Podcasts about Psychosomatic medicine

Targeting Anxiety to Improve Sleep Disturbance: A Randomized Clinical Trial of App-Based Mindfulness TrainingIn this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and colleagues discuss a novel randomized clinical trial examining the impact of the Unwinding Anxiety app on improving sleep disturbances caused by anxiety and worry. The study demonstrates that app-based mindfulness training significantly reduces worry-related sleep disturbances (WRSDs), with a 27% reduction after two months of use. By increasing emotional nonreactivity and breaking worry cycles, participants also experienced meaningful improvements in anxiety and overall sleep quality. The conversation highlights how app-based mindfulness interventions can provide scalable, accessible solutions for addressing widespread sleep and anxiety issues.Full Reference:Gao, M., Roy, A., Deluty, A., Sharkey, K. M., Hoge, E. A., Liu, T., & Brewer, J. A. (2022). Targeting anxiety to improve sleep disturbance: A randomized clinical trial of app-based mindfulness training. Psychosomatic Medicine, 84(6), 632-642. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000001083Let's connect on Instagram

In this episode, we delve into the intersection of massage therapy, grief, caretaking, and end-of-life. We touch on global palliative care practices, the role of touch in support for those experiencing grief, navigating sensitive conversations, and creating safe spaces for clients. Our guest, Ronna Moore, a massage therapist with over 40 years of experience, specializes in oncology and palliative care, and is pursuing a doctorate in public health focusing on the role of massage therapy in palliative care. Join us to gain insights into shifting therapeutic mindsets and exploring practical resources to support those experiencing loss. Key Topics 01:19 Guest Introduction and Personal Connection 02:08 Exploring Grief and Loss in Massage Therapy 03:43 Understanding Palliative Care 05:22 Palliative Care Practices in Different Countries 23:16 The Role of Touch in Therapy 35:18 Role-Playing Therapeutic Conversations 36:46 Navigating Grief in Therapy 37:48 The Importance of Sensitivity 38:10 Avoiding Unhelpful Phrases 39:12 The Paradox of Comfort 40:15 Shifting the Therapist Mindset 47:05 Creating a Safe Space 50:01 Understanding Grief Models 54:46 Resources and Final Thoughts Get the full transcript at Til or Whitney's sites!  Whitney Lowe's site: AcademyOfClinicalMassage.com  Til Luchau's site: Advanced-Trainings.com  Resources mentioned in this episode: Ronna's grief recommendations: Frank Osteseski's book The Five Intentions is a really valuable guide/resource for me in palliative care and its ‘aftermath'. I also appreciate Ronald Epstein's book: Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness and Humanity Mary-Frances O'Connor: The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss Mary-Frances O'Connor: The Grieving Body (to be published in 2025) George Bonnano: The Other Side of Sadness AND George Bonnano: The End of Trauma (both of these have a resilience orientation which appeals to me). TED talk by Abraham Vergehese emphasising the humanity of care. Articles: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-26629-017.    (A polyvagal approach) O'Connor, M.-F. (2019). Grief: A Brief History of Research on How Body, Mind, and Brain Adapt. Psychosomatic Medicine, 81(8), 731–738. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000717 O'Connor, M.-F., & Seeley, S. H. (2022). Grieving as a form of learning: Insights from neuroscience applied to grief and loss. Current Opinion in Psychology, 43, 317–322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.08.019 In Australia, we have a professional body called Grief Australia which is a great resource for PD/education (amongst other things). Perhaps there is something similar in the US. https://www.caresearch.com.au/Portals/20/Documents/Health-Professionals/TheRoleOfSkilledCompassionateTouchInGriefSupport_RonnaMoore_ACGBConference2018-1.pdf    What's Your Grief (you have already) has some good descriptions of the models of grief I mentioned (Dual Process Model and Growing around Grief), and there are others as well. Compassion Cultivation Training: https://med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/education/cme/cct.html Mindful Self Compassion: https://centerformsc.org Sponsor Offers:  Books of Discovery: save 15% by entering "thinking" at checkout on booksofdiscovery.com.  ABMP: save $24 on new membership at abmp.com/thinking.  Advanced-Trainings: try a month of the amazing A-T Subscription free by entering “thinking” at checkout at a-t.tv/subscriptions/,. Academy of Clinical Massage: Grab Whitney's valuable Assessment Cheat Sheet for free at: academyofclinicalmassage.com/cheatsheet About Whitney Lowe  | About Til Luchau  |  Email Us: info@thethinkingpractitioner.com (The Thinking Practitioner Podcast is intended for professional practitioners of manual and movement therapies: bodywork, massage therapy, structural integration, chiropractic, myofascial and myotherapy, orthopedic, sports massage, physical therapy, osteopathy, yoga, strength and conditioning, and similar professions. It is not medical or treatment advice.)  

In this episode, I dive deep into the fascinating intersections of science and spirituality. Are we all connected in ways that go beyond what we can see or measure? From the mysteries of quantum physics and consciousness studies to the neuroscience behind meditation and near-death experiences, I explore how science is beginning to reveal insights that resonate with ancient spiritual teachings. Join me as I discuss the interconnected nature of reality, the potential for meditation to rewire the brain, and groundbreaking studies on consciousness that challenge conventional ideas about the mind. Whether you're a science enthusiast, a spiritual seeker, or just curious, this episode offers a fresh perspective on the big questions about life, connection, and the universe. References: Quantum Physics and Consciousness: Bohm, David. Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Routledge, 1980. Schrödinger, Erwin. What is Life? Mind and Matter. Cambridge University Press, 1944. Meditation and Neuroplasticity: Lazar, Sara W., et al. "Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness." NeuroReport, 2005. Davidson, Richard J. Alterations in brain and immune function produced by mindfulness meditation. Psychosomatic Medicine, 2003. Consciousness Studies and Near-Death Experiences: Van Lommel, Pim. Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience. HarperOne, 2010. Psychedelic Studies: Griffiths, Roland R., et al. "Psilocybin produces substantial and sustained decreases in depression and anxiety in patients with life-threatening cancer." Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, I dive deep into the fascinating intersections of science and spirituality. Are we all connected in ways that go beyond what we can see or measure? From the mysteries of quantum physics and consciousness studies to the neuroscience behind meditation and near-death experiences, I explore how science is beginning to reveal insights that resonate with ancient spiritual teachings. Join me as I discuss the interconnected nature of reality, the potential for meditation to rewire the brain, and groundbreaking studies on consciousness that challenge conventional ideas about the mind. Whether you're a science enthusiast, a spiritual seeker, or just curious, this episode offers a fresh perspective on the big questions about life, connection, and the universe. References: Quantum Physics and Consciousness: Bohm, David. Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Routledge, 1980. Schrödinger, Erwin. What is Life? Mind and Matter. Cambridge University Press, 1944. Meditation and Neuroplasticity: Lazar, Sara W., et al. "Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness." NeuroReport, 2005. Davidson, Richard J. Alterations in brain and immune function produced by mindfulness meditation. Psychosomatic Medicine, 2003. Consciousness Studies and Near-Death Experiences: Van Lommel, Pim. Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience. HarperOne, 2010. Psychedelic Studies: Griffiths, Roland R., et al. "Psilocybin produces substantial and sustained decreases in depression and anxiety in patients with life-threatening cancer." Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this  episode we explore the challenging topic of rumination—its definition, impact, and practical strategies for overcoming it. What You'll Learn:Understanding Rumination:Definition of rumination and its characteristics.How rumination differs from productive problem-solving.Psychological theories behind why we ruminate.Impact of Rumination:The connection between rumination and mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety.Effects of rumination on physical health, including potential links to chronic conditions like heart disease.The role of rumination in diminishing life satisfaction and well-being.Strategies to Combat Rumination:Mindfulness and meditation: Techniques to anchor yourself in the present and disrupt negative thought cycles.Cognitive-behavioral approaches: How to reframe negative thoughts and use cognitive restructuring to foster a healthier mindset.Physical activity: The benefits of exercise in alleviating the intensity of rumination and improving mental health.Scheduled worry time: A paradoxical technique to contain and manage worry and rumination effectively.Implementing Positive Change:Practical steps to transition from a ruminative state to a more positive, action-oriented mindset.The importance of cultivating a supportive environment and seeking professional guidance when needed.Chapters:00:00 – Introduction to Rumination and Its Effects 01:11 – Understanding the Impact of Rumination on Happiness 02:13 – Defining Rumination 03:57 – Psychological and Physical Consequences of Rumination 06:24 – Strategies to Overcome Rumination 09:57 – The Role of Mindfulness and Meditation 12:04 – Using Physical Activity to Combat Rumination 15:06 – Shifting Towards Positive Thinking 18:03 – Call to Action: Making Personal ChangesResources Mentioned:Books and articles by Susan Nolan-Hoeksema on the topic of rumination.Research studies from journals such as Psychosomatic Medicine and the Journal of Science.Thank you for investing in yourself and your mindset today. I am grateful you are here,Jerry1:1 Transformational Coaching:Learn More Here!How is your relationship with yourself going?Get your free-self assessment guidePick up your copy of my book:Returning: Meditations and Reflections on Self-Love and HealingWant to Change Your Drinking Habits?Reframe AppWatch On YoutubeWebsite:www.jerryhenderson.orgGet Your Free Weekly Healing Tips!Instagram: @jerryahendersonDisclaimer

What are the psychological underpinnings of chaos magick? This exploration is an academic endeavour to understand how Chaos Magick might resonate within broader psychological contexts. It is important to note that the connections drawn are interpretative and not necessarily indicative of the intentions or understandings of Chaos Magicians themselves. This analytical approach aims to enrich the theoretical landscape of Chaos Magick, introducing new perspectives that could deepen our comprehension and appreciation of its practices. CONNECT & SUPPORT

Ślachetne zdrowie,Nikt się nie dowie,Jako smakujesz,Aż się zepsujesz.No więc ja nie chcę być tym smakoszem, co to się delektuje musztardą po obiedzie.Na warsztat bierzemy kolejny wymiar dobrostanu według narzędzia Wellbeing Score by @multilife czyli zdrowie fizyczne. I zapytacie “ale co Ty nam dziunia opowiesz o zdrowiu fizycznym, jak Ty nawet lekarzem nie jesteś?”. Doktorem niby tak, ale takim, ale bez strzykawy i stetoskopu, he he. W kompetencje lekarskie mieszać się nie będę, ALE: O lęku o zdrowie i tym, co nas przed dbaniem o nie powstrzymuje, już do powiedzenia co nieco mam. Na przykład amerykański National Institute of Mental Health podaje: Ryzyko wystąpienia depresji jest wyższe u osób cierpiących na choroby przewlekłe. I w drugą stronę: Wyzwania związane z wykonywaniem zadań korzystnych dla zdrowia, takich jak prawidłowe odżywianie i ćwiczenia, ze względu na objawy takie jak apatia w depresji także są utrudnione. Naczynia połączone, co nie? Więc wrzućmy na poznawczy ruszt unikanie, katastrofizację, objawy somatyczne, badania profilaktyczne, lęk przed krwią, aktywność fizyczną i zobaczmy, co nam z tego wyniknie.Zapraszam do kolejnego odcinka letniego wyzwania powered by @multilifeMontaż: Eugeniusz KarlovLiteratura:American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 2013, 5th edition, American Psychiatric AssociationScarella, Timothy M. MD; Boland, Robert J. MD; Barsky, Arthur J. MD. Illness Anxiety Disorder: Psychopathology, Epidemiology, Clinical Characteristics, and Treatment. Psychosomatic Medicine 81(5):p 398-407, June 2019.

