Best Ethan P. Short, MD Podcasts (2025)

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39.2 Keto for Severe Mental Illness with Dr. Matt Bernstein, MD 28:09

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5d ago28:09

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Thanks for joining RP today for Part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Matt Bernstein, MD and psychiatrist, whose personal experience with his sons' rapid development of OCD-like symptoms and subsequent failures of traditional psychiatric treatment modalities piqued his curiosity to think outside of the box and explore the high-benefit/low-risk promis…

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39.1 Metabolic Psychiatry, Ketogenic Diet with Dr. Matt Bernstein, MD 29:23

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Thanks for joining RP today for a conversation with Dr. Matt Bernstein, MD and psychiatrist, whose personal experience with his sons' rapid development of OCD-like symptoms and subsequent failures of traditional psychiatric treatment modalities piquing his curiosity to think outside of the box and explore the benefits of a ketogenic diet (low carb)…

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38.1 Can Lithium Supplementation Prevent Alzheimer's, New HARVARD Dementia Study 19:55

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Thanks for joining RP for a 2025 clinical research update on Lithium. If you missed it, Harvard just released their findings of a new multi-phase study investigating lithium's potential use in Alzheimer's as a biomarker to predict disease before it becomes clinically obvious, and also its' potential to TREAT ALZHEIMER's (and potentially other forms…

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37.3 A Lithium Argument and A Broken Healthcare System with David Cohen, PhD, MSW 44:29

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Thanks for joining RP for my series interviewing David Cohen, PhD, MSW, about the state of mental healthcare in the United States today. In Part 3, David and I argue about lithium's therapeutic window (though he does acknowledge the potential benefits of low doses) and we further discuss the broken healthcare system. While David and I agree on most…

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37.2 ADHD is Overdiagnosed/Treated, DSM is invalid with David Cohen, PhD, MSW 39:52

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Thanks for joining RP for my series interviewing David Cohen, PhD, MSW, about the state of mental healthcare in the United States today. In Part 2, David and I discuss the over-diagnosis of ADHD and rapid inflation of diagnosis and medication use over the last 20-30 years (the US utilizes 90+% of the world's amphetamines, and the vast majority of a…

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37.1 Nuances of Medication-Assisted Treatment in Addiction with David Cohen, PhD, MSW 35:53

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Thanks for joining RP for my series interviewing David Cohen, PhD, MSW, about the state of mental healthcare in the United States today. In Part 1, David and I discuss the use of medication assisted treatment and David points out that similar chemical substances are treated drastically different by society and government regulators depending on whe…

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36.2 From Recovery to Doing What Matters with Norman Curtiss, PA, PharmD 41:12

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Join us for Part 2 of the conversation with PharmD and PA, Norman Curtiss. In this episode, we wrap up with Norman's personal journey to becoming a physician's assistant after battling alcohol and Adderall addictions for the better part of a decade. We also discuss failures in the system of mental health, both in clinical practice, as well as the e…

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36.1 PA's Journey to Recovery with Norman Curtiss, PharmD, PA 41:03

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Join us for this conversation with PharmD and PA, Norman Curtiss, on his journey through alcohol and Adderall addictions as a pharmacist to sobriety and going back to school to pursue a new role as a prescribing Physician's Assistant, or PA. We appreciate Norman's willingness to outline and describe his trials and tribulations in life, and how it h…

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35.2 Eugenics in Psych's Origins Part 2 + Steve Hayes, PhD 44:36

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Here, I wrap up with Part 2 of my talk with Dr. Steven C. Hayes, PhD, about the embedded history of eugenics in psychiatry and psychology, way before Nazi-era Germany's Holocaust atrocities. After talking about the history of eugenics in bio-statistics and psychology/psychiatry's origins and legalized sterilization of those deemed 'feeble-minded,' …

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35.1 Eugenics in Psych Origins with Steve Hayes, PhD 57:04

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Today, I talk to Dr. Steven C. Hayes, PhD, about the embedded history of eugenics in psychiatry and psychology, way before Nazi-era Germany's Holocaust atrocities. We discuss the history of eugenics in creating and adhering to some of the fundamental tools in statistics, and how that paved the way for many of the original leaders in psychology and …

