Richard Louis Miller

Richard Louis Miller is an American clinical psychologist, author, founder of Wilbur Hot Springs Health Sanctuary, founder of the Cokenders Alcohol and Drug Program and broadcaster who hosts the Mind Body Health & Politics  internet broadcast. The program features national figures from the world of medicine, psychology and politics. It aired on NPR affiliate KZYX&Z FM & www.KZYX.org until 2018,and continues to stream online.

History
Miller is founder of The Health Sanctuary at Wilbur Hot Springs, a health maintenance facility.

Miller’s approaches to healing have been the subject of national television news reports (including segments on the news programs of Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, David Brinkley and Phil Donahue), print media (Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report), two film documentaries, and the book Gestalting Addiction. He co-authored a weekly news column in the San Francisco Chronicle, while co-hosting a weekly syndicated radio program.

As the Founder of the internationally acclaimed Cokenders Alcohol and Drug Program, Dr. Richard L. Miller integrated his techniques of humanistic psychology and psycho-physical fitness training with social model rehabilitation. During the 1980s, he helped detoxify over 1,500 persons at Wilbur Hot Springs. None of these people were medicated or hospitalized during their residential treatment. Dr. Miller believes the professionally designed Wilbur ambiance and pristine environment, combined with the therapeutic qualities of the mineral hot springs were significant adjunct to his 86% two-year success rate.

Radio Program and Podcast
In addition to continuing his professional work in psychology, Miller currently hosts a weekly internet broadcast "Mind Body Health & Politics," on his website MindBodyHealthpolitics.org. The program formerly aired on NPR affiliate KZYX & Z radio in Mendocino County. In November 2020, Dr. Miller re-launched the program as an internet radio broadcast, with his first guest, 4-term California Governor Jerry Brown. Notable guests have included Gabor Maté, Dennis McKenna, Sanjay Singal, and Dr. Lea Lis. You can listen to episodes online or wherever you get your podcasts.

ADVISORY POSITIONS: Dr Miller serves as Senior Advisor to: The Alexander Shulgin Research Institute, The Changa Institute The Modern Family Institute.

Psychedelic Therapy, Freeing Sexuality, and other publications
In 2017, Inner Traditions published Psychedelic Medicine an edited compilation of Miller's most popular radio interviews on the medicinal uses of psychedelics. The interviewees include Rick Doblin, Stanislav Grof, James Fadiman, Julie Holland, and Dennis McKenna, with each chapter dedicated to a particular substance (i.e., LSD, MDMA, Psilocybin, and Ayahuasca). The final chapter compares this approach to the traditional approach of psychiatric medication, based on the work of investigative journalist Robert Whitaker – author of Anatomy of an Epidemic.

In 2022, Inner Traditions published Psychedelic Wisdom. Dr. Richard Louis Miller shares stories of psychedelic transformation, insight, and wisdom from his conversations with 19 scientists, doctors, therapists, and teachers, each of whom has been self-experimenting with psychedelic medicines, sub rosa, for decades. Revealing the psychedelic wisdom uncovered in spite of decades of the “War on Drugs,” Dr. Miller and his contributors show how LSD and other psychedelics offer a pathway to creativity, healing, innovation, and liberation. In 2023, Routledge published Integral Psychedelic Therapy: The Non-Ordinary Art of Psychospiritual Healing. This book provides an in-depth articulation of the practice of psychedelic therapy.

In 2023, Inner Traditions published Freeing Sexuality, exploring sexual customs, beliefs, practices from a wide variety of perspectives and gathers voices that help us free our sexuality from the past, accept our natural urges for physical pleasure, and open us up to sexuality as a power for health, healing and happiness.