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Forget The Inside: "Taming Your Outer Child"

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For a few years there, talk of healing the "inner child" was all over the place. 

The Eagles' song "Get Over It" might have hastened the demise of that talk. 

Now comes psychotherapist Susan Anderson with a different slant: the outer child.  Anderson says THAT'S the part of us that often gets us in trouble. 

She offers perspective in her book Taming Your Outer Child.

And she joins us with details of her approach.  

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.