Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. is the co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer. While pioneering High Conflict Personality Theory (HCP), he was the National Conflict Resolution Center’s Senior Family Mediator for 15 years, a Certified Family Law Specialist for 15 years, and a licensed clinical social worker therapist for over 12 years. Bill serves on the faculty of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law and is a Conjoint Associate Professor with the University of Newcastle Law School in Australia. He has been a speaker and trainer in over 35 U.S. states and 13 countries. He is the author or co-author of over 20 books, manuals, and workbooks, he also has a popular blog on the Psychology Today website with over 6 million views, and he hosts It’s All Your Fault on TruStory FM.
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Megan and Bill discuss the extremely relevant and important topic of divorcing a high conflict spouse, starting with a question from a listener. They discuss what to do if your partner doesn’t know yet that you want a divorce, how you should prepare, how
Bill and Megan discuss the challenges of understanding how people with high conflict personalities operate in court, and how sometimes that leads to the legal system getting things backward.
Bill and Megan talk about personality disorders, how they’re different from mental illness, how to tell if someone you know has one, if people with personality disorders are high conflict people, if you should tell them they have a disorder, and how to ex
Bill and Megan discuss Confirmation Bias. They talk about what confirmation bias is and how it can fool us, confirmation bias in today’s sociaty, how it’s used in court cases, and how to avoid getting fooled by it.
In this episode, Bill and Megan discuss the types of losses that can trigger high risk: divorce, new relationship partners, job terminations, and more. They also discuss how to be aware and how to protect yourself.
How do you manage your quick reactions to people with high conflict personalities? Is there a way to get emotionally unhooked? Bill and Megan talk about tools to help control over-reacting to HCPs.
In today’s episode, Megan interviews Bill about his latest findings about brainwashing children, which is one of the most challenging and painful life experiences that families go through.
Kelly Leonard, Executive Director of Learning and Applied Improvisation at The Second City, joins Bill and Megan in this episode to talk about improvisation, creativity, and whether and how it can be used in conflict communication—especially in high confl
Bill and Megan are joined by Ginger Gentile, director of “Erasing Family,” a documentary about adults fighting to reunite their broken families. They discuss the doc and how parents and families can work to reunite their own broken families.
Megan and Bill continue their conversation with Doug Noll about his Prison of Peace program.