The Mind, Body and Soul in Healing
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The Mommy (and Daddy) Brain Controversies: Adaptation not Deficit with Bridget Callaghan, PhD (Los Angeles)
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"We trained pregnant and never pregnant women and we tested them on their memory for these items immediately after they learned them and then we teste...
Two Psychiatrists Face the Illness of Their Daughter with Philip Lister, MD (New York)
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The universality of guilt - I think that my life as a child therapist has a lot of advantages; we carry the idea that 'we are all the ages we've ev...
Stigma: How Support Groups for Mental Illness are Helpful with John Tamerin, MD
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Because I couldn't help my son, I couldn't do anything for him, I thought maybe I could start this group and help other people and other parents de...
How Rituals Attach us to our Communities with Dimitris Xygalatas, Ph.D.
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"If you randomly assign people in two groups and you give them different insignia or you have them go through different practices, as we saw in this s...
Might Rapamycin Extend our Lifespan, Healthspan, and Cognitive Functioning? with Arlan Richardson, PhD
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"One of the things that is very exciting is that this is a very robust finding. In other words, sometimes in science people see something and then it...
An Analyst's Novel: Resilience in the Face of a Mother's Death with Kerry Malawista, PhD
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"One way a child of Jody's age deals with loss is that you don't miss the person, in a sense you can become them. So, I have her step into the mother...
Bipolar Disease, Insulin Resistance and Metformin: New Research with Cynthia Calkin, MD
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"The best way to think about insulin resistance is that it's pre-diabetes. In the course of developing type 2 diabetes, which we see in much higher r...
The Value of Paternity Leave for Children and Families with Richard Petts, PhD
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"When paternity leave comes into the picture you have a situation where parents are home together. Those processes are able to develop for both the m...
The Role of Technology in Mental Health Care with Isaac Galatzer-Levy, PhD
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"There is a company called NightWare, that developed a feature for PTSD that uses components from Apple Watch. One of the primary symptoms in PTSD is...
Disability, Psychotherapy, and Resilience with H. Penny Mishkin, MS, OTR
06 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"I would say to any parent who has a child now or any adult who has a disability now - disabilities are looked at quite differently. They are accepte...
Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy for Physical Symptoms with Allan Abbass, MD
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Someone comes in and they are having these fainting attacks and neurological symptoms, they do develop different anxiety channels and the first of th...
Probiotics Added to Antidepressants Improve Outcome: New Preliminary Research with Anna-Chiara Schaub (Basal, Switzerland)
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"We have those two groups with the probiotics and the placebo. The patients were allocated to the two groups and it was double-blind so we didn't kno...
Does Religious Commitment Improve Academic Performance? (Sometimes) with Ilana Horwitz, PhD
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"How does religion matter here? The reason that kids who are religious 'abiders' end up having an academic advantage, especially in the working class...
A Physician with Metastatic Cancer Takes Psilocybin with Pradeep Bansal, MD
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"I don't think anybody can truly describe the [psilocybin] experience. One can use phrases and words that are common - ineffable, mystical, powerful....
Babies' Laughing and Joking: When and Why with Gina Mireault, PhD
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"That was actually Darwin's hypothesis in observing his own son and he writes about this in "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals." He w...
Mothers, Daughters, and Food with Judith Rabinor, PhD
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"All Jenny knew was that she wanted to lose weight. One of the things I say to people when I teach about eating disorders is 'treating eating disorde...
The Neurology of Religious Belief with Andrew Newberg, MD
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"If somebody was to say a prayer to Jesus versus say a prayer to Allah versus say a prayer to Vishnu - in some sense that is going to be a similar ki...
Intergenerational Secrets and their Discovery in Psychotherapy with Galit Atlas, PhD
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"There is a very close relation between being known and knowing others and allowing others to know us. When somebody goes to therapy, it usually impac...
When Someone You Care About Has an Eating Disorder with Judith Brisman, Ph.D.
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"When someone is disordered in their eating often what you find is that they've been a kid who has learned to have radar for the feelings of other peo...
Polyvagal Safety, Sociality, and Health with Stephen Porges, PhD
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Polyvagal theory at the simplest level emphasizes that we have a physiological system, and the autonomic nervous system mediates how we react and ...
Psychedelic Psychotherapy for PTSD: New Research with Ingmar Gorman, PhD
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"[during the MDMA experience] at around 45 minutes they may notice a shift where the anxiety dissipates and there is a sense of opening, a sense of...
