Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories

By Craig Heacock MD

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How do we find a way out of the darkest depths of despair? Psychiatrist Dr. Craig Heacock hosts a deep dive into powerfully moving stories of hope and healing, as well as topical explorations of psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and psychedelics.


Episode Date
My dog saved my life-- Understanding the story of depression
Apr 19, 2024
Psychoanalysis, Dissociation, MDMA and What Lies Beneath
Apr 05, 2024
What I'm thinking about now-- MDMA, Sleep Meds, Motivation, Bipolar vs Borderline, and more
Mar 22, 2024
Eating Disorders, Body Image, and Building an Alliance-- A Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani
Mar 08, 2024
Sex, Drugs, and Neglect-- Self-Destruction and the Repetition Compulsion
Feb 23, 2024
Psychiatry in the ER
Feb 09, 2024
At the Crossroads of Psychiatry, Psychedelics and Spirituality--- Dr. H on the Radically Genuine Podcast
Jan 26, 2024
Bipolar Mania-- Superpower or Kryptonite?
Jan 12, 2024
Moving from the head to the heart-- The gifts and challenges of group therapy
Dec 29, 2023
Unhoused and Unwell-- The Nexus of Homelessness, Mental Illness, and Addiction
Dec 15, 2023
What does it take to fill the void? Developmental trauma and dissociation with Saj Razvi
Dec 01, 2023
Ketamine-- Lessons from 3000 Sessions
Nov 17, 2023
Love and Therapy-- A Conversation with Dr. Adele LaFrance
Nov 03, 2023
Holding on to hope-- Caring for adult children with serious mental illness, Part 2
Oct 20, 2023
What will happen when we're gone? Caring for adult children with serious mental illness
Oct 06, 2023
Psychedelic Psychiatry-- The Swiss Model
Sep 22, 2023
When THC turns on you-- Cannabis, THC concentrates, and psychiatric breakdown
Sep 09, 2023
Healing the Wounds of Sexual and Spiritual Abuse
Aug 27, 2023
BFTA Summer Special at Psychedelic Science 2023 with Dr. Hillary McBride
Jun 26, 2023
Chris and Craig in Fishbowl #4
May 17, 2023
Brothers across the divide: Treatment-resistant depression, faith, and compassion
May 04, 2023
The 10 Best Psychiatric Medications
Apr 20, 2023
A bridge between the Western and Indigenous ways— The curandera, plant medicine, and spirit
Apr 06, 2023
Psychedelic Assisted Therapy: Ketamine vs MDMA vs Psilocybin
Mar 23, 2023
What's the deal with Psychiatry? What's hopeful, what's gone amiss with Dr. Will Van Derveer
Mar 09, 2023
Trauma in the Transference—Repairing the therapeutic relationship
Feb 23, 2023
The lives I didn’t get to live- Shame, psychedelics, and owning one’s story
Feb 09, 2023
Thinking Through Emotions— DBT Part 2
Jan 26, 2023
DBT, Self-Harm, and Suicidality with Dr. Kelly Sonnenfeld
Jan 12, 2023
Why psychiatric illness strikes young (and what to do about it)
Dec 29, 2022
Psilocybin comes to Colorado
Dec 15, 2022
The way out of psychosis-- Psychopharmacology as magic
Dec 01, 2022
Abortion in Three Acts
Nov 17, 2022
From Beauty Queen to Psychedelic Guide
Nov 03, 2022
Autism Spectrum Disorder-- A journey from alienation to attachment
Oct 20, 2022
Psychedelics, Psychosis, and Risk Reduction
Oct 06, 2022
Understanding ADD/ADHD with Dr. Jeremy Sharp
Sep 22, 2022
Finding a way back to each other: Addiction, a mother, and her daughter
Sep 08, 2022
BFTA Summer Special-- Trauma, Spirit, and Psychedelics with Laura Mae Northrup
Jul 23, 2022
Fishbowl 3
Jun 02, 2022
Psychedelic Somatic Therapy with Saj Razvi
May 19, 2022
Psychotherapy Twice Told
May 05, 2022
MDMA, MAPS, and Cover Story's Power Trip-- Another perspective
Apr 21, 2022
Working with families and psychiatric illness
Apr 07, 2022
Attachment and Adoption Part 2– Ridghaus and the Six Word Adoption Memoir
Mar 24, 2022
From Seoul to Wichita-- Attachment trauma and adoption
Mar 10, 2022
The nature of gender-- A story of transitioning
Feb 24, 2022
Twenty years in psychiatry: Insights and clinical pearls
Feb 10, 2022
The Dark Side of Psychedelics
Jan 27, 2022
Treatment resistant depression: Ketamine vs ECT vs TMS with Dr. Daniel Fisher
Jan 14, 2022
