Podcast appearances and mentions of paula caplan

Really, 007! speak to the fabulous Martine Beswicke who played the CIA agent Paula Caplan in the biggest Bond film of all - Thunderball. She tells us all about working with Sean Connery, Terence Young and the Bond team, as well as giving an insight into her new autobiography On My Way, which you can buy here:https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Way-Martine-Beswicke/dp/1399996584Host Tom Pickup is joined by fellow Bond enthusiast John Kell. Thanks for listening - we think you'll love it too! Disclaimer: Really, 007! is an unofficial entity and is not affiliated with EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. and Danjaq, LLC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael, Rob, and Karen Flieger talk about Sean Connery's fourth adventure as James Bond in Thunderball. Lots of music discussion in this one, praise for Paula Caplan and Fiona Volpe, and awe at Largo's impressive sense of fashion.

This week's conversation recorded in 2011 is both timely and untimely. Timely - as we exit from Afghanistan - because in When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home, PAULA CAPLAN asks why it's a mental illness to be devastated by war and urges us to connect with veterans and listen one-on-one to their stories. And untimely, because Paula died of cancer July 21st. She was both one of the warmest, most generous people I've known, and at the same time, a consistently fierce and passionate advocate for justice. Three words I believe often motivated Paula: “It's not fair.” And those three words have seldom felt more true.

This week's conversation recorded in 2011 is both timely and untimely. Timely - as we exit from Afghanistan - because in her book When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home, Paula Caplan asks why it's a mental illness to be devastated by war and urges us to connect with veterans and listen to their stories, one-on-one. And untimely, because Paula died of cancer July 21st. She was both one of the warmest, most generous people I've known, and at the same time, a consistently fierce and passionate advocate for justice. Three words I believe often motivated Paula: “It's not fair.” And those three words have seldom felt more true. 

This week on MIA Radio, we chat with Paula J. Caplan. Paula is a clinical and research psychologist, author of books and plays, playwright, actor, director, and activist. She was born and raised in Springfield, Missouri, attended Greenwood Laboratory School, received her A.B. with honors from Radcliffe College of Harvard University, and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from Duke University. Currently, she is an Associate at the Du Bois Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University. She has been a Fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard; a Lecturer in Harvard's Program on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Psychology Department. She is former Full Professor of Applied Psychology and Head of the Centre for Women's Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and former Lecturer in Women's Studies and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Paula is also a passionate and steadfast advocate for service members, veterans and their families. She has written: When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans and has founded the Listen to a Veteran! Project. In this interview, we discuss Paula’s work to support service members, veterans and their families, and the role psychiatric drugs have played in harming these communities. We discuss: Paula’s experiences that drove her towards working in mental health and advocating for veterans, which came from her father’s service in World War II. This included combat in the Battle of the Bulge. After hearing her father’s story that had been recorded as part of a history project, she learned her father had been a forward observer, and as result learned he had been on the front lines of the war. This led to her realizing that most American’s don’t understand military service and the only way of doing this, is through hearing veterans’ stories. Prior to the invasion of Iraq, she became concerned about the care of service members of veterans and veterans upon their return from war, and more concerned of the “psychiatrization”, diagnosing and prescribing psychiatric drugs to veterans. To get started in her efforts, she began by listening to a veteran share his experiences with her. The veteran talked for three hours, and Paula just listened. The next day, he called her and thanked her for listening, as he got a good night sleep for the first time in years. This led to her starting Listen to a Veteran, which was originally called “When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home”. As part of this initiative, a veteran of any era can meet with another person who has volunteered to listen to the veteran share any stories or experiences they’re interested in sharing. Paula has faced barriers in getting this program expanded to the VA or throughout the “mainstream” mental health community because the system has been created to function based upon current “evidenced-based” best practices. How Paula is positive that we are currently causing harm to veterans and that alternative approaches need to immediately be implemented throughout the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs. How “therapy” needs to be dropped from the terms “art therapy”, “music therapy” and the like, so we can stop pathologizing individual experiences, and instead support people in doing things that improve their overall well-being. Any veterans who want to be a listener as part of Paula’s Listen to a Veteran initiative, or would like to have someone listen to them, they can go to listentoaveterans.org.

