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Developing Meaning

Dirk Winter

A podcast about healing trauma and finding meaning.


Have you ever wondered what your therapist has figured out about life's big questions?


Join psychiatrist Dr. Dirk Winter as he speaks with colleagues, therapists, and other healers about what they have learned from their clinical work about how to heal trauma and build more meaning and purpose into our lives.


Developing Meaning is NOT CLINICAL ADVICE and is NOT AFFILIATED WITH ANY INSTITUTIONS.  It is intended to play with ideas that are emerging, fringe, and outside of the mainstream in order to discover the meaning of life.


Produced by Dirk Winter and Violet Chernoff

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  • #10
    Mar 17, 2024 · 1 hr 9 min

    #10: EMDR and The Meaning Of Life In One Word with Dr. April Minjarez

    Send us Fan Mail Dr. April Minjarez is the only therapist I know who is both experienced at healing infant trauma and an end of life doula. She is also an expert in multiple trauma healing modalities including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and an amazing mentor, teacher, and healer. In this episode you will hear how a terrifying experience with gangs in middle school inspired April to become a therapist. You will also learn how EMDR therapy stimulates healing by reprocessing components of traumatic memories, and how this modality can integrate ketamine journeys. Also, you will learn April's compelling one word answer to my question about the meaning of life. Theme music by The Thrashing Skumz Produced by Dirk Winter and Violet Chernoff Developing Meaning is NOT MEDICAL ADVICE and NOT AFFILIATED WITH ANY INSTITUTIONS Timestamps 0:19 - Finding Meaning in Therapeutic Modalities 11:31 - Middle School Gang Story 19:20 - Evolution of Therapeutic Modalities 23:32 - EMDR Therapy for Trauma Processing 40:00 - Integrating EMDR and Ketamine 48:51 - Working with Grief and Loss 58:00 - The Meaning of Life According to April 1:02:02 - Being Mortal by Atul Gawande 1:06:00 - Wrap Up and Look Ahead

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  • #9
    Feb 10, 2024 · 1 hr 30 min

    #9: Dr. Richard Brockman - On Surviving His Mother's Suicide, Psychoanalysis, and Healing Trauma with Neuroscience, Storytelling and Love

    Send us Fan Mail When Richard Brockman was seven years old his mother died by suicide. He went on to become an expert in trauma and suicide, and is now a Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia, Psychoanalyst, Playwright, Author and my mentor and friend. He recently published his memoir, Life After Death: Surviving Suicide, which tells his story of loss and healing from both a first person and a neuroscience perspective. In this conversation you will learn much about how to heal trauma from perspectives of story, neuroscience, and meaning. Theme music by The Thrashing Skumz Produced by Dirk Winter and Violet Chernoff Timestamps 0:17 - Healing Trauma and Surviving Suicide 10:43 - Personal Connection's Impact in Psychiatry 25:29 - Questioning Freud's Theories in Therapy 30:15 - Understanding Meaning and Story in Psychology 42:04 - Trauma, Story, and Healing 50:31 - Healing Trauma Through Love and Storytelling 1:04:03 - Healing Trauma and Finding Gratitude 1:10:45 - Taking Steps Towards Healing and Recovery 1:17:38 - Healing and the Meaning of Life 1:26:28 - Appreciation, Friendship, and Future Plans

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