HYPNOSE ET SUGGESTIONS?téléchargez l'audio DCS: PAS DE PASSE NEGATIFhttps://claudiosaracino.com/prodotto/...#hypnose #secret   #mystere  CHANGE TA VIE: pendant que tu dors, sans te faire faire voler ton temps et en restant en pygiamacliques ici:https://www.amazon.it/CAMBIA-NOTTI-mentre-rubare-pigiama/dp/B0CSSWGNLT/refHypnose et Suggestions : Une Exploration Scientifique et des Témoignages CélèbresL'hypnose est une pratique qui a suscité à la fois fascination et scepticisme au fil des ans. Considérée comme une technique thérapeutique, l'hypnose utilise la suggestion pour induire un état de conscience modifié. Cet état permettrait d'accéder à l'inconscient et de traiter divers problèmes psychologiques et physiques. Cet article explore dix recherches scientifiques sur l'hypnose et présente trois témoignages de célébrités ayant expérimenté cette pratique.Recherches Scientifiques sur l'Hypnose et les SuggestionsEfficacité de l'Hypnose pour la Gestion de la DouleurÉtude : Une méta-analyse publiée dans The Journal of Pain a examiné 27 études sur l'hypnose pour la gestion de la douleur chronique.Résultat : Les résultats indiquent que l'hypnose est efficace pour réduire l'intensité de la douleur et améliorer la qualité de vie des patients.Hypnose et Anxiété PréopératoireÉtude : Une recherche dans Anesthesia & Analgesia a exploré l'impact de l'hypnose sur l'anxiété préopératoire chez les patients subissant une chirurgie cardiaque.Résultat : Les patients ayant reçu des séances d'hypnose ont montré des niveaux d'anxiété significativement réduits par rapport au groupe de contrôle.Hypnose et Arrêt du TabacÉtude : Une étude dans The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis a évalué l'efficacité de l'hypnose pour aider les fumeurs à arrêter de fumer.Résultat : 60% des participants ayant suivi des séances d'hypnose ont réussi à arrêter de fumer, comparé à 20% dans le groupe de contrôle.Hypnose pour la Perte de PoidsÉtude : Une étude publiée dans The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology a comparé l'hypnose à une thérapie de groupe pour la perte de poids.Résultat : Les participants du groupe hypnose ont perdu plus de poids et ont maintenu leur perte de poids plus longtemps que ceux du groupe de thérapie de groupe.Hypnose et Syndrome de l'Intestin Irritable (SII)Étude : Une recherche dans Gut a étudié l'efficacité de l'hypnose pour les patients atteints de SII.Résultat : Les patients traités par hypnose ont montré une réduction significative des symptômes et une amélioration de leur bien-être général.Hypnose et MémoireÉtude : Une étude dans Memory a exploré l'effet de l'hypnose sur la mémoire et la capacité de rappel.Résultat : L'hypnose a amélioré la précision des souvenirs chez certains participants, bien que l'effet soit variable.Hypnose et InsomnieÉtude : Une étude dans Sleep a examiné l'impact de l'hypnose sur l'insomnie chronique.Résultat : Les participants ayant reçu des séances d'hypnose ont rapporté une amélioration significative de la qualité et de la durée de leur sommeil.Hypnose et Performance SportiveÉtude : Une recherche dans The Sport Psychologist a étudié l'effet de l'hypnose sur la performance des athlètes.Résultat : Les athlètes sous hypnose ont montré une amélioration significative de leurs performances et de leur concentration.Hypnose et Réduction du StressÉtude : Une étude dans Psychosomatic Medicine a évalué l'impact de l'hypnose sur le stress perçu.Résultat : Les participants ont montré une réduction significative des niveaux de stress après des séances d'hypnose.Hypnose et DépressionÉtude : Une recherche dans The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis a exploré l'efficacité de l'hypnose pour traiter la dépression.Résultat : Les patients ont montré une réduction des symptômes dépressifs et une amélioration de leur humeur après des séances d'hypnose.Témoignages de CélébritésMatt DamonContexte : L'acteur Matt Damon a utilisé l'hypnose pour arrêter de fumer.Témoignage : Damon a déclaré que l'hypnose l'a aidé à se libérer de son habitude de fumer après une seule session, améliorant ainsi sa santé et son bien-être général.Ellen DeGeneresContexte : La célèbre animatrice de télévision Ellen DeGeneres a également utilisé l'hypnose pour arrêter de fumer.Témoignage : Ellen a partagé son expérience positive sur son émission, affirmant que l'hypnose l'a aidée à arrêter de fumer sans difficulté.Jackie Kennedy OnassisContexte : L'ancienne Première Dame des États-Unis a utilisé l'hypnose pour gérer son chagrin après la mort de son mari, le président John F. Kennedy.Témoignage : Jackie Kennedy Onassis a trouvé du réconfort et de la tranquillité grâce à l'hypnose, l'aidant à traverser une période extrêmement difficile de sa vie.Ces recherches et témoignages montrent que l'hypnose peut être un outil puissant pour traiter divers problèmes de santé mentale et physique. Cependant, il est important de noter que les résultats peuvent varier d'une personne à l'autre et que l'hypnose doit être pratiquée par des professionnels qualifiés.

Quali sono i benefici dell'allenamento fisico per la salute generale? In questo episodio, esploriamo come l'esercizio può migliorare la qualità della vita, aumentare l'energia e promuovere il benessere psicofisico. Scopri strategie pratiche per integrare l'allenamento nella tua routine quotidiana. Segui Postura Da Paura su Instagram e Facebook per trovare altri consigli e informazioni per vivere una vita più equilibrata e serena. Per noi il movimento è una medicina naturale, visita il sito www.posturadapaura.com per trovare il programma di allenamento più adatto alle tue esigenze. Come promesso ecco le fonti citate durante la puntata: Arida, R. M., & Teixeira-Machado, L. (2021). The Contribution of Physical Exercise to Brain Resilience. In Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (Vol. 14). Frontiers Media S.A. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.626769 Baek, S.-S. (2016). Role of exercise on the brain. Journal of Exercise Rehabilitation, 12(5), 380–385. https://doi.org/10.12965/jer.1632808.404 Cassilhas, R. C., Tufik, S., & de Mello, M. T. (2016). Physical exercise, neuroplasticity, spatial learning and memory. In Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (Vol. 73, Issue 5, pp. 975–983). Birkhauser Verlag AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-015-2102-0 Chang, Y. K., Labban, J. D., Gapin, J. I., & Etnier, J. L. (2012). The effects of acute exercise on cognitive performance: A meta-analysis. In Brain Research (Vol. 1453, pp. 87–101). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2012.02.068 Cooper, S. B., Bandelow, S., Nute, M. L., Dring, K. J., Stannard, R. L., Morris, J. G., & Nevill, M. E. (2016). Sprint-based exercise and cognitive function in adolescents. Preventive Medicine Reports, 4, 155–161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2016.06.004 Azevedo, K. P. M., de Oliveira, V. H., de Medeiros, G. C. B. S., Mata, Á. N. de S., García, D. Á., Martínez, D. G., Leitão, J. C., Knackfuss, M. I., & Piuvezam, G. (2020). The effects of exercise on bdnf levels in adolescents: A systematic review with meta-analysis. In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Vol. 17, Issue 17, pp. 1–14). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176056 Sousa Fernandes, M. S., Ordônio, T. F., Santos, G. C. J., Santos, L. E. R., Calazans, C. T., Gomes, D. A., & Santos, T. M. (2020). Effects of Physical Exercise on Neuroplasticity and Brain Function: A Systematic Review in Human and Animal Studies. In Neural Plasticity (Vol. 2020). Hindawi Limited. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8856621 Kato, K., Vogt, T., & Kanosue, K. (2019). Brain Activity Underlying Muscle Relaxation. In Frontiers in Physiology (Vol. 10). Frontiers Media S.A. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2019.01457 Smith, P. J., Blumenthal, J. A., Hoffman, B. M., Cooper, H., Strauman, T. A., Welsh-Bohmer, K., Browndyke, J. N., & Sherwood, A. (2010). Aerobic exercise and neurocognitive performance: A meta-analytic review of randomized controlled trials. Psychosomatic Medicine, 72(3), 239–252. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181d14633 Smith, P. J., Blumenthal, J. A., Hoffman, B. M., Cooper, H., Strauman, T. A., Welsh-Bohmer, K., Browndyke, J. N., & Sherwood, A. (2010). Aerobic exercise and neurocognitive performance: A meta-analytic review of randomized controlled trials. Psychosomatic Medicine, 72(3), 239–252. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181d14633

Trigger warning this episode discusses sexual assault.  In this episode, Emily discusses having sex in your sleep AKA sexsomnia, Emily breaks down what sexsomnia is and what it can look like. She shares stories of people who have experienced sexsomnia, what can cause sexsomnia and how to support someone who lives with sexsomnia.    FOLLOW US on Instagram @thatsorgasmicSend your comments, questions and stories to: emilyduncan@thatsorgasmic.com To book a session with Emily at Emily Duncan Sexology follow the link: https://www.emilyduncansexology.com/ Leave a review for the chance to receive a discounted session with Emily at Emily Duncan Sexology. Subscribe to my Sunroom: https://sunroom.so/thatsorgasmic (sign up on their website for 30% off my membership) References:  Guilleminault, C., Moscovitch, A., Yuen, K., & Poyares, D. (2002). Atypical sexual behaviour during sleep. Psychosomatic Medicine, 64, 328-336 Mangan, M., A. (2004). A Phenomenology of Problematic Sexual Behaviour Occurring in Sleep. Archives of Sexual Behaviour, 33, 287-293.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gæst: Læge Aira Kamic (www.aiira.dk)Vi får os en skøn snak om Airas oplevelse med at være klinisk læge med et ben i det etableret system og et ben i livsstilsmedicinen, som kan være svært at prioritere i den travle hverdag. Vi kommer omkring det etableret syn på sundhed og sygdom og runder livsstilstiltag som naturterapi, yoga, KRAMS faktorerne, stærkt forarbejdede fødevarer og selvfølgelig longevity. LINKS OG REFERENCER:www.sundfornuft.org Kan man tænke sig rask? Thomas Breinholdthttps://ugeskriftet.dk/nyhed/mennesket-bag-sygdommenBessel von der Kolk: https://www.besselvanderkolk.com/resources/the-body-keeps-the-scorePERMA- Positiv Psykologi, let forklaret: https://positivepsychology.com/perma-model/Natur og sundhedJimenez MP, DeVille NV, Elliott EG, Schif JE, Wilt GE, Hart JE, James P. Associations between Nature Exposure andHealth: A Review of the Evidence. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Apr 30;18(9):4790. doi:10.3390/ijerph18094790. PMID: 33946197; PMCID: PMC8125471.Ulrich RS. View through a window may infuence recovery from surgery. Science. 1984 Apr 27;224(4647):420-1. doi:10.1126/science.6143402. PMID: 6143402.Mening og all cause mortalityAlimujiang A, Wiensch A, Boss J, Fleischer NL, Mondul AM, McLean K, Mukherjee B, Pearce CL. Association BetweenLife Purpose and Mortality Among US Adults Older Than 50 Years. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 May 3;2(5):e194270. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.4270. PMID: 31125099; PMCID: PMC6632139.Cohen, R. , Bavishi, C. & Rozanski, A. (2016).Purpose in Life and Its Relationship to All-Cause Mortality andCardiovascular Events. Psychosomatic Medicine, 78 (2), 122-133. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000274.https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/38FD156D163767B578ED8E68169D1064/9781316339275c7_p75-85_CBO.pdf/meaning-in-life-and-wellbeing.pdfPanda Lab- Circadian Rhythmhttps://panda.salk.edu/

Während ihr die aktuelle Folge eures Lieblingspodcasts hört, verbringt Jannis eine Woche in bella Italia. Genau in diesem Moment sitzt er wahrscheinlich mit einem Gelato-Bauch in der Sonne und gönnt sich einen Espresso-Martini. Logisch also, dass er in Folge 5 gemeinsam mit Luca locker über das Thema Urlaub quatscht. Die beiden Podcast-Propheten klären unter anderem, warum Urlaub eigentlich wichtig ist und wieso Reisen uns so verdammt gut tut. Literatur Blasche, G. (2008). War Ihr Urlaub erholsam? Ergebnisse und Anwendungen der Erholungsforschung. Psychologie in Österreich, 3(4), 306-314. De Bloom, J., Kompier, M. A. J., Geurts, S. A. E., De Weerth, C., Taris, T. W. & Sonnentag, S. (2009). Do We Recover from Vacation? Meta‐analysis of Vacation Effects on Health and Well‐being. Journal Of Occupational Health, 51(1), 13–25. https://doi.org/10.1539/joh.k8004 Gump, B. B. & Matthews, K. A. (2000). Are vacations good for your health? The 9-Year Mortality Experience after the multiple Risk factor intervention trial. Psychosomatic Medicine, 62(5), 608–612. https://doi.org/10.1097/00006842-200009000-00003 Syrek, C. J., De Bloom, J. & Lehr, D. (2021). Well Recovered and More Creative? A Longitudinal Study on the Relationship Between Vacation and Creativity. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.784844

In this episode, Olga, delves into the complex architecture of the nervous system, highlighting the pivotal roles of the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems in managing our body's response to stress. We examine how chronic stress affects our health, referencing studies from "Psychosomatic Medicine" and "JAMA Internal Medicine" that underscore the profound impact of stress on our immune system and mental health. We then explore a variety of evidence-based techniques designed to calm the nervous system: ●      Breathing Exercises: Discover how diaphragmatic breathing and the 4-7-8 method can activate the parasympathetic nervous system, reducing anxiety. ●      Mindfulness and Meditation: Learn how these practices can diminish stress responses and improve coping mechanisms. ●      Physical Exercise: Understand the role of exercise in boosting endorphins and reducing stress effects. ●      Nature and Green Spaces: Find out how just a few minutes in nature can significantly uplift mood and self-esteem. ●      Healthy Sleep Habits: Gain insights into how quality sleep supports nervous system recovery and stress management. Join us as we offer practical advice and simple strategies to integrate these calming techniques into your daily life, enhancing your overall quality of life and deepening your connection with yourself. Share this episode with anyone looking to find peace amidst the chaos and embark on a path to a more balanced, calm existence. Remember, the journey to tranquility begins with a single step. Let's take that step together. Keywords: Calm, Nervous System, Stress Relief, Mindfulness, Meditation, Healthy Living, Mental Health, Wellbeing, Self-Care Key links:   olgasway.com/welcome

Die Themen in den Wissensnachrichten: +++ Sorry, Charles Darwin: Säugetier-Männchen sind nicht immer größer als die Weibchen +++ Es gibt vier Schlaftypen, die sich kaum ändern - auch wenn sie krank machen +++ Jupiter-Sonde als Flaschenpost: Nasa schickt Botschaft ins All +++**********Weiterführende Quellen zu dieser Folge:New estimates indicate that males are not larger than females in most mammal species, Nature Communications, 12.03.202410-year Stability of an Insomnia Sleeper Phenotype and Its Association with Chronic Conditions, Psychosomatic Medicine, 16.02.2024Schwankende Preise kosteten Haushalte in Deutschland 2023 durchschnittlich 2.268 Euro, Barclays-Information, 13.03.2024Nasa Unveils Design for Message Heading to Jupiter's Moon Europa, Nasa-Information, 08.03.2024Wachsende Armutsgefährdung mitverantwortlich für Wahlerfolg rechtsextremer Parteien, ifo Schnelldienst, 13.3.2024Alle Quellen findet ihr hier.**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: Tiktok und Instagram.

