Psychiatry Unbound

Release date: December 29th, 2023 Welcome back to Psychiatry Unbound, the podcast from the Publishing department of the American Psychiatric Association. In this episode, Dr. Laura Roberts is joined by Dr. John Barry, and Dr. "Dr." Sepideh Bajestan to discuss their careers in the realms of Neuropsychiatry and Neurology, and their roles in the creation of the Concise Guide to Neuropsychiatry and Be...

Dr. Laura Roberts is joined by Art Walaszek to discuss his recent book Late-Life Depression and Anxiety , which he created using a rich and deep team of contributors. The conversation explores our preconceptions of the aging population and their "default mindset", how to identify the early-warning signs, mitigating the risk of suicide, access to medical and MH services, and thoughts about the moti...

Release date: October 27th, 2023 Dr. Laura Roberts is joined by Dr. Carolyn Rodriguez and Dr. Randy Frost, authors of the new book Hoarding Disorder – A Comprehensive Clinical Guide , which tackles a condition which has been part of the zeitgeist for a while now (just ask fans of Marie Kondo) yet was only codified as a disorder in the DSM-5 in 2013. This is therefore a pioneering new work in the f...

Release date: June 30th, 2023 Dr. Laura Roberts is joined by Ezra Griffith, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and recipient of the 2023 Chester Pierce Human Rights Award, to discuss his book Race and Excellence: My Dialogue with Chester Pierce , the culmination of his personal and professional relationship with Pierce. In the second of two episodes, Ezra looks b...

Dr. Laura Roberts is joined by Ezra Griffith, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and recipient of the 2023 Chester Pierce Human Rights Award, to discuss his book Race and Excellence: My Dialogue with Chester Pierce , the culmination of his personal and professional relationship with Pierce, (1927 – 2016) a tenured professor of education and psychiatry at Harvard...

Release date: April 7th, 2023 Dr. Laura Roberts is joined by Fredric N. Busch, M.D. - a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York City specializing in Depression, Panic and other Anxiety Disorders, and Bipolar Disorder- to discuss his new book: Problem-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy published by American Psychiatric Publishing. Amongst the topics they discuss: how the psychodynamic approach...

' Timmy was never in the well. Yet, the phrase "Lassie! Timmy's in the well," inspired by a 60-yearold television show, lives on. ' With a foreword by Patricia McConnell, author of The Other End of the Leash , APA is very excited to publish a brand-new book on Companion Animals. In this 22 nd episode of Psychiatry Unbound, Nancy R. Gee, Ph. D., editor of The Role of Companion Animals in the Treatm...

Release date: November 25th, 2022 Dr. Laura Roberts is joined by Shashank V. Joshi, M.D., FAAP, DFAACAP, and Andrés Martin, M.D., M.P.H. to discuss their new book, Thinking About Prescribing , which explores the psychology of psychopharmacology with diverse youth and families. They discuss the creation and editorial approaches taken, their hopes for the book, and what areas of the work might endur...

Laura Roberts M.D.,M.A.  is joined by Peter Novalis M.D., Ph. D and Carol Novalis, M.A., two of the editors of a new book: Psychotherapy in Corrections . Where so many existing books on psychiatry in a prison setting focus on either standards or issues of medication,  Psychotherapy in Corrections  is unique in its focus on the actual practice of psychotherapy in correctional facilities. With a par...

Release date: September 30th, 2022 Dr. Laura Roberts is joined by J. David Kinzie M.D., co-editor of The Psychiatric Evaluation and Treatment of Refugees. They discuss Kinzie's career-spanning work in this field, and hear his thoughts on treating people suffering from intense trauma and stigmatization, some of whom have suffered horrific experiences in their lives. He discusses the toll such work...

Dr. Laura Roberts is joined by Lucy Hutner MD and Lauren Osborne, MD, two of the editorial group who developed The Textbook of Women's Reproductive Mental Health, written along with 60 contributing authors. As is touched upon in the episode, it is unbelievable that this is not a reissue or a new edition, but a pioneering, flag-on-the-moon, brand-new title. Especially timely given recent decisions...

Release date: July 29th, 2022 In the latest episode of APA Publishing's Psychiatry Unbound, host Dr. Laura Roberts is joined by Paul Summergrad, M.D., to discuss his recent Textbook of Medical Psychiatry , written for the wide range of clinicians who grapple with the diagnostic and treatment challenges inherent in this clinical reality: medical and psychiatric illnesses do not occur in isolation f...

