Sometimes we have a window of opportunity to make a difference. Here, we discuss time-frames where lithium, clozapine, and metformin have the greatest benefits.

Learn how your patient’s life story can unlock psychotherapeutic avenues of treatment on our interview with Margaret Chisolm.

Learn how an understanding of patient’s temperament and the meaning of their life story can unlock psychotherapeutic avenues of treatment on our interview with Margaret Chisolm.

Margaret Chisolm shares the Perspectives model, a way of assessing patients that builds on the DSM takes the famous manual a few steps further.

Depression and cognitive impairment on benzos, tardive dyskinesia, anticholinergics, and neurotoxicity from high dose stimulants. These are the side effects that patients aren’t likely to notice until it’s too late.

Allen Frances helped create DSM-IV, but in this episode he takes on its diagnostic overreach.

Allen Frances shares his approach to chronic depression.

Allen Frances shows us how to adjust our therapeutic approach for problems that are simple and those a bit more complex.

Allen Frances shows us how to adjust our therapeutic approach for problems that are simple and those a bit more complex.

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