Looking at the Sky through the Trees

Viewpoint, #96

Sunday, July 14, 2013

As a physician, I’ve learned that viewpoint is everything, and everyone has a story to tell. Things are not always as they seem. We’re never entirely sure that what we see is reality, or what we hear is reality. So if you can have an open mind, and be compassionate, and listen to what we are told, or explore more what we think is going on around us, we’re certainly going to be better off in our own lives. We also treat those around us better, strengthening our ties to the community, and enhancing our interpersonal awareness.

This week on the Dr. Lisa Radio & Podcast, we explore the topics of perception, memory, and judgment. We talk to attorney Stephen Schwartz about bias in the courtroom, and how our memories can sometime deceive us. Next, we discuss both inner and outer realities with Jungian psychotherapist Dr. Stephen Aronson, who explains how these dual worlds can often be out of sync.

Guests

Stephen Schwartz

Stephen Schwartz

Stephen Schwartz is a highly successful attorney. A former prosecutor, he has been practicing law for 28 years. He practices in the areas of criminal defense, personal injury, and wills and probate law. He was the Criminal Law Section chair of the Maine State Bar Association and in 1992, he was the founding president of the Maine Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, an organization that now has close to 300 members, and has the respect of the bench and bar; the organization is called upon regularly by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) to write amicus briefs and for input in other matters of importance. Steve was also the founder and first editor of its magazine, Maine Defender. He is a graduate of the University of Maine and the Santa Clara University School of Law. He is AV rated, the highest possible peer review rating from Martindale Hubbell, and he has been listed by a vote of his peers in Best Lawyers in America from 2011 through 2013. In his spare time, he broadcasts high school sporting events for television and co-hosts Law on the Line, a monthly television show on CTN Channel 5 in Southern Maine.

Dr. Stephen Aronson

Dr. Stephen Aronson

Dr. Stephen Aronson received his doctorate at the University of Connecticut in 1970 and, established a private practice in 1971, in addition to years of teaching and consulting. His training is eclectic, encompassing cognitive-behavioral, gestalt, Jungian and transpersonal frameworks. His practice is now focused on existential/spiritual questions regarding fear of mortality and the search for meaning in one’s life, through the exploration of belief systems and the application of mindfullness training to steady attention and deepen consciousness. He is co-author of The Stress Management Workbook and several papers on spiritual/transpersonal psychology. For over thirty years he has been a student of G.I. Gurdjieff’s “Fourth Way” approach to practical mysticism, a method designed to bring the scientific approach of the West to the depth understanding of the East in the search “To Know Thyself.”

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