My Three Shrinks

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What's My Three Shrinks about?

Three psychiatrists from the Shrink Rap blog -- Dinah, Clinkshrink and Roy -- talk about topics related to psychiatry, psychology, mental health, neurology and brain disease, while trying not to make it too boring.

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My Three Shrinks episodes:

10.22.2012
My Three Shrinks 69: Partnering With Patients
October 22: #69: Partnering With Patients We talk about the meaning of Shrink Rap, Partnership With Patients, Health Camp, Patient Pod, and how patients test their doctors. We talk about the Massachusetts inmate who successfully sued to get sex reassignment surgery. ...
08.06.2012
My Three Shrinks 68: SuperMax, Health Exchanges and Statins
August 6: #68: SuperMax, Health Exchanges and Statins Clink talks about a recent class action suit, Baycote v BOP, against the Federal SuperMax facility. Roy talks about the Affordable Care Act, the Mental Health Parity Act and what this all...
07.15.2012
My Three Shrinks 67: Things Get Flighty
July 15: #67: Things Get Flighty Electronic health records and the weird potential for felony fraud. Dinah, her latest books and FINALLY, the winner of our random drawing! Send us your general questions at mythreeshrinksATgmailDOTcom. Go to http://mythreeshrinks.com for show notes...
01.24.2012
My Three Shrinks 66: Professional Shrink Rap
January 24: #66: Professional Shrink Rap Top ten search terms for Shrink Rap in 2011. Does Angry Birds make you depressed? Ethics and distracted doctors: calling in sick versus going to work annoyed. Send us your general questions at mythreeshrinksATgmailDOTcom. Go...
01.08.2012
My Three Shrinks 65: Copyrighting the Brain
January 8: #65 Copyrighting the Brain The American Psychiatric Association election. Copyrighting the Mini-Mental State Examination and the problem with open-access tests. More about the electronic health care system and developing a consensus about what should be in a note. Send...
12.22.2011
My Three Shrinks 64: Brain Freeze
December 22: #64 Brain Freeze Public speaking and the neuroscience of brain freeze, Siri answers our questions: who is the best psychiatrist and when will the world end? Is prison nutraloaf cruel and unusual punishment? Send us your general questions at...
12.04.2011
My Three Shrinks 63: The Bystander Effect
December 4: #63 The Bystander Effect Why people fail to act when the see violent crimes. Mandatory reporting laws. Discussion and review of apps for depression. Send us your general questions at mythreeshrinksATgmailDOTcom. Go to http://mythreeshrinks.com for show notes with links.
10.11.2011
My Three Shrinks 62: Sooner Rather Than Later
October 11: #62 Sooner Rather Than Later Physicians and social media, AMA social media guidelines. Psychiatric illness and early mortality. Join Shrink Rap on Google Plus---if it is still around three months from now. Send us your general questions at mythreeshrinksATgmailDOTcom....
08.31.2011
My Three Shrinks 61: Stay Safe
August 31: #61 Stay Safe Our recent earthquake, pets with PTSD, mental health parity and the true meaing of misprision. Also, what made the elephants hold each other by the trunk. Send us your general questions at mythreeshrinksATgmailDOTcom. Go to http://mythreeshrinks.com...
07.14.2011
My Three Shrinks 60: On The Verge
July, 14: #60 On The Verge Questions from our listeners: Do psychiatrists know how to work with people who have autism? What is a nervous breakdown? Who was the original Nervous Nellie? How getting charged with a crime will increase the...
07.04.2011
My Three Shrinks 59: A Brief Chat
July, 4: #59 A Brief Chat Doctors who write, suicidal students and a social media curriculum for medical residents. Happy Fourth of July! Send us your general questions at mythreeshrinksATgmailDOTcom. Go to http://mythreeshrinks.com for show notes with links.
04.28.2011
My Three Shrinks 58: I Need A New Drug
April 28, 2011: #58 I Need A New Drug We talk about all kinds of new medications on the market: Viibryd, Silenor, Contrave and Swiffer (oh wait, that last one wasn't a medication!). Are the latest and greatest meds really the...
04.05.2011
My Three Shrinks 57: A Matter of National Security
April 5, 2011: #57 A Matter of National Security Psychiatrists and national security clearance, in light of the anthrax investigation and the expert behavioral analysis panel report on Dr. Bruce Ivins. Pregnancy and opiate addiction. Finally: our fifth anniversary! Send us...
02.10.2011
My Three Shrinks 56: It's All Your Mother's Fault
February 10, 2011: #56 It's All Your Mother's Fault The Shrink Rappers talk about parenting: Amy Chua's book "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom", Susan Klebold and being the parent of a suicidal teen. Why we don't know what makes a...
01.25.2011
My Three Shrinks 55: What Happens to Shooters?
January 25, 2011: #55 What Happens to Shooters? The Shrink Rappers talk about what happens to people with mental illnesses when they commit violent crimes. They explain competency assessments, insanity evaluations and what happens to insanity acquittees. Send us your general...
11.23.2010
My Three Shrinks 54: Tell me! Information and Technology
