We are what we choose to think
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Louise Hay, the best-selling self-help author who claims to have cured herself of cancer through “positive thinking,” talks with Dan Gilbert about how we can control our emotions by what we choose to think. She questions the usefulness of scientific findings and says that she relies on her "inner ding" to validate her thoughts and feelings.
Behind the scenes with Dr. Phil
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Dr. Phil, a clinical psychologist, with the second-highest-rated daytime talk show on TV, speaks with Dan Gilbert in this behind-the-scenes look at America’s most popular TV psychologist. The two discuss the limits and extent of personal responsibility each of us has in our emotional lives.
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Bob S.
Bob Shumaker was born in Pennsylvania, the son of a lawyer and a writer. After graduating from public schools he attended Northwestern University for a year and then the United States Naval Academy where he was a boxer, a cross-country runner and a scholar.
After graduating in 1956 he attended flight training and eventually joined VF-32, a fighter squadron in Jacksonville, Florida. He was a finalist in the Apollo astronaut selection, but a temporary physical ailment prevented his selection. In 1964 he graduated with a...
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Louise Hay
Louise Hay is one of the founders of the self-help movement. She is a best selling author and the founder of Hay House, a major self-help publisher that has sold millions of books and tapes worldwide.
Louise Hay was able to put her philosophies into practice when she was diagnosed with cancer. She considered the alternatives to surgery and drugs, and instead developed an intensive program of affirmations, visualization, nutritional cleansing, and psychotherapy. Within six months, she was completely healed of cancer.
In 1984, Louise Hay's...
Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert is a writer and author of the books Stern Men, The Last American Man, and Pilgrims. Her latest book, Eat, Pray, Love, is a #1 New York Times best-selling memoir about the year she spent traveling the world alone after a difficult divorce.
In addition to writing books, Elizabeth Gilbert has worked steadily as a journalist. Throughout much of the 1990s she was on staff at SPIN magazine, where – with humor and pathos – she chronicled diverse individuals and subcultures, covering everything from rodeo's Buckle Bunnies to China's headlong construction of...
Dr. Phil McGraw
Dr. Phil McGraw has galvanized millions of people to "get real" about their own behavior and create more positive lives. On his daily, one-hour TV show, Dr. Phil, he meets with guests to help solve their problems by stripping away their emotional clutter and providing them with the tools they need to move confidently ahead in their lives.
Dr. Phil is also the author of six #1 New York Times best sellers, which include Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters; Relationship Rescue: A Seven-Step Strategy for Reconnecting with...
Mark Greenberg Ph.D.
Since 1981, Dr. Greenberg has been examining the effectiveness of school and family-based curricula to improve the social, emotional, and cognitive competence of elementary-aged children. He is a senior investigator on a number of prevention projects involving early childhood interventions involving both schools and families. He is the author of more than 200 journal articles and book chapters on developmental psychopathology, well-being, and the effects of prevention efforts on children and families. He consults with government agencies and foundations at the local, state, federal,...