In this episode of the EPRC Podcast, guest Anna Yusim, MD, sits down with our host Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square to discuss the science of spirituality.    Dr. Anna Yusim is an internationally-recognized, award-winning, Board-Certified, Stanford and Yale-educated Psychiatrist & Executive Coach with a Private Practice in New York, California, Connecticut ,and Florida. She is the best-selling author of Fulfilled: How the Science of Spirituality Can Help You Live a Happier, More Meaningful Life. As a Clinical Assistant Professor at Yale Medical School, Dr. Yusim is presently creating a Mental Health & Spirituality Center at Yale. With clients including Forbes 500 CEOs, Olympic athletes, A-list actors and actresses, and the Chairs of academic departments at top universities, Dr. Anna Yusim has helped over 3000 people achieve greater impact, purpose, and joy in their life and work. After working as a neurobiology researcher with Dr. Robert Sapolsky Ph.D. and completing her studies at Stanford, Yale Medical School, and the NYU Psychiatry Residency Training Program, Dr. Yusim felt that something was missing from her life. In her quest to find it, she traveled, lived and worked in over 70 countries, while studying Kabbalah, learning Buddhist meditation, and working with South American shamans and Indian gurus. Dr. Yusim has published over 150 academic articles, book chapters, scientific abstracts, book reviews, and articles for the lay public on various topics in psychiatry. A frequent contributor to CNN, Fox News, ABC, and NBC, she has been a guest on hundreds of national and international TV shows, radio programs, and podcasts. As a highly sought-after speaker, Dr. Yusim gives keynotes for physicians and professionals all over the country and the world on topics related to mental health and spirituality, preventing burnout, physicians as meaning-makers, and resilience. For healthcare professionals, corporate leaders, and community members, she also conducts workshops to empower individuals to sharpen their intuition, cultivate authenticity, awaken self-compassion, enhance their capacity for empathy, and improve their ability to connect with others. In 2020, Dr. Yusim received the top honor granted to an American psychiatrist, being named a Distinguished Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association. Other awards and distinctions include her book, Fulfilled, being ranked #1 New Release on Amazon in its category.  Fulfilled was also voted Top Book of 2017 by Spirituality and Health Magazine, and voted by Forbes magazine as 1 of 23 life-changing books you need to read, along with Pablo Coelho's The Alchemist, Eckhart Tolle's The New Earth and Louise Hays' You Can Heal Your Life. Other awards include the Illinois Math and Science Academy Alumni Trailblazer Award, National Institute of Mental Health Outstanding Research Resident Award, the American Psychoanalytic Association Fellowship, the William Webb Fellowship from the Academy for Psychosomatic Medicine, the American Psychiatric Institute for Research & Education (APIRE) Janssen Research Award, the Seed Research Grant from the American Medical Association, First Prize in the Sermo Resident Challenge, the Carta Fellowship from the World Psychiatric Association, the Janet M. Glasgow- Rubin Award for Women Leaders at Yale Medical School, the William F. Downs Fellowship for International Research, the Max Kade Fellowship, the Samuel F. and Sara G. Feinman Scholarship for Leadership, the Foreman Fleisher Foundation Scholarship for Academic Excellence, the Golden Award for Top Thesis written in the Humanities at Stanford University, the Hoefzer Prize for Top Essay Written in Stanford University Course, the Bessie F. Lawrence International Fellowship, and the National Science Foundation Scholarship.    Thank you very much to Alexandre Bergeron for editing this episode!

Humor is a powerful tool that can help older adults navigate the challenges of aging, enhance their well-being, and continue to enjoy life to the fullest. It is an important aspect of overall health and happiness as we age. In this episode Dr. Armstrong and Corbin Bruton explore the ways in which humor and laughter contribute to a healthy and fulfilling aging process. In addition, the hosts provide practical tips and advice on how to incorporate humor and laughter into our daily routines to… age well.For research on the health benefits of laughter see:Bains, G. S., & Berk, L. S. (1996). The effects of humor on secretory immunoglobulin a levels in intensive care patients. Psychosomatic Medicine, 58(4), 312-318.Bennett, M. P., & Lengacher, C. A. (2008). Humor and laughter may influence health: III. laughter and health outcomes. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 5(1), 37-40.Berk, L. S., Felten, D. L., & Tan, S. A. (2001). Modulation of neuroimmune parameters during the eustress of humor-associated mirthful laughter. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, 7(2), 62-72.Dunbar, R. I. (2012). The social role of touch in humans and primates: Behavioural function and neurobiological mechanisms. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 34(2), 260-268.Falkenberg, I., Buchkremer, G., Bartels, M., Wild, B. (2011). Implementation of humor therapy in psychiatric hospitals - an appropriate strategy for elderly patients? European Psychiatry, 26(4), 261.Kim, S. H., Kim, H. J., Lee, S. K., & Kim, Y. J. (2017). Effect of laughter therapy on perceived stress and motivation of Korean college students. Journal of Physical Therapy Science, 29(3), 556-558.Martin, R. A. (2002). Is laughter the best medicine? Humor, laughter, and physical health. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11(6), 216-220.Support the showHave questions you want answered and topics you want discussed on "Aging Well"? Send us an email at agingwell.podcast@gmail.com or record your question for us to use in an upcoming episode:https://www.speakpipe.com/AgingWellPodcast

Dr. Matthias Rose, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin discusses the integration of patient-reported outcomes in the CONVINCE study.

Dr. Marc Jarczok runs the Laboratory for Clinic-Experimental Stress Research within the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the University Medical Center in Ulm, Germany. Dr Marc is an international expert in HRV and using it to positively impact wellbeing and performance. As a rule of thumb, higher HRV is associated with better health and less variability has been shown to be associated with all-cause mortality  Using principles of psychosomatic medicine, Dr Marc and his colleagues are teaching teams within the German Police Force about HRV, how to measure it, and how to regulate their physiology, emotions and decision making capability. We discuss the ability to bridge the gap between physiological and psychological factors, stress and emotional regulation, how the heart has a personality, and how to enhance cardiovascular health. Joining me in this discussion is regular podcast favourite, Dr Tom Buckley. Dr Tom is Director of Research at StriveStronger and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. He specialises in the impact of stress on cardiovascular health and coaches high performers to optimise their physical and psychological state.In episode Andrew, Dr Tom and Dr Marc discuss:4:30 How Dr Tom and Dr Marc first met and started their intellectual love affair, Dr Tom's spine-tingling heart transplant story and how emotions form in our organs16:00 Emotional development in children and the bi-directional relationship between the heart, brain and HRT25:00 Heart rate and capacity and the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system41:00 Why Germany is so evolved and leads the way globally in psychosomatic medicine, HRV, and some of complications around measuring it50:30 What to do if you are time-poor, experience Andrew and Dr Tom have in measuring HRV and the positive effects of breathwork1:06:00 40-45 minutes of breathing is the sweet spot, learn how to set up a good breathing routine and the importance of regulating stress as you age1:20:00 The amazing results Dr Marc's studies are showing in the German Police Force 1:35:30 'PQ and You' with Hugo Fonseca. Hugo is a regular podcast listener and previous participant of a Performance Wellbeing program with Andrew. Listen how Hugo lost 35 kg, positively impacted his family's wellbeing and literally turned his life around To find the resources mentioned in this episode go to: https://www.andrewmay.com/performance-intelligence-with-andrew-may/ Find Dr Marc at his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-marc-n-jarczok-8194a77b/Read more about his Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marc-Jarczok Find out more about Andrew's Keynotes : https://www.andrewmay.com/keynotes/Follow Andrew May: https://www.instagram.com/andrewmay/Follow StriveStronger: https://www.instagram.com/strive.stronger/If you enjoy the podcast, we would really appreciate you leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Play. It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps us build our audience and continue to provide high quality guests.

Alessandro Romagnoli (IG: @dott.alessandro_romagnoli, FB: @alessandroromagnoli) is the Co-Founder of Oxylab and a world renowned psychologist that is helping athletes of all kinds and all levels do things they never thought possible. In addition to being a Psychologist specializing in Cognitive Neuroscience he also has multiple graduate diplomas in Clinical Neuropsychology and Psychosomatic Medicine where he specializes in Neuropsychological Cognitive Psychotherapy. In addition to his formal education, he is also an Oxygen Advantage Master Instructor and a Wim Hof Instructor Trainee. All said, he is one of the world leaders when it comes to how your brain works and how you can control your actions with breathing. Alessandro has helped athletes in MMA, Olympians, and various sports as well as the Special Forces.   Sponsors: Get your 15% discount on your next order of JustThrive Probiotic at https://justthrivehealth.com/ (use code: GOLF360) Looking to play one of the best golf courses in the Hilton Head Island area? Be sure to check out Old South Golf Links and have one of your best golf experiences ever https://www.oldsouthgolf.com/ Others: The Stack is the game's premiere training device to increase your swing speed. Check them out at https://www.thestacksystem.com/ and be sure to enter GOLF360 at checkout for your discount.

Today's guest is Kelli Harding - a medical and public health doctor based in New York City whose goal is to make the world a kinder and healthier place for everybody. She wrote a critically acclaimed book about social connection and health, The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness. As a medical doctor Kelli believes everybody deserves to be treated with dignity, compassion, and kindness while receiving the best evidence-based medical care. She is Board-certified in Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, and trained in psychiatry and research at Columbia University, where she continues to teach. She also has a degree in public health from Columbia University.  Kelli's work has been featured across media outlets including on Today, Good Morning America, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Medscape, BBC World, Oprah.com, The World Economic Forum, LA Times, Parents Magazine, and Prevention. She's also the co-founder of Our Kind of Club, a global, inclusive, action-oriented kindness movement—you can learn more and sign up at kellihardingmd.comKelli shares:  "All my years of education and research have taught me that the best care comes down to treating every person with kindness."In today's episode we dive deep into Kelli's work around kindness, including: Kelli's journey in medicine, how she found kindness, and why it's become a central focus in her work, and everything she doesThe health implications of kindnessPractices for incorporating kindness into the busyness of everyday lifeKelli's incredible story of meeting a Nobel Peace Prize winner and what she learned from her about kindness and compassionKelli's thoughts about kindness as a form of courage, including responding to harsh circumstances and adversity with an open heartKelli's views on whether kindness has a role in high performance cultures in healthcare and beyondThe role of kindness in a life well lived and why kindness may be what matters most at the end of lifeDid you find this episode inspiring? Here are other conversations we think you'll love:Kelly McGonigal: Finding the Hope, Courage, and Connection to TransformShauna Shapiro: How Mindfulness Rewires Your Brain for Calm, Clarity, and JoyThe Practicing Courage Community launched last week. This is a free space where we are dedicated to exploring what it means to live well, and engaging in practices that support finding the courage to do so. In less than a week hundreds of people around the world have already joined the community. If you're a part of it, thank you for joining. If you haven't joined yet, but are curious about it you can find all the details and sign up for free at practicing courage.com/join-communityPlease rate the show on iTunes!Thanks for listening!Support the show

On episode 21 of the Farming for Health Podcast, Dr. Amy Sapola dives deep with Dr. Anna Yusim. Dr. Anna Yusim is an internationally-recognized, award-winning Board-Certified, Stanford- and Yale-educated Psychiatrist & Executive Coach with a Private Practice in New York City and Connecticut. She is best-selling author of Fulfilled: How the Science of Spirituality Can Help You Live a Happier, More Meaningful Life. On the Clinical Faculty at Yale Medical School, Dr. Yusim is presently creating a Spirituality & Mental Health Center at Yale. With clients including Forbes 500 CEOs, Olympic athletes, A-list actors and actresses, and the Chairs of academic departments at top universities, Dr. Anna Yusim has helped over 2000 people in 60 countries achieve greater impact, purpose, and joy in their life and work. After working as a neurobiology researcher with Dr. Robert Sapolsky Ph.D. and completing her studies at Stanford, Yale Medical School, and the NYU Psychiatry Residency Training Program, Dr. Yusim felt that something was missing from her life. In her quest to find it, she traveled, lived and worked in over 70 countries, while studying Kabbalah, learning Buddhist meditation, and working with South American shamans and Indian gurus. Dr. Yusim has published over 150 academic articles, book chapters, scientific abstracts, book reviews and articles for the lay public on various topics in psychiatry. A frequent contributor to CNN, Fox News, ABC and NBC, she has been a guest on hundreds of national and international TV shows, radio programs and podcasts. As a highly sought-after speaker, Dr. Yusim gives keynotes for physicians and professionals all over the country and the the world on topics related to mental health and spirituality, thriving post-COVID, preventing burnout, physicians as meaning-makers, and resilience. For healthcare professionals, corporate leaders and community members, she also conducts workshops to empower individuals to sharpen their intuition, cultivate authenticity, awaken self-compassion, enhance their capacity for empathy, and improve their ability to connect with others. In 2020, Dr. Yusim received the top honor granted to an American psychiatrist, being named a Distinguished Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association. Other awards and distinctions she has received include the National Institute of Mental Health Outstanding Research Resident Award, the American Psychoanalytic Association Fellowship, the William Webb Fellowship from the Academy for Psychosomatic Medicine, the American Psychiatric Institute for Research & Education (APIRE) Janssen Research Award, the Seed Research Grant from the American Medical Association, First Prize in the Sermo Resident Challenge, the Carta Fellowship from the World Psychiatric Association, the Janet M. Glasgow- Rubin Award for Women Leaders at Yale Medical School, the William F. Downs Fellowship for International Research, the Max Kade Fellowship, the Samuel F. and Sara G. Feinman Scholarship for Leadership, the Foreman Fleisher Foundation Scholarship for Academic Excellence, the Golden Award for Top Thesis written in the Humanities at Stanford University, the Hoefzer Prize for Top Essay Written in Stanford University Course, the Bessie F. Lawrence International Fellowship, and the National Science Foundation Scholarship.