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34.2 Functional Medicine with Patient/Physician/Cancer Survivor, Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD 28:38

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In Part 2 of my series interviewing Dr. Jill Carnahan, a functional/integrative family/internal medicine physician and breast cancer survivor, we continue in our discussion on the blending of Western medicine with holistic/functional/integrative approaches. Jill discusses her favorite labs to obtain to further investigate the gut microbiome, with h…

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34.1 Functional Medicine with Patient/Physician/Cancer Survivor, Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD 25:01

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In this series, I interview Dr. Jill Carnahan, a functional/integrative family/internal medicine physician with an incredible medical origin story. During medical school, Jill was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer, and fought through treatment while continuing her medical school journey. Treatment was effective, but led to severe s…

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33.2 Lithium, Lithium, Lithium, + Lavender + Seroquel with Carlat's Chris Aiken, MD 34:26

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Thanks for joining us for the first installment of my interview with Chris Aiken, MD, most notable for his position as editor-in-chief of the Carlat Psychiatry Podcast, an invaluable independent podcast providing the most up-to-date and unbiased information on which medications ACTUALLY work for which conditions. In Part 1, Dr. Aiken gives us a cra…

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33.1 Evaluating DATA with Carlat's Chris Aiken, MD 29:08

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Thanks for joining us for the first installment of my interview with Chris Aiken, MD, most notable for his position as editor-in-chief of the Carlat Psychiatry Podcast, an invaluable independent podcast providing the most up-to-date and unbiased information on which medications ACTUALLY work for which conditions. Dr. Aiken gives us a crash course i…

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32.3 DATA on Increased Risk of SSRIs in pregnancy w/ Adam Urato, MD, OB/GYN 31:31

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Hope you enjoy this 3rd installment of a series on medication risk during pregnancy (and more) with Dr. Adam Urato, aka THE HAPPY WARRIOR. Dr. Urato is making his grand visual debut with Renegade Psych, though we discussed similar topics in our previous audio-only interview available on spotify and apple. In part 1, we discussed medication exposure…

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32.2 Makena, Pharmaceutical Corruption, and Misinformation w/ Adam Urato, MD, OB/GYN 29:22

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Hope you enjoy this 2nd installment of a series on medication risk during pregnancy (and more) with Dr. Adam Urato, aka THE HAPPY WARRIOR. Dr. Urato is making his grand visual debut with Renegade Psych, though we discussed similar topics in our previous audio-only interview available on spotify and apple. In part 1, we discussed medication exposure…

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32.1 Meds are Chemicals. Chemical have Consequences w/ Adam Urato, MD, OB/GYN 27:45

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Hope you enjoy this first installment of a series on medication risk during pregnancy (and more) with Dr. Adam Urato, aka THE HAPPY WARRIOR. Dr. Urato is making his grand visual debut with Renegade Psych, though we discussed similar topics in our previous audio-only interview available on spotify and apple. In part 1, we discuss medication exposure…

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32.0 Teaser: Medication Risk in Pregnancy with Adam Urato, MD 5:29

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Hope you enjoy this teaser for an upcoming episode with Dr. Adam Urato, MD and OB-GYN, about one of his areas of expertise, the effects of various medication classes on the developing fetus. Part 1 coming out next week! If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you’d like to support our work, you can! Or…

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31.1 Functional Psychiatry with James Greenblatt, MD 54:59

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Join me as I sit down with Dr. James Greenblatt, MD, to discuss his work within the field of what's called functional, or integrative psychiatry. Dr. Greenblatt uses many of the tools he learned in medical school paired with an integrative critical thinking approach. He tests for mineral and vitamin deficiencies, indirect markers of neurotransmitte…

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30.2 Vaccine Nuance, THE SCIENCE, and Alzheimer's Drugs with Nikki Johnson, MD 45:05

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Join pediatrician Dr. Nikki Johnson, MD, for part 2 of our conversation as WE TALK ABOUT VACCINES in a nuanced fashion. Neither of us are for or against ALL vaccines (and both of us have fully vaccinated kids... well, not including COVID or flu...), but rather take them in piecemeal and openly discuss the need for more research on their long-term s…

