Dr. Keith Witt

Dr. Keith Witt

Dr. Keith Witt is a Licensed Psychologist, teacher, and author who has lived and worked in Santa Barbara, CA. for over forty years.

Dr. Witt is the founder of The School of Love, at www.drkeithwitt.com, where he offers his School of Love Lecture Series, blogs, e-copies of his five books, Therapist in the Wild webseries, and Integral Conversations audios and videos on health, love, relationship, sexuality, spirituality, development, and psychotherapy-related topics. He has give three TEDx talks, all available on his website.

In presentations around the country—including Integral Life's What's Next, Integral Theories Conferences, and his ongoing series, The Shrink and the Pundit with Jeff Salzman—Keith has explored love, intra and interpersonal relationships, and development from multiple perspectives, weaving neuroscience, Integral theory, wisdom traditions, and numerous forms of psychotherapy into a coherent cosmology of love and development.

Website: http://drkeithwitt.com

Is Masculinity Toxic?

Is Masculinity Toxic?

Jeff talks with Dr. Keith Witt about an evolutionary approach that liberates masculinity and femininity into a new integration that features the best of both and makes them available to all.
Integral Mindfulness and the Evolution of Shame

Integral Mindfulness and the Evolution of Shame

Integral mindfulness gives us the tools to make our moral discernments more visible and influenceable. Integral mindfulness can organize our relationships with shame and moral disgust (as well as with moral approval and all forms of pleasure) to use them as sources of enhanced horizontal and vertical health.
Staying Attuned in an Entangled Universe

Staying Attuned in an Entangled Universe

Dr. Keith and Corey explore ways that people can stay attuned with one another even while our defensive states are being activated.
The Art and Practice of Happiness

The Art and Practice of Happiness

Watch as Dr. Keith Witt, Jeff Salzman, and Corey deVos take an in-depth look at the art of happiness, exploring some of the central perspectives and practices that can lead to a more happy, wise, and fulfilling life.
Loving Completely — How to Show Up More Fully in Your Relationships

Loving Completely — How to Show Up More Fully in Your Relationships

Wouldn't you like to know — quickly, easily and succinctly — what the very best of science tells us about how to have amazing, life-changing relationships, intimacy and sex? Loving Completely is your guide.
An Integral Understanding of Suicide

An Integral Understanding of Suicide

Suicide has been in existence as long as self-aware consciousness has been in existence. The gift of self-aware consciousness included the capacity for humans to anticipate and understand the inevitability of their own deaths, and all gifts come with a price. In this series of videos, Dr. Keith Witt talks to Jeff Salzman and Corey deVos about bringing a more integral understanding and compassion to the topic of suicide.
Integral Intimacy: A Beginner’s Guide

Integral Intimacy: A Beginner’s Guide

Dr. Keith and Corey explore the basic architecture of Integral intimacy in relationships, offering a simple roadmap for any couples who would like to level up their relationship.
The Power to Serve

The Power to Serve

Dr. Keith talks to Jeff Salzman about Integral Life’s recent “Tap Your Power” event in Denver, CO, which featured exquisite teachings from himself, Ginny Whitelaw, Beena Sharma, and Ken Wilber on the many facets of power in today’s world — interior and exterior, individual and collective, all the way up and down the spiral of human development.
The Art of the Love Affair

The Art of the Love Affair

Dr. Keith Witt explores the art of the love affair — how they happen, how to avoid them from occurring outside of your committed relationship, and how to deal with and heal from secret affairs.
Helping Kids Grow Strong

Helping Kids Grow Strong

Dr Keith Witt talks with Jeff about how to better support children's development. Dr. Keith argues that the healthy expression of a person’s type (their preferences, gifts and built-in challenges) is based largely on their early relationships.
The Butterfly and the Hawk: How “Dual Focus” Can Help You Overcome Pain, Anxiety, and Trauma

The Butterfly and the Hawk: How “Dual Focus” Can Help You Overcome Pain, Anxiety, and Trauma

A common element of many trauma treatments, most psychotherapy, and much spiritual practice is something called "dual focus" — our capacity to anchor ourselves in the feeling of being safe, capable, and worthy in the present moment, while simultaneously extending our awareness to distressing feelings, thoughts, memories, impulses, judgments, and events.
Peering into the Post-Privacy World

Peering into the Post-Privacy World

Today Jeff talks with integral psychotherapist Dr. Keith Witt about the arising of big data and its effect on our individual and collective psyches. They share their insights on the fascinating new book, Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are.
Why Be Normal?

