Episode 20: Helping Suicide Survivors Heal

February 3, 2020Uncategorizedshrinks-talk-shop

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Episode 20 Helping Suicide Survivors Heal

Stigma about suicide is a serious problem for survivors. We need to recognize that this is a circumstance of death that is very difficult for the survivors and for others who know and care about them. Dr Robert Neimeyer continues our previous conversation, suggesting that therapists ask survivors, “What do you need in relation to this loss now? And from whom do you need it?

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Episode 19: Unlike the song in ‘Mash,’ Suicide is not painless-especially for the survivors!

January 27, 2020Uncategorizedaddiction, barbara alexander, Barbara Smaller, Brian Johnson, Dr. Greg Neimeyer, Gail Steketee, Greg Neimeyer, Ishani Dalal, Karen Mellow, lgbt, lgbtqi, Lisa Ferentz, Mark Smaller, Mark Willenbring, Melissa Perrin, On Good Authority, Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, pronouns, Randy Frost, Rena Mcdaniel, Robert Neimeyer, schizophrenia, Shrinks Talk Shop, transgendershrinks-talk-shop

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Episode 19: Unlike the song from ‘Mash,’ Suicide is not painless – especially for the survivors!

All losses of loved ones through death have an element of trauma built into them.

That’s most particularly true when the losses are themselves inherently tragic and when they leave people struggling to make sense of the experience. These challenges are so fundamental, so existential, so resonant that they leave people often questioning and broken, and sometimes seeking answers then in the context of psychotherapy, counseling, and good social work practice. Here, Dr. Robert Neimeyer explains this.

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Episode 18: Surprise, Surprise! Men and women experience Depression differently!

January 21, 2020Uncategorizedaddiction, barbara alexander, Barbara Smaller, Brian Johnson, Dr. Greg Neimeyer, Gail Steketee, Greg Neimeyer, Ishani Dalal, Karen Mellow, lgbt, lgbtqi, Lisa Ferentz, Mark Smaller, Mark Willenbring, Melissa Perrin, On Good Authority, Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, pronouns, Randy Frost, Rena Mcdaniel, schizophrenia, Shrinks Talk Shop, transgendershrinks-talk-shop

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Episode #18 Surprise, Surprise! Men and women experience Depression differently!

Dr Melissa Perrin parses out the different diagnostic categories in the DSM 5, including Major Depressive Disorders, Chronic Depressive which is Dysthymic, Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, Substance Induced Depressive Disorder, and Depressive Disorder due to Another Medical Condition.

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A NEW podcast hosted by Barbara Alexander as she interviews other mental health professionals about their work. Together they sort out some of the most important therapy issues of our times.

Episode 17: It’s not Depression – It’s Grief!

January 13, 2020Uncategorizedaddiction, barbara alexander, Barbara Smaller, Brian Johnson, Dr. Greg Neimeyer, Gail Steketee, Greg Neimeyer, Ishani Dalal, Karen Mellow, lgbt, lgbtqi, Lisa Ferentz, Mark Smaller, Mark Willenbring, Melissa Perrin, On Good Authority, pronouns, Randy Frost, Rena Mcdaniel, schizophrenia, Shrinks Talk Shop, transgendershrinks-talk-shop

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Episode #17: It’s not Depression –It’s Grief!

We are too quick to mistake normal grief for depression. Only 10 to 15 percent of grievers have severe reactions to the loss of a loved one and thus might need treatment that includes prescription medication and therapy. Dr. Melissa Perrin explains how to tell the difference.

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Episode 16: Drive-By Non-Shopping!

December 16, 2019Uncategorizedshrinks-talk-shop

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Working with hoarders requires creativity because of the unique meaning they attribute to every little thing. First goal: stop acquiring!

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A NEW podcast hosted by Barbara Alexander as she interviews other mental health professionals about their work. Together they sort out some of the most important therapy issues of our times.

