Mind Dive

This episode of Menninger Clinic’s Mind Dive Podcast explores burnout and emotional labor experienced by physicians and mental health professionals, particularly in women clinicians. Driven by their observations of burnout within their own psychiatry department at Harvard Medical School , Ashwini Nadkarni, MD, and Jhilam Biswas, MD, take a dive into their quest to understand the factors influencin...

Once a psychiatrist understands what is happening in their patient’s brain, who gives insight on why this is happening? Join this episode of The Menninger Clinic’s Mind Dive Podcast as hosts Dr. Bob Boland and Dr. Kerry Horrell explore the world of behavioral neurology with Dr. Julia Ridgeway-Diaz , psychiatrist, neurologist and neuropsychiatrist at Menninger.  As they dive into the neuropsychiatr...

While child abuse in the home is well defined and often met with clear repercussions, are parents, clinicians and even government agencies missing red flags of institutional child abuse within the troubled teen industry?  Dive into this episode of The Menninger Clinic’s Mind Dive Podcast as nonprofit leader Meg Appelgate shares her own teenage experiences with the dangerous shortcomings of the tro...

You can use code MENN2023 for 50% off your New Personality Self Portrait (NPSP25 ) personality test! Visit npsp25.com to learn more.  This episode of the Menninger Clinic’s Mind Dive podcast features the psychiatrist who wrote the book on personality and personality disorders. Dr. John Oldham is co-author of, “The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do,” th...

Hotly debated in mental health care, psychoanalytic therapy has been criticized for lacking evidence in comparison to other approaches. Now, many clinicians attest to the benefits of this evidence-based treatment and see great need in their patients for relationship-centered therapeutic approaches from their doctor and an emphasis on knowing oneself in order to heal.  Dr. Jonathan Shedler , psycho...

At 12 years old, Dr. Elizabeth McIngvale was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). By age 17, she found success in evidence-based treatment and became a national spokesperson for patients. Now, 20 years later, she treats OCD patients of her own, while still advocating to end stigma and misconceptions about OCD and perfectionism.   Dive into this episode of The Menninger Clinic’s Mind...

Overwhelmed with requests for mental health support during the COVID-19 pandemic, religious leaders faced a dilemma: How do we bridge the elusive gap between healing the mind with both science-based approaches and spiritual guidance?  With the help of “insiders” like Dr. Marcy Verduin—both a person of faith and psychiatrist—many clinicians and religious leaders are on a productive path forward in...

On this Season 2 premier of Mind Dive Podcast , hosts Dr. Bob Boland and Dr. Kerry Horrell dive into topics posed by their Menninger Clinic colleagues that have not yet been explored on the podcast. In this mailbag episode, listen in as our hosts discuss topical questions on the minds of mental health professionals at The Menninger Clinic and their implications on clinical practice. A new social c...

Can we expect patients to trust modern medicine before addressing racial disparities in research and diagnoses?  Dr. Carmen Black , Yale School of Medicine Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Social Justice and Health Equity Education, Adult Psychiatry joins this episode of The Menninger Clinic’s Mind Dive podcast . This conversation with hosts Dr. Kerry Horrell and Dr. Bob Boland ex...

How can good people make terrible decisions? To fully understand brainwashing , more formally known as “coercive persuasion,” mental health clinicians must dive into the potentially dangerous outcomes that can result from a mix of factors such as high stress situations, sleep deprivation and isolation. On this episode of The Menninger Clinic’s Mind Dive podcast , Dr. Joel Dimsdale joins hosts Dr....

A majority of children in the U.S. will experience some type of adverse event before their 18th birthday that could traumatize them. Most will heal naturally, but what can parents expect when their child does not?  Joining this episode of The Menninger Clinic’s Mind Dive Podcast is Dr. Melissa Goldberg Mintz, childhood trauma expert and author of the bestselling book for parents, “ Has Your Child...

Commonly misunderstood and misused as shorthand for perfectionism or some personal fixation, the reality of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is much more complex for patients and their clinicians than the general public may realize.  This episode of The Menninger Clinic’s Mind Dive podcast features nationally recognized OCD experts Dr. Eric Storch and Dr. Wayne Goodman of Baylor College of Medi...

