Working with families and psychiatric illness
Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories
04/07/22
•62m
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Dr. H sits down with Dr. Usha Udupa, a Colorado-based child and adolescent psychiatrist, to explore the complexities of working with patients in the context of the family. They discuss topics such as:
How and when family members should be included in treatment
What if the patient refuses family involvement
When the identified patient isn't the problem
How and when to break confidentiality, especially with substance abuse
What are the hidden stories behind what people believe about meds
Why so many young men are failing to launch
What to do when one or more family members don't believe in treatment
Dr. H talks all things ADD/ADHD, meds/stimulants, treatment options
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This is the second in our two part series on adoption and attachment wounds. Ridg and his girlfriend Rebecca got pregnant when he was 19, and they made the difficult decision to give their son up for adoption. Fast forward 16 years, and Ridg is 35, married to another woman, with their own biological children...and he’s about to have his world torn apart by a stunning revelation.
Six Word Adoption Memoirs
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MDMA, MAPS, and Cover Story's Power Trip-- Another perspective
April 21, 2022
•61m
The podcast Cover Story just released a series called Power Trip, an expose of the dark side of the psychedelic treatment world. The series highlights the stories of a few women, including the co-host, who were sexually assaulted in psychedelic treatment spaces....mostly in the underground, but also one woman who was abused by her therapist both during and after her participation in the MAPS PTSD study.
Later in the series, Cover Story shifted to a double barrel assault on MAPS as an organization and its Phase 3 PTSD study. Cover Story questioned the integrity and competence of the people working in the study and tried to paint the study as some kind of amoral juggernaut which, in its desperate desire to bring MDMA to full medicalization, is willing and able to squash any vulnerable participants or opposition in its way.
Dr. H couldn’t disagree more, and felt the imperative to share a different view. He was a study physician and therapist in the Phase 3 MDMA trial, and his experience with participants, with colleagues both at his study site and other sites, and with numerous MAPS staff at all levels of the organization was unrecognizable in Cover Story’s sensationalized account.
In this episode, Dr. H sit down with Hope, a former participant in MAPS' PTSD study. First Hope shares her moving story, then she and Dr. H discuss the critiques from Power Trip. Hope's story is neither a home run cure nor a story of wanton abuse, but rather one of two steps forward, one step back....which is how the healing journey most commonly unfolds.
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