Ten years and 8 autoimmune/chronic conditions into remission ago (in my Gettysburg address voice) I can tell you there is SO MUCH misinformation when it comes to autoimmune disease. So much that sometimes it makes me so angry with the medical profession.    Even our medical professionals don't readily share the truth about your body's ability to heal because they simply have been taught a different rhetoric.    Let's reprogram your rhetoric right here, right now, with the fact- filled research.   FREE One Day Detox https://www.inspirehealthbyjen.com/onedaydetox  Bloghttps://www.inspirehealthbyjen.com/work-with-jen    Alvergne, A., & Lummaa, V. (2010). Does the contraceptive pill alter mate choice in humans? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 25(3), 171–179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2009.08.003    Ascherio, A., & Munger, K. L. (2015). EBV and Autoimmunity. Current topics in microbiology and immunology, 390(Pt 1), 365–385. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22822-8_15   Benagiano, G., Benagiano, M., Bianchi, P., D'Elios, M. M., & Brosens, I. (2019). Contraception in autoimmune diseases. Best practice & research. Clinical obstetrics & gynaecology, 60, 111–123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2019.05.003   Bookwalter, D. B., Roenfeldt, K. A., LeardMann, C. A., Kong, S. Y., Riddle, M. S., & Rull, R. P. (2020). Posttraumatic stress disorder and risk of selected autoimmune diseases among US military personnel. BMC Psychiatry, 20(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-020-2432-9   Dube SR, Fairweather D, Pearson WS, Felitti VJ, Anda RF, Croft JB, Dube, S. R., Fairweather, D., Pearson, W. S., Felitti, V. J., Anda, R. F., & Croft, J. B. (2009). Cumulative childhood stress and autoimmune diseases in adults. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71(2), 243–250. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181907888   FELDMAN, R. (2020). Perverse Incentives: Why Everyone Prefers High Drug Prices--Except for Those Who Pay the Bills. Harvard Journal on Legislation, 57(2), 303–376.   Houen, G., Trier, N. H., & Frederiksen, J. L. (2020). Epstein-Barr Virus and Multiple Sclerosis. Frontiers in immunology, 11, 587078. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.587078   Leverone, D., & Epstein, B. J. (2010). Nonpharmacological interventions for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: a focus on mind-body medicine. Journal of pharmacy practice, 23(2), 101–109. https://doi.org/10.1177/0897190009360025   Macarenco, M.-M., Opariuc-Dan, C., & Nedelcea, C. (2021). Childhood trauma, dissociation, alexithymia, and anger in people with autoimmune diseases: A mediation model. Child Abuse & Neglect, 122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105322   Mirashrafi, S., Hejazi Taghanaki, S. Z., Sarlak, F., Moravejolahkami, A. R., Hojjati Kermani, M. A., & Haratian, M. (2021). Effect of probiotics supplementation on disease progression, depression, general health, and anthropometric measurements in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials. International Journal of Clinical Practice, 75(11), e14724. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcp.14724 Posnett D. N. (2008). Herpesviruses and autoimmunity. Current opinion in investigational drugs (London, England : 2000), 9(5), 505–514.   Rashidian, A., Omidvari, A. H., Vali, Y., Sturm, H., & Oxman, A. D. (2015). Pharmaceutical policies: effects of financial incentives for prescribers. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2015(8), CD006731. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD006731.pub2   Roberts, A. L., Malspeis, S., Kubzansky, L. D., Feldman, C. H., Chang, S. C., Koenen, K. C., & Costenbader, K. H. (2017). Association of Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With Incident Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in a Longitudinal Cohort of Women. Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), 69(11), 2162–2169. https://doi.org/10.1002/art.40222   Williams W. V. (2017). Hormonal contraception and the development of autoimmunity: A review of the literature. The Linacre quarterly, 84(3), 275–295. https://doi.org/10.1080/00243639.2017.1360065 https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/epstein-barr-virus-autoimmune-diseases

Molecular biologist Jerneja Caserta was born in Slovenia and got her Bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology in Italy. In 2002 she received her PhD at the same University studying function of proteins that participate in protein synthesis. However, since 2020 she has had to question much of what was previously taken for granted (and still is by her colleagues). In this informative and entertaining episode Jerneja takes us on her journey and process of awakening, which began primarily when she heard that PCR technology was being misused to diagnose so-called “co(n)vid-19” cases. As it happens, Jerneja has over 25 years of experience working with PCR technology and immediately recognised something was seriously wrong with the Narrative. As she quickly realised, there is no c-19 v!rus, and v!rology is a fraudulent branch of science controlled by Big Ph@rma. She now watches her colleagues for the day they too open their eyes and see the truth. Also discussed: her time as a member of the Left, her dalliance with communism, and her nascent interest in exploring the nature of reality and spirituality free of the fetters of the Roman-Catholic indoctrination of her youth. Find the FULL episode and all my members-only multimedia content at: Truthiversity.com Special Guest: Jerneja Tomsic.

Ex-pharma senior scientist and medical whistleblower Mike Donio joins me for an insightful and disturbing show centred around the highly dubious “science” underpinning the HIV-AIDS myth. He details how he came through the education system and into the pharmaceutical industry with the best of intentions, hoping to do good science to make the world a better place. However he soon began finding reasons to question what he had been told about “viruses”, how they were supposedly worked with, “proved,” and how they were identified as so-called disease-causing agents. It turned out that nothing about HIV was as it initially seemed. Eventually, Mike realised the realm of corporately controlled Science wasn't going to let him make a positive difference in the world, and was ultimately terminated from his job for refusing to take the experimental DNA-altering covax. Special Guest: Mike Donio.

In this episode of Truthiverse Brendan destroys the monkeypox narrative and provides several plausible alternative explanations for what causes pox symptoms. First we look at the impact of an acidic diet and lifestyle and then explore how toxicity can play a role in the creation of pox-like skin conditions. But that's just the warm up. Brendan then takes you on a fascinating tour through psychosomatic medicine and how the mind can unconsciously create a vast range of physiological symptoms, including pox, as well as those associated with "covid". We cover the role of suggestion, belief, mass mind control programming, media propaganda, the collective cognitive imperative, and mass-formation psychosis as it relates to the individual's health - or lack thereof - and the importance of impeccable psychological hygiene for maintaining good health. Don't miss this one. NOTE! This episode is can be listened to as per normal, but if you'd like the visual supplements then please see the video HERE (https://www.bitchute.com/video/7vAC8GOAUmVG/)

Dr. Anne Marie O'Melia   Nutrition matters, brain, and personality come back  Dr. O'Melia makes a pact – “Give it one year after we restore nutrition before you decide you want to go back to the eating disorder.  How to retrain those neurons that have fired together for so long  TMS – trans magnetic stimulation for ED with depression  NOTHING WORKS WITHOUT NUTRITION  Medications, interactions, and modalities are discussed, like TMS and Ketamine  Dr. O'Melia's Seasonings:  EARLY INTERVENTION involving the family is important for full recovery  Let's get this thing turned around before it gets worse. Eating Recovery Center Bio:  Anne Marie O'Melia, MS, MD, FAAP joined the medical staff at Eating Recovery Center in 2014. She is a Triple Board trained physician, with board certifications in Pediatrics and General Psychiatry. She also holds subspecialty board certifications in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and in Psychosomatic Medicine. Prior to attending medical school, she earned her Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Kentucky College of Education and then practiced as a psychologist in rural regions of Kentucky. She earned her MD with Distinction from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and completed her residency training at the University of Utah Triple Board Program. Dr. O'Melia has co-authored multiple articles and book chapters on eating disorders and served as a co-investigator for various clinical trials related to psychopharmacology in the treatment of eating disorders and mood disorders. Dr. O'Melia has been listed as one of the “Best Doctors in America” every year since 2007.  Prior to moving to Denver and joining the staff at Eating Recovery Center, Dr. O'Melia was a dual-appointed Assistant Professor first at the University of Utah and then in the University of Cincinnati Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics. Both at the University of Utah and the University of Cincinnati, she has served as Medical Director of programs that serve children and adults at all levels of care and with a wide range of complex medical and psychiatric comorbidities.    With your host Beth Harrell

In this episode, Dr. Zulma interviews psychiatrist Dr. Renee Garcia. Dr. Garcia has a bachelor's degree from CSU Los Angeles, MD from Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Keck USC. She also completed a fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine at Stanford. She shares all about her upbringing, how she unexpectedly got pregnant during her senior year of high school, how she managed to get through college and into medical school even while raising her son, how she overcame discouragement about her chances to get into medical school, why she chose psychiatry, what it's like to be a psychiatrist at a large hospital, and what psychosomatic medicine is all about.

"The acknowledgment of guilt it's a prerequisite for reparation. There is no reparation without the acknowledgment of guilt and guilt arises when love and hatred come together within the same person. There is no need to feel guilt as long as we idealize a good object - there is no need to feel guilt as long as we have the bad object. When we discover that it is the same object, that our love feelings and our hatred are directed towards the same object, then guilt arises. I think of guilt more as a molecule, not as an atom."     Episode Description: We begin by clarifying the meaning of trauma from its commonplace references all the way to the trauma of parental figures maintaining a malignant view of their child. We discuss the impact of early trauma on development with particular attention to the limitations on the capacity for nuanced affect and symbolization. Heinz describes in detail how this level of concreteness lives in the analytic situation and is shared in the counter-transference. The analyst's ability to imperfectly tolerate the projection of badness into them is demonstrated in his clinical vignette. The patient describes herself, There is something in me which is part of me and not part of me which thinks that I only have a right to live if I feel bad. We learn how that addictive attachment to dependable badness sustains her until she needs it less over the course of her analysis. The deepening capacity to tolerate guilt and for whole object gratitude marks the analysand's healing.    Our Guest: Heinz Weiss, M.D., is the Head of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart. He is also the head of the Medical Division and member of the directorate of the Sigmund-Freud Institute, Frankfurt/Main, and Chair of the Education Section of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.    Linked Episodes:  https://harveyschwartzmd.com/2021/06/04/ep-9-a-gynecologist-psychoanalyst-treats-amenorrhea/  http://ipaoffthecouch.org/2019/06/29/episode-8-a-psychoanalyst-encounters-patients-with-addictions/    Recommended Readings:  Money-Kyrle, R. (1956), Normal Countertransference and Some of Its Deviations. Int. J. Psychoanalysis 37: 360-366.    Rey, H. (1994), Universals of Psychoanalysis in the Treatment of Psychotic and Borderline States. London: Free Associations Books.    Steiner, J. (1993), Psychic Retreats. Pathological Organizations in Psychotic, Neurotic and Borderline Patients. London, New York: Routledge.    Steiner, J. (2020), Illusion, Disillusion and Irony in Psychoanalysis. London, New York.    Weiss, H. (2009), Das Labyrinth der Borderline-Kommunikation [The Labyrinth of Borderline-Communication]. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.    Weiss, H. (2020), A Brief History of the Super-Ego with an Introduction to Three Papers: Int. J. Psychoanal. 4 (2020), 724-734.    Weiss, H. (2020), A River with Several Different Tributary Streams: Reflections on the Repetition Compulsion. Int. J. Psychoanal. 101, 6: 1172-1187.    Weiss, H.(2021), The Conceptualization of Trauma in Psychoanalysis: An Introduction. Int. J. Psychoanal. 102, 4: 755-764. 

The incredible Dr. Bill Pettit joins Wyn & Kate this week for a chat! Among many things, he delves into his life experience in the world of psychology before finding Sydney Banks and the Three Principles work, and then how this discovery changed him as well as his work forever.  From Mr. Banks, Bill began to see what lies behind all of life…pure love and understanding…and how we are all part of that divine energy.  He also talks about the 4 lessons that, if all children learned at a young age, might change the world as we know it.  Bill shares his vast knowledge of how he has seen for himself over the last 38 years the impact of the Principles, and what they can teach us about our own innate mental health.   Articles Mentioned: Psychiatry's Pursuit of Euthymia: Another Wild Goose Chase or an Opportunity for Principle-Based Facilitation A New "Inside-Out" Perspective on General Factor P   Dr. Pettit's Bio & Contact Info: bill@thedrspettit.com William F. Pettit Jr., M.D., is co-owner with his wife, Dr. Linda Pettit of 3 Principles Intervention LLC. Dr. Pettit has presented the Three Universal Principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought as the essence of his psychiatric practice since 1983. Since June, 2017 Dr. Pettit have lived in Phoenix Arizona. Dr. Pettit retired from clinical psychiatry in December of 2018. He presently serves as a Three Principles mentor on a full time basis. He enjoys mentoring individuals, groups and organizations, nationally and internationally. Moved by what he has witnessed since meeting Sydney Banks in 1983, Dr. Pettit is creating online courses sharing what he has seen. As a graduate of Creighton University, Omaha, NE and the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, Dr. Pettit completed his psychiatric residency at the Philadelphia Naval Regional Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA and Portsmouth Naval Regional Medical Center in Portsmouth VA. He is board-certified in Psychiatry, and has been previously certified in Adolescent Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine and Addiction Medicine. Dr. Pettit served as a physician in the United States Navy for over 9 years, including 3 years as a Navy Flight Surgeon and 3 years as Chief of Psychiatry of the Navy Nuclear Submarine base at Groton, Connecticut. Presently, Dr. Pettit holds an appointment as Adjunct Clinical Professor at Creighton University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry where he presently serves on the Diversity and Inclusion subcommittee on the Phoenix Arizona campus. He also serves as Adjunct Clinical Professor at Michigan State University School of Osteopathic Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Pettit was a consultant to West Virginia University School of Medicine from 1998, until he became a full-time faculty member in 2002. While there, he achieved appointment as Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry and was the Medical Director of the Sydney Banks Institute. During his time at WVU, Dr. Pettit was the lead author on a book chapter “Adverse Cardiovascular Effects of Centrally-Acting Psychiatric Medications”, Cardiovascular Toxicology, 4th Edition, published 2008 by Taylor and Francis, London, and New York. Pettit, W.F., Mishra, M.D., Finkel, M.S., (2008) In addition, Dr. Pettit had previously held an appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Des Moines, Iowa Osteopathic School of Medicine and taught as an Adjunct Professor at Sienna Heights University.   Dr. Pettit is a recognized educator in the Three Principles Understanding and has presented at many national and international conferences and consulted to numerous clients and organizations both nationally and internationally.  He has co-authored a paper Only One Generic Mental Illness: A Psycho-Spiritual Explanation of General Factor p and Its Application to Spiritually-Informed Clinical Practice which was published by Spiritual Psychology and Counseling in June 2021.   Dr. Pettit, has created multiple online Courses under the series title of One Cause: One Cure: Course #1 Exploring the Mind brain body behavior Connection – Understanding Universal Principles Changes Everything. Course #2 Defining, Recognizing, and Awakening Mental Health and Well Being: Seeing Universal Principles Brings Fresh Hope. Course #3 Hope for Helpers: Less Stress, More Joy     If you have any questions or comments for Wyn or Kate, please email us! Also, if you have a topic or question that you would like us to chat about, please reach out!  We'd love to hear it! wyn@wynning.co.uk kate@katerobertscoaching.com

