Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories | Psychotherapy, Trauma, and Psychedelics
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.
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Season 7 Wrap-up...plus a farewell and a big change coming for BFTA
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May 15, 2026 |
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Complex PTSD vs Classic PTSD-- Healing medical trauma with MDMA assisted therapy
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May 01, 2026 |
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The Hidden Minefield of Positive Countertransference
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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The gasoline and the match— Bipolar disorder, THC, and manic activation
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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How can we actually prevent suicide? Guns, access to means, and the hope of Donna's Law
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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A somatic therapist and her apprenticeship of grief
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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A gift of therapy- Discovering the wisdom of the body with psychedelic-assisted therapy
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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A Nurse + Grief + Alcohol + Adderall— Finding Hope for Healers
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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The Scary Med List-- A Case Consultation with Dr. H
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Ketamine, and Psychiatry 3.0
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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When psychiatric illness isn't just psychiatric-- The immune system, PANS, and psychiatric mimicry
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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10 Questions to Deepen Psychotherapy-- Inviting the Here and Now
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Is DID real? Parts, alters, exiles, and what's allowed in the therapeutic space
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Parenting through the storm-- Adoption, trauma, acceptance, and humility
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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When our minds forget our bodies remember-- A trauma therapist comes back to life
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Treatment-resistant bipolar disorder-- Finding stability at last
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Hiding in plain sight-- Life, work, and therapy on the autistic spectrum
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Trapped in secrecy and shame-- A boy, his coach, and healing trauma with MDMA
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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BFTA Summer Special-- The Wisdom of the Psychedelic Therapy Underground
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Chris, Craig, and Special Guest Fish in Fishbowl 6
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners in the Treatment Landscape
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May 23, 2025 |
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The Enneagram in the Therapeutic Relationship
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May 09, 2025 |
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Meds can't fill the trauma hole-- Attachment, maternal wounding, and the challenges of coming off meds
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Desperately seeking safety -- A trauma healing journey with Koelle Simpson
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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The Art of Deprescribing
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Developing field awareness: Working with transference and countertransference
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Sex Hormones and Psychiatric Illness with Dr. Neill Epperson
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Adventures in Exposure Therapy (Re-release)
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Can MDMA save a marriage? One couple's story
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Psychedelics, psychiatric meds, and the question of tapering
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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In the room with Hillary McBride and Saj Razvi--- A moment to moment exploration of psychedelic somatic trauma therapy
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Recognizing and Treating OCD
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Therapists in the abyss: A journey back to self
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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What I'm thinking about now: Working in the Here and Now; Polypharmacy; Diagnostic Parsimony; Ketamine Microdosing; Psych NP Training
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Reconstructing the narrative-- Trauma, dissociation, psychedelics, and working in the negative transference
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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I had to rebuild who I was-- Finding trust and a pathway out of psychosis
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Why med management is mostly doomed to fail-- The top 10 (12!) reasons with Dr. Will Van Derveer
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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How do you learn to do psychotherapy? An exploration with Dr. Erin Jacklin
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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BFTA Summer Special-- How to Change Your Mind About Mushrooms with Dori Lewis
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Fishbowl 5
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May 31, 2024 |
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When Mom is mentally ill-- A story of resilience
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May 16, 2024 |
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A Psychiatrist Goes to War
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May 03, 2024 |
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My dog saved my life-- Understanding the story of depression
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Psychoanalysis, Dissociation, MDMA and What Lies Beneath
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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What I'm thinking about now-- MDMA, Sleep Meds, Motivation, Bipolar vs Borderline, and more
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Eating Disorders, Body Image, and Building an Alliance-- A Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Sex, Drugs, and Neglect-- Self-Destruction and the Repetition Compulsion
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Psychiatry in the ER
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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At the Crossroads of Psychiatry, Psychedelics and Spirituality--- Dr. H on the Radically Genuine Podcast
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Bipolar Mania-- Superpower or Kryptonite?