November 23, 2010: #54 Tell Me! Information and Technology We talk about the new Maryland Health Information Exchange, a survey of job satisfaction among psychiatrists, psychiatrists and social media, and doctors who write about their patients. Finally, Clink tears her hair...
10.10.2010
My Three Shrinks 53: URAC? My Rac? You're Sure?
October 10, 2010: #53 URAC? My Rac? You're Sure? The latest episode of three psychiatrists talking about whatever....We talk about Dr. Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan's book The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head, koro, whether people like obnoxious TV...
04.25.2010
My Three Shrinks 52: The Friendly Skies
April 25, 2010: #52 The Friendly Skies We talk about the new FAA policy regarding pilots on psychotropics, the role cell phones play in therapy, pharmacology of traumatic memories, psychiatric diagnosis and college students. Finally, the Book, the Book, the Book. We...
04.12.2010
My Three Shrinks 51: Vegan Gingerbread Cookies
April 12, 2010: #51 Vegan Gingerbread Cookies We talked about informed consent and how much information a physician is required to disclose about his personal or professional background. We talk about human behavior and computer models used to explain suicide epidemics....
03.21.2010
My Three Shrinks 50: More About Geeks
March 21, 2010: #50 More About Geeks: Conversations with Dr. Pat Barta Dr. Pat Barta of the Adventures in Telepsychiatry blog joins us again to continue our conversation about technology in psychiatry. We talk about electronic health information systems, patient health...
03.07.2010
My Three Shrinks 49: Pixelated Psychiatrists
March 07, 2010: #49 Pixelated Psychiatrists: Telepsychiatry with Dr. Pat Barta Send us your general questions at mythreeshrinksATgmailDOTcom.Go to http://mythreeshrinks.com for show notes with links.
11.26.2009
My Three Shrinks 47: Genital Retraction Syndrome
Podcast #47: Genital Retraction Syndrome: civil commitment, cholesterol and depression, witch and genital retraction syndrome. Send us your general questions at mythreeshrinksATgmailDOTcom.Go to http://mythreeshrinks.com for show notes with links.
06.25.2008
My Three Shrinks 48: Grand Rounds - iPhone 3G Edition
June 24, 2008: #48 GRAND ROUNDS: The Apple iPhone 3G Edition We are hosting the weekly medical Grand Rounds this week, with about 45 fantastic submissions from the medical blogosphere. This year, since the anticipated release of the Apple iPhone...
06.01.2008
My Three Shrinks 46: Fugetaboutit!
June 1, 2008: #46 Fugetaboutit! Topics include: • PTSD. A Psychiatrist Who Learned From Veterans commented that "A really towering paper in the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder literature deals with the excessive stickiness of memory in PTSD. The data comprises case reports of the...
04.13.2008
My Three Shrinks 45: Guest Dr Ray DePaulo on Treatment-Resistant Depression
April 13, 2008: #45 Guest Dr Ray DePaulo on Treatment-Resistant Depression Topics include: # Treatment-Resistant Depression. How is it defined (~10:00 min into the podcast)? Is there a magic bullet? Treatment strategies (don't give up; remember lithium; use proven agents; get...
03.31.2008
My Three Shrinks 44: Guest J. Raymond DePaulo, MD
March 30, 2008: #44 Guest J. Raymond DePaulo, MD, Chair of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Topics include: * NYT: The Ethics of Artificial Brain Enhancement, by Benedict Carey. On using cognitive enhancers, like Adderall, Vyvanse, and Provigil, to...
03.18.2008
My Three Shrinks 43: How Doctors Think
March 18, 2008: #43 How Doctors Think Topics include: • My Three Shrinks: The Book. We've been talking about writing a book which explains how psychiatrists go about thinking about approaching problems, such as selecting medications or diagnosing illness. We are debating about...
02.17.2008
My Three Shrinks 42: The Benzo Wars (or, Xanax Reloaded)
February 16, 2008: #42 The Benzo Wars Topics include: * Round 1: Why Docs Don't Like Xanax (or, Xanax Reloaded). This is what started it. Then there was Xanax Blues in Podcast 19. Also, this one from Oct...
01.28.2008
My Three Shrinks 41: Chris Kraft on Conversion Therapy
January 27, 2008 #41: Chris Kraft on Conversion Therapy * Top 10 Podcasts of 2007. Chris' first guest podcast, Chris Kraft on Gender Identity Issues (#21), was the 6th most downloaded podcast for 2007 (out of over 100,000 downloads for all podcasts...
01.02.2008
My Three Shrinks 40: Happy New Year!
January 1, 2008 #40: Happy New Year! * Roy's Leopard Troubles. All is not well in Mac-land. WARNING: Do NOT install Leopard if you are using Filevault. Turn off your Filevault first (of course, if you have...
12.10.2007
My Three Shrinks 37: Poop-Out
December 9, 2007: #37 Poop-Out # SSRI Poop-out (a.k.a. tachyphylaxis). This is the phenomenon where a drug is working, then seems to wear off or stop working after some period of time. (see also How a Shrink Picks an Antidepressant, Family...
11.11.2007
My Three Shrinks 38: New & Improved!
November 11, 2007: New & Improved! * MacArthur Foundation Grant: Decision-making, substance abuse, and brain abnormalities. Developing guidelines for judges about neuroimaging and brain function. * On our Shrink Rap blog, Clink blogs about What She Learned...