The Challenges of Raising Adolescents with Erica Komisar
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"To be able to contain, withstand and hold the aggression of your adolescents who push you away, you have to feel very secure - meaning that you have ...
Oxytocin, Love and Developmental Trauma with Sue Carter, PhD
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"There's this kind of dance between biology and this little molecule that gave us the capacity to take care of our infants by feeding them directly. ...
The Psychology of Coaching: Working with Global Leaders Under Intense Pressure with Rachel Ellison
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Coaching is asking. It's even better when you don't know how to do that person's job because they work in a different industry to you. All you can...
The Psychology of Magic and its Use in Wellbeing with Gustav Kuhn, PhD
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"As cognitive psychologists we are very much interested in these unconscious processes. Most of the processes that are involved to create your re...
Listening and Prozac: Integrating Psychotherapy and Medications with Peter Kramer, MD
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"I write a lot about stuckness - it's not just how bad the thing is but whether it's changeable and flexible - whether the patient is at least ...
What is the Placebo Effect and How Can it be Harnessed? with Joe Kossowsky, Ph.D.
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"We used [open-label placebo] in kids with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and the interesting thing about these patients is that they were only allowed...
History and Culture Matter for Depression with Jonathan Sadowsky, PhD
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"[Springsteen's book] is about rock and roll; it's about the joy of music; and it's about clinical depression. He weaves these together and Springstee...
Varieties of Attunement and the Spectrum with Edward Brodkin, MD and Ashley Pallathra, MA
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The first pillar is relaxed awareness - we talk about it as the fundamental state of mind and body that is the basis of attunement. Listening is the ...
Breathing, the Vagus Nerve, and Compassion with Patricia Gerbarg, MD
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"In infancy and childhood the autonomic nervous system is going through developmental stages just as with any other aspect of development. The...
Therapeutic Approaches to Chronic Pain with Michele Cohen, LCS
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I play [piano] regularly with a violinist every Wednesday night - my violinist comes with her student to my house and we play two violin and piano due...
Hoarding and Psychotherapy with Stelios Kiosses
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"If you discard an item that a compulsive hoarder is attached to - it could be an empty box, a tin, or something like that. If you throw that particul...
Zen and Psychotherapy with Robert Waldinger, MD
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"It's not a good meditation when you are having fewer thoughts, it is not a bad meditation when you are having more thoughts or wilder thoughts. Real...
Managing Separations from Your Young Child with Erica Komisar
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Any separation, no matter how short the separation, requires a moment of reunion and repair. If you disregard the importance of that reunion and rep...
A Gynecologist/Psychoanalyst Treats Amenorrhea with Claudia Spadazzi, MD
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"She first came to me for the amenorrhea - she was sent to me by a gynecologist colleague. The menstrual problem was solved in the first five ...
A Psychotherapist Struggles with New Motherhood with Andy Cohen (Johannesburg)
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Buried inside of us are all these layers and layers of selves, like a Russian nesting doll, and the baby self fits inside all the different ag...
Psychobiotics and the Future Treatment of Depression with Scott Anderson
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm not saying this is going to cure your depression, but I am saying that it stands a good chance of fixing up your gut, and if your depression is ...
How to Raise a Loving and Creative 30-Year-Old: Findings from Research with Nathan Szajnberg MD
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"When you look in the background of the Mona Lisa you see how much attention the artist paid to the landscape - it's at a certain horizon, the l...
What is Dynamic Psychotherapy and Does it Work? with Jonathan Shedler, PhD
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"When we talk about psychodynamic therapy that's what we are talking about - therapy that aims to enable you to truly know yourself in a way that is...
Can We Really Prevent Alzheimer's Disease? with Richard Isaacson, MD
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"What we do is meaningful, it's real, our effects are real. I can say that now. We still have people that read our studies and say: 'This is random......
A Psychotherapist Shares Her Phases of Love with Juliet Rosenfeld (London)
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"If we spoke about his illness it made it more real. Of course he did know, he must have known what the prognosis was for his illness - ultimately for...
Psychedelic Medicines in a Therapeutic Context with Jeffrey Guss, MD
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The autobiographical stage [in a psilocybin experience] is where a great deal of important work happens. One of the most important things that happen...
The Microbiome in Child Development with Bridget Callaghan, Ph.D.
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Why I am so interested in the microbiome across development is because it really shows a very interesting developmental gradient that closely maps on...