In this episode Dr. Carmen interviews Dr. D’vorah Grenn. Dr. D’vorah served as a Chair and Executive Co Faculty in the Women and Spirituality Masters Program at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, now called Sofia University. She is also the cofounder of the Spiritual Guidance Network, and on the founding advisory board of the Kohenet Priestesses Training Institute. She is here to share her experiences of women in spirituality, sacred space and laughing together. Dr D’vorah has a strong commitment to help women be joyful about being women. The interview will start with chanting and a minute of silence. Enjoy! What you will Learn: • Dr. D’vorah’s story: how she started to understand that there is more to life than work and an artificial set of values, and moved towards a sense and awareness of spirituality. • The difference between religion and spirituality and why people are searching for wholeness and peace in their lives. • The goddess movement and how Dr. D’vorah became passionate on the subject in the liminal space between leaving corporate and going to this other life. • How we can repress our spirit, through work, drugs, social commitments and expectations • The importance and truth of finding out who you are, your true self and inner wisdom and your own power, voice and intuition • Dr. D’vorah’s advice for somebody who struggles with emotions. “Fall down seven times, get up eight.” Buddhist proverb “No beginning is too small.” Leonard Bernstein “To achieve great things, 2 things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.” • Why women feel overwhelmed by having to be taking care of others as well as doing full time jobs, despite being raised to take care of others. • How finding time, even 10 minutes, for ourselves in a ritual practice can sustain us. • The common fears of not being enough, perfectionism, speaking up, making a mistake that is caused by the social and cultural conditioning of being a woman. • Where to start to start the healing process by overcoming this fear • How the media profits from making us feel not enough • Why you sometimes can’t confide in your family and why you need to have a supportive women’s community and find a place that is healing. • The importance of knowing the background of the person you are going to talk to and why you should check them out first so you know they’re trustworthy • What the tree of life practice is • What to do if you don’t have space or safety for an alter or place to create some meaning • Daily habits that contribute to our emotional success and spiritual practices to get mind, body and spirit aligned. • Why you have to go out of your way to look for independent media so that you get the news of what’s happening that isn’t being reported on by the mainstream media • The importance of sitting and going within, and of consuming art that inspires you, taking concrete action to volunteer to help others for a cause you are passionate about. • The value of phone calls and face-to-face meetings and starting conversations when advocating for something and being a political and spiritual activist You can contact D’vorah at dvorahgrenn@me.com or call 650 863 1986 Her website is also: http://spiritualguidancenetwork.org/dvorah-grenn/ Mentioned Resources: “Lilith’s Fire” by D’vorah Grenn http://amzn.to/2r0eMd1 “Women who run with the Wolves” by Clarissa Pinkola Estes http://amzn.to/2q4AU5B “Shakti Woman” by Vicki Noble http://amzn.to/2qpt7Cs “Goddesses in Everywoman” by Jean Shinoda Bolen http://amzn.to/2q1Xn5t  “Journey through the Wilderness” Rabbi Yael Levy http://amzn.to/2piiy42  “The Dance of Anger” by Harriet Lerner http://amzn.to/2qQ8tLN  “You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation” by Deborah Tannen http://amzn.to/2qpx6ii  “Sister Outsider” by Audre Lorde http://amzn.to/2qPNclu  “Stepping into Ourselves” by Anne Key and Candace Kant, eds http://amzn.to/2qY0Wa3  “The Myth of Women’s Masochism” by Paula Caplan http://amzn.to/2q20Jpg  Yoga Nidra meditations on YouTube  

Written by Harvard psychologist Dr. Paula J. Caplan, Shades looks at the dynamics and complexities of families who all carry war trauma – particularly how people who love each other keep their differences from tearing them apart. Shades opens in New York on November 17, with previews starting on November 9th, at the Studio at Cherry Lane Theater. We would love to invite you out to one of the earlier performances in the run should you be in NYC. And we wondered if you might be interested in interviewing Paula on 2 Boomer Babes Radio Hour. The moving and powerful story – which has been described as “Eugene O’Neill meets ‘All in the Family’” –revolves around four people in Springfield, USA. Val, a nurse whose husband has recently died, has come to visit her WWII veteran father, who is about to retire from work that has defined him, and her brother, who is plagued by a mysterious illness after fighting in Vietnam. While visiting, Val goes to work as a home nurse for a Black woman veteran, June, whose war experience left her paralyzed from the neck down. With an instinctively caring nature, Val desperately fights the reticence of her family to share their feelings and tries to help everyone else recover. However, Val herself is being torn apart by a dark secret about her late husband. With her relationship with her family and June developing, more and more secrets surfacing, and Don’s health getting dire, love and connection confronts the unprecedented challenges of trauma and truth. Paula began her work with veterans more than a dozen years ago and in that time, among other things, started the ‘Listen to a Veteran!’ project which pairs any veteran with a non-veteran who will solely listen in respectful, total, wholehearted silence. Dr. Caplan has come to the unavoidable conclusion that for both women and men, for people of color, and for veterans, the sad truth is that cycles of hurt never end until they are able to speak up. And connection and love can make that possible. You can click the link to a press release for more information: http://twoshepsthatpass.com/ShadesPressRelease.pdf

In our special minisode we're discussing PTSD, empathy and how the simple act of listening can improve the world with playwright and psychologist Paula Caplan. She has a new show 'Shades' currently at the Cherry Lane Theatre Studio until December 17. (More info: http://www.cherrylanetheatre.org/onstage/shades/) Plus we'll be reading some very special listener email.

