Thank you so much for listening to The Psych Files for the past 6 1/2 years. In this episode I provide a little background on how the podcast started and what has happened as it grew over the years. It just past 8 million downloads and I want to share a few thoughts on this with you. Thank you everybody!

Facts about the Show

• Started in January of 2007
• Over 9 million episode downloads
• 4,500 episode downloads day on average
• Almost always in the top 10 of iTunes Higher Ed
• Website gets an average of 800 hits day
• 4 1/2 stars from 131 ratings on iTunes
• The show has been featured in the APA Monitor, The Discovery Channel show Dark Matters, and has led to invited presentations at APA and APS conferences

Popular episodes:

• Top 10 psych apps
• Body Language
• How to Memorize the Parts of the Brain
• Self-Esteem
• Rewards and Punisments
• Self-Talk
• OCD
• Borderline Personality
• Hypnosis
• Principles of Gestalt Perception
• Facebook Group

Upcoming Episodes

• More Great Psychology Apps
• Abandoned Suitcases Reveal Private Lives of Insane Asylum Patients
• jetlag/circadian rhythms
• New Little Albert Findings
• Psychology of laughter with Greg Dugan
• New treatments for autism
• Kohlberg stages of Moral Development
• Visual illusions
• Psychology of Magic
• More on the DSM5
• The Strengths Perspective (Social Work)
• Anorexia/Bulimia
• The Controversy over the Effects of Serotonin
• A Call To Men
• Forensic Psychology
• Allowing children to have dogs accompany them while they testify
• Transcranial stimulation
• Stats: chi-square, t-test, anova
• How medications work
• anesthesia
• Narrative Therapy (Damien from facebook)