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Charlyne Gelt, Ph.D.

"Hades' Angels: Inside View of Women Who Love Lifers and Death Row Inmates and What Women Can Learn From Their Transformative Journeys"

Charlyne Gelt, Ph.D.,(PSY22909), M.F.T., is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and registered group psychotherapist working with children, adolescents, adults, families and groups. Dr. Gelt has maintained a psychotherapy practice in Encino since 1992 helping individuals and families move towards healthier communication, and balance in the family system. She draws from different theoretical frames, including cognitive-behavioral, self-psychology, and family systems lens.

Prior to working as a psychotherapist, she was an educator (Gen. Ed; SH/AUT/SED), for over twenty-five years working with children, adolescents, and parents - including those with autism and Asperger's Syndrome, reach personal and academic goals. She understands the individual needs of and impact of the special needs child on marital and family systems.

Affiliations

• Los Angeles County Psychological Association

• California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

• American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

• National Registry of Certified Group Psychotherapists

• American Group Psychotherapists Association

• SCSCH- Southern California Society of Clinical Hypnosis

Dr. Gelt can be contacted at: cgelt@earthlink.net

Or learn more about Dr. Gelt at: http://www.drgelt.com

Get Dr. Gelt's Creativity and Madness lecture at www.audio-digest.com

Tom Greening, Ph.D

"Nasreddin the Psychologist"

I have been in private practice in the same office since 1958, offering existential/humanistic/psychodynamic psychotherapy. My earlier training was psychoanalytic, including a personal psychoanalysis, and I have been influenced by the person-centered approach.

I am interested in what makes deep, life - changing psychotherapy work. My concern is with how therapists can be with clients in ways that respect and support their potential for change and active self-development, no matter how obscured it may be by psychopathology. I oppose the medical model of "treating" "mental illnesses" and reductionistic depersonalizing theories and methods that over-emphasize bottom-up, biogenetic causation, and neglect top-down, psychological causation. I'm concerned about how social, cultural, economic, political and ideological forces affect individual lives and the practice of psychology, often to the detriment of the field and the people it purports to serve.

My goal is to help people empower themselves in the face of the external and internal forces that threaten to determine their choices and reduce their freedom and creativity.

Tom can be contacted at: tgreening@saybrook.edu

Or learn more about Professor Greening at: http://www.tomgreening.com

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