True Psychiatry

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1973659/open_sms] In this episode I interview Dr. Robert Enright about his book and Evidenced based intervention, "Forgiveness Therapy". Dr. Enright talks about the therapy in a nutshell, the data demonstrating its efficacy and the challenges he faced to overpower misguided academic ideology with raw data.

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1973659/open_sms] Thank you for your audience. Please share and help me grow the channel. The True Psychiatry Podcast is dedicated to reducing the excesses of the field and to bringing psychology back to everyday practice, goals that will ultimately benefit both providers’ and patient’s quality of life.    Charlie Kurth: Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan University and a Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies [https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.helsinki.fi%2Fen%2Fhelsinki-collegium-advanced-studies&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3HU5scp1JWFFlmaCTOzZT_].    In this Episode Charlie Kurth PhD and I discuss the role of emotions as both, a sensorial experience and a motivational experience and the ethical implications of the Biological Psychiatry paradigm, designed to suppress emotional experiences.

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1973659/open_sms] Thank you for your audience. Please share and help me grow the channel. The True Psychiatry Podcast is dedicated to reducing the excesses of the field and to bringing psychology back to everyday practice, goals that will ultimately benefit both providers’ and patient’s quality of life.  In this episode, PATRICIA DEEGAN shares her experience with psychosis and explains the RECOVERY approach to schizophrenia/ psychosis and contrasts it with SYMPTOM SUPPRESSION, the goal of medication treatment.  She discusses the role of MEANING and PURPOSE and introduces the concept of “POWER STATEMENTS” to help guide prescribers in the use of psychiatric medications.

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1973659/open_sms] Thank you for your audience. Please share and help me grow the channel. The True Psychiatry Podcast is dedicated to reducing the excesses of the field and to bringing psychology back to everyday practice, goals that will ultimately benefit both providers’ and patient’s quality of life.    In this episode I interviewed Dr. Haim Belmaker and Dr. Pesach Lichtemberg about their new book “Psychopharmacology Reconsidered”.  I believe this book is the most important psychopharm publication of our era and heralds the upcoming changes in our field, changes that should restore psychiatry as a respected and humanistic branch of medicine.  The contrast between “Psychopharmacology Reconsidered” and the other psychopharm books you have read will help you distinguish between science and advertisement while providing you with clear guidance to treat psychiatric presentations.

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1973659/open_sms] Thank you for your audience. Please share and help me grow the channel. The True Psychiatry Podcast is dedicated to reducing the excesses of the field and to bringing psychology back to everyday practice, goals that will ultimately benefit both providers’ and patient’s quality of life.  In this episode we discuss the research findings of Dr. Cosgrove regarding the presence of pharma consultants in the task forces of DSM and the potential pro industry bias affecting patient care.  We also discussed hers and Dr.Kostic’s views on other forces besides pharmaceutical industry interests in the shaping of modern psychiatry.