Episode 15: Hoarders: Why Cleaning Out Their Homes Never Works, Part 2

December 9, 2019Uncategorizedaddiction, barbara alexander, Barbara Smaller, Brian Johnson, Dr. Greg Neimeyer, Gail Steketee, Greg Neimeyer, Ishani Dalal, Karen Mellow, lgbt, lgbtqi, Lisa Ferentz, Mark Smaller, Mark Willenbring, On Good Authority, pronouns, Randy Frost, Rena Mcdaniel, schizophrenia, Shrinks Talk Shop, transgendershrinks-talk-shop

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Episode #15: Hoarders: Why cleaning out their homes never works, Part 2

Dr Frost details how compulsive behaviors drive sufferers to pile objects throughout their homes. Hoarders’ beliefs about possessions and their difficulties in spatial perception undermine ordinary efforts. Frost explains the underlying causes methods of minimizing the effects of the emotionally exhausting disorder.

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Episode 14: Hoarders: When Does Collecting Become Hoarding, Part 1

December 1, 2019Uncategorizedaddiction, barbara alexander, Barbara Smaller, Brian Johnson, Dr. Greg Neimeyer, Gail Steketee, Greg Neimeyer, Ishani Dalal, Karen Mellow, lgbt, lgbtqi, Lisa Ferentz, Mark Smaller, Mark Willenbring, On Good Authority, pronouns, Randy Frost, Rena Mcdaniel, schizophrenia, Shrinks Talk Shop, transgendershrinks-talk-shop

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Episode 14: “Hoarders: When does collecting become hoarding?” Part 1

In their book Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, Randy Frost, Ph.D. and Gail Steketee, Ph.D. identify the key traits that identify a hoarder. Here Dr. Steketee discusses the difference between a hobby and an obsession?

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Episode 13: Promoting Post-Traumatic Growth, Part 2

November 24, 2019Uncategorizedaddiction, barbara alexander, Barbara Smaller, Brian Johnson, Dr. Greg Neimeyer, Greg Neimeyer, Ishani Dalal, Karen Mellow, lgbt, lgbtqi, Lisa Ferentz, Mark Smaller, Mark Willenbring, On Good Authority, pronouns, Rena Mcdaniel, schizophrenia, Shrinks Talk Shop, transgendershrinks-talk-shop

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Episode 13: Promoting Post-Traumatic Growth, Part 2

List Ferentz continues our discussion on Post-traumatic growth, with particular emphasis on the neurology of trauma and on the impact of the trauma survivors’s often brutal experience. This has an impact, as well, on the therapist, whose role is to help the survivor helping understand the world and their place in it.

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Episode 12: Post Traumatic Growth, Part 1 with Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA

November 18, 2019Uncategorizedaddiction, barbara alexander, Barbara Smaller, Brian Johnson, Dr. Greg Neimeyer, Greg Neimeyer, Ishani Dalal, Karen Mellow, lgbt, lgbtqi, Lisa Ferentz, Mark Smaller, Mark Willenbring, On Good Authority, pronouns, Rena Mcdaniel, schizophrenia, Shrinks Talk Shop, transgendershrinks-talk-shop

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Episode 12: Promoting Post-Traumatic Growth, Part 1

Post-traumatic growth is not about returning to the same life as it was previously experienced before a period of traumatic suffering; but rather it is about undergoing significant ‘life-changing’ psychological shifts in thinking and relating to the world that contribute to a personal process of change that is deeply meaningful. Here to discuss how she works with trauma survivors to embrace change, take healthy risks, and increase self-compassion is Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, a recognized expert in the strengths-based, de-pathologized treatment of trauma.

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Episode 11: Anorexia, Bulima and Binge Disorders in the DSM 5

November 10, 2019Uncategorizedaddiction, barbara alexander, Barbara Smaller, Brian Johnson, Dr. Greg Neimeyer, Greg Neimeyer, Ishani Dalal, Karen Mellow, lgbt, lgbtqi, Mark Smaller, Mark Willenbring, On Good Authority, pronouns, Rena Mcdaniel, schizophrenia, Shrinks Talk Shop, transgendershrinks-talk-shop

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Episode 11: Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Disorders in the DSM 5

Dr Neimeyer explains how the DSM 5 doesn’t confine feeding and eating disorders to either childhood or adulthood, and gives us a developmental overview.

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