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Soberful

261: Life Enhancing Anxiety with Dr. Kirk J. Schneider

Soberful

Veronica Valli & Chip Somers

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.8611 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Veronica talks to Dr. Schneider about the human experience of anxiety. How can we deal with anxiety and understand it as part of our human functioning? Dr. Schneider is past editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, adjunct faculty at Saybrook University and Teachers College, Columbia University, and president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI). He is also a Fellow of five divisions of the American Psychological Association (Humanistic, Psychotherapy, Clinical, Theoretical and Philosophical, and Independent Practice) as well as a frequent speaker at conferences and in the media. Dr. Schneider is also the recipient of Honorary Diplomas and Memberships from The Society for Existential Analysis, UK; The East European Association for Existential Therapy; and the Living Institute, Toronto, Canada, whose diploma in “Existential-Integrative” Therapy is based on Dr. Schneider’s original model of this approach. He has authored or coauthored twelve books, including The Paradoxical Self, Horror and the Holy, Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy, Awakening to Awe and the forthcoming Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy. Several of these works have been translated into Chinese, German, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Portuguese, Slovakian, and Korean languages.

 

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0:47.6

Hey, everybody.

0:48.6

Welcome back to the So Before podcast.

0:50.8

I am joined today by Dr. Kirk Schneider.

0:54.1

Welcome to the podcast. Thanks very much,

0:56.4

Veronica. So I get lots of solicitations for people to come speak on the podcast, and this really

1:03.9

stood out to me. Dr. Schneider is the author of a book called Life Enhancing Anxiety.

1:11.7

He is a psychologist with over 40 years of experience.

1:18.0

And I just thought this is a fascinating subject to talk about.

1:23.7

Give us an overview.

1:24.9

What is life-enhancing anxiety?

1:48.3

Well, I think we have a pretty good idea first of all of what anxiety is i define it as the terror of the unknown and it's it's very primal it goes back uh to our our earliest ancestry it's got an adaptive function, evolutionary. I mean, it's a signal. We call it signal anxiety at that level, signal that there's danger around, and there were real dangers,

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