10.25.2007
My Three Shrinks on Dr Anonymous BlogTalkRadio
October 24, 2007: Dr Anonymous' BlogTalkRadio Show On Thursday night, October 18, the three shrinks called into Dr A's call-in internet radio show (invited) and we talk about general stuff and answer LIVE questions from the listening audience. Most of...
10.08.2007
My Three Shrinks 36: Just Do It
October 08, 2007: Just Do It * Crisis in the Treatment of Incompetence to Proceed to Trial. In the recent Online AAPL Journal, an article by Wortzel about problems with assessing defendants who are not competent to...
10.05.2007
My Three Shrinks 35: Shrinks on Film
October 05, 2007: Guest Mark Komrad, MD Last week, we had our guest, Dr. Mark Komrad, join us and begin to discuss the portrayal of psychiatrists in the movies. Mark used to have a live, two-hour, coast-to-coast, nationally syndicated talk radio...
09.27.2007
My Three Shrinks 34: Guest Mark Komrad, MD
September 26, 2007: Guest Mark Komrad, MD This week we have a special guest, Dr. Mark Komrad, who is an old hat at discussing psychiatric issues on broadcast media. Mark had a live, two-hour, coast-to-coast, nationally syndicated talk radio show for...
09.16.2007
My Three Shrinks 33: Inane Banter
September 16, 2007: Inane Banter Topics include: * Q&A from Jennifer: "In your relationships with the greater world, do you find that you are more compassionate and understanding when it comes to putting up with the foibles of...
09.02.2007
My Three Shrinks 32: Doctor Anonymous on Depression Overdiagnosis
September 2, 2007: Doctor Anonymous on Depression Overdiagnosis Topics include: * DrA on Skype (not a soundboard). Dinah relished the memory of Podcast #24. Check out DrA's blog, doctoranonymous.blogspot.com. * Is Depression Overdiagnosed? We discuss...
08.21.2007
My Three Shrinks 31: Biteproof Gloves
August 20, 2007: Biteproof Gloves * Q&A: from Midwife with a Knife: Short version: How would you manage an agitated, aggressive patient in your OB/GYN office? [Okay, here's the long version: Let's...
08.17.2007
My Three Shrinks 30: Parity Feels Like a Bird
August 17, 2007: Parity Feels Like a Bird Topics include: * MENTAL HEALTH INSURANCE PARITY LEGISLATION. 20-minute discussion about some of the current legislation (mind you this was recorded before the revisions made in early August to SB...
07.22.2007
My Three Shrinks 29: Suicidal Breast Implants
July 22, 2007: Suicidal Breast Implants Topics include: * Brief discussion about iTUNES. We hit #6 in the MEDICINE SECTION in iTunes last week, thanks in part to KevinMD blogging about our last podcast. We are now...
07.10.2007
My Three Shrinks 28: Can You Hear Me Now?
July 9, 2007: Can You Hear Me Now? Topics include: * Panetti v. Quarterman. Clink talks about a hot-off-the-press, landmark Supreme Court case about COMPETENCY TO BE EXECUTED and death penalty cases for people with mental illness. She...
07.02.2007
My Three Shrinks 27: Shrinks on the Take
July 1, 2007: Shrinks on the Take Topics include: * Doctor Anonymous has new Podcast, where he talks about chatty doctors, nursing home patients, and discovers BlogTalk Radio (similar to TalkShoe). * Vermont Shrinks Rolling...
06.25.2007
My Three Shrinks 26: Black Box Reloaded
June 24, 2007: Black Box Reloaded Topics include: * Side Effects of Psychotherapy. Sharon Begley from Newsweek wrote an article entitled, "Get Shrunk at Your Own Risk." We discuss this particularly in reference to grief and bereavement, PTSD,...
06.18.2007
My Three Shrinks 25: Sibling Reveille
June 17, 2007: Sibling Reveille Topics include: * Clink wonders if iPOD USERS have more musical auditory hallucinations. But, can deaf people get auditory hallucinations, or do they hallucinate people signing at them? "Yes, We Have No Bananas"...
06.15.2007
MTS Dr Phil Gag w/KLF Mashup
June 15, 2007: Dr Phil gag w/KLF Mashup * Dr. Phil visits My Three Shrinks. THIS IS A MUST-LISTEN SEGMENT! Clink and I play a trick on Dinah by "calling" Dr. Phil on Skype and he "interviews"...
06.10.2007
My Three Shrinks 24: Dr Phil on Skype
June 10, 2007: Dr. Phil on Skype Topics include: * Genetics of Cocaine-Induced Paranoia. Roy talks about a recent article in Biological Psychiatry by Kalayasiri which suggests that a particular mutation (C1021T) in the dopamine beta-hydroxylase (DBH) gene...
06.04.2007
My Three Shrinks 23: Loons, Lefse, and the Flea
June 3, 2007 Topics include:# Doctor Anonymous to be guest on June 17 podcast. # Clink brings back notepads with loons on them and cinnamon lefse from the midwest.# Flea's medical blog affects his malpractice trial. This is a fascinating story, which...
05.28.2007
My Three Shrinks 22: Forced Treatment
May 27, 2007 Topics include: * Physician-Assisted Executions. The American Medical News had a story by Kevin B. O'Reilly about how some states are trying to force physicians to participate in executions. The ethics of such activities are...
05.20.2007
My Three Shrinks 21-R: Chris Kraft (Detachable Pen*s remix)
May 20, 2007: Topics include: # Intersex disorders: This is where one is born with ambiguous genitalia, and one is raised a gender which is different from one's genetic gender. It is a rare condition. Dr. Kraft...

