It helps prevent getting stuck and not knowing what to write next. And it also really helps because it'll save you time in editing because you're less likely to have to rewrite large portions of the book. And it's also helpful for maintaining continuity as well.   I found also that outlining in advance is good because it forces you to think about things before you start because we all know writers who get really excited about writing, get a third of the way through, and then don't know where to go next. It's because they haven't thought it through. Outlining forces you to really think through the middle, which is where a lot of writers get stuck, and it also forces you to think through the ending and make sure it properly resolves the conflicts and stakes raised in the story.   As an example, I know a beginning writer who did not create an outline when setting out to write for the first time, although she had a strong setting and liked her characters, she realized about halfway through that the conflict wasn't enough to carry her whole story and that changing the conflict or raising the stakes would change the tone of the story too much. And unfortunately, she decided to abandon the draft. You could look at that one way, that it was months of wasted effort for her that could have been prevented with a couple hours of outlining, though I think it's better to look at it as a valuable learning experience where she learned that yes, outlining really will help me with my writing and just sort of had to learn that the hard way through attempting to write without an outline first.   #1: So our first tip for outlining novels is to learn story structure. It's hard to write an outline without understanding good story structure, but the flip side is if you do understand story structure and put good story structure into your outline, it will be all the easier to write your novel. The basic story structure that everyone learns in English class when they're talking about short stories (or should learn an English class when they're talking about short stories), is introduction, conflict, rising action, climax, and resolution. That is essentially basic short story structure that's in short stories and in novels, however long. A longer novel of course we'll have subplots and sort of sub conflicts and maybe false ends and red herrings, but that basic story structure is there throughout. So our first tip for good outlining is to understand story structure. And if you try to hold to that basic five step story structure when you're first starting out, especially when you're first starting out, you'll probably find it a lot easier to go.     #2: Start with the problem. What do we mean by that? First, think of the main conflicts and then start outlining to move the characters/locations around them accordingly. Work the hardest on understanding your central conflict. Your protagonist must have a problem that results in a serious conflict. Now, serious conflict doesn't necessarily imply violence, though in genres such as a thriller and mystery, it can. The conflict must be emotionally significant and serious for the protagonist where there are real stakes involved.   The example I usually go to for this is the movie The King Speech, which is a highly fictionalized version of Britain's King George VI learning to overcome his stutter to speak in public. At no point in the movie is George VI in any physical danger. His wife and children love and respect him, and he's generally well regarded by everyone who knows him. However, the problem is he can't speak in public effectively, and this is a huge emotional problem for him. And frankly, one with serious stakes after his brother abdicates and he becomes king. He needs to be able to speak effectively in public or he won't be able to carry out his duties well. So this conflict of dealing with his stutter and his speech impediment is central to the movie. And even though he's not in any physical danger, it nonetheless has very high stakes for him, which is why I say that the problem has to be emotionally significant and have high stakes for the protagonist.   And there are ways to do that without violence, though of course, if you're writing fantasy or a thriller, you can use all the violence you want. You can help create a significant conflict and problem for your character by asking yourself a few questions. What conflicts and actions lead up to it? What is causing this conflict to happen? What are the stakes? What will happen if it doesn't resolve favorably? And why is the character involved? What must they do to resolve the conflict?   For an example from my own books, I'm going to talk about Half-Elven Thief, which is available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited if you want to go read that. In Half-Elven Thief, the main character is Rivah, who is a member of a fantasy Thieves Guild in her city. She's massively in debt to her immediate superior in the Thieves Guild who hates her and has been using that debt to exploit work from her and considering selling her into slavery to recover the debt. However, a massive and very dangerous job comes to the Thieves Guild, and Rivah is the one assigned to take the job, and if she pulls off the job, her debt will be repaid and she doesn't have this debt hanging over her head anymore. But the job is to steal a spell book from a very dangerous and powerful wizard, so there's every chance she'll be killed in the process. So the central conflict of Half-Elven Thief, that Rivah needs to steal this spell book from this very dangerous wizard, and the stakes for that is so she can get out from under this debt her superior has been holding over her head for the last three years. So hopefully that is a helpful example of a conflict with serious stakes for the protagonist.   #3: Our third tip is to start with simple. What is the book's blurb or elevator pitch for this story? Write that first. There's a couple different ways you can do that. I've sometimes described my Cloak Games/Cloak Mage series as Shadow Run meets The Dresden Files, which can be a starting point. I've heard people describe the Caina series as Black Widow meets Conan the Barbarian, which is another way to do it. To return to our previous two examples, in The King's Speech, the precise pitch is “faced with becoming King George VI must overcome his speech/stutter and face his emotional problems in order to effectively exercise his office.” And with my book Half-Elven Thief, the elevator pitch was, “in order to escape a dangerous debt, a thief is forced to steal a spell book from a dangerous wizard.” So that is the one sentence starting point, and you can use that to build the conflict.   Another potential way to do this is to write the blurb for your book and then build the conflict off that. For example, here is the blurb for another one of my books, Ghost in the Serpent, which is available at all ebook stores.   Anyway, the blurb: “A deadly poison. A hidden cult of sorcerers. Only Caina can find the truth. Caina is a countess of the Empire, an advisor and friend of three powerful monarchs, but she was once a nightfighter with the Ghosts, the spies and assassins of the Emperor and faced lethal sorcerers and corrupt lords. And when a hidden cult of malevolent sorcerers emerges from the shadows, Caina will show them that she has forgotten none of her old skills.”   So what is this blurb doing? It is introducing the setting and the characters, Caina and the Empire, focusing on the conflict and stakes and focusing on how they relate to Caina. And that allows us to sort of expand out into the conflict. If you read the book, you know that the plot is someone tries to poison Caina and fails. As she investigates what happened, she discovers that her husband had two children that he didn't know about, and for some reason this mysterious cult is trying to kill both Caina and these children, which pulls her deeper into the mystery. So that is the stakes and the conflict, and that is how I was able to build the book around them. #4: Our fourth tip is to just start. Just pick a time, grab your laptop or your notebook or whatever, and just start writing down an outline for your short story or a synopsis. Don't research things about your story while you're outlining. You can just write “TO BE RESEARCHED LATER” in capital letters, which is what I do sometimes. Don't research the perfect way to make an outline, just sit down and make an outline. How I outline personally is what I usually do is I have the central conflict in mind, like the example with Rivah, and then I sit down and write a synopsis of what I want to happen and then I chop up the synopsis into chapters and I go from there. My outlines tend to be about 1,000 to 2,000 words long, depending on the length of the book.   For example, Shield of Deception, which I just published, was on the longer side. It came to about 120,000 words and the outline was about 2,000 words. And it basically started out as a long synopsis I wrote, and then I chopped up the synopsis into chapters and went from there. I included major story beats, where the characters were going to go, and what they did. It doesn't get too detailed. Each chapter…the book had 30 chapters. So each chapter generally was described with about 80 words in the outline, maybe a hundred words, depending on what goes on. The detail varies. Basically, like in a chapter outline, I'll say “Character X comes and confronts Character Y and then they fight.” Then I will extemporize and make up the conversation when I actually get to the writing.   What I try to include in all the outlines is story beats that have to be in the story. The character has to be here or the plot doesn't make sense, or they have to go this location or it's a massive plot hole, or they have to think of this or it causes a plot hole, that kind of thing, which is part of the value of the outlining process is that it forces you to think of these things in advance. What I don't include is that I don't get too super detailed because to return to the Brandon Sanderson example from earlier in the show, when you get to the actual scene, there is a bit of discovery writing, like where I'll write where Character X confronts Character Y about whatever they're arguing about. Then the actual conversation I will just write when I arrive there.   #5: And our fifth and final tip, try a different style of outlining if you're struggling. There are different outlining techniques and styles out there. Here are two examples.   There's the Snowflake Method by Randy Ingermanson, which is where you start with a one sentence summary, build up to a paragraph, and continue to add detail in depth. There's also Dean Koontz's story structure from his book, How to Write Bestselling Fiction. His story structure is:   Get your character into trouble as quickly as possible Their plans backfire Things escalate until defeat seems inevitable Victory against all odds   If you're having trouble starting an outline, that might be a good way to do it. That said, there is no magic bullet. There is not a magic outlining style or perfect outlining style that will guarantee success. So don't get lost in endless reading or studying different kinds of outlines. A finished outline is better than waiting for a perfect one. And in that vein, a book that you have actually written, even if it's not as cool as you want it to be, is still infinitely better than a book that exists only in your head. And all that said, those five tips for outlining, I'm about to do all that myself. There is in the tech industry a phrase called “eating the dog food” or “eating your own dog food,” which means if you make a product and sell a product, you should probably be using the product a great deal. And Microsoft in particular was known for leaning on this. And for myself, I'm going to be doing everything I just talked about here because over the next few days, I'll be writing the outline for Shield of Battle, which at the moment consists of only four sentences I jotted down when I had ideas. I'll be applying all those techniques myself to write the outline for Shield of Battle, and hopefully it will work well for me. I think it will. I think these tips, if you want to start outlining your novels before you write them, would hopefully be helpful for you as well.   So that is it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes at https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

