Dr. Arash Javanbakht, psychiatrist and neuroscientist, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how fear works in the brain, its relationship to PTSD and trauma, and how we can tame it.
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To stop teen suicide, we need to act much earlier
Dr. Madhukar Trivedi, founding director of the Center for Depression Research and Clinical Care UT Southwestern Medical Center, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why suicide rates among Texas youth are on the rise.
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Can you trust your mental health diagnosis?
Writer Sarah Fay discusses her many diagnoses and offers an examination of psychiatry’s main tool, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—the DSM— and the history behind it.
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What we still don’t know about mental illness
Writer Daniel Bergner discusses his brother’s journey with a bipolar diagnosis and the medications he was put on—and how drug-based treatments are still based on a lot of assumptions.
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What drug companies don’t tell you about antidepressants
Author P.E. Moskowitz discusses the still-murky science behind how antidepressants work and why always prescribing them might not be best serving all patients.
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Can you trust your mental health diagnosis?
Writer Sarah Fay discusses her many diagnoses and offers an examination of psychiatry’s main tool, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—the DSM— and the history behind it.
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The Links Between Structural Racism And Mental Illness
Dr. Ruth S. Shim joins us to discuss the lack of access to care for people of color and the links between structural racism and mental health.
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Why There’s A Massive Shortage Of Psychiatric Hospital Beds
Author Susannah Cahalan joins us to talk about her investigation into a psychology sting operation testing the legitimacy of mental health diagnoses.
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The History of Psychiatry
This hour, we’ll talk about how psychiatry gained legitimacy through the work of Sigmund Freud and other practitioners with Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, author of “Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry” (Back Bay Books).
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New Thinking On Delusions
We’ll find out this hour about how the social world contributes to delusion with Dr. Joel Gold, clinical associate professor of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine.
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