Podcasts about discovering psychology

MPF discussion with Dr Erica AdkinsRock Bottom Is Where Bad Bitches Are Built with Dr Erica Adkins   About EricaErica is a licensed psychologist. She owns a large private practice in Colorado. She specializes in the treatment of traumatic stress injuries and disorders. She is an author of the newly released "Rock Bottom is Where Bad Bitches Are Built: Find Your Footing; Conquer the Climb"On this episode of My Perfect Failure (Rock Bottom Is Where Bad Bitches Are Built) Erica reveals how she transitioned to become a psychologist whilst also   chronicling her unique journey where she navigated from rock bottom discovering her reliance.  This is captured in Erica's wonderful and inspiring new book “Rock Bottom Is Where Bad Bitches Are Built”.  Some of the areas we cover. ·        How everything happens for a reason.·        Discovering Psychology. ·        We discuss Erica's new book - "Rock Bottom is Where Bad Bitches Are Built”·        How Erica is helping people navigate through Trauma.   Erica: Website: www.drericaadkins.comErica IG: www.instagram.com/drrockbottomErica FB: www.facebook.com/drrockbottom Purchase Erica's bookhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Rock-Bottom-Where-Bitches-Built-ebook/dp/B092CKZ4XF/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Rock+Bottom+Is+Where+Bad+Bitches+Are+Built&qid=1639859917&sr=8-1 ·        My Perfect Failure contact me ·        Work with me: paul@myperfectfailure.com·        MPF Website: http://www.myperfectfailure.com/ ·        Insta: follow: https://www.instagram.com/padsmpf/ ·        Twitter: https://twitter.com/failure_perfect ·        Facebook MPF Private Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/377418129517757/          ·        My Perfect Failure contact me ·        Work with me: paul@myperfectfailure.com·        MPF Website: http://www.myperfectfailure.com/ ·        Insta: follow: https://www.instagram.com/padsmpf/ ·        Twitter: https://twitter.com/failure_perfect ·        Facebook MPF Private Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/377418129517757/  

Philip G. Zimbardo has been a Stanford University professor since 1968 and previously taught at Yale, NYU, and Columbia.  Zimbardo's career is noted for "giving psychology away" to the public through his popular PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, along with many text and trade books, among his 600 publications.  He recently served as president of the American Psychological Association. Learn more about author and host, Sarah Raymond Cunningham, at sarahcunningham.org

It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. We are human beings who can now present ourselves as whole people, with authenticity, purpose, and connection. Especially now, when therapists must develop a personal brand to market their practices. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age. Interview with Dr. Philip Zimbardo We were so honored to talk with Dr. Philip Zimbardo at The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference! Philip G. Zimbardo is an internationally recognized scholar, educator, researcher and media personality, winning numerous awards and honors in each of these domains.  He has been a Stanford University professor since 1968, having taught previously at Yale, NYU and Columbia.  Zimbardo's career is noted for giving psychology away to the public through his popular PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, along with many text and trade books, among his 300 publications.  He was recently president of the American Psychological Association. In this episode we talk about: Positive Psychology Becoming a modern-day hero Zimbardo’s wife, Christina Maslach and the Maslach Burnout Inventory Rebranding from working on evil Curt and Katie geeking out Resources mentioned: We’ve pulled together any resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links. To learn more about Dr. Philip Zimbardo: http://www.zimbardo.com He was also open for questions: drzimbardo@gmail.com The Heroic Imagination Project: https://www.heroicimagination.org Who we are: Curt Widhalm is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in private practice in the Los Angeles area. He is a Board Member at Large for the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, a Subject Matter Expert for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Adjunct Faculty at Pepperdine University, and a loving husband and father. He is 1/2 great person, 1/2 provocateur, and 1/2 geek, in that order. He dabbles in the dark art of making "dad jokes" and usually has a half-empty cup of coffee somewhere nearby. Katie Vernoy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, coach, and consultant. As a helping professional for two decades, she’s navigated the ups and downs of our unique line of work. She’s run her own solo therapy practice, designed innovative clinical programs, built and managed large, thriving teams of service providers, and consulted hundreds of helping professionals on how to build meaningful AND sustainable practices. In her spare time, Katie is secretly siphoning off Curt's youthful energy, so that she can take over the world. A Quick Note: Our opinions are our own. We are only speaking for ourselves – except when we speak for each other, or over each other. We’re working on it. Our guests are also only speaking for themselves and have their own opinions. We aren’t trying to take their voice, and no one speaks for us either. Mostly because they don’t want to, but hey.   Stay in Touch: www.mtsgpodcast.com https://www.facebook.com/therapyreimagined/ https://twitter.com/therapymovement https://www.instagram.com/therapyreimagined/  

