The Carlat Psychiatry Podcast

Recent Episodes

A Landmark Adoption Study [60 Sec Psych]

Posted September 2, 2020 • 00:02:04

Dr. Kenneth Kendler's latest compares biological siblings where one was adopted and the other raised by the birth parents. The study found that children...

Existential Despair and Bipolar Depression

Posted August 31, 2020 • 00:20:30

Nassir Ghaemi reads excerpts from his work on the therapeutic relationship in bipolar disorder. We talk about how to empathize with manic patients through...

Insight: The Lost Cause in Psychotherapy

Posted August 24, 2020 • 00:19:38

Is self-knowledge a good thing, or is it just fuel for self-absorption and depressive rumination? We look through four psychotherapies to learn what...

Traumatic Brain Injury: An Interview with Jonathan Silver

Posted August 17, 2020 • 00:15:36

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) causes a host of psychiatric symptoms, and they don’t always respond to medications the way that other diagnoses do....

Depressed and Indecisive [60 Sec Psych]

Posted August 15, 2020 • 00:02:48

Today’s study looked at psychological factors that predict relapse into depression. They people who were recovered from depression and taking antidepressants...