Family therapy traditionally focuses on adults with younger children. When the strong influence of the mother-daughter relationship is considered, how can clinicians tell the time is right for their adult women patients to work on relationship strengthening and intentional bonding with their mother? With such a diverse array of women wearing the title of mother, daughter, or both simultaneously, t...

Identifying what causes borderline personality disorder (BPD) is as difficult as understanding the creation of the personality itself. In this podcast, our expert describes BPD as instability in four key areas: interpersonal relationships, emotions, behavior, and cognition/sense of self. The treatment complexities of this disorder can be intimidating for clinicians.  We’ll explore a variety of que...

When considering the success of any mental health treatment for youth or adolescent patients, clinicians have to factor in one dilemma: I will likely not be as influential in my patient’s life as their immediate family unit. When dealing with the life-threatening reality of an eating disorder, the roles of parents and siblings have a much bigger impact on a patient’s recovery.  This episode of Min...

Similar to obstacles faced by LGBTQ+ individuals throughout the decades in healthcare, patients and practitioners find themselves amidst a social clash around the care and treatment of transgender people, particularly transgender youth. While the subject has become politicized overall, Jack Drescher, MD , stresses the importance of mental health clinicians and consultants respecting the subjectivi...

By nature, sex is one of the most serious and delicate conversations a therapist can have with their patient. When they’re possibly experiencing sex addiction, the challenge only increases. From its roots in intimacy disorder to the modern problem of near-unrestrained access to pornography, a sex addiction diagnosis can be a challenging conclusion for both patient and clinician to arrive at. Joine...

Patient portals, consumer privacy and mental health apps, oh my! How has the continual progression of informatics affected psychiatric care and what can we expect in the future? Dive into this episode of Mind Dive Podcast with John Torous, MD, MBI , director of the digital psychiatry division in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center —a Harvard Medical School affiliat...

The concept of wisdom may be younger than you think, dating only back to the 1970s. Join hosts Dr. Bob Boland and Dr. Kerry Horrell on this episode of Mind Dive podcast as they speak with Dr. Dilip Jeste . Dive into this conversation with one of the most prolific researchers on the topic as the great questions of wisdom are explored, including “Can you measure it?” and “Do we become wiser with age...

How dangerous can extreme antisocial behavior become in a young person’s life? When mixed with truancy and the drug trade, a perfect storm brewed in the 1990s as youth gangs proliferated across the country. While tales of gang-related violence once dominated nightly news in households nationwide, it has experienced a steep decline in the last 20 years. In some cities, like Galveston, Texas, the de...

Does a case from the 1940s of a man with no frontal lobe greatly impact what modern clinicians know about mental health treatment? When “old school” brain imaging found the patient now known as “JP” to be missing a severe amount of his frontal lobe, the neuropsychiatry case became the first of its kind in understanding how the physical components of the brain affect a patient’s psychiatric health....

While psychologists, psychiatrists and counselors are not yet concerned about robots taking their jobs, the question arises that, with ever-evolving technology resources at our fingertips, has treatment in the mental health field become simpler or more complex for clinicians? From increased legibility of doctors’ notes and prescriptions to medical records being more accessible than ever for patien...

As an expert in post-trauma functioning, particularly in survivors of sexual violence or mass trauma, clinical psychologist Dr. Laura Wilson brings to light the importance of understanding risk factors associated with multiple forms off victimization and finding the right language to use in the process of treating survivors.  On this episode of the Mind Dive Podcast, hosts Dr. Bob Boland and Dr. K...

Defense mechanisms: we all have them. One of the trickier defense mechanisms for most clinicians to understand is projective identification, in which an individual projects qualities deemed unacceptable to the self onto another individual, who internalizes the feeling while believing it to be their own. What steps should a clinician take when projective identification infiltrates relationships wit...

Not all great minds think alike. The path to understanding how to best nurture an autistic individual often begins with understanding their way of thinking. Dr. Temple Grandin poses that a great disservice is done to both society and the individual when we fail to focus on the strengths of those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) , limiting their lifestyle based on perceived weaknesses instead. ...