Dr. Philip Zimbardo (@PhilZimbardo) is one of the most distinguished psychologists in the world and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is arguably best known for his 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, in which students were turned into mock prisoners and guards for a continuous 24-hour-a-day study. The experiment was planned for two weeks but terminated after just six days. In this podcast, we explore how we -- as humans -- can do less evil, how you can be a "deviant for day," mindful disobedience, and much more. It was a blast. Apart from the above, Dr. Zimbardo has served as President of the American Psychological Association and designed and narrated the award-winning 26-part PBS series, Discovering Psychology. He has published more than 50 books, including Shyness, The Lucifer Effect, The Time Cure, The Time Paradox, and most recently, Man, Interrupted. Dr. Zimbardo currently lectures worldwide and is actively working to promote his non-profit, The Heroic Imagination Project. His current research looks at the psychology of heroism. The question he poses is: "What pushes some people to become perpetrators of evil, while others act heroically on behalf of those in need?" Please enjoy this conversation with Dr. Philip Zimbardo -- our oldest guest to date! Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.fourhourworkweek.com/podcast. This podcast is brought to you by Wealthfront. Wealthfront is the future of financial advice. It's become especially popular among my friends in Silicon Valley and across the country because it provides the same high-end financial advice that the best private wealth managers deliver to the ultra wealthy -- but for any account size, at a fraction of the cost. Wealthfront monitors your portfolio every day across more than a dozen asset classes to find opportunities for rebalancing and harvesting tax losses, and now manages more than $5 billion in assets. Unlike old-fashioned private wealth managers, Wealthfront is powered by innovative technology, making it the most tax-efficient, low-cost, hassle-free way to invest. Go to wealthfront.com/tim to take the risk assessment quiz, which only takes 2-5 minutes, and it'll show you -- for free -- exactly the portfolio it would recommend. If you want to just take the advice and do it yourself, you can. Or, as I would, you can set it and forget it. Well worth a few minutes: wealthfront.com/tim. As a Tim Ferriss Show listener, you'll get your first $15,000 managed for free if you decide to go with its services. This podcast is also brought to you by iD Commerce + Logistics. I'm asked all the time about how to scale businesses quickly. Rule number one: remove unnecessary bottlenecks. Many businesses can do so by outsourcing inventory management and fulfillment to a company that makes this its primary focus. iD Commerce + Logistics is just such a company. It helps online retailers and entrepreneurs outgrow their competition by handling all types of details -- from inventory to packing and shipping. I depended on iD to handle these types of details when I launched The 4-Hour Chef so I could focus on promoting the book. As a listener of this podcast, you can get up to $10,000 off your start-up fees and costs waived by visiting tim.blog/scale or idcomlog.com/tim.***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Visit tim.blog/sponsor and fill out the form.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss

In this episode we discuss how to create evil in a research laboratory, what makes people “turn evil”, we examine the definition of heroism, dig into the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, explore time paradoxes, and much more with the legendary Dr. Philip Zimbardo.  Dr. Zimbardo is an internationally recognized scholar, educator, researcher and media personality, winning numerous awards and honors in each of these domains. He has been a Stanford University professor since 1968, where he conducted the famous Stanford Prison Experiment. His career is noted for giving psychology away to the public through his popular PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, along with many text and trade books, among his 500+ publications. He was recently president of the American Psychological Association.  We discuss:How to create evil in a research laboratoryThe different kinds of evilIs there a fixed line between good and evil?What is the definition of heroism (and how its distinct from altruism)How Dr. Z defines evil (and why thats important)What happens when you put only good people in a really bad situation?The inside take on the famous Stanford Prison ExperimentHow a situation can create an emotional breakdown in a normal, healthy, smart person in less than 36 hoursThe social processes that can grease the slippery slope of evilHow normal people can transform into monstersThe substantial risks of dehumanizationThe power of the heroic imaginationHow teachers can bring the best out in their studentsThe time paradox and how we live with vastly different time perspectives How conflicts derive from people’s differing time perspectivesIf you want to hear from a titan of psychology about the inner workings of the human mind - listen to this episode!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Past, Present, and Promise" is the first program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. It provides an introduction to and overview of psychology, from its origins in the nineteenth century to current study of the brain’s biochemistry. You’ll explore the development of psychology in general and some of the paths scientists take to determine relationships among the mind, the brain, and behavior. Psychology is defined as the scientific study of the behavior of individuals and their mental processes. Like many sciences, psychology has evolved with technology, giving doctors and researchers new tools to measure human behavior and analyze its causes. In this program, Dr. Mahzarin Banaji from Yale University uses the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to measure how quickly positive or negative values are associated with white or black faces. Her subjects are shown a series of words and pictures and instructed to respond immediately by pushing a button to indicate their most automatic, reflex-like reactions. For example, they may be told to press a button in their right hand if the automatic association is good and to press a button in their left hand if the association is bad. The speed with which the subjects respond is an important element of the experiment because these quick, unconscious connections can reveal biases that differ from conscious beliefs. The IAT results are matched against functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data to track activity in the amygdala, the region of the brain that responds to fearful or negative images. By correlating data on the buttons subjects pushed with fMRI information about activity in the amygdala, Dr. Banaji and her colleagues have found some interesting results. The majority of the white American respondents showed an unconscious association of white with good and black with bad, while the African American respondents showed mixed results. Half more quickly associated black with good, and the other half associated white with good. Tracking brain activity in controlled experiments reveals not only the region of the brain at work, but also the power of images and messages in our culture on the subconscious human psyche, bringing psychologists one step closer to understanding human behavior. For more info on this topic visit http://psy101.MyUCCedu.com

