From Hollywood to Healing: Why Understanding the Human Mind Changed Everything/Fernando Alessandri
What happens when a Hollywood storyteller becomes a clinical psychologist?
In this episode of Beyond the Draft, Imma sits down with former Hollywood creative and psychologist Fernando Alessandri to explore a remarkable journey from film sets to prisons, VA hospitals, forensic psychiatric units, and private practice.
Together they discuss:
🔸Why Fernando left Hollywood for psychology
🔸What years of working with trauma taught him about human nature
🔸The surprising connection between storytelling and therapy
🔸Why humor can reveal painful truths
🔸How writing fiction changed after understanding the…
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