How Anxiety Can Lead to Growth

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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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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