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Moving from the head to the heart-- The gifts and challenges of group therapy
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Unhoused and Unwell-- The Nexus of Homelessness, Mental Illness, and Addiction
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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What does it take to fill the void? Developmental trauma and dissociation with Saj Razvi
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Ketamine-- Lessons from 3000 Sessions
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Love and Therapy-- A Conversation with Dr. Adele LaFrance
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Holding on to hope-- Caring for adult children with serious mental illness, Part 2
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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What will happen when we're gone? Caring for adult children with serious mental illness
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Psychedelic Psychiatry-- The Swiss Model
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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When THC turns on you-- Cannabis, THC concentrates, and psychiatric breakdown
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Healing the Wounds of Sexual and Spiritual Abuse
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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BFTA Summer Special at Psychedelic Science 2023 with Dr. Hillary McBride
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Chris and Craig in Fishbowl #4
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May 17, 2023 |
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Brothers across the divide: Treatment-resistant depression, faith, and compassion
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May 04, 2023 |
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The 10 Best Psychiatric Medications
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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A bridge between the Western and Indigenous ways— The curandera, plant medicine, and spirit
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Psychedelic Assisted Therapy: Ketamine vs MDMA vs Psilocybin
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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What's the deal with Psychiatry? What's hopeful, what's gone amiss with Dr. Will Van Derveer
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Trauma in the Transference—Repairing the therapeutic relationship
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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The lives I didn’t get to live- Shame, psychedelics, and owning one’s story
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Thinking Through Emotions— DBT Part 2
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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DBT, Self-Harm, and Suicidality with Dr. Kelly Sonnenfeld
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Why psychiatric illness strikes young (and what to do about it)
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Psilocybin comes to Colorado
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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The way out of psychosis-- Psychopharmacology as magic
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Abortion in Three Acts
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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From Beauty Queen to Psychedelic Guide
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Autism Spectrum Disorder-- A journey from alienation to attachment
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Psychedelics, Psychosis, and Risk Reduction
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Understanding ADD/ADHD with Dr. Jeremy Sharp
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Finding a way back to each other: Addiction, a mother, and her daughter
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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BFTA Summer Special-- Trauma, Spirit, and Psychedelics with Laura Mae Northrup
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Jul 23, 2022 |
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Fishbowl 3
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Psychedelic Somatic Therapy with Saj Razvi
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May 19, 2022 |
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Psychotherapy Twice Told
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May 05, 2022 |
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MDMA, MAPS, and Cover Story's Power Trip-- Another perspective
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Working with families and psychiatric illness
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Attachment and Adoption Part 2– Ridghaus and the Six Word Adoption Memoir
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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From Seoul to Wichita-- Attachment trauma and adoption
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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The nature of gender-- A story of transitioning
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Twenty years in psychiatry: Insights and clinical pearls
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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The Dark Side of Psychedelics
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Treatment resistant depression: Ketamine vs ECT vs TMS with Dr. Daniel Fisher
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Ketamine in context-- From substance abuse to psychedelic therapy
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Conversation with an underground psilocybin therapist
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Body dysmorphia, disordered eating, and embodiment
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Hold on to memories-- The aftermath of suicide with Doug Friedman
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Doing the loving thing-- An exploration of couples therapy with Jeff Pincus
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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When psychiatric meds don't work: Diagnostic confusion, trauma, sleep, hormones, and mistaken expectations
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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The Secret Sauce-- Treating PTSD with MDMA
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Craig and Antonio Sacre talk shop
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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I felt the world too much-- On being a highly sensitive person
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Where did our son go? A family faces schizophrenia
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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The Quickening-- A healing journey through AA, Psilocybin, and Ayahuasca
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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Spiritual gaslighting, sexual trauma, and psychedelics
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Fishbowl #2-- Chris and Craig talk shop
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May 16, 2021 |
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(Almost) Everything about psych meds... in under 16 minutes
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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All we have is now-- A psychotherapist faces mortality
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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How healing happens with Dr. Hillary McBride-- Eating disorders and body dysmorphia
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Addiction treatment-- What works, what definitely doesn't with Dr. Jeremy Dubin
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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A superhero at night-- Lucid dreaming, opioids, and ibogaine
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Why is it so hard to find a good psychiatrist?
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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No one believed me-- Complex PTSD and Borderline Personality Disorder
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Psychedelic mushrooms and the magic of life
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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The clinical moment in psychotherapy-- A conversation with Dr. David Puder
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Psychiatric diagnosis guides treatment....except when it doesn't
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Craig Plays Goalie-- The Psychedelics Today interview
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Steering into the hard stuff-- A father and husband's story
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Touching the edges of life-- Healing from divorce
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Craig's letters from the past: Mistakes made, lessons learned
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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A mother's story-- Body dysmorphia, psychosis, and powerlessness
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Trauma, yoga, and spiritual recovery
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Psychiatry in one question + When ketamine therapy gets difficult
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Craig and Saj Razvi talk shop— Dissociation, the unconscious, countertransference sadism, and psychedelics
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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A special place in my drug addict heart-- Finding safety with Suboxone
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Losing patients, one after another--Craig's meditation on loss and life
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Bonus episode-- Inside Eyes: Ayahuasca and sexual trauma
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Bonus Episode-- Conversations with a Wounded Healer (Interview with Dr. Hillary McBride)
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May 26, 2020 |
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Chris and Craig in the Fishbowl
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May 12, 2020 |
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Adventures in Exposure Therapy
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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OCD in the Time of Corona
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Ketamine therapy update + Listener questions
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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The two loves of her life-- Alcohol, self harm, and the path of recovery
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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MDMA and the Inner Healer
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Mar 01, 2020 |
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When a tree falls twice-- OCD, emotional neglect, and resilience
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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Bright and Shiny and Exciting: An Adderall story
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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Understanding Depression
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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Can you take someone where you haven't gone yourself? A therapist faces death
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Therapists in the abyss: Vicarious trauma
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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My desert island psych meds-- Psychiatry in three medications
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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Healing trauma with psychedelics with Saj Razvi— Part 2
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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Healing trauma with psychedelics with Saj Razvi— Part 1
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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How to think about anxiety
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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The Delta Flight Attendant-- Borderline Personality Disorder, Ketamine, and Self-Harm
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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One phone call changed everything: EMDR and Trauma Part 2
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Sep 22, 2019 |
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When the past haunts the present: An EMDR story
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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Can cannabis be medicine? A psychiatric perspective
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Aug 21, 2019 |
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Desperately NOT seeking meth: A harm reduction story
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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Ketamine treatment for depression: Seven questions
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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A power wash of the brain-- Ketamine, depression, and suicidality
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Why it's so hard to find (or be) a good therapist-- The challenges of psychotherapy
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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One foot in the darkness— A path through treatment resistant depression and eating disorder
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Strawberries-- A story of bipolar disorder
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Jun 18, 2019 |