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What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? A Clinical Psychology Podcast Episode.

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2025 39:12


OCD is unfortunately the type of mental health condition that laypeople abuse to some extent, as OCD is often used in a loose, cut-off-the-cuff way that decreases the severity of the condition in people's minds. Yet OCD can be immensely distressing to the person with the condition as those around them. At the moment, I live with someone with OCD and before we started an intervention, their OCD was negatively impacting our lives in a number of ways. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast episode, you're going to be learning what is OCD, what are the symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, how is OCD treated and more. If you enjoy learning about mental health conditions, clinical psychology and more then this is going to be a great episode for you. In the psychology news section, you'll learn do honesty oaths really make us more honest, what happens when autism and menopause collide, and why mothers report taking the brunt of household mental load. LISTEN NOW! If you want to support the podcast, please check out: FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxset Introduction To Psychotherapies: A Clinical Psychology Introduction To Types of Psychological Therapy- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/introduction-to-psychotherapies Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast #ocd #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #clinicalmentalhealth #clinicalpsychologist #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

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What Is Financial Psychotherapy? A Clinical Psychology and Psychology Of Money Podcast Episode

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2025 35:17


Please subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any new episodes. If you've read my Clinical Psychology Reflections, then you might be aware that The Psychologist Magazine by the British Psychological Society is a major source of inspiration from time to time. Yet The Psychologist never normally inspires podcast episodes, but in December 2024, they mentioned financial psychotherapy. I had never heard of this type of psychotherapy before but it focuses on improving people's relationship with money amongst other important behavioural and psychological processes. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast episode, you'll deep dive into what is financial psychotherapy, what does a financial psychotherapist do and much more. If you enjoy learning about mental health, the psychology of money and more then you'll greatly benefit from this episode. Note: as always absolutely nothing on this podcast is ever any sort of official relationship, financial or other form of advice. In the psychology news section, you'll learn about the importance of emotions in powerful protests, how text speak lowers perceived sincerity, and how does political contamination influence people. LISTEN NOW! If you want to support the podcast, please check out: Please subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any new episodes. FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxset Introduction To Psychotherapies: A Clinical Psychology Introduction To The Types Of Psychological Therapy- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/introduction-to-psychotherapies Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast #financialpsychotherapy #psychologyofmoney #financialpsychology #finance #money #financialeducation #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #clinicalmentalhealth #clinicalpsychologist #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

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What Is Window of Tolerance? A Clinical Psychology Podcast Episode.

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2025 39:16


Normally as an aspiring clinical psychologist, I don't really focus too much on how our biological processes and the nervous system impacts our mental health. I should focus on this area a lot more than I do because our physical reactions to trauma, anxiety and depression are very important. Instead I tend to focus on the psychological processes that interact with our physical processes to produce behaviours. Yet as I deal with my sexual trauma more and more, I've realised I can no longer ignore the impact our nervous system and the role it plays in our mental health. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast episode, we'll be focusing on window of tolerance, hyperarousal and hypoarousal during psychological distress. And how importantly we can get back within our window of tolerance to improve our mental health. If you enjoy learning about clinical psychology, biological psychology and the nervous system then you'll love today's episode.  In the psychology news section, you'll learn why we let those with the most power keep it, how blindsight colour perception opens up new questions about vision, and how mansplaining is not only for men, and a brief comment on Eleanor Maguire's unfortunate death. LISTEN NOW! If you want to support the podcast, please check out: FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxset Biological Psychology- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/biologicalpsychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST
How Are Job Interviews Failing Us? A Business Psychology Podcast Episode.

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2025 34:40


Please subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any new episodes. For the first time ever on The Psychology World Podcast, we are actually going to focus on business psychology and the great topic of job interviews. In the current job market, you simply cannot escape job interviews because a lot of people believe that they are good indicators of future job performance. Yet modern research published in 2024 shows how this is far from the case and more often than not, job interviews absolutely fail to predict a person's ability to be an asset to the company, fit within the current team and how they'll perform on the job. Therefore, in this business psychology podcast episode, you'll learn how job interviews are failing us, the three main reasons why job interviews are not good indicators of future job performance and how can we improve the effectiveness of the recruitment process. A major purpose of business psychologists. If you enjoy learning about organisational psychology, the recruitment process and careers in psychology then this will be a great episode for you. In the psychology news section, you'll learn about whether artificial naps are on the horizon, how ticker-tape synaesthesia links to dyslexia, and the importance of overcoming perfectionism in the New Year. LISTEN NOW! If you want to support the podcast, please check out: Please subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any new episodes. FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxset Applied Psychology: Applying Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology and More to the Real World- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/applied-psychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST
What Is Dyspraxia? A Clinical Psychology Podcast Episode.

