Psych Up Live
Thursday at 11 AM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Variety Channel
http://www.voiceamerica.com/show/2506/psych-up-live
This show turns up your perspective on life. With a wide variety of guests, Host Suzanne Phillips invites you to consider how we live, love, learn and laugh from a psychological perspective. She explores our relationships from dating to marriage to our special bond with pets. In a conversational style, Suzanne and her guests translate the latest in psychology to exemplify ways of coping with trauma, bullying, loss, illness, depression and anxiety. She engages her guests with questions, often voicing her own thoughts or sharing related stories. What is particularly exciting about Psych Up Live is the opportunity for you to call in with your own stories, questions and opinions. Psych Up Live captures your attention as it considers life issues that will intrigue and inform you each Thursday at 11 AM Pacific Time, 2PM Eastern Time on the VoiceAmerica Variety Channel.
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Psych UP Live is intended as information and entertainment. It is not intended as treatment. If treatment is needed anyone listening is encouraged to go to their closest emergency room or to use the link for Find a Therapist provided by the American Psychological Association http://locator.apa.org“
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October 29, 2020
Encore Why Do People Feel Fear and Attraction to Horror Movies, Haunted Houses, Creepiness and Clowns?
In this show, Dr. Frank McAndrew, social psychologist and the Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology at Knox College, takes on the questions many of us have pondered-Why do we pay to be scared by … -
October 22, 2020
From Frontier Days to Present Day: The Search for Love Through Personal Ads and Online Sites
In this episode, author Francesca Beauman draws upon her interesting and well researched book, Matrimony, Inc. to invite us to consider that from Frontier Days, through Wars, Industrialization and Imm … -
October 15, 2020
An Insider Look at the Message of “ BARS” by Pravin Wilkins at Four Walls Theater
Four Walls Theater is a grassroots socially responsible theater that produces new plays with diverse artists from around the country. Their upcoming show is the world premiere of “BARS,” a drama by Pr … -
October 8, 2020
Encore Worry No More! 4 Steps To Stop Worrying And Start Living
In this episode, bestselling author and speaker Bruce Van Horn shares the ingredients of his important new book, Worry No More! 4 Steps To Stop Worrying And Start Living. With wisdom and humor this “r … -
October 1, 2020
How Do We Cope With Two Epidemics – COVID-19 and Violence
We face a time of misinformation and ongoing fear of the COVID-19 Virus which has already taken the lives of 200,000 in the US. Concurrent with that is the fear, provocation and the reality of violenc … -
September 24, 2020
Encore Blended: Personal Stories of the Stepfamily Experience
In this episode, Samantha Waltz, the author of the powerful book, Blended: Writers on the Stepfamily Experience and three of her wonderful contributing writers, Betsy Graziani Fasbinder, Gigi Rosenber … -
September 17, 2020
Preventing Physician Suicide – Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation
This show deals with a dangerous but unknown reality – According to the American Federation of Suicide Prevention, 300 to 400 doctors in the US die by suicide each year. That is more than double the r … -
September 10, 2020
Encore The Relationship Between Suicide Prevention and Gun Safety
In this episode, Dr. Michael Anestis, clinical psychologist, and award winning researcher discusses his powerful book, Guns and Suicide: An American Epidemic. Dr. Anestis is not advocating for or agai … -
September 3, 2020
Encore The Importance of Understanding the Power Paradox
We live in a time when an understanding of power and the abuse of power has tremendous importance. In this show, Dr. Dacher Keltner, psychologist, Faculty Director of the Berkeley Greater Good Science … -
August 27, 2020
The Single Fathers Due to Cancer Support Group – Finding Their Way Together
In this episode, Dr. Justin Yopp, psychologist at the North Carolina Cancer Hospital, draws upon his work and co-authored book, The Group: Seven Widowed Fathers Reimagine Life, to share the story of y …
Encore: Understanding and Overcoming Binge Eating
March 14, 2019
In this show Jennie Kramer, LCSW-R draws upon her experience in treating all forms of eating disorders and her co-authored book, Overcoming Binge Eating for…Read more
Encore: The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality
March 7, 2019
In this show noted journalist, Rachel Hills, author of The Sex Myth: The Gap Between our Fantasies and Reality, invites us to look more closely…Read more
Encore: A Transgender Journey: When Our Son Became a Daughter
February 28, 2019
Jane Baker, author of the book, Trading Places: When Our Son Became a Daughter, will share the insider experience of parenting her son while he…Read more
Conquer Trauma: An Online Course Offers a Healing Journey
February 21, 2019
In this show, Savannah Sanders M.S., author of Sex Trafficking Prevention: A Trauma-Informed Approach for Parents and Professionals shares her experience of offering a year-long…Read more
The 27 Wrong Reasons Society Blames You for Being Single
February 14, 2019
This show is a tribute to all singles who would like to be in a relationship but have not yet found the right person.Read more
Postpartum Depression Misunderstood and Overlooked
February 7, 2019
Postpartem Depression is suffered by 20 percent of women. But it is misunderstood and overlooked by many new mothers who suffer, as well as those…Read more
The Relationship Between Suicide Prevention and Gun Safety
January 31, 2019
In this episode, Dr. Michael Anestis, clinical psychologist, and award winning researcher discusses his powerful book, Guns and Suicide: An American Epidemic.Read more
Encore: Making Mindful Self-Compassion Work for You
January 24, 2019
Dr. Kristen Neff and Dr. Christopher Germer, renowned experts in self-compassion and mindfulness, have just released a new book, The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A Proven…Read more
Taking Revenge A Better Way
January 17, 2019
There are few people who have been injured or wronged by another who don’t think about and want to mollify their psychic pain with revenge.Read more
Encore: Owning Bipolar Disorder - A Guide for Patients and Family
January 10, 2019
In this show Michael Pipich, MS,LMFT, therapist and national speaker on Bipolar Disorder, draws upon his new book, Owning Bipolar: How Patients and Families Can…Read more