LIVING HERO

Interview with Dr. Scott Baum

The Living Hero podcast welcomes our distinguished guest, clinical psychologist and bioenergetic analyst, Scott Baum, Ph.D.

Dr. Baum is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology. He is also a certified Bioenergetic Therapist, and a member of the Faculty of The International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis. He has been affiliated with the DiMele Center for Psychotherapy since 1994.

Scott Baum views psychotherapy as an experiential, problem solving process. He believes that the deepest, fullest, and most complex understanding of a person’s problem yields the best, most creative and enduring results.

We talked about:

• The premise that underlies bioenergetic analysis • A more refined view of stress • How human beings are biologically organized • What goes on in a bioenergetic session • Males, fathers, patriarchal society, power and the unknown • The disparity between mothers and fathers • Why men don’t ask for directions • Healthy narcissism, narcissistic disorders and the true self • A dividing line among therapists • What’s possible with therapy • How to learn more about Bioenergetics.

Visit the website for the New York Society for Bioenergetic Analysis

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Since its an Election Year . . . Let’s Look at “The Truth Bomb”

Let’s be bold and talk with each other about our culture holistically. I’ve started this blog and the Living Hero podcast to enter into an integrative conversation that brings the formerly cloistered and private work of Jariscope into public discourse in a new way.

This is a place where we don’t have to think outside of the box because there is no box—whatever box there was, was in somebody’s mind and here the boxes were smashed to smithereens a long time ago and we’re with Reality. That’s where we have to look at it, consider it, and handle it all at once, the way life really is, where you can’t really cubbyhole and compartmentalize and fragment and label, but you’re up against the task of either keeping your eyes, mind, senses and heart open to the way things are or not. And if you are, you have to navigate by virtue of virtue itself.

So, since it’s an election year, let’s go into the politics of the inner life, where this Reality I’m talking about meets the road. I’d like to introduce you to a book by Alexander Lowen entitled Narcissism: Denial of the True Self. If you are not familiar with Lowen’s many books, I’d like to suggest that you join me in reading them all. I call Lowen “The Truth Bomb”.

I am always on the lookout for wisdom, sanity, and truth. Lowen is the real deal. He is a direct protégé of the late Wilhelm Reich and Lowen has taken the best of what Reich set in motion and brought a great deal more balance and wisdom to it. You may know Lowen through the term Bioenergetics, which is his name for the form of body-centered psychotherapy he pioneered.

I would like to have an ongoing discussion here about this book with you. I am seeking the best representative of Lowen’s work to join us on Living Hero a little later in the year. Dr. Lowen is still alive, but I’m told he is not well. I’m hoping to have this podcast while he is still alive, so he can listen in.

Chapter titles from Narcissism: Denial of the True Self; A Spectrum of Narcissism; The Role of the Image; The Denial of Feeling; Power and Control; Seduction and Manipulation; Horror: The Face of Unreality; The Fear of Insanity; Too Much, Too Soon; The Insanity of Our Time

Buy the book here, start reading, and let’s start talking about it!

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