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2025 21:37


Dyspraxia is the last diagnosis that I received recently and it explains so much about my life, my “clumsiness” and a wide range of struggles in my life. Struggles that I was bullied for, judged and mocked for as a child and teenager. Yet even though I've done a little research into the condition before I got diagnosed, I don't understand Dyspraxia at a deep level. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast, you'll learn what is Dyspraxia, what are the symptoms and causes of Dyspraxia and how is it treated. If you enjoy learning about learning difficulties, clinical psychology and neurological conditions then this will be a great episode for you. LISTEN NOW! If you want to support the podcast, please check out: FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxset Cognitive Psychology: A Guide To Neuropsychology, Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/cognitivepsychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST
What is Dyslexia? A Clinical Psychology Podcast Episode.

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2024 21:52


Recently, I got diagnosed with dyslexia after struggling with reading, writing and understanding the different sounds that different letters make. Especially, when these letters are combined in words. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast episode, you're going to learn what is dyslexia, what causes dyslexia and how is dyslexia treated amongst other facts about the condition. If you're interested in learning more about clinical psychology, learning difficulties and neurodevelopmental conditions then this is a great episode for you. LISTEN NOW! If you want to support the podcast, please check out: FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxset Developmental Psychology: A Guide To Developmental and Child Psychology- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/developmentalpsychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST
What Happens During a Specific Learning Difficulties Assessment? A Clinical Psychology Podcast Episode.

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2024 45:51


On the 3rd December 2024, I had a two-hour-long Specific Learning Difficulties online assessment, so I could get a diagnosis of dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia or dysgraphia. I was assessed for all of them because I went through my university to get a dyslexia diagnosis and instead I had a Specific Learning Difficulties assessment that allowed me to be assessed for all of them. After the assessment (which was actually funny in its own right because I was able to be diagnosed quicker than she expected), I was diagnosed with dyslexia and dyspraxia. We'll cover these two conditions in the next two podcast episodes. Yet as an aspiring clinical psychologist, I found the assessment process fascinating and I really enjoyed how she adapted her process, her thoughts and what her approach as she got more information and test results so she could make a diagnosis. I learnt a lot during the assessment. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast episode, you'll learn what happens during a Specific Learning Difficulties assessment, how I got the assessment in the first place and what I learnt as an aspiring clinical psychologist. If you enjoy learning about mental health conditions, psychological assessments and applied clinical psychology then this will be a great episode for you. In the psychology news section, you'll learn about how to foster curiosity as a child, and the muddiness of microdosing research. LISTEN NOW! If you want to support the podcast, please check out: Please subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any new episodes. FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxset Developmental Psychology: A Guide To Developmental and Child Psychology- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/developmentalpsychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST
What Makes a Terrorist? A Forensic Psychology and Criminal Psychology Podcast Episode.

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2024 40:31


Whilst I have to admit releasing a forensic psychology book about terrorism might seem weird in December but I haven't thought about it. Yet whenever we see news about a terrorist attack, we always wonder why something would commit such a horrible attack but we wonder what makes a terrorist as well. Is a mental health condition? Is it biological in nature? Are there social or cultural factors at play? And does society make someone a terrorist or not? We need to know the answer. Therefore, in this criminal psychology podcast episode, you'll learn about the large range of factors that can make someone into a terrorist. If you enjoy learning about the psychology of crime, terrorism and more then this will be great episode for you. In the psychology news section, you'll about whether people did perceive the invisible gorilla after all, why it's worth embracing uncertainty, and coping together, staying together. LISTEN NOW! If you want to support the podcast, please check out: FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxset Forensic Psychology of Terrorism and Hostage-Taking- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/forensic-psychology-of-terrorism-and-hostage-taking Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST
What Is Psychophysics? A Biological Psychology and Cognitive Psychology Podcast Episode.

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2024 32:09


In biological psychology, there is one of my favourite topics in psychology. It might not be related to clinical psychology, mental health or even forensic psychology, but I love it anyway. Psychophysics is a fascinating area of psychology that has always grabbed my attention and made me want to understand more about how a physical stimulus leads to a psychological experience. For example, how does physical stimuli of chocolate create a chocolate taste in our minds, and how does chocolate create the psychological experience of pleasure. These are some of the questions that psychophysics aims to answer. In this biological psychology podcast episode, you'll learn what is psychophysics, what does psychophysics cover and what might the future of psychophysics be. If you enjoy learning about physiological psychology, biopsychology and how our physical environment impacts our psychological processes then this will be a brilliant episode for you. In the psychology news section, you'll learn about how recalling old parties might lead to more moderate drinking, how a new government report advises a mental health approach over counter-terrorism for incels, and how the framing effect impacts therapy. LISTEN NOW! If you want to support the podcast, please check out: FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxset Biological Psychology- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/biologicalpsychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST
What Are 3 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Techniques? A Clinical Psychology Podcast Episode.

