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Julie Nagel is a psychoanalyst- judge for Martha Graham Dance Company Competition "On the Couch" .
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May 2011 Washtenaw Jewish News has a wonderful interview with me. Go to their PDF version (12M) and scroll to page 27.
I now have a regular Blog on the Psychology Today website (http://www.psychologytoday.com). You can type my name in the search box to find it. The Blog is titled "Music to My Ears" and my first entry, May 13 2011, was Panic or Pleasure: Performance Anxiety.
Julie Nagel quoted on CBS News regarding Christina Aguilera Superbowl Flub:
...One possible explanation: performance anxiety, a.k.a. stage fright. It's a common problem among singers and other performing artists.
"It's not unusual," Dr. Julie Nagel, a psychologist in private practice in Ann Arbor, Mich., tells CBS News. "It's like having an accident on slippery ice. People think that if they prepare enough it can't happen. But deep down they know it can."
Stage fright can have various causes, including difficult early childhood experiences, says Dr. Nagel, who has no first-hand knowledge about what caused Aguilera's difficulties last night. But whatever the cause, there are effective ways to treat it.
Psychotherapy is one option, Dr. Nagel says. Medications can help too. The prescription drug propanolol (Inderal), for example, can help performers control shaking and other physical signs of anxiety - though not the anxious thoughts that can exacerbate the problem.
And Dr. Nagel, a Juillard-trained pianist whose own stage fright led to a career change, says it's critical that performers who experience stage fright talk about their problem. "It is not something that is forbidden," she says. "It's something that is a real issue that needs to be talked about."
NOTE: Date has been changed to Feb. 8th at 6:00pm
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Julie Jaffee Nagel, Ph.D. With Glen Gabbard, M.D. And Warren Procci, M.D.
Following her Ticho Memorial Lecture, June 11, 2010, American Psychoanalytic
Association, Washington, D.C.