How Anxiety Can Lead to Growth
Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast
David J Puder
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode of the podcast, we interview Dr. Kirk Schneider, a psychologist, psychotherapist, and author of, Life-enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World. Dr. Schneider is a practicing psychotherapist and director of the Existential-Humanistic Institute, a psychotherapy training institute. As a former mentee of the great existential psychologist Rollo May and a self-described existential-integrative psychotherapist, he has made significant contributions to the fields of humanistic psychology and existential psychology throughout his career.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome back to the podcast. I am joined today with Dr. Kirk Schneider. He |
| 0:21.3 | is a still practicing psychotherapist and he has written a book called Life Enhancing Anxiety. |
| 0:33.4 | Interestingly, I get a lot of books that are sent to me but the first person that reviewed your book |
| 0:39.2 | is someone I've had on the podcast Nancy McWilliams who I think highly of and she wrote this |
| 0:47.3 | provocative, brilliant and paradoxically comforting book belongs in the library of anyone who cares |
| 0:52.4 | about the fate of humanity. And so I think it's a very timely topic. I've been thinking about |
| 0:58.4 | anxiety this year. We've done some episodes on anxiety and I think that your existential approach |
| 1:08.5 | someone who's been in therapy yourself extensively sounds like in the book and been through |
| 1:14.9 | hardships which you're very open about. I think we'll talk somewhat about those if you're open |
| 1:22.9 | to it. Yes, I am. And so I was thinking it's a it's a really a timely topic in a day and age in |
| 1:31.7 | which we don't really want to do the deeper work and look at what is going on on a kind of like |
| 1:40.6 | an existential level, right? So I think you would you would call yourself more of an existential |
| 1:47.2 | existential oriented psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Is that correct? That's a good way to put it, David. |
| 1:53.6 | Yeah, or you could I call myself existential integrated. So I try to be the person where they're at |
| 2:01.0 | from you know a variety of bona fide approaches but within an overall existential or experiential |
| 2:11.2 | context, meaning that I try to make available a deeper level of context if the person is ready |
| 2:20.8 | and willing to go to that deeper level. Yeah, it seems like we live in a world where |
| 2:28.0 | people easily find distractions, easily find ways of pushing down emotions. It's there's so much |
| 2:38.0 | white noise, so much things vine for our attention and your book resonates with me on the level of |
| 2:46.6 | how do we look at and tolerate not only our own emotions but other people's and especially people |
| 2:55.1 | who have very different maybe experiences than we do. Yeah, I mean I think we're experiencing |
| 3:02.7 | skyrocketing rates of anxiety and depression precisely because we have failed in many ways as a |
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