0.5 CME Credits. This webinar is a 30-minute overview of psychological and psychodynamic factors that can impact the psychopharmacological treatment of patients.
0.5 CME Credits. This webinar is a comprehensive 30-minute overview of psychodynamic principles, processes, and evolution for mental health professionals.
0.75 CME Credits. This webinar discusses ADHD and its varied presentations, co-occurring issues, and the importance of accurate assessment for effective treatment.
0.25 CME Credits. In this episode, we explore nine groundbreaking stories in mental health and psychiatric medicine, covering everything from healthcare fraud to the latest advancements in drug trials. First, we dive into the recent charges brought by the US Department of Justice against executives at Done, a California-based telehealth company, for alleged healthcare fraud. Done is accused of prescribing over 40 million Adderall pills to patients without proper evaluation, raising concerns about the balance between increasing mental healthcare access and responsible prescribing practices.
Four months after giving birth, Lindsay Clancy stopped sleeping, and each new prescription seemed to make it worse. In Part 2, we follow her from hypomania through depression to the border of psychosis, and find a new way to interpret dissociation. Plus: A research update on a potentially fatal risk with GLP-1 agonists: Low thiamine.
Lindsay Clancy’s trial became a televised spectacle this summer. In this series, we set the courtroom aside and focus on her psychiatric signs and treatments, following them month by month over the postpartum course. Plus: a new trial on what happened when depressed patients cut ultra-processed food.
We prescribe ADHD medications to help with focus and impulsivity, but what happens when someone stays on them for years? Today, we're digging into new research that links long-term ADHD medication use to higher cardiovascular risk. It's not a reason to panic, but it is a reason to look twice at the dosages, duration, and how we follow up.
Dr. Andrew Christensen, distinguished research professor of psychology at UCLA and co-developer of Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT), explains how IBCT balances acceptance and change in treating relationship distress.
Parents often come into treatment hoping an SSRI will make their child's OCD disappear. But how much relief do these medications actually provide? Today, we look at a large meta-analysis that gives us a more realistic picture of what SSRIs can and can't do for pediatric OCD.
For years, clinicians debated whether medication or therapy works better. The more useful question is whether patients do better with both, and the research says they do.
Readers are already using and appreciating the new Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Psychiatry: A Fact Book (2026) by Chris Aiken, MD. He's given us a peek into his process for creating the new resource covering 67 natural therapies in psychiatry. The origin story is worth reading.
It's easy to see why this case has captured so much attention. The legal question alone is complicated, but the case leaves clinicians with harder questions to sit with: “Would I recognize postpartum psychosis if it showed up in my practice? Would I have caught it?” Probably not every time, if we’re honest.
Dr. Chris Aiken and Kellie Newsome, PMHNP have covered lithium quite a bit on The Carlat Psychiatry Podcast. Are you up to date on this cornerstone of psychiatry? Here's a clearinghouse of lithium episodes to catch you up.