Trauma, Guilt and Reparation: The Path from Impasse to Development (Routledge, 2019) identifies the emotional barriers faced by people who have experienced severe trauma, as well as the emergence of reparative processes which pave the way from impasse to development. The book explores the issue of trauma with particular reference to issues of reparation and guilt. Referencing the original work of Klein and others, it examines how feelings of persistent guilt work to foil attempts at reparation, locking trauma deep within the psyche. It provides a theoretical understanding of the interplay between feelings of neediness with those of fear, wrath, shame and guilt, and offers a route for patients to experience the mourning and forgiveness necessary to come to terms with their own trauma. The book includes a Foreword by John Steiner. Illustrated by clinical examples throughout, it is written by an author whose empathy and experience make him an expert in the field. The book will be of great interest to psychotherapists, social workers and any professional working with traumatized individuals. Heinz Weiss, M.D., is the Head of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart. He is also the head of the Medical Division and member of the directorate of the Sigmund-Freud-Institute, Frankfurt/Main, and Chair of the Education Section of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Philip Lance, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in Los Angeles. You can contact him at philipjlance@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychoanalysis

Trauma, Guilt and Reparation: The Path from Impasse to Development (Routledge, 2019) identifies the emotional barriers faced by people who have experienced severe trauma, as well as the emergence of reparative processes which pave the way from impasse to development. The book explores the issue of trauma with particular reference to issues of reparation and guilt. Referencing the original work of Klein and others, it examines how feelings of persistent guilt work to foil attempts at reparation, locking trauma deep within the psyche. It provides a theoretical understanding of the interplay between feelings of neediness with those of fear, wrath, shame and guilt, and offers a route for patients to experience the mourning and forgiveness necessary to come to terms with their own trauma. The book includes a Foreword by John Steiner. Illustrated by clinical examples throughout, it is written by an author whose empathy and experience make him an expert in the field. The book will be of great interest to psychotherapists, social workers and any professional working with traumatized individuals. Heinz Weiss, M.D., is the Head of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart. He is also the head of the Medical Division and member of the directorate of the Sigmund-Freud-Institute, Frankfurt/Main, and Chair of the Education Section of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Philip Lance, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in Los Angeles. You can contact him at philipjlance@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Trauma, Guilt and Reparation: The Path from Impasse to Development (Routledge, 2019) identifies the emotional barriers faced by people who have experienced severe trauma, as well as the emergence of reparative processes which pave the way from impasse to development. The book explores the issue of trauma with particular reference to issues of reparation and guilt. Referencing the original work of Klein and others, it examines how feelings of persistent guilt work to foil attempts at reparation, locking trauma deep within the psyche. It provides a theoretical understanding of the interplay between feelings of neediness with those of fear, wrath, shame and guilt, and offers a route for patients to experience the mourning and forgiveness necessary to come to terms with their own trauma. The book includes a Foreword by John Steiner. Illustrated by clinical examples throughout, it is written by an author whose empathy and experience make him an expert in the field. The book will be of great interest to psychotherapists, social workers and any professional working with traumatized individuals. Heinz Weiss, M.D., is the Head of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart. He is also the head of the Medical Division and member of the directorate of the Sigmund-Freud-Institute, Frankfurt/Main, and Chair of the Education Section of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Philip Lance, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in Los Angeles. You can contact him at philipjlance@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychology

David D. Clarke, MD is President of the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association. He is also Assistant Director at the Center for Ethics and Clinical Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology Emeritus both at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon, USA. As Faculty Associate at Arizona State University and at the Cummings Graduate Institute for Behavioral Health Studies he teaches graduate courses on Psychophysiologic Medicine. He is also a Clinical Advisor to the Stress Illness Recovery Practitioners Association (U.K.) and a Clinical Lecturer with Pacific University in Oregon. His book, They Can't Find Anything Wrong!,(Sentient Publications, 2007) was praised by a president of the American Psychosomatic Society as “truly remarkable.” He was also the lead editor for the professional textbook Psychophysiologic Disorders (KDP Publishing, 2019) which has sixteen contributors from five countries. He is board-certified in Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine and practiced Gastroenterology in Portland from 1984 to 2009. During that time he diagnosed and treated over 7000 patients whose symptoms were not explained by diagnostic testing. In surveys of physicians by Portland Monthly magazine in the metropolitan area, Dr. Clarke was twice named one of the “Top Doctors” in his specialty. He has received numerous awards for patient care and is a member of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, the American Psychosomatic Society and the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association for whom he co-Chairs the Special Interest Group on Medically Unexplained Symptoms. Dr. Clarke is a graduate of Williams College (Phi Beta Kappa) and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine where he received the Mosby Award for Clinical Excellence. He completed internship and residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Gastroenterology at Harbor/UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane, Australia and at Oxford University in England. He was the Ethics Director for his medical group from 2005-2008.To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com

David D. Clarke, MD is President of the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association. He is also Assistant Director at the Center for Ethics and Clinical Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology Emeritus both at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon, USA. As Faculty Associate at Arizona State University and at the Cummings Graduate Institute for Behavioral Health Studies he teaches graduate courses on Psychophysiologic Medicine. He is also a Clinical Advisor to the Stress Illness Recovery Practitioners Association (U.K.) and a Clinical Lecturer with Pacific University in Oregon. His book, They Can't Find Anything Wrong!,(Sentient Publications, 2007) was praised by a president of the American Psychosomatic Society as “truly remarkable.” He was also the lead editor for the professional textbook Psychophysiologic Disorders (KDP Publishing, 2019) which has sixteen contributors from five countries. He is board-certified in Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine and practiced Gastroenterology in Portland from 1984 to 2009. During that time he diagnosed and treated over 7000 patients whose symptoms were not explained by diagnostic testing. In surveys of physicians by Portland Monthly magazine in the metropolitan area, Dr. Clarke was twice named one of the “Top Doctors” in his specialty. He has received numerous awards for patient care and is a member of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, the American Psychosomatic Society and the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association for whom he co-Chairs the Special Interest Group on Medically Unexplained Symptoms. Dr. Clarke is a graduate of Williams College (Phi Beta Kappa) and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine where he received the Mosby Award for Clinical Excellence. He completed internship and residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Gastroenterology at Harbor/UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane, Australia and at Oxford University in England. He was the Ethics Director for his medical group from 2005-2008.To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com

Dr. Arroyo is a transgender psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine physician and fellowship director at Mount Sinai. Join us to learn about this unique specialty!