Understanding Research is the second program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program examines how we know what we know. Youll explore the scientific method, the distinction between fact and theory, and the different ways in which data are collected and applied, both in labs and in real-world settings. Research often begins with a question. Traditionally, answers have been found in lab experiments, surveys, test groups, and interviews. This program provides an example of research in a field setting. Psychologist Dr. Christina Maslach of the University of California at Berkeley studies job burnout, what causes it, and what can be done to prevent it. Instead of using traditional lab settings, Dr. Maslach conducts her research where the burnout is happening, in the workplace, using a real-world setting as a lab. By taking this fly-on-the-wall approach, Dr. Maslach studies stress as it occurs, relying on subjects live experiences rather than just their memories or perceptions of past experiences. In this case, she has developed a scale to measure job burnout and a scale to measure the health of the workplace environment. Scientific methods to ensure accuracy are part of her approach. She collects data from carefully controlled measurements and observations, and the research process is methodical. The experiment can then be reproduced and the data tested by other researchers. By sharing data through publishing results, psychologists provide new understandings and new tools, as well as fodder for new questions and debates. Through this consistent, long-term work, Dr. Maslachs research has shed light not only on individual employees behavior, but also on the behavior of an entire organization. The application of this research helps individuals develop mechanisms for coping with stress, and assists organizations in evaluating the health and effectiveness of the workplace. For more info on this topic visit http://psy101.MyUCCedu.com

Remembering and Forgetting is the ninth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program looks at the complexity of memory: how images, ideas, language, physical actions, even sounds and smells are translated into codes that are represented in the memory and retrieved as needed. Memory is defined as stored information. When we take in information — a lecture, for example — neurotransmitters in the brain are working to filter and store the information in memory. While it sounds simple, memory is a complex and dynamic process that relies on a series of factors. At a very basic level, the process involves the hippocampus in the brain taking information from the environment, encoding it, and changing it into a form that the cerebral cortex can then store, retain, and retrieve. Through each step a memory neurotransmitter called acetylcholine transmits the needed nerve impulses. What we know about memory is also instructive about why we forget. In chronic memory loss and dementia, the acetylcholine transmission is impaired. In the most severe cases of memory loss, like Alzheimer’s disease, not only is the acetylcholine connection devastated, but the cortex also gradually deteriorates and the brain acquires toxic substances. Recent research into memory, forgetting, and the advancement of Alzheimer’s disease focuses on the ways the eye-blink classical conditioning tests, demonstrated in the program, can predict the earliest onset of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Because Alzheimer’s disease kills cells and its pathology is irreversible, early detection is the only hope for a cure or prevention. Doctors and researchers are working to develop a vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease. The vaccine would block the toxins that accumulate in the brain and preserve the acetylcholine connection that is so vital to memory. Visit Diana Woodruff-Pak’s home page at Temple University. The site includes a schematic of eye-blink classical conditioning, brain scans of the cerebellum and hippocampus, as well as a bibliography of books and articles. http://astro.temple.edu/~pak/ For more info on this topic visit http://psy101.MyUCCedu.com