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Dr. Bradley Wajda:
THE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY SHRINK By Leon Kaye Photos by Eddie Melikian
It is a few minutes past 7 p.m. on a Sunday evening in Fresno, and Dr. Bradley Wajda takes off his headphones, leans back and gives a wink to the staff at the studio of Power Talk 96.7, where his weekly show, Radio “Psyched”, has wrapped up after an hour of laughs, tears and exasperated sighs. A recent broadcast, “The Philosophy of Me,” discussed how selfishness and self-centeredness have a detrimental impact on relationships. Callers included a woman who recently became prematurely blind and a man who is still scarred 30 years after the family of his incapacitated lover prohibited him from coming around. It also happened to be Father’s Day, a day that reminds many about the complexity of family relationships. But no complicated family, no volatile relationship, no debilitating mental health condition stumps Dr. Wajda. “The equal opportunity shrink,” who loves to talk in his Oklahoman twang about how he is “the cure for stinking thinking,” hardly sounds like someone professionally trained to dig into our most fearful thoughts and traumatic childhood memories.
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