Ketamine in context-- From substance abuse to psychedelic therapy
Dec 31, 2021
Conversation with an underground psilocybin therapist
Dec 16, 2021
Body dysmorphia, disordered eating, and embodiment
Dec 02, 2021
Hold on to memories-- The aftermath of suicide with Doug Friedman
Nov 18, 2021
Doing the loving thing-- An exploration of marriage with Jeff Pincus
Nov 04, 2021
When meds don't work: Diagnostic confusion, trauma, sleep, hormones, and mistaken expectations
Oct 21, 2021
The Secret Sauce-- Treating PTSD with MDMA
Oct 07, 2021
Craig and Antonio Sacre talk shop
Sep 23, 2021
I felt the world too much-- On being a highly sensitive person
Sep 09, 2021
Where did our son go? A family faces schizophrenia
Aug 24, 2021
The Quickening-- A healing journey through AA, Psilocybin, and Ayahuasca
Aug 08, 2021
Spiritual gaslighting
Jul 23, 2021
Fishbowl #2-- Chris and Craig talk shop
May 16, 2021
(Almost) Everything about psych meds... in under 16 minutes
Apr 27, 2021
All we have is now-- A psychotherapist faces mortality
Apr 13, 2021
How healing happens with Dr. Hillary McBride-- Eating disorders and body dysmorphia
Mar 29, 2021
Addiction treatment-- What works, what definitely doesn't with Dr. Jeremy Dubin
Mar 13, 2021
A superhero at night-- Lucid dreaming, opioids, and ibogaine
Mar 01, 2021
Why is it so hard to find a good psychiatrist?
Feb 09, 2021
No one believed me-- Complex PTSD and BPD
Jan 26, 2021
Psychedelic mushrooms and the magic of life
Jan 12, 2021
The clinical moment in psychotherapy-- A conversation with Dr. David Puder
Dec 22, 2020
Diagnosis guides treatment....except when it doesn't
Dec 08, 2020
Craig Plays Goalie-- The Psychedelics Today interview
Nov 24, 2020
Steering into the hard stuff-- A father and husband's story
Nov 10, 2020
Touching the edges of life-- Healing from divorce
Oct 20, 2020
Craig's letters from the past: Mistakes made, lessons learned
Oct 06, 2020
A mother's story-- When your child can't see what's wrong
Sep 22, 2020
Trauma, yoga, and spiritual recovery
Sep 01, 2020
Psychiatry in one question + When ketamine therapy gets difficult
Aug 18, 2020
Craig and Saj Razvi talk shop— Dissociation, the unconscious, countertransference sadism, and psychedelics
Aug 04, 2020
A special place in my drug addict heart-- Finding safety with Suboxone
Jul 21, 2020
Losing patients, one after another--Craig's meditation on loss and life
Jun 23, 2020
Bonus episode-- Inside Eyes: Ayahuasca and sexual trauma
Jun 09, 2020
Bonus Episode-- Conversations with a Wounded Healer (Interview with Dr. Hillary McBride)
May 26, 2020
Chris and Craig in the fishbowl
May 12, 2020
Adventures in Exposure Therapy
Apr 28, 2020
OCD in the Time of Corona
Apr 14, 2020
Ketamine therapy update + Listener questions
Mar 31, 2020
The two loves of her life-- Alcohol, self harm, and the path of recovery
Mar 17, 2020
MDMA and the Inner Healer
Mar 01, 2020
When a tree falls twice-- OCD, emotional neglect, and resilience
Feb 17, 2020
Bright and Shiny and Exciting: An Adderall story
Jan 31, 2020
Understanding Depression
Jan 17, 2020
Can you take someone where you haven't gone yourself?
Jan 03, 2020
Therapists in the abyss: Vicarious trauma
Dec 20, 2019
My desert island psych meds
Dec 05, 2019
Healing trauma with psychedelics with Saj Razvi— Part 2
Nov 19, 2019
Healing trauma with psychedelics with Saj Razvi— Part 1
Nov 05, 2019
How to think about anxiety
Oct 23, 2019
The Delta Flight Attendant-- BPD and psychotherapy
Oct 06, 2019
One phone call changed everything: EMDR Part 2
Sep 22, 2019
When the past haunts the present: An EMDR story
Sep 04, 2019
Can marijuana be medicine? A psychiatric perspective
Aug 21, 2019
Desperately NOT seeking meth: A harm reduction story
Aug 07, 2019
Ketamine treatment for depression: Seven questions
Jul 24, 2019
A power wash of the brain-- Ketamine, depression, and suicidality
Jul 09, 2019
Why it's so hard to find (or be) a good therapist
Jun 25, 2019
One foot in the darkness— A path through treatment resistant depression and eating disorder
Jun 24, 2019
Strawberries-- A story of bipolar disorder
Jun 18, 2019