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30.1 Gender Dysphoria and Medical Education with Nikki Johnson, MD 1:04:11

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Join pediatrician Dr. Nikki Johnson, MD, and I as we discuss the scam of maintenance of certification and her exclusion from the 2024 AAP conference due to her views on the increasing use of hormone treatments, puberty blockers, and surgical interventions in American adolescents. Listen as Nikki and I discuss how (we believe) big pharma is preying …

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29.2 A Radically Genuine Conversation with Roger McFillin, PsyD, ABPP 50:03

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Join Renegade Psych for Part 2 of my conversation with psychologist Roger McFillin, discussing the pitfalls of the American mental health system. Dr. McFillin created the internationally popular podcast, Radically Genuine, and is the Founder of the Conscious Clinician Collective, working to cultivate a community where individuals and families engag…

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29.1 A Radically Genuine Conversation with Roger McFillin, PsyD, ABPP 44:23

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Join Renegade Psych today for Part 1 of my conversation with psychologist Roger McFillin, discussing the pitfalls of the American mental health system. Dr. McFillin created the internationally popular podcast, Radically Genuine, and Founder of the Conscious Clinician Collective, working to cultivate a community where individuals and families engage…

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28.2 Stop Abandoning the Severely Mentally Ill with Nick Rosenlicht, MD 41:40

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Join Renegade Psych today for Part 2 of my conversation with psychiatrist Nicholas Rosenlicht, discussing topics relevant to his first (and only) book, 'My Brother's Keeper: The Untold Stories behind the Business of Mental Health -- and How to Stop the Abandonment of the Mentally Ill.' We talk about how mental health care in the United States has b…

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28.1 Stop Abandoning the Severely Mentally Ill with Nick Rosenlicht, MD 44:36

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Join Renegade Psych today for a conversation with psychiatrist Nicholas Rosenlicht, discussing topics relevant to his first (and only) book, 'My Brother's Keeper: The Untold Stories behind the Business of Mental Health -- and How to Stop the Abandonment of the Mentally Ill.' We talk about how mental health care in the United States has become atroc…

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27.2 Misdiagnosed and Overmedicated Kids with Kassondra Ola, Part 2 39:55

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Today, we have Kassondra Ola joining the podcast for part 2 of a patient perspective interview on the dangers of psychiatric polypharmacy. Kassondra is a mental health advocate who was misdiagnosed as bipolar at the age of 10 and put on multiple psychiatric medications over the subsequent decade. She is here to tell her story and promote a positive…

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27.1 Misdiagnosed and Overmedicated Kids with Kassondra Ola 37:28

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Today, we have Kassondra Ola joining the podcast to give a patient perspective on the dangers of psychiatric polypharmacy. Kassondra is a mental health advocate who was misdiagnosed as bipolar at the age of 10 and put on multiple psychiatric medications over the subsequent decade. She is here to tell her story and promote a positive message that we…

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24.3 Why Most Modern Research is Flawed with Ken Gillman, MD 27:20

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Join myself and Dr. Ken Gillman, MD, as we discuss the inherent problems with modern scientific research, and the lack of emphasis put on building critical thinking skills endemic to our academic institutions. In Part 3 of our conversation, we continue to illuminate how and why most modern medical research is flawed and why you can't just TRUST THE…

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SPECIAL: 10 WAYS to REDUCE your HOSPITAL BILLS 21:17

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So many of my episodes revolve around how poor our healthcare system is in the United States, so I wanted to create a special episode giving guidance on how you can reduce your hospital bills. Persistence is the key; do not give up and keep pestering your insurance company and the hospital billing departments. Whether or not your persistence pays o…

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25.4 Deadly Alzheimer's Drugs: Lecanemab... Different Drug Same Story, with Michael Shuman, PharmD 31:32

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Join myself and Dr. Michael Shuman, PharmD, BPCC, as we discuss the latest overhyped and under-delivering class of medications, the new Alzheimer's drugs. These drugs can cause brain swelling and bleeding in a substantial proportion of patients and even death in some. Not only are they NOT SAFE, but they're also NO MORE EFFECTIVE than currently exi…