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2024 25:30


As an aspiring clinical psychologist that is hardcore into the idea that it is critical to our clinical work that we learn different techniques from different therapies, I want to focus on different therapeutic techniques. I think this is critical because in order to help our clients to the best of our abilities, we need to give ourselves as many tools as possible so we can share them with our clients. All to help them decrease their psychological distress, improve their lives and give back control of their lives to them. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast episode, you'll learn what is guided imagery, Socratic questioning, and cognitive reframing. As well as what these techniques do, their advantages, disadvantages and more. If you enjoy learning about what mental health, therapy and practical techniques then this will be a great episode for you. In the psychology news section, you'll learn about whether psychologists should use AI or not in some areas of research, harnessing patriotism for green policies, and overcoming feat to learn effectively. LISTEN NOW! If you want to support the podcast, please check out: FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxset CBT For Depression: A Clinical Psychology Introduction For Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Depression- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/cbt-for-depression Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST
What Are The Mental Health Benefits Of Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy? A Biological Psychology and Clinical Psychology Podcast Episode.

THE PSYCHOLOGY WORLD PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2024 12:17


Please subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any new episodes. As we saw in How Can Therapists and Parents Support Transgender Teenagers? There are high rates of suicide, self-harm and depression in transgender youth. One of the ways to decrease these awful mental health outcomes is medical transitioning, where transgender youth transition from the gender they were assigned at birth to their affirmed gender by developing the characterised physical features of their affirmed gender. An effective way of medical transitioning is by Hormone Replacement Therapy because masculine hormones can make fat move away from the hips and thighs and deepen the voice. Whereas feminine hormones can make body fat move towards the hips and thighs and lead to the development of breasts. However, Hormone Replacement Therapy focuses on physical benefits for transgender youth, and yet this is a psychology podcast and I am a firm believer in the biopsychosocial model. Therefore, in this biological psychology podcast episode, we're going to be investigating the psychological benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy on transgender youth. This is going to be a lot of fun. If you enjoy learning about how hormones affect our behaviour, mental health and self-image, then you'll love today's episode. LISTEN NOW! Please subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any new episodes. If you want to learn more, please check out: FREE AND EXCLUSIVE 8 PSYCHOLOGY BOOK BOXSET- https://www.subscribepage.io/psychologyboxset Forensic Psychology- https://www.connorwhiteley.net/forensicpsychology Available from all major eBook retailers and you can order the paperback and hardback copies from Amazon, your local bookstore and local library, if you request it. Also available as an AI-narrated audiobook from selected audiobook platforms and libraries systems. For example, Kobo, Spotify, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Overdrive, Baker and Taylor and Bibliotheca. Patreon- patreon.com/ThePsychologyWorldPodcast #transgenderawareness #biologicalpsychology #transgender #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #clinicalmentalhealth #clinicalpsychologist #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthadvocate #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

SWR2 Kultur Info
Zu Gast in Speyer: Die Zweibrücker Bibliotheca Bipontina ist derzeit ausgelagert

SWR2 Kultur Info

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 4:00


Die Zweibrücker Bibliotheca Bipontina ist in Rheinland-Pfalz eine der bedeutendsten Bibliotheken mit altem Bestand. Vor zwei Jahren ist sie nach Speyer umgezogen, denn rund 15.000 Bücher, Folianten und Inkunabeln aus dem 16. Jahrhundert müssen dort restauriert werden. Die bibliophilen Schätze wurden in der Vergangenheit falsch gelagert und haben Schaden genommen.

Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization
239. Greek Myth LIX: Pseudo-Apollodorus's Bibliotheca Epitome, Chapter II – Tantalus, Pelops, Atreus, or What's a Little Cannibalism Among Family?

Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2024 17:00


You get to eat a kid! And you get to eat a kid! And you get to eat a kid!   To join the discussion, visit the blog at Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization.  If there's no hyperlink showing up here, you can go to triumvirclio.school.blog to find a feed of recent episodes as well as discussion pages for every episode.   Join me on Patreon at www.patreon.com/triumvirclio to get early access to ad-free episodes and bonus content.    References Apollodorus. The Library. Translated by Sir James George Frazer. Loeb Classical Library Volumes 121 & 122. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Available online at https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022, and https://hcmc.uvic.ca/people/greg/mom/library.html --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bethany-banner/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bethany-banner/support

Genuss im Bus - der mobile Wein-Podcast
Stefan Doktor - CEO und Teamplayer auf Schloss Johannisberg im Rheingau