Why Be Normal?

Dr. Keith discusses how the concept of "normal" profoundly effects our development and functioning, and how he has dealt with these issues over the decades in therapy sessions and groups.
How to Level Up Your Parenting

How to Level Up Your Parenting

Being a superior parent is the goal of pretty much all parents. Join us as we explore the many dimensions of integral parenting and the many advantages that come with it.
Themes of Emergence: Awareness, Responsibility, and Mutuality

Themes of Emergence: Awareness, Responsibility, and Mutuality

Culture wars and cognitive dissonance. Consensus trance on climate change. #MeToo and emergent mutuality. Tantric sexuality and karma yoga. Self-awareness and personal responsibility. Join us as Keith explores some of these converging themes, as well as questions from the audience around social trauma, education, and broken-hearted enlightenment.
For the Love of Chaos: What Does Complexity Theory Have to Do with Intimacy and Healing?

For the Love of Chaos: What Does Complexity Theory Have to Do with Intimacy and Healing?

In a world as complex and chaotic as ours, how can we raise our level of awareness and attunement in order to meet the great challenges of our time? Watch as Dr. Keith explains how chaos can be used as an incredibly effective driver of growth, healing, and love.
The Future of Sex: More Fun, Less Creepy

The Future of Sex: More Fun, Less Creepy

Jeff talks with Dr. Keith Witt about the great consciousness raising our culture is going through regarding sexual harassment. Dr Keith’s prescription for a healthier, safer future: more sex!
Finding Greater Resilience in the Trump Era

Finding Greater Resilience in the Trump Era

Dr. Keith Witt talks to Jeff Salzman about the ramifications today’s polarized politics are having upon people's psychological health, and the strategies you need to become more resilient — and less reactive — to the many stresses of our time.
Heal Thyself: How to Repair Interpersonal and Cultural Injuries

Heal Thyself: How to Repair Interpersonal and Cultural Injuries

The Buddha had it right with "life is suffering"! We all regularly feel injured by other people, our own interior struggles, cultural events, or random chance. Repairing these injuries is a big deal! Luckily, Integrally informed psychology can help us recognize and repair injuries. In this upcoming episode of Live with Dr. Keith we'll talk about how we all become injured and the steps we often need to take for effective repair.
Normal Crazy vs. Extra Crazy: Disarming Your Defensive States

Normal Crazy vs. Extra Crazy: Disarming Your Defensive States

When we feel safe, we are usually comfortably social with ourselves and others. When we feel threatened, our nervous systems (our adaptive unconscious, our Shadow selves) can generate defensive states to protect us. These states amplify or numb emotions, distort perspectives, pump out destructive impulses, and diminish self-reflection and empathy. Watch as Dr. Keith Witt offers some valuable guidance to help you disarm these defensive states whenever they arise for you.
Finding Sanity in the Post-Truth Era

Finding Sanity in the Post-Truth Era

Dr. Keith Witt talks about our shared emotional reactions to the election and ongoing cultural upheavals, and some strategies help us not only cope, but actually grow through these times.
Growing, Relating, Connecting: An Integral Tour of Couples Therapy

Growing, Relating, Connecting: An Integral Tour of Couples Therapy

In this episode of Psychology Now, Dr. Keith and Dr. Mark dive into the wide world of couples therapy and relationships, using the Integral lens to locate some of the deeper principles and key insights that leading couples therapists’ employ to help couples develop loving, growth-orientated, grounded relationships. Includes six key practices that you can try right now to enhance your relationship.
Psychedelics in Psychotherapy

Psychedelics in Psychotherapy

Special guest Dr. Elliott Ingersoll joins Doctors Keith Witt and Mark Forman to share their personal and professional experiences with psychedelics while reviewing relevant research, current practices, and the amazing potentials of these treatments. Therapists need as many tools as possible to remediate symptoms, enhance health, and support development. The way we see it therapies utilizing psychedelics will become increasingly available and likely useful in the years to come.
Increase Your Erotic Polarity

Increase Your Erotic Polarity

Renowned marriage and family therapist Dr. Keith Witt offers a short practice to reinvigorate your "erotic polarity" — one of the fundamental forces that sustain thriving relationships.
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