Dr Laura Roberts is joined by Professor Douglas Noordsy, M.D., from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, to discuss his book Lifestyle Psychiatry (2019) which examines the impact of lifestyle interventions -from exercise, yoga, and tai chi to mindfulness and meditation, diet and nutrition, and sleep management- on psychiatric disorders, including depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress d...

Dr Laura Roberts is joined by Dr. Victor G. Carrion, Vice-Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Early Life Stress and Resilience Program, to discuss two books he co-authored: Assessing and Treating Youth Exposed to Traumatic Stress (2019) and Applied Mindfulness (2019) which both focus on the resilience and well-being of children, and new w...

Dr. Susan Hatters Freidman, a forensic and perinatal psychiatrist and editor of the award-winning Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate (2019) joins Dr. Roberts in an intimate conversation about her experiences in this emotive and difficult field, and the risks to practitioners of secondary trauma from working in such potentially distressing areas Dr. Freidman talks about the origins of the...

There is functional, healthy engagement with technology – ubiquitous and necessary in our everyday lives – and addictive use, and it can be difficult to know when that line has been crossed," Petros Levounis,  In a return to Psychiatry Unbound Dr. Petros Levounis, incoming president-elect of the American Psychiatry Association, and professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Rutgers New...

Dr. Laura Roberts is joined by Dr. Petros Levounis, president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, deputy editor at APA  Books to discuss The Pocket Guide to LGBTQ Mental Health (2020) and understanding the spectrum of human sexuality and fluidity. He also discusses his approach to motivational interviewing and his other published works. In this episode: The Pocket Guide to LGBTQ Mental...

  "Neurodiversity may be every bit as crucial for the human race as biodiversity is for life in general. Who can say what form of wiring will prove best at any given moment?"— Harvey Blume, The Atlantic, 1998 Dr. Lawrence Fung, a leader in the field of Neurodiversity discusses his new book Neurodiversity: From Phenomenology to Neurobiology and Enhancing Technologies with Dr. Laura Roberts to explo...

Dr. Laura Roberts interviews Dr. Paul Putman, the author of Rational Psychopharmacology: A Book of Clinical Skills. Rational Psychopharmacology is designed to advance practitioner's clinical knowledge, methodical assessment expertise, and diagnostic sophistication. Unlike other psychopharmacology books, this guide transcends lists and tables of dosages and side effects, instructing the reader in t...

"Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people."-  Edward Abbey .  The editors of the new book A Psychiatrist's Guide to Advocacy join Laura Roberts for a discussion exploring the diverse definitions of advocacy and how personal passions in medicine and life can have an impact on the wor...

With an aging population, the rates of Major and Mild Neurocognitive Disorders are due to rise dramatically.  Join Dr. Laura Roberts as she welcomes Dr. Art Walaszek, a board-certified geriatric psychiatrist and an expert in the field of dementia to Unbound.  Dr. Walaszek's research focuses on public health approaches to improving the care of people with dementia.  He is the author of the recently...

Altha J. Stewart, M.D. comes from a family of storytellers and in this episode of Psychiatry Unbound she brings her own personal stories to life in rich detail.  During an intimate conversation with Laura Roberts, M.D., M.A., she relives her own stories about how she came to be the person she grew into and the significance of becoming the first black President of the APA.    In this episode: How t...

Despite the importance of supervision to the field of mental health—it is a building block of learning and a fundamental stepping-stone to unsupervised practice—most mental health supervisors receive little to no training in how to supervise. Supervision also remains the least developed and researched aspect of clinical training. APA Publishing Books Editor-in-Chief Laura Roberts, M.D. talks with...

Peter Yellowlees , MBBS, M.D., and  Jay H. Shore , M.D., M.P.H. believe that psychiatry increasingly will focus on the treatment of populations and that technology offers the best hope of doing so efficiently and effectively. Listen as Laura Roberts, M.D. discusses with her guests the way telepsychiatry is revolutionizing Psychiatry and standardized care.

Societal awareness of transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) individuals is greater now than at any point in history, owing to the education of policy makers by advocacy organizations, the education of clinicians by research and scientific organizations, and the education of the general public by movies, television, and other media. However, most professional training programs for mental heal...