Genuss im Bus - der mobile Wein-Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2024 73:45


Für eine weitere Episode meines Podcasts "Genuss im Bus" mache mich auf den Weg in den Rheingau. Der Grund dafür ist kein gewöhnlicher, schließlich geht es darum, einem wahren Monument der deutschen Weinkultur einen Besuch abzustatten. Schloss Johannisberg, das erste Riesling-Weingut der Welt. Auf Schloss Johannisberg wird nicht nur exzellenter Riesling erzeugt, es ist darüber hinaus ein beliebter Ort für Festivitäten ganz unterschiedlicher Art, für Konzerte und auch für Gala-Dinners. Von Anfang an war das Schloss Spielstätte des Rheingauer Musik-Festivals. Hochinteressant ist das zehn Meter tief in den Berg hinein gegrabene 900-jährige Kellergewölbe mit der Schatzkammer des Schlosses, der magischen Bibliotheca subterranea, wo derzeit rund 25.000 Flaschen aus allen großen Jahrgängen seit 1748 lagern. Getroffen habe ich vor Ort Stefan Doktor, den Geschäftsführer von Schloss Johannisberg. Unser Gespräch dreht sich im Kern um die Frage, wie es Schloss Johannisberg gelingt, sich modern und zukunftsfähig aufzustellen, ohne seine Wurzeln und die 1200-jährige Geschichte zu vergessen. Ich will von Stefan Doktor wissen, welche Kraft und Ausstrahlung in so einer langen Historie liegen und wie man sie für die aktuellen Herausforderungen nutzbar machen und was man davon lernen kann. Mich interessiert natürlich auch die andere Seite der Medaille, nämlich die Frage: Können Traditionen gelegentlich auch lähmen, können sie das Tempo für notwendige Modernisierungsmaßnahmen drosseln und Anpassungsprozesse auf die lange Bank schieben? Und noch eine Frage treibt mich um: Welche Vor- und welche Nachteile hat die unternehmerische Verfasstheit von Schloss Johannisberg - im Besitz der Familie Oetker und Teil der Henkell-Freixenet Holding. Fragen über Fragen! Und ein großes Vergnügen, mit dem charmanten und eloquenten Stefan Doktor all diese Dinge zu erörtern.

21st Century Saints
Redefining Integrity: Live With Rebecca Bibliotheca

21st Century Saints

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2024 79:55


Even the some of the most orthodox Latter-day Saints are confused and concerned about Jack N Gerard's talk from this past Easter 2024 General Conference - Integrity: A Christlike Attribute. It was the talk that tipped Jane into resigning membership in the Church. We're joined Live! by the incredible Rebecca Bibliotecha to break down why this talk has become a tipping point for many. Mormonish Temple Links McKinney, TX https://youtu.be/yCYuyESdcCo?si=eovmoItqPPGYMUZ4 https://youtu.be/FrsxzE0-CfE?si=8obdpgQZG4RZz5Im https://www.youtube.com/live/tgiMLRzjJeI?si=WpzgMQuFTcny3CZq (RFM on Newscast) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjoh9yYKWms Lone Mountain, NV https://youtu.be/W3wU0VLoXbs?si=4VBQvN5dop27O0nL https://www.youtube.com/live/Ex9dU2BrO1w?si=ODbFXZ3s_R4obhD1 (RFM on Newscast) Cody, WY and Heber Valley, UT are covered together https://youtu.be/8_h-ei-6cq0?si=tFxpY19jBev1_hn9 https://youtu.be/ho4FHWoWItE?si=Ftsn1F2l3S-7Ldre https://youtu.be/D6bYGjr40KA?si=4NmoJAye3l9t_-a3 https://youtu.be/ESyWsL2usKs?si=QyHchRw377WIqEej --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jane-christie/message

21st Century Saints
Redefining Integrity: Live With Rebecca Bibliotheca

21st Century Saints

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2024 79:55


Even the some of the most orthodox Latter-day Saints are confused and concerned about Jack N Gerard's talk from this past Easter 2024 General Conference - Integrity: A Christlike Attribute. It was the talk that tipped Jane into resigning membership in the Church. We're joined Live! by the incredible Rebecca Bibliotecha to break down why this talk has become a tipping point for many. Mormonish Temple Links McKinney, TX https://youtu.be/yCYuyESdcCo?si=eovmoItqPPGYMUZ4 https://youtu.be/FrsxzE0-CfE?si=8obdpgQZG4RZz5Im https://www.youtube.com/live/tgiMLRzjJeI?si=WpzgMQuFTcny3CZq (RFM on Newscast) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjoh9yYKWms Lone Mountain, NV https://youtu.be/W3wU0VLoXbs?si=4VBQvN5dop27O0nL https://www.youtube.com/live/Ex9dU2BrO1w?si=ODbFXZ3s_R4obhD1 (RFM on Newscast) Cody, WY and Heber Valley, UT are covered together https://youtu.be/8_h-ei-6cq0?si=tFxpY19jBev1_hn9 https://youtu.be/ho4FHWoWItE?si=Ftsn1F2l3S-7Ldre https://youtu.be/D6bYGjr40KA?si=4NmoJAye3l9t_-a3 https://youtu.be/ESyWsL2usKs?si=QyHchRw377WIqEej --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jane-christie/message

Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization
238. Greek Myth LVIII: Pseudo-Apollodorus's Bibliotheca Epitome, Chapter I – Theseus Continued, or On the Road (to Athens)

Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2024 19:46


When we last left Theseus, he was on the road to Athens. When we meet Theseus today, he's still on the road to Athens.   To join the discussion, visit the blog at Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization.  If there's no hyperlink showing up here, you can go to triumvirclio.school.blog to find a feed of recent episodes as well as discussion pages for every episode.   Join me on Patreon at www.patreon.com/triumvirclio to get early access to ad-free episodes and bonus content.    References Apollodorus. The Library. Translated by Sir James George Frazer. Loeb Classical Library Volumes 121 & 122. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Available online at https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022, and https://hcmc.uvic.ca/people/greg/mom/library.html --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bethany-banner/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bethany-banner/support

Myspodden med Carl Norberg
Failed State - Conny Grewe

Myspodden med Carl Norberg

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2024 121:55


Allt fler ser våra politiker för de proffslögnare som de är. Hegels dialektik är och har alltid varit metoden för att nå inrikespolitiska mål med en planeringshorisont som sträcker sig långt mycket längre än de 4-årscykler Svensson tillåts deltaga i rådande demokratur! Krokodiltårar, eller ytlig sympati, är en falsk, ouppriktig uppvisning av känslor, som när en hycklare klämmer fram falska sorgetårar. Frasen härstammar från en gammal tro att krokodiler fäller tårar medan de konsumerar sitt byte, och som sådan finns det i många moderna språk, särskilt i Europa där det introducerades genom latin . Medan krokodiler har tårkanaler, gråter de för att smörja sina ögon, vanligtvis när de har varit utan vatten under en lång tid och deras ögon börjar torka ut. Men bevis tyder på att dessa också kan utlösas av utfodring. Uttrycket kommer från en uråldrig anekdot om att krokodiler gråter för offren de äter. En samling ordspråk som tillskrivs Plutarchus antyder att frasen "krokodiltårar" var välkänt i antiken: att jämföra krokodilens beteende med människor som önskar eller orsakar någons död, men sedan offentligt beklagar dem. Berättelsen ges en kristen glans i Bibliotheca av den tidiga medeltida teologen Photios. Photios använder berättelsen för att illustrera det kristna begreppet omvändelse. En senare författare, Edward Topsell , gav en annan förklaring till tårarna och sa: "Det finns inte många råa bestar som kan gråta, men sådan är krokodilens natur att han, för att få en man inom sin fara, snyftar, suckar , och gråt som om han var på den yttersta gränsen, men plötsligt förgör han honom." I den här versionen låtsas krokodilen vara i nöd för att locka byten till en falsk känsla av säkerhet. Topsell hänvisar dock också till den äldre berättelsen om att krokodiler grät under och efter att ha ätit en man, och upprepar den vanliga kristna moralen att detta betecknade ett slags falsk omvändelse som att Judas grät efter att ha förrått Jesus. De Fria är en folkrörelse som jobbar för demokrati genom en upplyst och medveten befolkning! Stöd oss: SWISH: 070 - 621 19 92 (mottagare Sofia S) PATREON: https://patreon.com/defria_se HEMSIDA: https://defria.se FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/defria.se

Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization
237. Greek Myth LVII: Pseudo-Apollodorus's Bibliotheca Book III, Chapter XVI – Theseus, or His Adventure Begins

Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2024 8:52


Well, that was a short chapter…   To join the discussion, visit the blog at Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization.  If there's no hyperlink showing up here, you can go to triumvirclio.school.blog to find a feed of recent episodes as well as discussion pages for every episode.   Join me on Patreon at www.patreon.com/triumvirclio to get early access to ad-free episodes and bonus content.    References Apollodorus. The Library. Translated by Sir James George Frazer. Loeb Classical Library Volumes 121 & 122. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Available online at https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html and http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bethany-banner/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bethany-banner/support

Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization
236. Greek Myth LVI: Pseudo-Apollodorus's Bibliotheca Book III, Chapter XV – Cephalus, Oreithyia, Eumolpus, Aegeus, or Crete is Busy

Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2024 14:27


Something is rotten in the state of Denmark… or at least on the island of Crete.   To join the discussion, visit the blog at Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization.  If there's no hyperlink showing up here, you can go to triumvirclio.school.blog to find a feed of recent episodes as well as discussion pages for every episode.   Join me on Patreon at www.patreon.com/triumvirclio to get early access to ad-free episodes and bonus content.    References Apollodorus. The Library. Translated by Sir James George Frazer. Loeb Classical Library Volumes 121 & 122. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Available online at https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html and http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bethany-banner/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bethany-banner/support

Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization
235. Greek Myth LV: Pseudo-Apollodorus's Bibliotheca Book III, Chapter XIV – Cecrops, Adonis, Tereus & Procne, Eirchthonius, or Learning How to Share

Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2023 13:27


Everything the gods need to know they should have learned in kindergarten.   To join the discussion, visit the blog at Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization.  If there's no hyperlink showing up here, you can go to triumvirclio.school.blog to find a feed of recent episodes as well as discussion pages for every episode.   Join me on Patreon at www.patreon.com/triumvirclio to get early access to ad-free episodes and bonus content.    References Apollodorus. The Library. Translated by Sir James George Frazer. Loeb Classical Library Volumes 121 & 122. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Available online at https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html and http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bethany-banner/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bethany-banner/support

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Jak to vidí...: Tereza Lišková (Knihovny jako průvodkyně 21. stoletím). Proč rozdává diplomy v podobě polštáře?

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2023 27:11


Podařilo se jí přečíst všechny dětské knížky, které nabízela první knihovna, již navštěvovala? Jaké funkce plní dnešní knihovny a v čem jim pomáhá program Knihovny jako průvodkyně 21. stoletím? Proč nadace v rámci ocenění Bibliotheca inspirans rozdává diplomy v podobě polštáře? Mohou knihovny přispět k posílení digitální gramotnosti? Co spojuje knihovnu materiálů s tradičními knihovnami? Čím ji okouzlila sibiřská tajga? Tráví volno raději s knihou, nebo s malířským plátnem?

Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization
234. Greek Myth LIV: Pseudo-Apollodorus's Bibliotheca Book III, Chapter XIII – Peleus & Thetis

Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2023 12:55


There's a Big Bear in the sky!   To join the discussion, visit the blog at Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization.  If there's no hyperlink showing up here, you can go to triumvirclio.school.blog to find a feed of recent episodes as well as discussion pages for every episode. Join me on Patreon at www.patreon.com/triumvirclio to get early access to ad-free episodes and bonus content.    References Apollodorus. The Library. Translated by Sir James George Frazer. Loeb Classical Library Volumes 121 & 122. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Available online at https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html and http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022.    The Myths of Ursa Major, the Great Bear. Accessed November 23, 2023. Available at https://www.aavso.org/myths-uma --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bethany-banner/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bethany-banner/support

Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization
233. Greek Myth LIII: Pseudo-Apollodorus's Bibliotheca Book III, Chapter XII – Dardanus, Ilus, Priam, Aeacus, Telamon, or a Brief History of Troy

Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2023 19:55


I swear this chapter really is about more than Cassandra.   To join the discussion, visit the blog at Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization.  If there's no hyperlink showing up here, you can go to triumvirclio.school.blog to find a feed of recent episodes as well as discussion pages for every episode. Join me on Patreon at www.patreon.com/triumvirclio to get early access to ad-free episodes and bonus content.    References Apollodorus. The Library. Translated by Sir James George Frazer. Loeb Classical Library Volumes 121 & 122. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Available online at https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html and http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bethany-banner/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bethany-banner/support

The Promise Perspective Podcast
Steeples...or "Sacred Pillars?" | Episode 36

The Promise Perspective Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2023 63:55


This episode is a continuation from Episode 34 & 35. I encourage you to listen to those episodes before listening to this one. It's time to talk about where the steeple architecture on top of church buildings came from and it time to evaluate the foundation of our faith to make sure that we are not guilty of the same indictment of idolatry as the Israelites were. There are several resources I encourage you to look into as you listen to this episode (listed below).Sources:Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica, Book 2, Chapter II, Verses 4-5Episode 36 Supplemental Documenthttps://www.yrmstore.org/https://www.nps.gov/wamo/index.htmVerses:Exodus 23:34Ezekiel 8:3 & 5Judges 2:13Judges 3:7Judges 6 (Gideon)2 Kings 23 (King Josiah)Acts 17:302 Kings 21Micah 5:13Deuteronomy 16:22Contact me: stephanie@promise-perspective.comVisit my website: www.promise-perspective.com Support the show