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Episode: #910 Michael Alcee PhD on The Upside of OCD
Description: Michael Alcee, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in Tarrytown, NY, and is a Mental Health Educator at the Manhattan School of Music. In his first book,Therapeutic Improvisation: How to Stop Winging It and Own It as a Therapist, Michael demonstrated how all clinicians are artists, reading the changes like well-versed jazz musicians, finding the poetic turns in their client's stories like skilled writers, and reveling in the creative act that emerges in the humanistic encounter of psychotherapy.  In his forthcoming book, The Upside of OCD, Michael takes on the field's tilted view of OCD as merely a biological and behavio...