Category: Psychiatry

Psychological safety: the unspoken key to health care success [PODCAST]

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! In this episode, we are joined by clinical psychologist and health systems leadership consultant, Nicola F. De Paul, to discuss the importance of psychological safety in health care environ…

What was right with me when I developed severe depression?

For several years, I fixated on what was wrong with me rather than seeing what was right with me when I developed symptoms of severe depression. If you’re struggling, too, you’re not broken, either. What is your brain telling you? While I a…

Collaborating with occupational therapists: a game-changer for behavioral health [PODCAST]

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! In this episode, psychiatrist Maryna Mammoliti discusses the importance of collaborating with occupational therapists. Occupational therapists are health care professionals who can help ass…

Unlearning our habits: a journey from intelligence to wisdom

Not too long ago, I was struggling over a plate of meatloaf in the doctor’s dining room. Fortunately, the table conversation was better than the food. Somehow it turned to how early career doctors tend to mirror the culture and clinical habits fr…

Breaking free from a toxic relationship with medicine [PODCAST]

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Today’s show discusses the telltale signs of a toxic relationship between physicians and their job, with guest Elizabeth Hughes, a dermatologist. In this episode, we delve into the si…

Surviving and thriving after life’s most difficult moments

An excerpt from Beautiful Trauma: An Explosion, an Obsession, and a New Lease on Life. The experience of trauma changes us. Like spilled ink, it seeps into every aspect of our being, perceptibly and imperceptibly tinting memory, perspective, identity, …

Breaking free from gaslighting [PODCAST]

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join us as we delve into the topic of gaslighting and its impact on our lives. Our guest, Robin Stern, is a psychoanalyst and the author of The Gaslight Effect Recovery Guide: Your Personal…

What is driving physicians to the edge of despair?

For people who deal with life and death daily in our work, you would think suicide among us physicians would not be an option. Sadly, it is — and not necessarily a new reality. Let me explain. Sometimes we agree to do something and can never quite envi…

The psychoanalytic hammer: lessons in listening and patient-centered care

She was one of my first long-term, supervised psychotherapy cases during my second psychiatric residency year. She was young but still a year or two older than her inexperienced, wet behind the ears therapist, and I use that term very loosely. I was to…

Changing the pediatric care landscape: Integrating behavioral and mental health care

One in five children and adolescents will receive a behavioral or mental health diagnosis by 18. That is more than the number of women diagnosed with breast cancer (1 in 8). According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 50 perce…