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25.3 Deadly Alzheimer's Drugs: Aducanumab's sketchy Accelerated Approval, with Michael Shuman, PharmD 34:51

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Join myself and Dr. Michael Shuman, PharmD, BPCC, as we discuss the latest overhyped and under-delivering class of medications, the new Alzheimer's drugs. These drugs can cause brain swelling and bleeding in a substantial proportion of patients and even death in some. Not only are they NOT SAFE, but they're also NO MORE EFFECTIVE than currently exi…

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25.2 Deadly New Alzheimer's Drugs: Fraudulent Research, with Michael Shuman, PharmD 52:16

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Join myself and Dr. Michael Shuman, PharmD, BPCC, as we discuss the latest overhyped and under-delivering class of medications, the new Alzheimer's drugs. These drugs can cause brain swelling and bleeding in a substantial proportion of patients and even death in some. Not only are they NOT SAFE, but they're also NO MORE EFFECTIVE than currently exi…

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24.2 Strangling the Bloody Cockerel with Ken Gillman, MD: RCTs are Imperfect 31:10

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Join myself and Dr. Ken Gillman, MD, as we discuss the inherent problems with modern scientific research, and the lack of emphasis put on building critical thinking skills endemic to our academic institutions. In Part 2 of our conversation, we delve furtther into how research has been commandeered by industry and our over-reliance on Randomized Con…

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26.2 Mental Coaching in Pro Golf with "Clever Trevor" Jones, ACT therapist 37:28

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Join myself and "Clever Trevor" Jones for Part 2 of our discussion as we talk about the role of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in GOLF. Trevor works with professional golfers to optimize their mental game, through ACT processes like acceptance, defusion, meditation and mindfulness, flexible perspective-taking, and values-driven living. It's easy…

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26.1 Mental Coaching in Pro Golf with "Clever Trevor" Jones, ACT therapist 34:06

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Join myself and "Clever Trevor" Jones as we discuss the role of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in GOLF. Trevor works with professional golfers to optimize their mental game, through ACT processes like acceptance, defusion, meditation and mindfulness, flexible perspective-taking, and values-driven living. It's easy for our primary focus in golf (…

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SPECIAL RELEASE: Inner Excellence Interview with author Jim Murphy 1:06:34

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I can only imagine the surprise and energy that must have been flowing through Jim Murphy's body on Sunday night when he started receiving hundreds, if not thousands, of texts, when he incidentally went viral with AJ Brown reading his book, Inner Excellence, on the sidelines of Philadelphia Eagles' 22-10 victory over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday…

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25.1 New Alzheimer's Drugs Are Deadly: Intro with Michael Shuman, PharmD 27:34

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Join myself and Dr. Michael Shuman, PharmD, BPCC, as we discuss the latest overhyped and under-delivering class of medications, the new Alzheimer's drugs. These drugs can cause brain swelling and bleeding in a substantial proportion of patients and even death in some. Not only are they NOT SAFE, but they're also NO MORE EFFECTIVE than currently exi…

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23.3 Drug Advertising: Ways Clinical Trials are Manipulated with Michael Shuman, PharmD 41:59

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Join myself and Dr. Michael Shuman, PharmD, BPCC, as we discuss the negative impact of Direct-To-Consumer-Advertising (DTCA) in the US Healthcare System. This is a recurring series where Dr. Shuman and I will talk about various examples of the negative impacts of DTCA in America over the last 40+ years. We're living and working in a system now that…

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24.1 Critical Thinking with Ken Gillman and the Flying Spaghetti Monster 40:49

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Join myself and Dr. Ken Gillman, MD, as we discuss the inherent problems with modern scientific research, and the lack of emphasis put on building critical thinking skills endemic to our academic institutions. We constantly refer back to the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), which is the basis of the faux religion called PASTAFARIANISM with FSM as it…

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23.2 Drug Advertising: the VIOXX Tragedy with Michael Shuman, PharmD 30:04