It’s a red letter day at James Bond Radio. We have our very first Bond girls on the show!   First up we have The Spy Who Loved Me’s Caroline Munro regaling us with stories of working with Sir Roger Moore, Richard Kiel and Lewis Gilbert. Then we talk to 2 time Bond girl, Martine Beswick who we all know as Zora the fighting gypsy girl in From Russia With Love and for her turn as Thunderball’s Paula Caplan.    

Rex Pratt has been involved in various film and video projects over the past decade. His interest in a project is always based upon the ability of the film to move and inspire the viewer. Between Iraq and A Hard Place is a project that became personal as it progressed. It began by documenting the difficulties of troops' transitioning back to normal life after combat. After almost 2 years of meeting with returning troops, Rex has developed a special attachment to the troops. He defines himself as "not easily converted to a new cause". However, the personal stories that he became involved in have stirred his filmmaking talents and inspired a film that will move you and touch your heart as you experience up close what is in the heart and minds of our young troops. He is currently working on his next project that also deals with war and assisting in the completion of the book Between Iraq and A Hard Place with his partner/brother, New York Times best-selling author, James Michael Pratt. Paula J. Caplan is a clinical and research psychologist. She received her A.B. with honors from Radcliffe College of Harvard University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from Duke University. She is currently Associate at the DuBois Institute, following two years as a Fellow in the Women and Public Policy Program of Harvard Kennedy School, both at Harvard University. She is the author of 11 books, co-editor of one book, and author of dozens of book chapters and articles in scholarly journals, as well as of numerous articles and essays in popular publications. Her most recent book, When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home, won the Association of American Publishers' PROSE Award for best psychology book of 2011, Independent Publishers' Groundbreaking Book of the Month Award the month it was published, and Independent Publishers' Silver Medal in the psychology/mental health division for 2011.

Rex Pratt has been involved in various film and video projects over the past decade. His interest in a project is always based upon the ability of the film to move and inspire the viewer. Between Iraq and A Hard Place is a project that became personal as it progressed. It began by documenting the difficulties of troops' transitioning back to normal life after combat. After almost 2 years of meeting with returning troops, Rex has developed a special attachment to the troops. He defines himself as "not easily converted to a new cause". However, the personal stories that he became involved in have stirred his filmmaking talents and inspired a film that will move you and touch your heart as you experience up close what is in the heart and minds of our young troops. He is currently working on his next project that also deals with war and assisting in the completion of the book Between Iraq and A Hard Place with his partner/brother, New York Times best-selling author, James Michael Pratt. Paula J. Caplan is a clinical and research psychologist. She received her A.B. with honors from Radcliffe College of Harvard University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from Duke University. She is currently Associate at the DuBois Institute, following two years as a Fellow in the Women and Public Policy Program of Harvard Kennedy School, both at Harvard University. She is the author of 11 books, co-editor of one book, and author of dozens of book chapters and articles in scholarly journals, as well as of numerous articles and essays in popular publications. Her most recent book, When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home, won the Association of American Publishers' PROSE Award for best psychology book of 2011, Independent Publishers' Groundbreaking Book of the Month Award the month it was published, and Independent Publishers' Silver Medal in the psychology/mental health division for 2011.

How can we truly help combat veterans facing the aftermath of war? Is veteran trauma a sign of mental illness, or a healthy response to violent situations? Are medications and therapy the answer? Paula Caplan, author of When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans, discusses healing the wounds of war by listening to the stories of veterans in our communities.   [Read more...]

Aired 07/31/11 PAULA CAPLAN, a clinical and research psychologist, is currently Affiliate at the DuBois Institute and Fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, both at Harvard University. She has been a Lecturer at Harvard and a Professor of Applied Psychology and Head of the Centre for Women's Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. She is the author of 11 books, including Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship; You're Smarter Than They Make You Feel; They Say You're Crazy; and her latest, When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans. Paula is also a playwright. http://www.paulajcaplan.net/ http://whenjohnnyandjanecomemarching.weebly.com/

Harvard University faculty Paula Caplan, author of They Say You're Crazy: How The World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal and editor of Bias In Psychiatric Diagnosis. Paula was on one of the writing committees for the DSM and offers an insightful perspective on the politics behind psychiatric pseudo-science. She discusses mental disorder labeling, including bipolar and post-trauma stress disorder, from a feminist perspective.   [Read more...]