In this Keep Talking episode, Dr. Leslie Korn talks with Gay Maxwell about "integrative medicine" and how her holistic approach to the treatment and prevention of mental health and addiction disorders not only includes counseling and psychotherapy, but the use of dietary and supplement protocols.

Meet Colleen E. Carney, PhD, Director of the Sleep and Depression Laboratory at Ryerson University in Toronto. In this interview with host, Gay Maxwell, Dr. Carney describes why cognitive behavioral therapy is the best treatment for insomnia.

Dr. Randy O. Frost, Ph.D., discusses the current understanding of compulsive hoarding and effective ways to treat this often debilitating illness.

 

Timothy Wahlberg, PhD, and Clinical Director of the Prairie Clinic in Geneva, Illinois, answers questions and busts myths about Autism Spectrum Disorder in this Keep Talking interview.

Irwin Krieger, LCSW, and Darcy Gingerich, MEd, LCMHC, LADC, discuss what it means when children and adolescents identify as transgender, the importance of acceptance and inclusion by families and communities, and how gender-affirming therapy can be helpful for transgender youth and their families.

https://youtu.be/R4jSyfkiJAI

Joseph Shannon, PhD, a personality disorder expert, follows up his 2012 Keep Talking interview and describes when unreasonable behavior is a symptom of an underlying personality disorder, and how, through the power of empathic listening and the knowledge of universal human concerns, it can be possible to disarm the unreasonable person and avoid conflict.

https://youtu.be/YIXYlaxJxqU

Psychological Cost of Racial Injustice

Smith College professor of clinical psychology, Nnamdi Pole, PhD, an expert of traumatic stress in racial and sexual minorities, joins Gay Maxwell to discuss the impact of chronic and race-related violence on individuals, communities, and society.

https://youtu.be/hP4Uj-vD0BA
 

 

Reid Wilson, PhD, international expert on the treatment of anxiety, panic, phobias, and obsessive compulsive disorder, speaks to Gay Maxwell of the Brattleboro Retreat, about his self-help protocol for therapy clients that transforms anxiety and worry from intimidating threats into challenges that can be met and conquered.

https://youtu.be/15YkCJ4jnAY

Helping Kids Cope With Big Feelings

When should a parent seek help with a child's behavior and mood? When should a teacher ask for assistance with a student who is unhappy and disruptive? Eboni Webb, psychologist and DBT expert from Nashville, TN, sits down with Gay Maxwell to discuss sensitive children who need tools and resources for regulating their very powerful emotions.

https://youtu.be/IgMG_ZKzxuw

A Discussion With Stanley Possick, MD

One in a hundred people develop schizophrenia, a mental illness suffered by approximately 3 million Americans. Yet the very word itself conjures sensational and inaccurate images and scenarios that have largely been created by the media, television, and the movies.

https://youtu.be/Uy3DCArrZU0