Katherine Koh, M.D., M.Sc., joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin, along with guest host Dr. Matt Hirschtritt, to discuss street psychiatry: what it is, its history, and what it means for the treatment of unhoused patients in often adverse settings.

Transcript

• 01:08 What is street psychiatry?
• 05:03 Path into street psychiatry
• 08:24 Purpose of the article
• 09:22 What makes street psychiatry unique
• 14:09 "A long walk"
• 15:45 When does a person become a patient?
• 18:36 Rewards and challenges
• 26:14 Recovery and relationships
• 30:37 A philosophy of working with highly complex cases
• 35:14 Uncertainty and instability

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