Dr. Dombeck's essays are now available in MP3 Podcast ("talk radio") format on a going forward basis. Click on the links below to listen to the essays.

• Robert Kegan's Awesome Theory of Social Maturity: It can be extremely frustrating trying to deal with socially immature people. Dr. Kegan's theory helps you understand how socially immature people think - what is going on in their minds that makes them so infuriating - so that you can finally understand and therefore better manage your interactions with them. (Date: Jan 2007 Time: 00:46:46)
• Torture is a Form of Trauma: Trauma Causes PTSD (Date: Sep 2006 Time: 00:13:53)
• Humanistic Psychotherapy: Creating a trusting therapy environment (Date: Aug 2006 Time: 00:18:59)
• Boundaries and Family Systems: about dysfunctional families (Date: Jul 2006 Time: 00:25:39)
• Cognitive Restructuring: The Heart of Cognitive Therapy (Date: Apr 2006 Time: 00:28:40)
• Learning Theory: Foundation of Behavior Therapy (Date: Apr 2006 Time: 00:25:19)
• Narcissus and the Grizzly Bear: Review of "Grizzly Man" (Date: Mar 2006 Time: 00:19:21)
• Repression a la Freud: The psychodynamic conception (Date: Feb 2006 Time: 00:24:04)
• Repression-Sensitization: The coping perspective (Date: Feb 2006 Time: 00:23:36)
• Transference: psychodynamic technique (Date: Nov 2005 Time: 00:28:52)
• Philosophers, Engineers ...: Four approaches to therapy (Date: Sep 2005 Time: 00:26:24)
• The Nonjudgemental Witness: An essay about psychotherapy (Date: Jul 2005 Time: 00:19:14)

About Podcasts

A podcast is a kind of radio show (usually along the lines of a talk radio show) that is made available on the internet as a digital audio file instead of being broadcast. Podcasts are available in several audio formats, but the most common format is the popular MP3 format playable by just about all portable audio players and computers. Podcasts are syndicated across the internet using a technology called RSS. RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication". It is a standard method of packaging website content (news, documents, audio files, etc.) for sharing across the internet.

Click on the podcast icon to view the Mental Help Net Essay Podcast RSS news feed:

By plugging this podcast RSS feed link into your own local RSS-enabled audio player software program (Apple's iTunes is a good, cost-free choice), you can scan the podcasts published on the Mental Help Net website without having to actually visit the website. Once you have subscribed to a feed, new podcast files will be automatically downloaded whenever you refresh your audio player. Clicking on a podcast's link within your RSS-aware audio software will usually cause the podcast to play.