Conversations Exploring the Psychology of Our Lives and World
Conversations Exploring the Psychology of Our Lives and World
The Deeper Dive is a podcast home for conversations with thoughtful, interesting and inspiring people about their narratives and experience, with a focus on the deeper psychological journey we are all on. On The Deeper Dive we discuss the power and complexity, joy and sadness of psychology in our lives and cultures, and help foster more appreciation and understanding for how psychology impacts and matters in our world. We approach these conversations with sincerity and humor.
"We are all much more simply human than otherwise" - Harry Stack Sullivan
In his day job, Ron Wasser is a psychologist in private practice in Montclair, NJ. He grew up in the central part of central Jersey, which he only reasonably concludes is the driving force behind his ambivalence and obsessive inability to sometimes make decisions.
At the dawn of the 1990s he stopped incessantly listening to the slightly odd but awesome cassette pairing of The Who’s Greatest Hits and Genesis’ Invisible Touch, and became a passionate Bruce Springsteen fan at a time when Bruce's Human Touch and Lucky Town were not exactly the most sought after CD’s coveted by other teenagers at Sam Goody.
He attended college in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he studied history because everything else felt intimidating and because he had a notion, a notion deep inside, that the past really matters.
In 1999 he thought about opening a Jimmy Johns franchise back East because he had worked at one in college and the bread was yummy, but mostly because really trying to become a writer was scary. But because opening a Jimmy Johns was also scary, he worked a job in New York, had a quarter life (hopefully) crisis, and got into therapy at 23. Over the next few years he started to make more sense to himself and decided this therapy thing felt very real and genuinely helpful, so he embarked on a roughly 10 year journey of getting his PhD and becoming a practicing psychologist.
He has enjoyed working with many wonderful people over the years, trying to help them understand how their histories greatly impact their thinking patterns and ways of feeling and behaving, and how they can work to shift those patterns via insight and working hard within themselves to make small changes that add up over time.
He is the marginally helpful, very imperfect, but loving husband and father of two, and believes his greatest parenting moments are when he points out to his kids how great certain songs are when they come on the radio. He also realizes he modeled way too much cursing in front of his children when they were young, and is regretting it now.
He started The Deeper Dive because he wants the power of psychology, psychological mindedness, and therapy to be appreciated and talked about openly and deeply, with sincerity and humor, because he firmly believes it makes people healthier and the world better. He also thinks something like this is cool and should exist, and does not want to regret it like the Jimmy Johns empire that was nought.
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