Let's Get Psyched

This episode originally aired on KUCR in September of 2019. What's the difference between antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy, and sociopathy? Is there an effective treatment?

Hosts: Eyrn, Toshia, Diem

Guest: Alan Atkins, MD

There are now thousands of mental health apps that are purported to help people relax, focus, alleviate their depression, reduce anxiety, and even manage past trauma. We invited an expert in “mobile mental health  technologies,” psychiatrist  Dr. John Torous, to help identify what to look for in a mental health app and some of the challenges in using them regularly and in clinical  practice.

Hosts: Eyrn, Toshia, Alan

Guest: John Torous, MD

References:

APA App Advisor: https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/mental-health-apps

MIND: https://mindapps.org/

One Mind PsyberGuide: https://onemindpsyberguide.org/

Marshall, Jamie, et al. “Clinical or Gimmickal: The Use and Effectiveness of Mobile Mental Health Apps for Treating Anxiety and Depression.” SAGE Journals, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 25 Sept. 2019, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0004867419876700.

This episode originally aired in July of 2019. Eyrn and Toshia bring up new findings from mental health research. We then discuss common misconceptions patients have going into their first therapy session and what the first appointment is really like from our clinical perspectives. Of course, we eventually juxtapose therapy with psychiatry. 

Hosts: Eyrn, Toshia, Diem, Edgar, Joshua

Guest: Alan Atkins, MD

References:

Vergunst F, Tremblay RE, Nagin D, et al. Association Between Childhood Behaviors and Adult Employment Earnings in Canada. JAMA Psychiatry. 2019;76(10):1044–1051. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.1326

It's not just roads and bridges that need building; our mental health infrastructure is in poor shape. Our interview with Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine, psychiatrist Allen Frances, MD, helps explain our poor mental health care system for some of the most vulnerable in our society.

Read Dr. Frances' article on President Biden's infrastructure plan: https://www.statnews.com/2021/07/09/ignoring-mental-health-infrastructure-costly-mistake/

Hosts: Eyrn, Toshia, Diem, Alan

Guest: Allen Frances, MD

We invite psychiatrist Dr. Gino Mortillaro to share his thoughts on how female athletes, and gymnasts in particular, are treated differently than male athletes. We also discuss research on which mental health condition is most likely to affect elite athletes and the differences between genders.

Hosts: Eyrn, Toshia, Saloni, Alan

Guest: Gino Mortillaro, MD

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles told the press she would be practicing more mindfulness after withdrawing from the individual all-around competition in the Tokyo Summer Olympics 2021. We invite psychiatrist and former Team USA gymnast, Dr. Gino Mortillaro, to help us understand how mindfulness can help an athlete. We also take assessments of our own mindfulness with some interesting results.

Non-Attachment Scale: http://josephciarrochi.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/brief-measure-of-nonattachment.pdf

Acceptance and Action Questionnaire: https://stevenchayes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/The-Acceptance-and-Action-Questionnaire.pdf

Hosts: Eyrn, Toshia, Saloni, Alan

Guest: Gino Mortillaro, MD

Our conversation with Dr. Hayes touches on the nature of disease. We also talk about the separation of the self in the present and the "cacophony" of negative and positive "voices" that sometimes lead people into suffering.

Hosts: Eyrn, Toshia, Alan

Guest: Steven C. Hayes, PhD

We talk to psychologist Steven C. Hayes about creating ACT and how the radically pragmatic principles of its infrastructure led to multiple applications and an explosion of publications on the topic. 

*At 15:19 the audio recording dropped for about one minute due to internet instability.

Hosts: Eyrn, Toshia, Alan

Guest: Steven C. Hayes, PhD

It's our 100th show! We take a brief moment to reflect on how we got to this point with our producer, Elliot Fong. We spend the majority of the show answering listener questions and topics that were too small to make an entire show, but are still interesting.

Hosts: Eyrn, Toshia, Alan, Diem, Saloni

Guest: Elliot Fong

Love and acceptance when we are young is crucial to becoming securely attached. And that level of attachment stays with us the rest of our lives. We invited professor and psychiatrist Dr. Jeff Katzman to explain attachment and how it can be repaired in therapy and in our own lives.

Hosts: Eyrn, Alan

Guest: Jeff Katzman, MD