The Abnormal Psychologist

This episode delves into the psychology of conspiracy theories. 

This episode focuses on positive psychology-- on what makes us happy-- and also explores the concept of toxic positivity.  Along the way, I talk about Ted Lasso a little.  

This episode contains my ramblings and musings after reading Bessel Van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score: Brain Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma 

This episode is in response to a mailbag request and discusses homicidal ideation-- and whether it should be a standalone psychological diagnosis.  

This is a listener request episode that discusses what you can do as a psych undergrad to make yourself a stronger candidate for post-grad employment or for grad school.  

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This episode discusses divorce and its relevance to psychology. 

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This episode is pretty wide-ranging-- it discusses mental health and the Olympics and touches on the field of sports psychology.  

This episode also discusses Other Conditions that May be the Focus of Clinical Attention (or V-codes), which many clinicians sadly often overlook

This episode discusses Borderline Personality Disorder and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.

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In this episode, we talk about issues related to telehealth/teletherapy-- including concerns about encryption, licensure, and privacy. Teletherapy, for better or worse, is not going away (but I also don't see it as replacing in-person therapy). 

This is a wide-ranging episode.  We talk about Cave Syndrome-- or the cutesy name that's been given to anxiety in returning to the real, post-pandemic world.  We also discuss depression due to summer time heat-- which is an often overlooked aspect of depression with seasonal pattern.