Free Call-In Therapy Sunday Night: Nando Pelusi On Advice Goddess Radio
There are very few therapists I respect. When I had a problem (related to my writing) about seven years ago, I ended up flying to New York to see the therapist my friend Susan Shapiro wrote about in Five Men Who Broke My Heart
The guy thought I was nuts -- uh, that is for wanting to fly to New York for a double session with him when there are countless therapists in Los Angeles. The difference: What Sue wrote about him made it clear that he was really good and worth the trip.
Dr. Nando Pelusi is another therapist I have a lot of respect for. He's an Albert Ellis-trained cognitive therapist who brings evolutionary psychology into his therapy. He was also very close to Ellis, and led the $5/Friday night therapy-before-a-group sessions at the Albert Ellis Institute when Ellis wasn't there, which is where we met. (I used to go when I was in New York.)
I've heard his viewpoint over the years, read his terrific Neanderthink column that was in Psych Today for a while, and we've sat next to each other and hung out at numerous ev psych conferences, and I respect him a lot.
He'll be on my radio show on Sunday night, 7 p.m. Pacific time, 10 p.m. Eastern, for an hour, and WE NEED YOUR CALLS!
Listen live at this link (or use it to download the podcast afterward -- click "play in your default player" to download to your iPod, etc.):
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2011/11/14/advice-goddess-radio-amy-alkon
The show has also been accepted on iTunes, so you can subscribe there. Just search "Amy Alkon." Or go every week to:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon
Call in Sunday night, 7-8 p.m. Pacific, 10-11 p.m. Eastern for advice on love, dating, sex, relationships or to talk with Nando and me about the subjects we're discussing (everything from procrastination to money problems, and the effect on relationships and various relationship-related issues).
Call-in number once the show is on and live (at 7 p.m.): (347) 326-9761 (New York area code).
Oh, and the show opening is finally finished -- and it's fab. It's by Xenia Shin of the underground L.A. band Laco$te.
I'll try to make it.
Jim P. at November 13, 2011 8:47 AM
Another good show.
The only sort of question was his mentioning under-generalization. What does that mean?
Jim P. at November 13, 2011 8:47 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/11/13/free_call-in_th.html#comment-2761174">comment from Jim P.It was actually OVER-generalization, and he means generalizing out from one incident that this is your fate, and also, the tendency to "awfulize" -- to say that it's terrible, awful and horrible, and the end of the world that something happened to you, when it's merely a shitty thing that happened that you wish hadn't happened...and you'll live. And recover.
And thanks for listening!
Do you prefer when I have guests I talk with or not?
Amy Alkon
at November 13, 2011 8:53 PM
The guests help reinforce that you aren't speaking out your posterior.
I've been exposed to your work for years, since I discovered you in the Dayton alt weekly. Over the years you have influenced how I think on many social, personal and emotional issues.
You bring a reality to your advice that seems to be lacking in many of the other columnists that are out there.
I enjoyed the whole back and forth between the both of you. I'm not the type to interrupt with general questions that are relatively minor -- as I considered my question above.
I look at last night as something to not quite as determinant as Randy Pausch's Last Lecture (www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo&feature=colike) but it helps prove that you are coming from evaluated thought. (i.e. You didn't say just what came to mind.)
If you had not taken anyone's call while you two were talking, I might have questioned it. But having both of you addressing the caller was very nice.
Jim P. at November 14, 2011 9:07 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/11/13/free_call-in_th.html#comment-2764258">comment from Jim P.Thanks so much, Jim P. And I just wish we had more callers, and earlier in the show. We're gaining an audience, so I'm hoping it'll happen!
Amy Alkon
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