The Ghaemi Psychiatry Podcast

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• Interviews with psychiatrists: Godehard Oepen MD

  March 25, 2024 · 1 hr 3 min

  Some questions for conversation in the chat and discussion: Dr. Oepen identified his favorite thinker in the field as Dr. Oliver Sacks, a neurologist. What do you think about his choice? The worst idea in psychiatry was the ideas of…

• Bipolar General: An interview with General Gregg Martin

  December 14, 2023 · 1 hr 0 min

  About a year ago, I got to know General Gregg Martin. A decorated combat leader from the Iraq war, he had been forced to resign as president of the National Defense University about a decade ago, because of a severe manic episode. Up to…

• Ketamine and psychedelics: They're not transformative

  September 26, 2023 · 14 min

  Ketamine and psychedelics are getting a lot of hype, but they won't live up to it. This episode explains why, the main reason being that these treatments are just symptomatic, like tylenol or aspirin, and not disease-modifying. They thus…

• Invalidity of adult ADHD - Comments and replies

  March 1, 2023 · 19 min

  In this podcast, I reply to some reactions on Twitter and by email to my prior podcast on the invalidity of adult ADD. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nassir-ghaemi/support Get full access to The…

• Episode 10: The invalidity of "Adult ADD"

  December 1, 2022 · 16 min

  Adult ADD is diagnosed frequently, but this podcast describes how it really represents other conditions, like mood or anxiety states or mood temperaments, or how it reflects normal inattention.   For further reading, see…

• Episode 9: Serotonin hypothesis of depression and the "chemical imbalance" theory: Much ado about little

  September 27, 2022 · 17 min

  The serotonin hypothesis of depression is false and it really doesn't matter much.  The "chemical imbalance" approach to understanding and explaining medications if far too simplistic, to the point of simply being false.  --- Support…

• Episode 8: Why DSM is mostly false

  September 11, 2022 · 20 min

  DSM is the diagnostic system of psychiatry, currently in its 5th revision. This podcast discusses why it is mostly false scientifically, and why it is important to change it.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

• Episode 7: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), American football, and the lithium cure: An interview with Jim Scarborough

  August 1, 2022 · 50 min

  Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is an illness that occurs with concussions and subconcussive impacts, leading to depression, manic symptoms, anger, aggression, suicidality, headaches, cognitive impairment, and eventually dementia…