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Wounded Healers: 12-Steps from Jung

December 29, 2025

Chris Aiken, MD and Kellie Newsome, PMHNP

How a tip from Carl Jung inspired Alcoholics Anonymous and the 12-step recovery movement.

Wounded Healers: Psychosis, Spirituality, and Jung

December 22, 2025

Chris Aiken, MD and Kellie Newsome, PMHNP

Are psychosis and OCD ever normal? We explore this question from Carl Jung’s breakdown to a new neurologic condition, hyperphantasia.

Living Without Illusions: Psychological Survival in a World of Persistent Hatred

December 19, 2025

Joshua Feder, MD and Mara Goverman

Today’s episode is one we’ve been sitting with for a long time. We’re talking about how to survive psychologically in a world where hatred is persistent, not abstract, not metaphorical but recurring, and sometimes lethal.

Wounded Healers: Freud and Jung

December 15, 2025

Chris Aiken, MD and Kellie Newsome, PMHNP

Some of the people who revolutionized psychiatry lived with mental illness themselves.

Mental Fitness

October 13, 2025

Daniel Carlat, MD

Sometimes it's not time to raise the dose.

It's time to raise the conversation.

A Scam for Every Woman, Child, and Man: Part 2

April 14, 2025

Kellie Newsome, PMHNP and Chris Aiken, MD

1 in 3 Americans were victims of online scams in the past year. Even when you know your patient is being scammed, it is hard to pull them out. We speak with Cathy Wilson about the therapeutic techniques to break psychological trap.

A Scam for Every Woman, Child, and Man: Part 1

April 7, 2025

Kellie Newsome, PMHNP and Chris Aiken, MD

1 in 3 Americans were victims of online scams in the past year. Learn the signs, and the psychological traps that can make people lose everything.

Flourishing with Mental Illness

March 17, 2025

Kellie Newsome, PMHNP, Chris Aiken, MD, and Margaret S. Chisolm, MD

How to help patients build fulfilling lives even in the face of unremitted illness.

What’s Wrong with Mental Health Care?

December 9, 2024

Kellie Newsome, PMHNP, Chris Aiken, MD, and Nicholas Rosenlicht, MD

We talk with Nick Rosenlicht, MD about what’s gone wrong in the mental health care system.

Expert Q&A

Early Childhood Psychiatric Care

October 1, 2024

Jeffrey Rowe, MD

Jeffrey Rowe, MD

Private practice, San Diego, CA; associate clinical professor, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine (Retired); co-chair, “We Can’t Wait” Early Childhood Mental Health Conference, 2010–2024.

Dr. Rowe has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

Mental health problems in young children are incredibly complex. Dr. Jeffrey Rowe’s comprehensive outline helps us organize our assessment and care planning for these children. Even more important, since most of us see older kids, Dr. Rowe helps us find the links between problems in early childhood and later mental health challenges.