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Steven Pritzker - The Benefits of Creativity

Steven Pritzker

Steven Pritzker

While studying for his PhD in Psychology, former TV writer Steven Pritzker realized that nearly every field of study had something to say about Creativity - but they weren't saying it to each other.  He responded by founding "The Encyclopedia of Creativity," putting all the various research in one place. The result is a comprehensive understanding of how creativity, once though the province of artists and madmen, is good for everyday mental health.

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JoAnn McAllister - The Human Science Approach

JoAnn McAllister

JoAnn McAllister

The things that make us human are often the hardest to quantify.  So how do we study things like culture, love, or our relationship to the environment in a rigorous manner without reducing them down to the things we can put in a formula?  Dr. JoAnn McAllister says that's what the field of Human Science is to do:  help us study the world without reducing it.

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Eric Willmarth - High Tech Hypnosis

Put someone into an fMRI machine and look at their brain - then hypnotize them.  What do you think happens?  We're able to look at the hypnotized brain like never before:  but from giving us a precise set of neural correlates, hypnosis appears even more dependent on the intangibles.  Saybrook faculty member Eric Willmarth is one of the leading scholars of medical hypnosis, and he says personality, not neurons, is what counts.

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Ann Bernhardt - How we grow and change

Ann Bernhardt

Ann Bernhardt

You go to therapy because you want to change - you want to solve a problem or be a better person.  Many people expect to get a checklist they can complete, a group of tasks they can perform - a "one-size-fits-all" approach.  Insurance companies want that, too.  But that's not what it means to grow and change as a unique individual - as the person you are, and no one else is.  Ann Bernhardt, Director of Saybrook's Marriage and Family Therapy program, says personal growth is always personal, and there are no shortcuts. 

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James Gordon - Teaching global health to war zones

James Gordon

James Gordon

Dr. James Gordon doesn't play it safe:  the Dean of Saybrook's Graduate College of Mind-Body Medicine travels to some of the most war-torn places in the world to teach civilian populations the tools they need to stay healthy.  From biofeedback to guided imagery, he's shown how access to mind-body medicine health techniques can help even people in desperate circumstances build a better life.

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Eugene Taylor - Psychology's Three Histories

Eugene Taylor

Eugene Taylor

Historian of psychology and Saybrook faculty member Dr. Eugene Taylor has written that psychology has not one but three histories - each with their own traditions, seminal texts, and heroes.  Author of "The Mystery of Personality:  A History of Psychodynamic Theories," he offers an insightful look at Psychology's past and future

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