Welcome to Thursday Thistory, the weekly dive into psychological history. Today's episode focuses on Sophie Freud, granddaughter of Sigmund, probably the Freud you think of when we say Freud. She was a remarkable social worker, advocate, author, and sociologist, and unfortunately most of us don't hear about her. Let's change that!

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Check out our January charity of focus, The White Bird Clinic, at www.whitebirdclinic.org as they do great work providing access to mental health, dental, and other forms of medical care. 

Ray Daugherty is the Primary Developer of the Prime For Life Curriculum, a program for people engaged in high-risk behavior with alcohol or drugs. Developed in the Seventies, and updated regularly, Prime For Life is an approved curriculum for court-ordered intervention for individuals with DUI/DWI charges. The program takes a nonjudgemental and research-based approach to help people identify low or high risk patterns of behavior with intoxicants. Go to www.primeforlife.org to learn more about this nonprofit and their work with addiciton. 

The charity of focus this month is White Bird Clinic in Eugene Oregon, providing psychological crisis services and medical, dental, and mental health support to those in need. Support their work at www.whitebirdclinic.org 

Every New Year people feel pressure to set annual resolutions, goals tied to the arbitrary day chosen to mark the beginning of the calendar year. Do you like this? Hate it? 

Here are a couple ideas about goal-setting that may give a new angle on this tradition.

Dr Eli Camp is a specialist in smoking and addiction. She takes a Harm Reduction approach, helping people to make their own plan for nicotine use, whether they have a goal of quitting, lessening their use, or increasing their health as much as possible while still smoking. She is the author of "Smoke Rings," for smokers and their family.

Follow her work at www.ecampnd.com 

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Another tip in the vein of disentangling information to choose what source to trust about what answers in areas like medical care, mental health, and self-growth.

New Christmas Episode! Isabel Teran, host of "That's Bodacious Dude," and "Hearsing Around," joins to discuss the Wizard-Of-Oz adjacent Christmas special: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus."

A replay of one of my favorite Christmas Episodes, becaus eI got to record with my wonderful siblings! Amber Lopez and Christian Hurst join me to talk about the widely popular topic of the VHS tapes we used in our home to record and watch Christmas specials every year. We were streaming before streaming ever was!

Visit www.peitn.com to view and help the highlighted charity this month: The Prince Edward Island Transgender Network. A great cause and a great group! 

Replay of the 2021 Christmas episode where Chris Revill and I discuss Muppet's Christmas Carol, possibly the best of the iterations of this classic. 

Ian & Eshom Nelms are the Writers and Directors of the 202 film "Fatman," about an alternate reality where Santa exists as a world weary do-gooder who brings children gifts of insight and hope, and fights off the odd hitman here and there. A unique story of magical realism and the harshness of the world seeking to corrupt the good. 

This is a replay of a previous Christmas Episode, look for the new 2024 special episode Tuesday 12/24.

Visit www.peitn.com to view and help out this month's highlighted charity, th ePrince Edward Island Transgender Network.

A replay of the 2015 Christmas Episode of the podcast. Michael Denniston, creator of great film podcasts like "War Machine Vs War Horse" and "99 from 99," joined me to record about the classic holiday movie "It's A Wonderful Life."

Be kind folks, 2015 was a long-ah time ago, my microphone wasn't as good.

Replay of the episode where Sharon Blady and I discuss the roots of the Santa Claus Legend, and how Santa looks in Marvel Comics. Is he a powerful mutant? He sure is! (New Christmas Episode coming Tuesday, Christmas Eve)

Check out www.PEITN.com for the monthly highlighted charity, the Prince Edward Island Transgender Network