Media (Audio) - Author Vivian Conan

In part-2 of a two-part author series sponsored by Dorot (1/12/2023), Esther Amini interviews me about Losing the Atmosphere, a Memoir: A Baffling Disorder, a Search for Help, and the Therapist Who Understood. (Because of privacy concerns, this does not include the Q&A that follows the interview.) Part-1, where I interview Esther about her memoir, Concealed, took place on 12/8/2022.
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In part-1 of a two-part author series sponsored by Dorot (12/8/2022), I interview Esther Amini about her book, Concealed: Memoir of a Jewish-Iranian Daughter Caught Between the Chador and America. (Because of privacy concerns, this does not include the Q&A that follows the interview.) Part-2, where Esther interviews me, will follow on 1/12/2022.

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New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Workshop. 4/3/2022. I am interviewed by Esther Amini, LCSW, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author of Concealed: Memoir of a Jewish-Iranian Daughter Caught Between the Chador and America. We discuss childhood trauma, dissociation, attachment, and therapy. [Because of confidentiality concerns, this is the interview only. The Q&A at the end has been cut.]
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Dropping In (VoiceAmerica Variety Channel). 11/12/2021. As Diane Dewey’s guest on this podcast that explores diverse stories about identity, I speak about my mental health experiences and what it was like to write a book about them.
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New York Writers Workshop, Let’s Talk Books. Women, Mental Health, and Beauty. 5/5/2021.
Host Christina Chiu moderates as authors Azure Moyna, Mona Washington and I discuss our experiences.
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Greenburgh Public Library. The Healing Power in Our Stories. 4/20/2021.
I talk with Dr. Andrew Bell, Trauma Informed Program Director at the Westchester County Department of Community Mental Health, and Janet Heneghan of the Greenburgh Public Library.
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Greenburgh Public Library. Zoom talk to the library’s Writing Group. 2/9/2021.
I speak about the process of writing and publishing my book.
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Tuckahoe Public Library. Author Talk. 2/24/2021.
I speak about Losing the Atmosphere.
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System Speak Podcast. Episode 210, with Vivian Conan. 11/16/2020.
As a guest on this award-winning podcast about dissociative identity disorder, I am interviewed by Emma Sunshaw.
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Mental Podcast. Episode 154. Dissociative Identity Disorder, with Vivian Conan. 9/9/2020.
As a guest on this award-winning UK podcast whose aim is to destigmatize mental health, I am interviewed by Bobby Temps.
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Big Blend Radio. Vivian Conan: Losing the Atmosphere. 1/31/2021.
As a guest on this general interest podcast that covers the arts, health, travel, business, and more, I am interviewed by the mother-daughter team of Nancy J. Reid and Lisa D. Smith.
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NYCity News Service Podcast. “Illusory: Beyond the Atmosphere.” 12/2020. I am the guest on a podcast about attachment and dissociation produced by Nicholas Gallagher and Max Balton, then students at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CCNY. Other guests are psychiatrist Jeffery Smith and pediatrician Lane Strathearn.
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OTR Podcast, Achieving Mental Health for Real. Losing the Atmosphere. 11/16/2020.
As a guest on this podcast about destigmatizing mental illness, I am interviewed by Robert A.
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Healthy Woman. KSFR, Santa Fe Public Radio. Vivian Conan, Part-1. 9/5/2020.
As a guest on this weekly radio program to celebrate women’s health, I am interviewed by Jewel Cabeza de Vaca. Topic: Trauma, dissociation, attachment.
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Healthy Woman. KSFR, Santa Fe Public Radio. Vivian Conan, Part-2. 9/26/2020.
As a guest on this weekly radio program to celebrate women’s health, I am interviewed by Jewel Cabeza de Vaca. Topic: Getting better: creating a new brain map of myself.
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