Richard Louis Miller is an American

clinical psychologist Clinical psychology is an integration of social science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and persona ...

, author, founder of

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Health Sanctuary, and broadcaster who hosts the
Mind Body Health & Politics
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affiliate KZYX&Z FM & www.KZYX.org until 2018, and continues to stream online.

History

Miller is founder of The Health Sanctuary at

, a health maintenance facility. Miller’s approaches to healing have been the subject of national television news reports (including segments on the news programs of

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and

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), print media (''

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'', ''

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'', and '' U.S. News & World Report''), two film documentaries, and the book ''Gestalting Addiction''. He co-authored a weekly news column in the San Francisco Chronicle, while co-hosting a weekly syndicated radio program. As the Founder of the internationally acclaimed Cokenders Alcohol and Drug Program, Dr. Richard L. Miller integrated his techniques of humanistic psychology and psycho-physical fitness training with social model rehabilitation. During the 1980s, he helped detoxify over 1,500 persons at Wilbur Hot Springs. None of these people were medicated or hospitalized during their residential treatment. Dr. Miller believes the professionally designed Wilbur ambiance and pristine environment, combined with the therapeutic qualities of the mineral hot springs were significant adjunct to his 86% two-year success rate.

Radio Program and Podcast

In addition to continuing his professional work in

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

, Miller currently hosts a weekly internet broadcast "Mind Body Health & Politics," on his websit
MindBodyHealthpolitics.org
The program formerly aired on

affiliate KZYX & Z radio in

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. In November 2020, Dr. Miller re-launched the program as an internet radio broadcast, with his first guest, 4-term California Governor Jerry Brown. Notable guests have included Gabor Maté, Dennis McKenna, Sanjay Singal, and Dr. Lea Lis. You can listen to episodes online or wherever you get your podcasts.

''Psychedelic Medicine, Psychedelic Wisdom,'' and other publications

In 2017, Inner Traditions published ''Psychedelic Medicine'' an edited compilation of Miller's most popular radio interviews on the medicinal uses of psychedelics. The interviewees include

Rick Doblin Richard Elliot Doblin (born November 30, 1953) is an American drug activist and executive who is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Life and career Born in 1953, Doblin grew up ...

Stanislav Grof Stanislav "Stan" Grof is a Czech-born psychiatrist who has been living in the United States since the 1960s. Grof is one of the principal developers of transpersonal psychology and research into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness ...

James Fadiman James Fadiman (born May 27, 1939) is an American writer known for his research on Psychedelic microdosing, microdosing psychedelics. He co-founded the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, which later became Sofia University (California), Sofia ...

Julie Holland Julie Holland (born December 13, 1965) is an American psychopharmacologist, psychiatrist, and author. She is the author of five books, including ''Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych ER,'' a memoir documenting her e ...

, and

Dennis McKenna Dennis Jon McKenna (born December 17, 1950 in Paonia, Colorado) is an American ethnopharmacologist, research pharmacognosist, lecturer and author. He is the brother of well-known psychedelics proponent Terence McKenna and is a founding board ...

, with each chapter dedicated to a particular substance (i.e.,

LSD Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known colloquially as acid, is a potent psychedelic drug. Effects typically include intensified thoughts, emotions, and sensory perception. At sufficiently high dosages LSD manifests primarily mental, vi ...

MDMA 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), commonly seen in Tablet (pharmacy), tablet form (ecstasy) and crystal form (molly or mandy), is a potent empathogen–entactogen with stimulant properties primarily used for Recreational dru ...

Psilocybin Psilocybin ( , ) is a naturally occurring psychedelic prodrug compound produced by more than 200 species of fungi. The most potent are members of the genus ''Psilocybe'', such as '' P. azurescens'', '' P. semilanceata'', and '' P.&nbs ...

, and

Ayahuasca AyahuascaPronounced as in the UK and in the US. Also occasionally known in English as ''ayaguasca'' (Spanish-derived), ''aioasca'' (Brazilian Portuguese-derived), or as ''yagé'', pronounced or . Etymologically, all forms but ''yagé'' descen ...

). The final chapter compares this approach to the traditional approach of psychiatric medication, based on the work of investigative journalist Robert Whitaker – author of ''

Anatomy of an Epidemic ''Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America'' is a book by Robert Whitaker published in 2010 by Crown. Whitaker asks why the number of Americans who receive government disabil ...

.'' In 2022, Inner Traditions published ''Psychedelic Wisdom.'' Dr. Richard Louis Miller shares stories of psychedelic transformation, insight, and wisdom from his conversations with 19 scientists, doctors, therapists, and teachers, each of whom has been self-experimenting with psychedelic medicines, sub rosa, for decades. Revealing the psychedelic wisdom uncovered in spite of decades of the “War on Drugs,” Dr. Miller and his contributors show how LSD and other psychedelics offer a pathway to creativity, healing, innovation, and liberation.

References

External links

MindBodyHealthPolitics.org
* Wilbur Hot Spring

* Wilbur Hot Springs Institute for Ecology and Health {{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Richard Louis American health and wellness writers American medical writers American male non-fiction writers American talk radio hosts 1939 births Living people People from Tiburon, California University of Michigan faculty University of Michigan alumni American clinical psychologists