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Join myself and Dr. Michael Shuman (PharmD, BPCC - Board Certification in Psychiatric Pharmacy) as we discuss the negative impact of Direct-To-Consumer-Advertising (DTCA) in the US Healthcare System. This is a recurring series where Dr. Shuman and I will talk about various examples of the negative impacts of DTCA in America over the last 40+ years.…

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23.1 Direct to Consumer Advertising with Michael Shuman, PharmD: Background and History 31:36

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Join me and PharmD Michael Shuman as we discuss the negative impact of Direct-To-Consumer-Advertising (DTCA) in the US Healthcare System. This is a recurring series where Dr. Shuman and I will talk about various examples of the negative impacts of DTCA in America over the last 40+ years. We're living and working in a system now that is rife with mi…

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22.2 Steven Hayes, PhD: RFT, ACT, Evolution, The FLIP, and Mental Health 1:01:22

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Please join us this week for a discussion on Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and how it relates to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training (ACT), with the conceptual creator of RFT and ACT, Dr. Steven Hayes. I highly recommend you view this on YouTube so you don't miss out on all the added video graphics that supplement our discussion. Dr. Hayes f…

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22.1 Steven Hayes, PhD: ACT and Relational Frame Theory 42:43

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Please join us this week for a discussion on Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and how it relates to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training (ACT), with the conceptual creator of RFT and ACT, Dr. Steven Hayes. I highly recommend you view this on YouTube so you don't miss out on all the added video graphics that supplement our discussion. Dr. Hayes f…

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21.2 Dr. Robert Post, MD: Lithium, Dementia, and NIH Research Failures 56:44

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This week, we're back to give you more information on bipolar illness, lithium, dementia, and the failures of the NIH in their research efforts, with one of the world's leading psychiatric experts, former Chief of the biological psychiatry branch of the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) for 20 years, Dr. Robert Post, MD and psychiatrist. …

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21.1 Dr. Robert Post, MD: Youth-Onset Bipolar Illness 56:44

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This week, we're back to give you more information on bipolar illness in youths and the use of lithium with one of the world's leading experts on both, former Chief of the biological psychiatry branch of the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) for 20 years, Dr. Robert Post, MD and psychiatrist. Dr. Post has spent nearly the entirety of his …

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20.1 Lithium: Beyond its' Psychiatric Use with Janusz Rybakowski, MD 1:00:48

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Hey there again... This week, we're back to give you more information on lithium with one of the world's leading experts on lithium, Dr. Janusz Rybakowski, MD and Polish psychiatrist. Janusz was one of the first researchers in the world to illuminate some of the ancillary medical benefits of lithium, publishing one of the first series of reports wi…

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19.1 The Problem with Rapid Benzo Detox; Patient Perspective with Nicole Lamberson, PA 1:14:52

11M ago1:14:52

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Hey all, hope you enjoy this latest episode with Nicole Lamberson, PA with the Taper Clinic, who graciously has shared her story about being over-medicated on psychiatric medications. We discuss why limited duration 'Rehab' and 'Detox' units can be extremely harmful to patients with dependence on certain prescription or illicit drugs, using her own…

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18.2 How We Should Be Practicing Psychiatry with Cara Hoepner, PMHNP 42:47

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Join me with Cara Hoepner, a San Francisco-based PMHNP, to discuss how we SHOULD be practicing psychiatry. This is a 2-part series and in this 2nd part, we talk more about some of the issues that plague our field. We talk about how our first imperative has to be to rule out any medical cause of psychiatric symptoms, then discuss how Cara individual…

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18.1 How We Should Be Practicing Psychiatry with Cara Hoepner, PMHNP 59:04

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Join me with Cara Hoepner, a San Francisco-based PMHNP, to discuss how we SHOULD be practicing psychiatry. This is a 2-part series and in this first part, we will talk more about Cara's background that led her into psychiatric practice, then discuss the inherent problems with the DSM's massive over-expansion of psychiatric diagnoses and the major i…

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17.1 Clozapine Underutilization with Jose Rubio, MD 1:11:01

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Clozapine is one of the first antipsychotics with a unique chemical structure compared to any other antipsychotic. It is the most effective at treating patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia, but is severely underutilized despite its efficacy. It does have a significant side effect profile that needs to be monitored and managed, but can pr…