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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.

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Charlie Kurth: Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan University and a Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. 

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.

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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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In this episode I interview Michael Steger, the Founder and Director of the Center for Meaning and Purpose, Professor of Psychology at Colorado State University and author of the MEANING IN LIFE QUESTIONAIRE, an unvaluable tool for clinical practice. 

This session covers both, conceptual and practical implications of meaning in life for the work in psychiatry. 

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First of all I would like to apologize for the long silence. You are kind enough to subscribe to my channel and entertain the questions I raise about the field and I need you to know that I don’t take your following lightly, especially in a field dominated by reductionism.

In this episode I explain the reason for my silence: the creation of the TRUE PSYCHIATRY NETWORK, an online psychiatric clinic, and the efforts to establish its format and slow recruitment and selection for the right brains for the tasks.

After that I make a case of why simplistic tools like PHQ9 and GAD7 are detrimental to the practice of a true psychiatry. 

Hope you enjoy those thoughts. Feel free to give me feedback at [email protected]

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In this episode I interview Brook Siem, winner of “CHOPPED” and the writer of “May Cause Side Effects”, an auto biographical account of her struggles coming off antidepressants, the impact on her emotions, behaviors and thoughts that reinforce an old adage of the TRUE PSYCHIATRY: starting a psych medication is a way more serious decision than we were led to believe. 

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In this episode I have the help of Andy Thomson MD and Paul Andrews Phd to help answer the question “what is the purpose of psychiatry”?
My guests lend the understanding of evolutionary psychology to the clinical approach of “symptoms” and their rationale strongly contrasts with the paradigm offered by our current clinical practices and diagnostic system. 
They expose the limitations of syndromic diagnoses and the damage caused by the divorce between psychiatry and psychology.

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