Dr. Robert Weisz was born in Lima, Peru, in 1944. His parents were German Jewish refugees from the Holocaust. He lived in Peru, Bolivia, and Chile before immigrating to the USA in 1957 at the age of thirteen. Dr. Weisz earned an MA in psychology and a Ph.D. in clinical/community psychology from the University of Wyoming. During graduate school years, he conducted research and authored a number of articles in scientific journals in the field of sleep and dreams. Dr. Weisz served as an officer with the US Army Medical Service Corps. In 1980, he cofounded the Milton Erickson Institute for Clinical Hypnosis and Behavioral Sciences of New Mexico.

His interest in the healing potential of altered states of consciousness brought him back to his native South America to study with shamans and healers in Peru, Ecuador, the USA, and Brazil and a 30-year study of the healing process with plant entheogens.

Dr. Weisz has served as an educator on the faculties of the University of Wyoming, Southwestern College, Webster University, and the Clinical Faculty at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He is the co-author, with Deuter (1991), of a series of eight hypnotherapeutic audio healing journeys published by Health Communications, Inc., and now available in CD format. Dr. Weisz is deeply interested in the spiritual/philosophical path of Nonduality. In private practice since 1980, Dr. Weisz lives and practices in Santa Fe, NM.

He has developed a Mindfulness-Based Emotional Processing (MBEP),  a new therapeutic modality that stimulates and supports deep, intrinsic emotional processing through mindful attention upon the body’s sensory experience of an emotional issue or memory.

Stephen Goldbart joins us in our conversation with Robert Weisz. He is a licensed clinical psychologist, professor, author, and organizational consultant. His personal interests include the psychology of life transitions and working with complex family/organizational systems

As a senior level consulting psychologist, Dr.Goldbart has been teaching seminars and workshops for over twenty five years for both practicing therapists and clients. He co-authored Mapping the Terrain of the Heart: Passion, Tenderness and the Capacity to Love.