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Leading Minds with Dr. David Brendel explores how innovative approaches in psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and coaching are empowering individuals in the 21st century to realize their full human potential. The show will feature experts in these areas discussing how people can develop individualized goals and solutions to their greatest challenges, rather than relying on standardized psychiatric treatments and potentially toxic medication. Drawing on new research findings in areas like positive psychology, Leading Minds will educate you about the benefits of “solutions-based” approaches rather than “problems-based” approaches. Expert discussions with renowned psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, and coaches will converge on a central theme. This unifying vision is that self-reflection, positive thinking, and personal responsibility will empower you to achieve practical wisdom, develop clear action plans, and achieve lasting success in all areas of their lives.

Location:

Boston, MA

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VoiceAmerica

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Leading Minds with Dr. David Brendel explores how innovative approaches in psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and coaching are empowering individuals in the 21st century to realize their full human potential. The show will feature experts in these areas discussing how people can develop individualized goals and solutions to their greatest challenges, rather than relying on standardized psychiatric treatments and potentially toxic medication. Drawing on new research findings in areas like positive psychology, Leading Minds will educate you about the benefits of “solutions-based” approaches rather than “problems-based” approaches. Expert discussions with renowned psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, and coaches will converge on a central theme. This unifying vision is that self-reflection, positive thinking, and personal responsibility will empower you to achieve practical wisdom, develop clear action plans, and achieve lasting success in all areas of their lives.

Language:

English

Contact:

1 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02116 (617) 932-1548


Episodes

Personal and Cultural Trauma: Philosophical Reflections on Women in Combat

10/7/2013
Women have been acquiring more visibility and presence in the military. In fact, in January, the Military reversed their ban on women in combat. Carol S. Gould, while a strong proponent of women's rights, has deep reservations about the role of women in combat. Dr. Brendel will be engaging her in a dialogue about her unorthodox concerns over women as warriors.

Duration:00:56:49

Computer-guided Behavioral Healthcare: From NASA to Earth

9/30/2013
Behavioral health problems cause human suffering, result in lost productivity, drive up costs of care and worsen outcomes. Although effective treatments for mental health disorders exist, many people do not receive them due to cost, access to trained clinicians, logistics, and the stigma of asking for help. NASA faces similar barriers to delivering behavioral health interventions to astronauts flying long-duration space missions. A suite of interactive media programs has been developed to help astronauts prevent, assess, and treat their own psychosocial problems. The “Virtual Space Station” provides a range of computer-automated tools, including electronic Problem-Solving Treatment for depression, or ePST. ePST is a tool to treat depression by helping people solve real-world problems, which improves mood and enjoyment of life. This program will provide an overview of computer-automated treatments for behavioral health problems, an audio tour of the “Virtual Space Station” and ePST.

Duration:00:57:09

How to Hit and Think at the Same Time

9/23/2013
Yogi Berra claimed that you can’t hit a baseball and think at the same time; the choreographer George Balanchine would tell his dancers, “don’t think; just do,” and the psychologist Sian Beilock has conducted experiments which support, as she sees it, the phenomenon of “paralysis by analysis,” or as she puts it in her popular book Choke, “heightened attention to detail can actually mess you up.” But does thinking really interfere with expert performance? Does attention to detail tend to mess you up? Going against a long tradition of thinkers who have advocated the view that thinking interferes with doing, the philosopher and former professional ballet dancer, Barbara Gail Montero, discusses her forthcoming book in which she explains why, when you are really good at something, you really can hit and think at the same time. (Read a preview of the book in the New York Times, http://www.opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/the-myth-of-just-do-it/?emc=eta1Preview)

Duration:00:57:21

From Freud to Football: A Journey

9/9/2013
From Freud to football, the title of this session, is suggestive of the variety of subjects that Patricia Shields will discuss. Her background as an award winning teacher and eclectic scholar should result in a variety of topics including techniques for writing research papers that lead students to creative insights, the role of astonishment and action in a fulfilling life, peacekeeping and Brendel's 4P's, how football skills can inform empirical research, Freud, efficiency and pragmatism, and how the zombie and prisoner metaphor stop students from reaching their full potential. All of these topics are connected through an examination of the transformative nature of pragmatic inquiry.

Duration:00:56:10

Neuroscience and the art of being awesome

8/26/2013
Your mindset is a major factor in determining your level of success in life. The latest discoveries in neuroscience give us the tools we need to change our mindset and our behaviors at will. In this episode, Umar Hameed will show you how to use these tools and techniques to take charge of your most valuable asset: your mind. For this episode think about the one area in your life that you want to change. What impact would that have on your life; emotionally, financially and physically? Umar will share a technique that you can use right away to make that happen. You will learn: • The four neurological levels of humans • What really drives behavior • The three ways people sabotage themselves • Strategies for breaking through self-imposed limitations

Duration:00:58:09

A View from the Psych ER: Is Our Society Abandoning the Seriously Mentally Ill?