What's My Three Shrinks about?

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My Three Shrinks episodes:

My Three Shrinks 69: Partnering With Patients

My Three Shrinks 68: SuperMax, Health Exchanges and Statins

My Three Shrinks 67: Things Get Flighty

My Three Shrinks 66: Professional Shrink Rap

My Three Shrinks 65: Copyrighting the Brain

My Three Shrinks 64: Brain Freeze

My Three Shrinks 63: The Bystander Effect

My Three Shrinks 62: Sooner Rather Than Later

My Three Shrinks 61: Stay Safe

My Three Shrinks 60: On The Verge

My Three Shrinks 59: A Brief Chat

My Three Shrinks 58: I Need A New Drug

My Three Shrinks 57: A Matter of National Security

My Three Shrinks 56: It's All Your Mother's Fault

My Three Shrinks 55: What Happens to Shooters?

My Three Shrinks 54: Tell me! Information and Technology

My Three Shrinks 53: URAC? My Rac? You're Sure?

My Three Shrinks 52: The Friendly Skies

My Three Shrinks 51: Vegan Gingerbread Cookies

My Three Shrinks 50: More About Geeks

My Three Shrinks 49: Pixelated Psychiatrists

My Three Shrinks 47: Genital Retraction Syndrome

My Three Shrinks 48: Grand Rounds - iPhone 3G Edition

My Three Shrinks 46: Fugetaboutit!

My Three Shrinks 45: Guest Dr Ray DePaulo on Treatment-Resistant Depression

My Three Shrinks 44: Guest J. Raymond DePaulo, MD

My Three Shrinks 43: How Doctors Think

My Three Shrinks 42: The Benzo Wars (or, Xanax Reloaded)

My Three Shrinks 41: Chris Kraft on Conversion Therapy

My Three Shrinks 40: Happy New Year!

My Three Shrinks 37: Poop-Out

My Three Shrinks 38: New & Improved!

My Three Shrinks on Dr Anonymous BlogTalkRadio

My Three Shrinks 36: Just Do It

My Three Shrinks 35: Shrinks on Film

My Three Shrinks 34: Guest Mark Komrad, MD

My Three Shrinks 33: Inane Banter

My Three Shrinks 32: Doctor Anonymous on Depression Overdiagnosis

My Three Shrinks 31: Biteproof Gloves

My Three Shrinks 30: Parity Feels Like a Bird

My Three Shrinks 29: Suicidal Breast Implants

My Three Shrinks 28: Can You Hear Me Now?

My Three Shrinks 27: Shrinks on the Take

My Three Shrinks 26: Black Box Reloaded

My Three Shrinks 25: Sibling Reveille

MTS Dr Phil Gag w/KLF Mashup

My Three Shrinks 24: Dr Phil on Skype

My Three Shrinks 23: Loons, Lefse, and the Flea

My Three Shrinks 22: Forced Treatment

My Three Shrinks 21-R: Chris Kraft (Detachable Pen*s remix)