CNC Dialogues

Dr. Edward Shafranske he is a Professor of Psychology,Muriel Lipsey Chair in Clinical and Counseling Psychology, and director of the Psy.D. program at Pepperdine University. He is published widely and conducts clinical research in the fields of clinical supervision and the applied psychology ofreligion. Dr. Shafranske is board-certified psychoanalyst and has published over 75 articles/chapters and 10 books, is a member of eight edi...

Dr. Kirk J. Schneider is a leading spokesperson for existentialism and pioneers the existential-integrative approach to therapy. He has authored or coauthored twelve books, with his latest book called Life-enhancing anxiety: key to a sane world. Several of his works have been translated into multiple languages. He is the president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI), adjunct faculty at Saybrook University and Teachers Col...

My next guest is Dr. Dan Siegel, he received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his medical education at UCLA. Dr. Siegel is the executive director of the Mindsight Institute and founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. He is one of the founders of interpersonal neurobiology and has lectured for the King of Thailand, Pope John Paul II, His Holiness theDalai Lama, Google University...

My next guest is Darcia Narvaez, she is a Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. She has published dozens of academic journal articles and chapters and over twenty books. Her latest books include Restoring the Kinship Worldview, The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities and Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom which wo...

Dr. Colin Depp is the Director of Research Education and Training at the Clinical and Translational Research Institute at the University of California San Diego. In addition, he is a professor and psychologist at the VA Hospital in UC SanDiego. He mentors many students and clinical scientists in multiple training programs. One of his specialties is the development of technologies and strategies to assess, manage and treat Bipolar-D...

My next guest is Dr. Terry Marks-Tarlow, she received a degree in psychology from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UCLA. She is the author of numerous books, my two favorites of which are: psyches veil: psychotherapy, fractals and complexity, and clinical intuition inpsychotherapy. She is a Research Associate at the Institute of Fractal Research in Kassel, Germany and For over a decade, she has been stu...

Steven C. Hayes is a Nevada Foundation Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada. He is best known for developing Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT). He is the author of 47 books and over 675 scientific articles, his career has focusedon an analysis of the nature of human language and cognition and the application of this to the understanding towards the alleviation of human suffering. Dr. Hayes has...

My next guest is Dr. Pat Ogden, she is the creator of the SensorimotorbPsychotherapy method, and founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. Dr. Ogden is trained in a wide variety of somatic and psychotherapeutic approaches, and has over 45 years of experience. She is co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, past faculty of Naropa University (1985-2005), a clinician,consultant, and highly sought after international lecturer. Dr...

My next guest is Dr. Iain McGilchrist, he is a psychiatrist, scholar and a writer. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, former Oxford Literary Scholar and author of the groundbreaking books: The Master and His Emissary: the divided brain and the making of the western world and more recently, his two volume book: The Matter with Things.Dr. Mcgilchrist was elected as fellow at All Souls college at 21 years old, and w...

Scott Fisher, M.D. is a Board-Certified Psychiatrist and Lead Facilitator & Clinical Program Manager at Segal Trials’ Center for Psychedelic Research located in Lauderhill, FL. His work has included Phase 2 and 3 FDA clinical studies of psilocybin, LSD, and 5-MeO-DMT for the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders. He received his medical degree from The Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in 2009 and i...

Dr. Emmy van Deurzen is a world authority on existential psychotherapy. She is a philosopher and existential therapist who founded, directed and developed both Regent's College and the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in London. In 2005, she became an Honorary Professor with the University of Sheffield and is currently a Visiting Professor with Middlesex University.

She founded the Society for ExistentialAnalysis (SEA), i...

Todays guest is Dr. Donald Hoffman. He is a cognitivepsychologist and professor at the department of cognitive sciences at University of California, Irvine with joint appointments in the Dept of Philosophy, Logic and Philosophy of science and school of computer science. He is well known for his TED talk entitled do we see reality as it is? And is the Author of the book the case against reality: how evolution hid the truth from our ...

My guest today is Dr. Mark Solms, he is a psychoanalyst, neuropsychologist, and founder of Neuropsychoanalysis. He is the chair of neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and at the Departments of Psychology and Neurology at the Groote SchuurHospital. In addition, he is the President of the South AfricanPsychoanalytical Association and Research Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association.

In todays discussion, we ...

My next guest is Dr. Barry Nierenberg. He is a Presidents Distinguished Professor at Nova Southeastern University, a Board Certified Rehabilitation Psychologist and one of the Past Presidents of the American PsychologicalAssociation’s Division of Rehabilitation Psychology. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, has published several papers and is a highly sought after presenter both nationally and internationally.

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My next guest is Dr. Philip D. Harvey, he is a Professor of Psychiatry and director of the Division of Psychology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, as well as a senior Research health Scientistat the Department of Veterans Affairs. He was the Senior Author of "One of the top Fifteen most important papers of all time in clinical and appliedneuropsychology"and ranked by Thomson-Reuters as one of the most Highly Ci...

Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD. She is a Professor of Psychiatry and the director of the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research unit at the University of Western Ontario. She currently holds the Harris-Woodman Chair in Mind-Body Medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine. She is considered a world renowned trauma specialist and her work deeply impacted my own research and work with trauma. She has authored more than 150 published pap...

Website: drchancnc.comInstagram: @draldrichan Dr. Georg Northoff is a neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and philosopher holding doctorates in all three disciplines. In this episode, we begin by discussing the self, and consciousness. We then enter into a dialogue about what he terms the world-brain problem, in contrast to the mind-body problem. He shares what he means by the neuroecological approach, why space and time are central to u...