8/19/2013
Speaking as a frontline clinician with 20 years of experience in the psychiatric emergency room at San Francisco General Hospital, Dr. Paul Linde believes that people with chronic and serious psychiatric illness, politically powerless and voiceless, are being further marginalized by our society. As President Obama's health care reform package is due to roll out in 2014, will the changes in it further abandon the care of the seriously mentally ill? Already, cuts to public health budgets have adversely impacted this population. And, with organized psychiatry casting an even wider diagnostic net with the publication of DSM-5, the focus on treating the sickest psychiatric patients becomes even more diluted. Dr. Paul Linde's clinical work in a busy urban psych ER will inform this discussion and put a human face on this public health problem.

Duration:00:57:11

Feel Better With Technology - The Leading Edge of Mental Health

8/12/2013
The famous iPhone advertisement tagline There's an app for that is ringing true in many areas of our life, but what about mental health? David Burt and Eron Cohen will discuss the current state of software applications that help mental health patients and what the ramifications are for the future. This episode will focus on consumer centered self-help software that is available now or currently being tested. Joining us will be David Burt and Eron Cohen from LinkedWellness, a Baltimore based startup that will soon begin offering the first of its kind, SPARX, the Video Game for Depression.

Duration:00:57:22

Insanely Happy: Why Good-Enough is Better than Great

8/5/2013
Lori Gottlieb noticed in her private therapy practice that many people attributed their unhappiness to something external in their lives – their spouse or lack of a spouse, their boss, their income, their children. Over time, however, she came to believe that often, what was “wrong” in people’s lives was their perception of what daily life was actually about. The sociologist Barry Schwartz said that “expectations are disappointments in training,” and Gottlieb, also a journalist, decided to thoroughly research this concept as it applied to relationships and marriage. In her New York Times bestseller, MARRY HIM: THE CASE FOR SETTLING FOR MR. GOOD ENOUGH, she looks at how our culture’s view of happy relationships is squarely at odds with the scientific research on what actually makes for passionate, fulfilling, and long-lasting marriages, and how more generally, our dogged pursuit of a misguided view of happiness is making many of us, paradoxically, needlessly miserable.

Duration:00:57:54

The Power of Coaching

7/29/2013
Coaching leaders, managers, and up-and-coming talent is increasingly accepted as a proven, effective way for people to improve capabilities and results. In this interview, Andrew Neitlich, Founder and Director of the Center for Executive Coaching, discusses coaching as a powerful tool to help people achieve their most ambitious aspirations and improve their results. You will discover what coaching is, how it works for maximum results, key coaching conversations, and how and when to use coaching. Don't miss out on learning about one of the most potent and effective ways to help people -- from athletes to business owners, executives, leaders, and managers -- get better!

Duration:00:57:04

Practical Applications of Brain Science in Business

7/22/2013
Brain science has been increasingly highlighted in executive coaching, but is it something that can truly be used, and how is it helpful? Joining us today is Dr. Srini Pillay, CEO of NeuroBusiness Group (NBG), voted one of the Top 20 Most Innovative Leadership Development Companies in The World by Training Industry in 2013. Dr. Pillay will answer questions related to current trends in the use of brain science in executive coaching. He will discuss how brain science is impacting the market share, and why this rapid growth in the use of brain science in executive coaching is increasing. In addition, he will discuss specific brain-based paradigms that have been useful in coaching executives and Fortune 500 clients on resilience, high stakes leadership, change and agility. In addition, he will discuss some recent software that NBG has created to enhance the impact on bottom-line results and to encourage more people to become involved in brain-based executive coaching.

Duration:00:56:21

SOAR Selling: How to Get Through to Almost Anyone—the Proven Method for Reaching Decision Makers

7/15/2013
This interview will focus on the mindset and mechanics it takes to get your sales force into the C-Suite of your prospects. Most selling systems in the world are about what to do once you’ve finally reached a decision-maker, but don’t teach you how to reach that decision-maker in the first place. This interview bridges that gap. Let David and Marhnelle Hibbard show you how to reach almost anyone on the telephone. This interview is a MUST attend if you want to learn a new approach to sales that delivers a 90% contact rate on net new calls. What You Will Learn: • How to drive net new revenue making fewer calls • How to get business development and sales teams to want to prospect again • How to stop cold calling and shift to a strategic target approach • How to keep demand generation ethical • How to reach a decision-maker or high influencer on 9 out of 10 attempts • How to convert a send-me-something request into an appointment • How to leave a message that delivers an 85% return call rate

Duration:00:55:58

Diseases of Affluence, Their Causes and Cures: Philosophical Remedies for the Collapse of American Culture

7/8/2013
In Germany they’re called “diseases of civilization”; in Japan, “lifestyle maladies”; in Sweden, “diseases of affluence.” The USA leads the world in producing them, but doesn’t even have a name for them. They have now reached epidemic proportions: obesity, depression, ADHD, bullying, chronic fatigue syndromes, sleep disorders, and sexual dysfunctions are sweeping the developed world. These so-called “epidemics” are culturally-induced illnesses, caused primarily by bad habits, poor choices, bankrupt values, and harmful lifestyles. That is, they stem from dysfunctional philosophies of life, and are only worsened by our culture of reflexive diagnosis and mass drugging. But Americans are beginning to wake up. The NY Times recently blamed drug ads as the main cause of ADHD, while the NIMH has rejected the DSM V for diagnosing clusters of symptoms, as opposed to real disease. If Americans want to reverse these epidemics, they can start by embracing philosophical remedies. Stay tuned for more.

Duration:00:57:27