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Chris Aiken, MD

Chris Aiken, MD

Dr. Aiken is the Editor in Chief of The Carlat Psychiatry Report; director of the Mood Treatment Center in North Carolina, where he maintains a private practice combining medication and therapy along with evidence-based complementary and alternative treatments; and Assistant Professor NYU Langone Department of Psychiatry. He has worked as a research assistant at the NIMH and a sub-investigator on clinical trials, and conducts research on a shoestring budget out of his private practice. Follow him on Twitter and find him on LinkedIn.
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Wounded Healers: Linehan and DBT Part 2

January 12, 2026
Chris Aiken, MD and Kellie Newsome, PMHNP

Marsha Linehan finds the core principles of DBT in a Buddhist monastery, challenges the psychoanalytic establishment, and returns to the hospital where her journey started.





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Wounded Healers: Linehan and DBT Part 1

January 5, 2026
Chris Aiken, MD and Kellie Newsome, PMHNP

Marsha Linehan makes it out of a long-term psychiatric hospital and vows to develop a better approach to suicidality, reinventing therapy for borderline personality disorder. 





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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. 



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Difficult To Treat Depression: A Carlat Guide (2026) - 4 SA / 12 CME

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December 28, 2025
Chris Aiken, MD

Difficult To Treat Depression: A Carlat Guide (2026) as a 4 SA / 12 CME course


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December 28, 2025
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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. 



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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.



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Christmas, Bipolar, and Ozempic

December 8, 2025
Chris Aiken, MD

How to help bipolar patients manage holiday stress, and a new drug interaction with lithium and GLP1 agonists like semaglutide (Ozempic).

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How to Find SAINT TMS

December 1, 2025
Chris Aiken, MD and Kellie Newsome, PMHNP

SAINT TMS is now available. We take a closer look at its record-breaking effect size.



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A More Powerful Antidepressant

November 24, 2025
Chris Aiken, MD and Kellie Newsome, PMHNP

SAINT TMS is now available. We take a closer look at its record-breaking effect size.



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