Dr. Hayes interviews Dr. Breitbart on his research addressing psychiatric, psychological and existential adjustment as well as symptom control in advanced cancer.   TRANSCRIPT SPEAKER: The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement. [MUSIC PLAYING] DANIEL HAYES: Welcome to JCO's Cancer Stories-- The Art of Oncology, brought to you by the ASCO Podcast Network, a collection of nine programs covering a range of educational and scientific content, and offering enriching insights into the world of cancer care. You can find all of their shows, including this one, at podcast.asco.org. We have a special treat today in our podcast series in that I have the opportunity to interview Dr. William Breitbart. Dr. Breitbart is the Jimmie Holland Chair of Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering and the Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College. And as far as I can see, Dr. Breitbart, you've never left New York City. But I will get the background. And you can tell us if you took a vacation or something one time outside the city. Dr. Breitbart grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He went to Brooklyn College, graduated in 1973, then medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. And then he did his residency in internal medicine at the Bronx Hospital and trained basically at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Joined the faculty there, and has been on the faculty ever since. He has a number of accomplishments, too many for me to really review it carefully. But he's been president of the International Psycho-Oncology Society and received their Sutherland Lifetime Achievement Award. He's been president of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and received their Hackett Lifetime Achievement Award. And on a personal basis, my brother was also the president of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. So I'm very proud of my brother and equally proud of Dr. Breitbart. He really is responsible for a number of enormous steps forward in our field, including psychotherapeutic approaches for palliative care of patients with terminal illnesses, especially cancer. He has been involved with what I saw you call, Dr. Breitbart, "hastened to death." I had learned it as assisted suicide. I'm going to ask you a question about that. I'm interested in your comments. And more recently, meaning-centered psychotherapy for the terminally ill And we'll talk more about that, too. So in addition, I have asked Dr. Breitbart if he would also give us insights into Dr. Jimmie Holland's life and her career. Sadly, she passed away before we had an opportunity to chat with her. She was one of my favorite people in the whole world. And I think everybody that knew here said the same thing. So we'll get some insights for those of you who didn't know Dr. Holland from this call as well. Before we start, Dr. Breitbart wants to declare that he's received honoraria from Novartis and has a consulting or advisory role with Novartis. Dr. Breitbart, welcome to our program today. WILLIAM BREITBART: Thank you Dr. Hayes, pleasure to be here. Can I make just one slight correction? I actually trained in both internal medicine and psychiatry at the Bronx Municipal Hospital, which is the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation's Public Hospital. So I trained in both psychiatry and internal medicine, jumping back and forth between the two, out of a state of confusion. And then I landed in Dr. Holland's fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering for a variety of reasons. The main reason was though that I had developed a thyroid cancer when I was a medical resident in the middle of my training. And then I went back to finish up more of my psychiatry residency training, I became the liaison to the Oncology Clinic at Jacobi Hospital, the Bronx Municipal Hospital. I did consultations for cancer patients. I ran groups for cancer patients and also ran groups for the oncologists and oncology nurses. And I was trying to educate myself on the subject of psycho-oncology or psychiatric oncology. It actually hadn't been named yet in those days. And the only literature I could find were papers written in oncology journals by Dr. Julie Holland. And so that's where I knew where I needed to go to become more expert in this area. That's the most superficial version of how I ended up at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I could tell you the more interesting version if you're interested. DANIEL HAYES: Well, actually, what you just covered was my first question. I was going to say this is about you, not about me. But my brother also did training in internal medicine and decided to go in psychiatry, and ended up in psychiatry liaison. And I think that's what makes you two, and others like you, powerful, is that if you go to France and you don't speak French, you're not going to be listened to. And if you come to a bunch of oncologists, and you don't speak internal medicine or oncology, we're not going to listen to you. And I think clearly to me, Jimmie Holland always knew what I did. And I think you have the same strength. I'd love to hear how you actually got involved with her. Yes. Please begin. WILLIAM BREITBART: I agree with you actually about that comment. It's very helpful to have had the training in both medicine and psychiatry. And, in fact, we've trained a few fellows who've done oncology fellowships and then done our-- and a psychiatry residency and then done our psycho-oncology fellowship as well. But the real story of how I ended up in this field starts in childhood, where a lot of stories start. But my parents were both Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe, from Poland in particular. When the war broke out, my mother was 14 years old and my father was 17 years old. And my father's family were all killed. But he ended up surviving, hiding in the woods. And he became-- Polish forest-- and he became part of a partisan fighter group, lived in the Polish forest. And one day he went looking for food and broke into this farmhouse. And as it turned out, my mother and her parents were being hidden by a Catholic woman, who hid them in a hole underneath the stove in her barn. And my father broke into this farmhouse and discovered my mother and my maternal grandparents. It turned out they were related. They were second cousins. My father said, you can't stay here. It's not safe. You should come into the woods with me and 150 other people. My grandparents were too afraid to go. But they let my mother go. So at the tender age of 14 and 17, my parents were hiding in the Polish forest, where they lived for about three years, hiding from the Nazis, and then Ukrainians, and all sorts of people who were interested in killing Jews. And they finally, after the war, crossed over to Germany. They actually found my grandparents alive. And they crossed over the border to Germany, went into this displaced persons' camp outside of Munich and got married there. And then came to the Lower East Side in late 1949, early 1950. And I was born several years later. And I grew up in this home on the Lower East Side, as you pointed out. And I grew up in a home where the Holocaust also lived. I lived in this home where the Holocaust was in every room-- didn't have a room of its own. It was in all the rooms, on all the walls-- and all the pictures that had been saved of my family, that had perished, on all the religious articles that might have been saved, et cetera. So I grew up in this environment where I understood at a very early age, maybe four or five years old, that death and suffering were very real. And that we all lived in this space between life and death. My mother would ask me every morning-- when she gave me breakfast, she would ask me the question, why am I here? And the full question really was, why am I here and everyone else is dead? Basically, what evolved out of this was the transmission of this responsibility or I guess a burden-- for me, it was an inspiration-- for me to accomplish something of such significance and impact-- in the world of suffering in particular-- in the arena of people who suffer in the face of death. And it's going to be up to me to achieve something of such significance that my parents would be able to-- my mother would be able to turn around and say, well you see we had to survive because if I hadn't survived, there wouldn't be Bill Breitbart in the world. [LAUGHTER] So that was the mission. That was the burden. That was the inspiration. And I wasn't fully cognizant of it. But I was traveling this journey-- this route that took me through college, and loving science and poetry, ending up in medical school, thinking I'd be a psychiatrist, but then falling in love with medicine. Loving both psychiatry and medicine. What I realized what fascinated-- what fascinated me was how a human being can live a mortal, finite life. How do you-- as a person who develops a life-threatening illness, how do you continue to live? How do you have the strength, the courage, to keep on living? And what gives you purpose and meaning? And so I got myself to Sloan Kettering by reading the work of Dr. Jimmie Holland and Dr. Massie. And I found myself at Memorial. I put myself in a place, with a mentor-- a group of mentors-- a place where I would breathe the same air of my patients, who were breathing the air of a human being confronting death, confronting the real prospect death being closer than-- closer than it was farther away. So that's how I ended up at Memorial. That's the real story. And I went to Sloan Kettering to do a fellowship, just to become a good clinician. I wanted to be a clinician. I never had the expectation of being a clinical researcher or an academician. I never had the ambition or aspiration to be an academic, a teacher, an advocate; never thought to be a professor of anything. I never thought I'd write books, or scientific articles, or become president of organizations, et cetera. All that happened because of my exposure to Jimmie. And my interest in research ended up being a result of one conversation that I had as a fellow. Dr. Holland, who was supposed to be my supervisor-- she's deceased now-- she was my inpatient supervisor-- my outpatient, inpatient supervisor. So we made rounds one day, which was very rare. But we made rounds one day. And I was the liaison. I was very fortunate enough to be the liaison to the Neuro-Oncology Unit and to the Pain Service at Memorial, which were both within the Department of Neurology. When Dr. Holland was recruited to Memorial Sloan Kettering in 1977, it was by the chair of the Department of Neurology, Dr. Jerome Posner-- Jerry Posner-- who recruited both Jimmie to be the Chief of the Psychiatry Service and he recruited Kathy Foley to be the Chief of the Pain Service. So I basically held on to these two meteoroids. Jimmie Holland and Kathy Foley, those are the two people who helped-- helped pull me along the road. So on the Neuro-Oncology Unit, I had done a consult on patient with brain tumors, on high-dose steroids. And he had a severe psychosis. And I asked Dr. Holland, why is it that these patients on steroids develop these neuropsychiatric syndromes? They develop depressions. And they can get delirious, and psychotic, and manic. And this was the advice that my mentor gave me-- Dr. Holland gave me-- which turned me into a scientist. And her response was, well, gee, Bill-- in her Texas twang-- well, gee, Bill, I really don't know. I really don't know. I guess you'll just have to go figure that one out yourself. [LAUGHTER] And that's what I ended up doing. I then pursued figuring it out myself. And that's what I did for the next 30 years, trying to figure out clinical problems-- when the AIDS epidemic exploded. My first research study was to study looking at patients with epidural spinal cord compression, those who had high grade versus lower grade compression. One group got high-dose steroids, the other didn't. And I did a comparison study of psychiatric syndromes in both populations. I was at Memorial when the AIDS epidemic exploded. And so I started to do studies of delirium. I did the first double-blind randomized controlled trial of neuroleptics for the treatment of delirium in the AIDS population because they all got demented and delirious. I did the first studies of pain in HIV. I did the first studies of desire for hastened death in patients with advanced AIDS and in patients with advanced cancer. And then I started to do a lot more work in inflammation and depression in pancreatic cancer patients. And eventually, everything kind of culminated. As I evolved from being a psychiatric oncologist to a psychiatric oncologist and palliative care clinician, that kind of bridged the two worlds of psychopharmacology and palliative care. And I started really looking at issues of desire for hastened death and the loss of meaning. And then developed interventions for meaning, which we call meaning-centered psychotherapy, which has been a real advance I think in our field. DANIEL HAYES: You must have been Dr. Holland's first trainee at Memorial. WILLIAM BREITBART: Well, her story-- basically, she was this young country girl in Nevada, Texas. She grew up on a farm, a cotton farm apparently. She was most influenced by the country doctor who would visit when people were ill. And when he passed away, he gave her a set of medical books, which inspired her. And she told her family, I think I want to be a doctor. And they said, well, gee, that sounds unreasonable, Jimmie. But whatever you feel like doing, go ahead. She ended up going to Baylor. And I think she was one of only three women in medical school class at Baylor. She started her residency I think at Baylor as well. And then eventually, she got married. Her first husband died tragically. I believe it was a suicide, which I think got interested in psychiatry. She ended up, I think, doing her residency at-- finishing her residency at MGH, along with Tom Hackett, people like that. And somewhere along that route, that's where she met James Holland. So James and Jimmie were, as you say, a power couple. James told me that Jimmie was his secret weapon, his secret power. But Jimmie told me the exact same thing about James. I think they fed off each other in terms of creativity and ideas. So when James moved to Roswell Park, I guess, Jimmie started a special clinic. And she called it "special" because nobody would come to a psychiatry clinic. But they would come to a place that was special because it made them feel special. And I guess it was around that time that James started collaborators-- CALGB. On the drive to work one day, Jimmie said, you ask patients every kind of question, like how many bowel movement does he have? You're very invasive in your questions. But you never ask them how they feel. And so she insisted that James do something about that. And so in order I guess to not get nagged on the car ride every day, he started a quality of life committee in CALGB. And Jimmie chaired that for quite a while. Eventually, I think James went to Mount Sinai. And Jimmie came along. And she worked at Albert Einstein-- College Hospital-- at Boston College of Medicine. And she was there with actually a bunch of pioneers of psychosomatic medicine. There was a guy named Herb Weiner, and Sig Ackerman, and Jim Strain, and Myron Hofer. These are very important names in our field of psychosomatic medicine. Jerry Posner at Memorial, Department of Neurology, was looking to bring psychiatry into-- consultative service to Sloan Kettering. And Jimmie often says they couldn't get Ned Cassem from MGH. So they picked her in second tier. And in 1977, she came there, along with a resident who graduated from Einstein, Mary Jane Massem. And the two of them had an office, with a card table-- as she described-- and a stack of index cards with the patients on them. And they set about starting a consult service. So in '77, she was the chief of the psychiatry service. And then about '78 or '9, a clinical fellowship was established. The NIMH had an initiative at that point to develop consultation liaisons, psychosomatic medicine fellowships around the country. And so she benefited from that initiative, and started a fellowship. That continued through '78 or so. And there are a couple of classes of fellows before me. I came to do the fellowship 1984 to '86. And it was during my fellowship, I think, that Jimmie and a woman named Julia Rowland, a psychologist, who's at the Smith Center now-- but was around the NCI's survivorship program for a long time. DANIEL HAYES: I actually worked with Julia at Georgetown for five years. WILLIAM BREITBART: At Georgetown, exactly. So she and Julia wrote the first-- edited the first textbook of psycho-oncology. It was called the Handbook of Psychooncology. And that's the first time I think the term "psychooncology" was used. I think it might have been 19-- late 1980s. It might have been 1989 or so that book came out. And the term psychooncology was not hyphenated at that point. There was no hyphen between the two O's. Jimmie asked me to write about six chapters. I knew a lot about delirium. I wrote that chapter. I knew a lot about suicide and cancer, which was an early interest of mine. And I knew a lot about neuropsychiatric issues and AIDS. But I didn't know very much about neuroendocrine phenomena that caused neuropsychiatric syndromes or the psychiatric aspects of head and neck cancer. I said to Jimmie, I don't know anything about these subjects, Jimmie. Do you think I'm the person to write this chapter? And she said to me, well, Bill, there are no experts in the world in this field. [LAUGHTER] So after you write the chapter, you will be the expert. So that was the philosophy. And so as a mentor, I would basically say the greatest thing about her as a mentor was that she gave you the confidence that you could achieve whatever you wanted-- whatever you were driven to achieve. She had that faith in you. The idea was that the only person who really had to believe in what you were doing was you. And if it was important to you to find the answer to that question, that you would be able to do it. She had a knack for finding people who were very driven, who joined this mission. It was really a mission. It was a calling to provide the human side of cancer care, to provide whole person care, to take care of the person who had cancer while they were going through all the cancer treatments. And the combination therapies that James Holland had come up with. DANIEL HAYES: Two stories about Jim, who I had more association than with Jimmie. Although Jimmie told me the thing she tell you, which is you got to figure out what you want to do. And then you'll be great at it, because I wasn't sure. But with Jim Holland, two things. I was the very young guy in a field to be. And I was named chair one of the committees. And he was sitting in the back. And I was talking about, well, we need a statistical plan, and that sort of thing. And in the back of the room, as only he could do without a microphone, "Well, Hayes, if you need a statistician, it's probably not worth doing." And other is, I once asked him, between you and Dr. Frye, who was my boss, Dr. Frye White-- the three guys, who actually came up with the idea of combinational therapy? And I might as well have let a fuse to a bomb because he was-- "Well, I did. I was there before they did. They came in. They were in the minority." And he sent me the protocol. That was David. So to be sure I understood that he had written it before those guys got there. He was quite a character. And I have to say, your comments about Jimmie, and being married to Jim, were like oil and water. It's unbelievable to me that they actually had a very loving, long-term relationship. She had five children with him, who are all accomplished in their own right. WILLIAM BREITBART: Yes, they are. DANIEL HAYES: And they just they just managed to make it work because he could be hard to deal with. But everybody loved him because of it. WILLIAM BREITBART: Yeah. I think the secret ingredient there is dedication. They were both people of great dedication and commitment. And they were committed to two things. They were committed to the work they did. And they were committed to each other and their family. And so I think that was the secret-- the secret ingredient. DANIEL HAYES: There are a number of things in your own career that struck me as I was going through it. That one of my own interests would be your work with hastened death. And again, I actually wrote a little sort of term paper kind of thing on this. And it was called assisted suicide. And I think we're talking about the same thing. Talk more about that, and what you've been involved with, and where you think that's going. WILLIAM BREITBART: Right. Well, my interest in that all started during the AIDS crisis, the AIDS epidemic, in the mid-'80s to mid-'90s or so. And I was right in the thick of it, in Manhattan, in New York City. And Sloan Kettering had a large population of AIDS patients, because of their interest in Kaposi's sarcoma and lymphomas. And they ended up taking care of a lot of patients. And I saw a lot of patients. And I was that age-- I was often the age of the patients-- many of the patients who I was treating. It was very difficult work, but very inspiring work. You really felt like you were doing important work, obviously. And because of many of the patients were younger men, men in their 30s, who I could relate to in many ways-- like you, I'm sure there are many patients that you treat. There are some that you feel closer to, you identify a lot more with, right. And these were-- that was the case here. And at the time, I was treating patients with AIDS. And there was no treat-- there was no therapy at all. And people were dying very difficult deaths. And I had many, many patients who asked me if I could help them die, if I could assist them in the suicide, could I prescribe their medicine, could I somehow hasten their death? And so for me, it was a clinical problem. What do I do? How do I understand this? What drives this desire to hasten your death? I knew it came out of a sense of despair. I knew it came out of a distress and a sense of despair. But at the time that this was happening, clinically there was also a big debate in our society about legalization of assisted suicide. And, in fact, I think that was the Supreme Court case of Vacco versus Quill, which was also being adjudicated at that time. And states, like Oregon, were starting to have a referendum about whether to legalize these things. So I thought, does one create policies based on popular opinion, or whatever, or a public opinion? Or do you create policies by understanding of the problem and that's informed by research? So I thought I needed to understand this. If I was going to be helpful as a psychiatrist, in this kind of a setting. And it came up occasionally with cancer patients, too. But it was just so dramatic. And it confronted me for the first time, mainly during the AIDS crisis. I felt I needed to understand it more, so that I could know how to be helpful or useful. Was I going to be able to eliminate the suffering? Or was my only option to eliminate the sufferer? And so we set about doing a set of studies, both in terminally ill AIDS patients and terminally ill cancer patients. And I actually developed and validated a scale that measured desire for hastened death. It's called the Schedule of Attitudes towards Hastened Death. Up until that point, people didn't really have a way of measuring it. They just asked the patient, yes or no, do you have-- or they might qualify it on a 0 to 4 scale or something. And so what was really interesting-- and one of my early fellows, my first fellow, the first surgeon attending from oncology, Chasnoff, who went back to Canada-- Winnipeg. And he starts to do a study. He did studies around the same time. But he didn't have a validated measure. But we ended up finding very similar things. As it turned out, about 40%-- 45% of folks who had high desire for hastened death, had a depression. About 17% of patients that had cancer-- we'll stick to the cancer data. About 17% of cancer patients have a high desire for phase. These are patients with advanced cancer, in a palliative care unit, or a hospice, whatever. And about 45% of those patients have a depression that was undiagnosed, untreated. The other factors that seem to contribute to desire for hastened death were things like lack of social support, uncontrolled pain, and severe physical debilitation. So I said, well, we can treat pain. We can increase social support. I gave a presentation one day at-- Kathy Foley had worked with George Soros and the Open Society Institute, to develop something called Project on Death in America. And I gave a talk to the board of the Project on Death in America. I was in the class of the first faculty scholars of Project on Death in America. It included a lot of people who are at the forefront of palliative care these days. But I gave a talk on this, on patient death. And one of the ethicists in the room, a famous ethicist, asked me, well, what happens to desire for hastened death if you treat the depression? And before answering that question, I said to myself, make a mental note. That's your next ROI grant, Bill. And so what I did after that, is I wrote several grants and did two studies looking at what treating depression in patients with high desire for hastened death. And I did both in AIDS and cancer patients, terminal cancer patients, two different studies. As it turns out, if you treat-- if someone who has high desire for hastened death and they have a depression, and you treat the depression, 90% of those patients, when their depression remits, the desire for hastened death remits. But there was still this segment of population of advanced cancer patients, were not depressed, did not have uncontrolled pain, or lack of social support. There were about a 40%-- 35%, 40% of the group, I didn't have the element, the factor that contributed to this desire for hastened death. So I figured there's something there that I haven't found. So we went back and did further studies. And we looked at other variables, like anxiety, hopelessness, loss of meaning. And what we discovered was that hope of hopelessness and loss of meaning were independent and synergistic factors that contributed to the desire for hastened death, and made up an additional 30% of the so-called variance. So between depression and hopelessness, independent of depression, and loss of meaning independent of depression, you could account for about 85%, 90% of the reasons why patients wanted to desire for hastened death. Based on my research and the research of others, there's still about a 10% group who are probably not in great despair. But the issue for them is, I live my life in a pretty authentic way. I've been able to control how I live my life. I should be able to. And I want to control the circumstances of my death. And they're not impaired by depression or anything like that. But when we had the findings of hopelessness and loss of meaning, I said to myself, OK, now I've got to find an intervention for loss of meaning and hopelessness. And I was looking for a drug. I went through every page of the PDR. And there was no drug for loss of meaning or loss of hope. So I had to turn to psychotherapy. Our CL psychiatrist-- you know, psychosomatic medicine psychiatrists, we like to give drugs. If there's a drug solution, we've got it. I'm your guy. So I had to force myself to turn towards psychotherapy rather later in my career, after doing all of these stimulant trials for fatigue and things like that, and other pharmacological trials for pain-- neuropathic pain, et cetera, delirium trials. There I was, starting to figure out what kind of psychotherapy can I develop to help enhance sense of meaning and hope? And that's when I turned to, ironically, a Holocaust survivor named Victor Frankl-- and turned to the work of Victor Frank, who wrote the book, Man's Search for Meaning. His big idea was that meaning is a primary motivating force for human behavior, similar to the idea of libido, and instinctual drive, and things like that. He thought meeting was another important drive. "Better" instinctual, he called it. And he thought that there were predictable sources of meaning that one could tap into. And so we basically developed-- just sat down in a room with a couple of my fellows. And we hacked out a seven-- or at the beginning, it was group intervention. So it was an eight-session intervention. And then we developed an individual format, seven sessions. And we basically developed this brief, structured psychotherapy that involved teaching patients the importance of meaning, both didactically and experientially; teaching them the various sources of meaning; and relating it to their cancer experience and living with cancer. And the whole purpose was to be able to get through cancer, and even facing death, by sustaining a sense of meaning for as long as you possibly could. And that's what we called meaning-centered psychotherapy. I ended up doing four randomized-- NIH-funded, randomized controlled trials of both individual and a group format. And now we have a-- we're in the seventh year of an R25 training grant. We're training a national and international cohort of clinicians to provide meaningful psychotherapy in the manuals and textbooks that are published. DANIEL HAYES: I'd like to segue this-- WILLIAM BREITBART: [INAUDIBLE], I designated it as a evidence-based intervention for palliative care. DANIEL HAYES: Well, I'd like to segue, that as you were talking, most of people listening to this are probably medical oncologists. And my impression is, we don't get a lot of this training that you're talking about. And the people you're training, they're probably a psychiatrist, not a medical oncologist. How have you translated that over to our world? WILLIAM BREITBART: Now, so actually the people we're training-- a few psychiatrists, not too many. We train psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, oncology nurse practitioners, oncology nurses, oncologists, chaplains, palliative care docs. We're expanding the training. And it's quite simple. And it's actually-- but we're working with a group to develop this into a digital app. It might be able to be prescribed by oncologists so that you don't even need a therapist. DANIEL HAYES: Are you in the weeds with the medical oncologists at Memorial, at Sloan. I mean, do you make rounds with them and help train them? WILLIAM BREITBART: Yeah. Jimmie started out with one psychiatrist. By the time the Psychiatry Service became a department in 1996, I think there were 12 psychiatrists and psychologists. And as of last count, I think we have 43 faculty, 25 psychiatrists and the rest psychologists, and around 200 staff, including research staff, and research faculty, and psychiatry services. So I took over as chief when Jimmie became the first chair in the Behavioral Sciences Service. And we had a cancer disparities in the Immigrant Health Service. So it's grown quite a bit. And all of us, we work in a sort of a disease management embedded model. So I originally was the psychiatrist for the Neuropsychology and Pain Service, and moved to the hepato-pancreato-biliary disease management team. But all of my psychiatrists and psychologists are embedded in the Breast Center, and in the GI group, hepato-pancreato-biliary groups, and hepato-neck, and thoracic, and all that. So we're all interacting there. DANIEL HAYES: How do you translate that outside of Memorial in New York? I mean, most oncologists don't have access to those kinds of resources. And you've got to have thought about that. WILLIAM BREITBART: About 1996, the National Cancer Center Network, the NCCN, got established and started developing guidelines. And so they asked Jimmie to head up of their guidelines for distress. And I was part of that group, and still am. And what came out of that was screening for distress, using a distress screening tool. DANIEL HAYES: The distress thermometer-- the distress thermometer. WILLIAM BREITBART: The distress thermometer, that's exactly right. And that came out of the pain work. The pain guys had the 0 to 10 scale. We didn't want to rip them off too badly. So we didn't want to do the 0 to 10 visual analog scale. So we had to come up with a different metaphor. So we called it "pain throughout." So the Distress Screening Commission on Cancer, I think, accredits cancer centers through either the Academy of Surgery-- Surgical Oncology or something like that. They mandated that for a cancer center to get accredited, you have to have a distress screening program. And if you have a distress screening program, then you have to have people who respond to these algorithms that get developed for people who they identify with high distress. So as a result of that one move, that one move of establishing distress stress as the sixth vital sign, which was Jimmie's idea, and developing distress screening, you now have-- every designated NCI-designated cancer center has to have a psychology program of some sort. Now, a lot of them aren't as big as ours. Some of them basically involve a half-time psychiatrist, a chaplain, a psych nurse practitioner, and a couple of social workers. But every cancer center has psycho-oncology present in it now as a result of that. DANIEL HAYES: I was having dinner one time with Jim and Jimmie. And she said, you two know the blood pressure, the temperature, the weight, pulse. But you have no idea, she said, how they feel. So it wasn't the last time she asked Jim on that question. And I went, what do you mean? She goes, you need a distress thermometer. She'd already published it. Of course, I didn't know that-- and pulled it out of her purse. And so she had to show the distress thermometer. WILLIAM BREITBART: That's correct. That's correct. That's correct. One of the big problems is when Jimmie started-- and you can attest to this-- that in the beginnings of oncology, it wasn't always the case that patients were told exactly what they had. Cancer was very stigmatized. The only thing that's more stigmatized than an illness like cancer is mental health, right. God forbid, you should have a problem with depression, or coping, or panic, or something. DANIEL HAYES: It's a sign of weakness. WILLIAM BREITBART: A weakness, moral weakness. Actually, we've come a long way in terms of truth telling and being transparent. And my patients now know exactly all the genetic mutations of about the tumor and stuff like that. They know everything. And they even know how their tumor is-- mutations are evolving and changing over time. But cancer was-- the idea of needing psychosocial counseling-- psychiatric help, psychological help, it was very stigmatized. So even the word "distress" was chosen out of a concern to not stigmatize patients. DANIEL HAYES: I will tell you that when-- I was at the Dana Farber. And there was a push for the Dana Farber to develop its own hospice program. And Dr. Frye, who was physician-in-chief, absolutely drew a line, and said no way because that means we've given up on those patients. We're not going to have a hospice program at Dana Farber because we don't want patients to think they're coming here to die. And I remember thinking that some of them do. And it would be very helpful if we had a way to help them figure it out. And I have to say, in preparing for this podcast, I've read several your papers. And thought, God, I wish you'd been at the Dana Farber when I was there. Or I wish I'd been at Memorial to get to work with you. But you can see I'm kind of tying things up here. Because I could listen to you for hours,but But we only have 20 or 30 minutes. And this has been terrific. WILLIAM BREITBART: I appreciate the opportunity. DANIEL HAYES: I'm sure our listeners will say, maybe-- I wonder how we can get him to come speak to our program. But I already wrote down here, we're going to invite you to Michigan. WILLIAM BREITBART: Well, in this era of Zoom-- in this era of Zoom, I'm a very cheap date because all you have to do is just connect me by Zoom. You don't have to pay for the air fare or anything. I go everywhere. DANIEL HAYES: I want to thank you for lots of reasons. One is for filling our listeners in-- many of them are young-- about who Dr. Holland was and what she did. Because we all owe her an enormous debt of gratitude for the contributions she made-- and you personally, as well. So thank you for taking your time to speak with us. And we really appreciate it. And I hope our paths cross again in the near future. Thanks a lot. WILLIAM BREITBART: Absolutely. Thank you so much. It was my pleasure. Appreciate it. [MUSIC PLAYING] DANIEL HAYES: Until next time, thank you for listening to this JCO's Cancer Stories-- The Art of Oncology podcast. If you enjoyed what you heard today, don't forget to give us a rating or a review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. While you're there, be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. JCO's Cancer Stories-- The Art of Oncology podcast is just one of ASCO's many podcasts. You can find all the shows at podcast.asco.org. [MUSIC PLAYING]

