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Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories | Psychotherapy, Trauma, and Psychedelics - Why is it so hard to find a good psychiatrist?
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Why is it so hard to find a good psychiatrist?

Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories | Psychotherapy, Trauma, and Psychedelics

02/09/21

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In the context of an increasingly severe shortage of psychiatrists, Dr. H discusses some uncomfortable truths about why finding a good outpatient psychiatrist is even more difficult than ever.
Psychedelics and Psychiatry-- Dr. H on The Third Wave Podcast
https://thethirdwave.co/podcast/episode-112-craig-heacock/
BFTA and Dr. H
https://www.craigheacockmd.com

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The therapeutic relationship is built on trust, we come to therapy expecting that we are going to be heard and believed.
Jeanine wasn't believed-- about her childhood sexual assaults, or the emerging psychotic symptoms, or her intractable suicidality....even after many near fatal attempts and over 40 inpatient stays.
This episode looks at how and why we believe some people and discount others. It turns out that the way people tell us their stories matters just as much as the actual words they choose. And, unfortunately, certain clinical presentations make patients/clients much less likely to be heard and believed.
A heads up-- this episode includes descriptions of childhood sexual abuse, self-harm, and suicide attempts.
Dopamine, saliency, and the onset of paranoia
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-020-00912-4
Borderline personality diagnosis leads to demedicalization and poor treatment
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4870819/
Inappropriate affect
https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/personality-disorders/inappropriate-affect-symptoms-and-signs/
Dr. H/BFTA
https://www.craigheacockmd.com

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Next Episode

BFTA takes a wild ride with Colorado based artist, writer, and video producer Ian Jaydid as he tells his double abyss story of lucid dreaming, out of body experiences, REM deprivation and transient psychosis....which then led to the blissful but ultimately destructive salve of opioids and a life changing encounter with the African psychedelic Iboga (ibogaine).
Ian Jaydid
https://ianjaydid.com
Ian's novel Tripping the Field
https://www.amazon.com/Tripping-Field-Existential-Ungodly-Proportions/dp/0991193199
Ian's first lucid dreaming experience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-WaA3SGl9M&t=26s
Dr. H/ BFTA
https://www.craigheacockmd.com/podcast-page/

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