Myndtalk With Dr. Pamela Brewer

One in ten Americans suffers from chronic insomnia. Many receive sleeping pills and over-the-counter sleep aids, at an annual cost of over $40 billion. There are many different medicines, in what can seem like a bewildering variety.  Dr. Mendelson draws on his experience of 40 years doing research and treatment of insomnia to explain how sleeping pills work, as well as their benefits and drawbacks, and alternative non-medicine approaches.

No president in the history of the United States has inspired more alarm and confusion than Donald Trump. As questions and concerns about his decisions, behavior, and qualifications for office have multiplied, they point to one primary question: Does he pose a genuine threat to our country? The American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater Rule constrains psychiatrists from offering diagnoses on public figures who are not patients and who have not endorsed such statements. But in Trump on the Couch Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Justin A Frank invokes the moral responsibility that compels him to speak out and present a full portrait of a man who presents us with a clear and present danger.

Belgium, 1940. Melly Bottner is just eighteen with a three-week old newborn son when the Nazi occupation of Belgium begins. She and her young husband Genek live in fear as it becomes obvious that all Jews will soon be taken. Watching friends and neighbors disappear as the Germans carry out their shocking purge, the young family confronts an awful truth: if they are to survive... .

Dana Bowman can’t escape the lure of perfectionism, trying to be a flawless wife, mother, and person in recovery. When Dana experiences a short-lived relapse during the Christmas holiday, she has the startling realization that recovery is more than just giving up alcohol.

Learn about this vital non-profit organization that, through research, training, advocacy and healing services gives new hope to people worldwide while playing an important role in building a larger vision for the torture rehabilitation movement.

This Messy Magnificent Life explores the personal beliefs, hidden traumas, and social pressures that shape not just women’s feelings about their bodies but also their confidence, choices, and relationships. After years of teaching retreats and workshops on weight, money, and other obsessions, Roth realized that there was a connection that held her students   captive in their unhappiness. With laugh-out-loud humor, compassion, and dead-on insight she reveals the paradoxes in our beliefs and shows how to move beyond our past to build lives that reflect our singularity and inherent power.

Lee and several of his notable colleagues and friends have come together to create a work for all who have suffered heartbreak. It is for those troubled by anxiety, depression, loss, grief, questioning their self-worth, caught in addiction or obsessive/compulsive behavior, and struggling to find meaning. While the list is broad in scope, it shares a common theme: The conditions reflect a broken relationship to the core of your being, your own 'healing heart, sacred heart.' For anyone who has struggled with the not enough?not good enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not strong enough?and the list goes on, this  is created with you in mind.

After seven years of faithfully following her spiritual teacher, Renee Linnell finally realized she was in a cult and had been severely brainwashed. But how did that happen to someone like her? She had graduated magna cum laude with a double degree. She had traveled to nearly fifty countries alone before she turned thirty-five. She was a surf model and a professional Argentine tango dancer. She had started five different companies and had an MBA from NYU. How could someone like her end up brainwashed and in a cult?

Author and MD, Dr. Sebastian Sepulveda discusses powerful experiences in working with patients at the end of their lives. In some cases, death came quickly.  ... In some cases, patients were able to fight off death for many years. Hard decisions are often made—whether to resuscitate or not, whether to choose hospice or not. This is an important dialogue to listen to and share. 

Are we paying attention to the lives of boys and young men in today's world?   Many of them struggle with access to their inner worlds. Experiences of alienation can ...

Dr. Brereton, co-founder of Collective Capacity Consulting, discusses a sobering statistic. 1 in 3 teens in the United States is a victim of abuse by a dating partner. Learn about the incidence and signs of dating violence among teens.

Libby Babbott-Klein takes your child on an exciting journey of possibilites! 

A silent epidemic in the United States is imperiling our health and threatens to bankrupt our healthcare system: overmedication. Today, one-third of all adults take two or more prescription drugs, and half of all seniors take more than five daily says Dr. Jacobs as she tackles the epidemic overuse of prescription drugs.

At a time when finding an African American man in the technical world of TV was fairly unique - Keith found himself working with the noted Ted Koppel of ABC-TV's 'Nightline'. While working there, Keith's curiosity and his genius led him to discover what is now called the Morgan Curve.  Don't miss this unique story about this unique finding from unique man

Is it a growing epidemic - or is there more awareness? Is there a time when it starts? Is there a way that it starts? Is there a who? Is there a why? Learn the answer to these questions and more from Dr. Ankur Desai, a Medical Director with AmeriHealth Caritas

The small miracle of Warner's entertaining and highly useful book is that it gives you the tools to understand how alternative medicine works, so you can confidently make up your own mind...With lean and persuasive prose, she skillfully navigates the alternative-medicine landscape with an open mind and a strong bias for the scientific method." (The Washington Post)

Timeless Dance takes you on Karen Shiffman Lateiner’s compelling journey to understand the gender transition of her remarkable son, fully embrace the woman he becomes and, just two years later, grapple with her child’s untimely death.

Can art actually help alleviate feelings of burnout? Dr. Shawn C. Jones thinks it can. Through an appreciation of the beautiful world around us, we can reconnect with our feelings and experience gladness, anger, fear, sadness, hurt, and all the feelings that call you to full living. Your emotions are a reflection of your heart’s desire?don’t lose touch with them.Dr.

At a time when finding an African American man in the technical world of TV was fairly unique - Keith found himself working with the noted Ted Koppel of ABC-TV.  His story is an important lesson in not listening to what you "can't" do and pursuing what you want to do.

If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: you might say during Barack Obama’s presidency, or with the post-9/11 war on terror, or the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, or the “Reagan Revolution” and the rise of the New Right. For leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer, it all starts in 1974.