The history of coercive persuasion, from Pavlov to social media. Dr. Joel E. Dimsdale, M.D attended Carleton College and then Stanford University, where he obtained a MA in Sociology and an MD degree. He obtained psychiatric training at MGH and was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School from 1976-1985, when he moved to University of California, San Diego, where he is now Regent Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professor and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus. His clinical subspecialty is consultation psychiatry. He is a former career awardee of the American Heart Association and is past-president of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, the American Psychosomatic Society, and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. He is editor-in-chief emeritus of Psychosomatic Medicine and is a previous guest editor of Circulation and former editor-at-large of Journal Psychosomatic Research. He has been a consultant to the President's Commission on Mental Health, the Institute of Medicine, the National Academies of Science, the Department of Justice, NASA, and NIH and was Advisor to the UC Regents Health Sciences Committee. He was a member of the DSM 5 taskforce and chaired the workgroup studying somatic symptom disorders. His research interests include stress physiology, ethnicity, and sleep. He is the author of more than 500 publications, including Anatomy of Malice: the enigma of the Nazi War Criminals, Yale University Press, 2016 and Dark Persuasion: the History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media, Yale University Press, 2021.

Although not by design, this conversation with renowned acupuncturist Peter Mole continues in a similar vein of five element acupuncture that was introduced in my last podcast with Dr. Peter Eckman. Peter Mole began his acupuncture training under the legendary J.R. Worsley at Leamington Spa in England in the late seventies and has been in clinical practice ever since. In the early nineties, Peter cofounded one of the world's most influential colleges of acupuncture, the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine in Reading, England. Nearly thirty years later, he is still the Dean of the college while also maintaining an impactful clinical practice. He is also author of Acupuncture for Body, Mind and Spirit and co-author of the major textbook Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture. Peter emphasizes human connection, potentially above all else, and we spend a great deal of time exploring what that looks and feels like to him and the role it plays in his clinic. We also talk about the value of intention in any treatment and how that can often be more influential than point selection or location. Peter is drawn to psychosomatic approaches to health, and we peel back the lid on the inner world of humans that manifests in outer illness. As practitioners, we might find we have to initially treat symptoms to get the results that gain patients' trust, and once trust is established, much deeper healing can be fostered through examining the inner milieu. This is a timely episode about human connection, non-judgmental empathy, and, above all else, love. Peter is an inspirational mentor and a kind-hearted individual who, through his craft of acupuncture, is awakening beauty in the world. Please enjoy this episode of Pacific Rim College Radio with Peter Mole. Episode Links: Wolvercote Acupuncture Clinic College of Integrated Chinese Medicine Learning Links: School of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine at PRC Online Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine courses at PRCOnline Student Clinic at PRC

An opinion leader and public speaker, Stephen G. Post, Ph.D. (University of Chicago, 1983) has served on the Board of the John Templeton Foundation (2008-2014), which focuses on virtue and public life. Post is a leader in research on the benefits of giving and on compassionate care in relation to improved patient outcomes and clinician well-being. He addressed the U.S. Congress on volunteerism and health, receiving the Congressional Certificate of Special Recognition for Outstanding Achievement. Post was co-recipient (2012) with Edmund D. Pellegrino MD of the Pioneer Medal for Outstanding Leadership in HealthCare from the HealthCare Chaplaincy Network, and the Kama Book Award in Medical Humanities from World Literacy Canada (2008). Co-Recipient of the 2019 National Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Professionalism Award for development the Professional Identity Formation curriculum of the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Post has taught at the University of Chicago Medical School, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (1988-2008), and at Stony Brook (2008-present), where he is Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics. The Center was selected (2011) for special institutional excellence by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (AMA & AAMC accrediting body), the only humanities and ethics entity in American medical school history to receive this distinction. An elected member of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Royal Society of Medicine, London, Post is the author of 300 articles in journals such as Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, Psychosomatic Medicine, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.  Post's book The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer's Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press) was designated a “medical classic of the century” by the British Medical Journal (2009), which wrote, “Until this pioneering work was published in 1995 the ethical aspects of one of the most important illnesses of our aging populations were a neglected topic.” Post is a recipient of the Alzheimer's Association national distinguished service award “in recognition of personal and professional outreach to the Alzheimer's Association Chapters on ethics issues important to people with Alzheimer's and their families.” Post's culminating book in this field is Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease (in press, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022).   With Sir John Templeton (d. 2008) Post co-founded The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love: Spirituality, Compassion, and Service in 2001. Post is the best-selling lead author of Why Good Things Happen to Good People: How to Live a Longer, Happier, Healthier Life by the Simple Act of Giving (Random House Broadway). Post has been quoted in more than 4000 newspapers and magazines, and featured on numerous television shows including The Daily Show. Described by Martin E.P. Seligman in Flourish as one of “the stars of positive psychology,” in 2003 Post was invited to join the Founding Fellows of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), based at Cambridge University. Founded in 2002, ISSR is the world's preeminent learned society devoted to this intersection, with 200 Fellows from the sciences and humanities. Post has written popularly on this topic in God and Love on Route 80: The Hidden Mystery of Human Connectedness (Mango 2019). Email: Post@stephengpost.com Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute

Love Wounds are much more than just a broken heart. They can be a real medical  problem. In fact, some people have such a severe love wound that they harbor self-hatred, they feel broken, and truly inadequate. We live in what could be called a psychologically damaging society. So, today Dr. Lycka welcomes Dr. Michael McGee to the show to talk about healing “Love Wounds” and getting on the path toward living a Fantastic Life.   Dr. Michael McGee's Bio Dr. McGee has a private practice in SanLuis Obispo, California, where he practices a combination of psychotherapy and psychopharmacology. His approaches are eclectic. He includes psycho spiritual interventions to complement biological, psychodynamic, interpersonal, and cognitive-behavioral interventions. Dr. McGee is BoardCertified in General Psychiatry, Addiction, Psychiatry, and Psychosomatic Medicine. He has extensive experience in addictions and treatment and general adult psychiatry. He is the author of the multi-award-winning book, The Joy of Recovery. He is also author of 101 Things You Need to Know if You're Addicted to Painkillers, and the forthcoming book entitled Heal The Hurt:20 ways to ease emotional suffering.   Dr. Michael McGee's Social Media Links Website: https://drmichaelmcgee.com/       Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WellMindwithDrMcGee Twitter: https://twitter.com/dr_michaelmcgee Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-mcgee-a938473b/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drmichaelmcgee/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLvCRXwmCvE5BhzP6erZuXg   Thanks for listening to the show! It means so much to us that you listened to our podcast! If you would like to continue the conversation, please email me at allen@drallenlycka.com or visit our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/drallenlycka. We would love to have you join us there, and welcome your messages. We check our Messenger often.    As a big thank you for listening to our podcast, we'd like to offer you a free copy of Dr. Lycka's bestselling book the show is built on “The Secrets to Living A Fantastic Life.” Get your free copy by clicking here: https://secretsbook.now.site/home   We are building a community of like-minded people in the personal development/self-help/professional development industries, and are always looking for wonderful guests for our show. If you have any recommendations, please email us!   Dr. Allen Lycka's Social Media Links Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/drallenlycka Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/dr_allen_lycka/ Twitter:  https://www.twitter.com/drallenlycka LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/allenlycka YouTube:  https://www.YouTube.com/c/drallenlycka   Subscribe to the show We would be honored to have you subscribe to the show – you can subscribe on the podcast app on your mobile device.   Leave a review We appreciate your feedback, as every little bit helps us produce even better shows. We want to bring value to your day, and have you join us time and again.  Ratings and reviews from our listeners not only help us improve, but also help others find us in their podcast app. If you have a minute, an honest review on iTunes or your favorite app goes a long way! Thank you!

“Part of returning to our roots is we have to get out in nature. We have to get out and discover and invest in ourselves” – Dr. Ryan Darby   Dr. Ryan Darby is on a personal mission to disrupt negativity, and he does it as a researcher, consultant, and father. Currently, Dr. Ryan serves as President of Incredible Family, and is the co-creator of the Incredible Parent and Incredible Kid strengths assessments. As a researcher, he has published original research in leading academic journals including Cognition & Emotion, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Psychosomatic Medicine, among others, and in leading industry journals like the Gallup Business Journal. Ryan is co-creator of two of the largest strengths coaching certifications programs in the world: Gallup's Strengths Coach Certification Program and the Global Parent Strengths Certification. He received his doctorate and master's degree from the University of California, San Diego and his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University.   Your Key Takeaways Focus in the New IQ - How being in the present moment is a strong predictor of success  Mental Exhaustion - Techniques to free cognitive overload and detox the noise from our lives  The Power of Nature - The science behind children's relationship with nature Birthplace of Excellence - Why we face discord when we aren't in touch with nature Nature is Strengths-Based - Bringing forth resilience in adversity    How is your relationship with your family shaped by nature?   Resources Connect with Dr. Ryan Darby Incredible Family's Facebook Incredible Family's Facebook Group Incredible Family's Instagram   Connect with Darren For more information on the Nature Advantage visit natureadvantageshow.com   Darren's Social Media Instagram Facebook LinkedIn

“I love to understand why people do what we do” – Dr. Ryan Darby   Dr. Ryan Darby is on a personal mission to disrupt negativity, and he does it as a researcher, consultant, and father. Currently, Dr. Ryan serves as President of Incredible Family, and is the co-creator of the Incredible Parent and Incredible Kid strengths assessments. As a researcher, he has published original research in leading academic journals including Cognition & Emotion, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Psychosomatic Medicine, among others, and in leading industry journals like the Gallup Business Journal. Ryan is co-creator of two of the largest strengths coaching certifications programs in the world: Gallup's Strengths Coach Certification Program and the Global Parent Strengths Certification. He received his doctorate and master's degree from the University of California, San Diego and his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University.   Your Key Takeaways Follow Your Passion - The pursuit of wanting to know why we do what we do and the journey it's led Dr. Darby on Incredible Family - Disrupting negativity through a strengths-based approach Human Nature & Negativity Bias - Self-Awareness as the key to understanding our needs and strengths    What are some of the things that you are awesome at? What are some of your natural strengths?    Resources Connect with Dr. Ryan Darby Incredible Family's Facebook Incredible Family's Facebook Group Incredible Family's Instagram   Connect with Darren For more information on the Nature Advantage visit natureadvantageshow.com   Darren's Social Media Instagram Facebook LinkedIn

David D. Clarke, MD is President of the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association. He is also Assistant Director at the Center for Ethics and Clinical Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology Emeritus both at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon, USA. As Faculty Associate at Arizona State University and at the Cummings Graduate Institute for Behavioral Health Studies he teaches graduate courses on Psychophysiologic Medicine. He is also a Clinical Advisor to the Stress Illness Recovery Practitioners Association (U.K.) and a Clinical Lecturer with Pacific University in Oregon. His book, They Can't Find Anything Wrong!,(Sentient Publications, 2007) was praised by a president of the American Psychosomatic Society as “truly remarkable.” He was also the lead editor for the professional textbook Psychophysiologic Disorders (KDP Publishing, 2019) which has sixteen contributors from five countries. He is board-certified in Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine and practiced Gastroenterology in Portland from 1984 to 2009. During that time he diagnosed and treated over 7000 patients whose symptoms were not explained by diagnostic testing. In surveys of physicians by Portland Monthly magazine in the metropolitan area, Dr. Clarke was twice named one of the “Top Doctors” in his specialty. He has received numerous awards for patient care and is a member of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, the American Psychosomatic Society and the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association for whom he co-Chairs the Special Interest Group on Medically Unexplained Symptoms. Dr. Clarke is a graduate of Williams College (Phi Beta Kappa) and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine where he received the Mosby Award for Clinical Excellence. He completed internship and residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Gastroenterology at Harbor/UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane, Australia and at Oxford University in England. He was the Ethics Director for his medical group from 2005-2008. Our radio shows archives and programming include: A Different Perspective with Kevin Randle; Alien Cosmic Expo Lecture Series; Alien Worlds Radio Show; Connecting with Coincidence with Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD; Dick Tracy; Dimension X; Exploring Tomorrow Radio Show; Flash Gordon; Jet Jungle Radio Show; Journey Into Space; Know the Name with Sharon Lynn Wyeth; Lux Radio Theatre - Classic Old Time Radio; Mission Evolution with Gwilda Wiyaka; Paranormal StakeOut with Larry Lawson; Ray Bradbury - Tales Of The Bizarre; Sci Fi Radio Show; Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes; Space Patrol; Stairway to Heaven with Gwilda Wiyaka; The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell; and many other! That's The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

PSYCHPEARLS PODCAST During the first wave of COVID-19 cases in New York City, physicians of all kinds took on unfamiliar roles and, in many cases, potentially risked their lives to help their patients. In this edition of Psych Pearls, a quartet of doctors remember the early, uncertain days the pandemic. Hosts Angela Coombs, MD, and Jennifer Sotsky, MD, talk to Sara Nash, MD, MS, and David Chong, MD, about their personal experiences, how the challenges of the pandemic have evolved over time, what has kept them going throughout the year, and why preexisting social inequalities made the pandemic even deadlier in some communities.    Dr Nash is assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and program director of its fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine. Dr Chong is associate professor of medicine and program director of the Internal Medicine Training Program at Columbia University Medical Center.  About the hosts: Dr Coombs is a board-certified psychiatrist and assistant professor in Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She serves as the medical director and team psychiatrist at ONTrackNY Washington Heights Community Service clinic. She completed her public psychiatry fellowship and adult psychiatry residency at Columbia University where she was a chief resident and co-organized the curriculum on racial/ethnic mental health disparities. In addition to her clinical work in the public sector, she also works in Columbia's psychiatric emergency room and has a private practice in Upper Manhattan. Dr Sotsky is a fellow in consultation-liaison psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center with a part time private practice. She was formerly a chief resident at Columbia’s psychiatry residency program. Before medical training, she received an MS in Narrative Medicine, an interdisciplinary field that studies illness through a humanities lens. She is co-author of Conquering Lyme Disease: Science Bridges the Great Divide and has interests in medical education, psychotherapy, and medical humanities. Acknowledgement: Thanks to Columbia University Department of Psychiatry for allowing us to present the Breakthrough Session podcast with experts in the field of psychiatry.

The KEY component of weight loss is your mindset. Without changing the way one thinks, the less potential that an individual will stay on track and see the whole process through to the end goal. This challenge is not easy and takes a lot of discipline and consistency. Many people jump into new diets and exercise plans while being very focused on instant results, which will set up anyone for failure. Some people who are beginners may see a quick jump in weight loss due to the body making rapid adaptations from drastic lifestyle changes, but eventually the curve will flatten and the incremental losses will decrease. A lot of people try to lose weight with the worst state of mind and trying to instantly "fix" themselves. Out of self-deprecation they have very negative self-talk calling themselves "fat" or "soft" and feeling depleted nonetheless. People get too obsessed with results, with the focus on quick fixes and no sight on sustainability or even proper health in general. This overall thought process is destructive, and the reason majority of people fail at weight loss. Instead of seeing the benefits of a healthier quality of living, the potential for a longer life, and more opportunities of activities to partake in. Even reducing chronic health diseases like heart disease and diabetes. They still focus on the negative side of what they haven't achieved yet. Therefore a negative mindset is the ultimate downfall... A mindset shift takes more than just feeling "good" about yourself, it takes results. The amazing power of our brain is that when we think or highly believe something is true, the more likely it will manifest in our lives. Studies have shown that people who are more dissatisfied with their body, are more likely to exercise less, as they feel it is unnecessary. As well, possibly just thinking you are overweight will lead to future weight gain. The mind must believe it before the body will achieve it. Psychologist stress that how we see ourselves and our core identity, directly predicts our actions. Biology comes into play as well, as our genetics can lead to different body compositions because of hereditary traits, metabolic rates, and environmental conditioning. Research published in Psychosomatic Medicine even show that the stress hormone cortisol, which your adrenal glands secrete every time you get down on yourself or worry about the numbers on the scale, increases distribution of fat around the abdomen. So, changing your thoughts directly affects hormones released and the overall opportunity for forward progress. Stay Strong...Stay Consistent...Stay Healthy... & Keep developing yourself Level Up! Love M!NDSET Team

 Cardiovascular exercise (CV), and other such classifications of fitness endeavors, has extensive research to support the American College of Sports Medicine’s broad definition as “exercise medicine.” Current, established activity guidelines include recommending a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise, or 75 minutes of high-intensity weekly exercise to maintain or improve cardiorespiratory fitness and health, while reducing the risk to non-communicable diseases – type 2 diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, stroke, and more.The nomenclature of CV exercise has specific variations, such as endurance exercise, in the form of moderate-intensity, continuous training (MICT), and high-intensity interval exercise (HIIE) - referenced as high-intensity interval training (HIIT), and sprint interval training (SIT). HIIT involves alternating intervals at greater than 80% of maximum endurance capacity (VO2 Max) or 85% of your maximal heart rate (220-age), typically 1 to 4 minutes in duration – with lower intensity, active or passive recovery, while SIT uses short – full go – intervals, typically less than 30 seconds, with short, passive recovery.Writing in the March 2021 issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise – Effectiveness of HIIE versus MICT in Improving Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Health and Disease: a Meta-Analysis - researchers from the Sports Medicine Department, Clinical Epidemiology and Applied Biometrics Department, and the Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy Department, University Hospital of Tubingen in Germany, used a meta-analysis (many similar studies) to investigate the clinical benefits distinguishing each exercise modality (HIIE and MICT) in health and disease. The data search began in January of 2018 and culminated in July of 2020.The seven key clinical endpoints of the literature analysis included: “physical fitness (VO2 max), endothelial function (flow-mediated dilation [FMD]), body composition (body mass index [BMI], body mass, and body fat), blood pressure (systolic and diastolic blood pressure), blood lipids (HDL, LDL, triglycerides, and total cholesterol), inflammation (C-reactive protein [CRP]), and insulin and glucose metabolism (fasting glucose, fasting insulin, glycated hemoglobin [HbA1c], and insulin resistance (HOMA-IR).”After a comprehensive analysis of the data, the researchers said, “overall, HIIE showed to be more effective in improving cardiovascular health and cardio- respiratory fitness, whereas MICT was superior in improving long-term glucose metabolism.”From an aging perspective, the data analysis determined that relative to endothelial function, which protects tissues from toxic substances, regulates the blood clotting mechanism, controls the transition of fluid and certain substances between the blood and tissues, and inflammatory control in tissues - it was determined that the HIIE had higher effects than did the MICT – the result of the “interval-like” exercise training programs inducing a, “higher shear stress, and promoting an increased nitric oxide release.” The Germans recommended that, “in the process of personalized training counseling, health-enhancing effects of exercise training may be improved by considering the individual risk profiles.”And, that risk stratification needs to start with your personal physician. For more information on this topic and more, go to maxwellnutrition.com.

Według różnych danych, zaburzeń depresyjnych doświadcza 1-1,5 mln Polaków. Według WHO, depresja dotyka ponad 264 mln osób na całym świecie. To są jednak dane z 2017 i początku 2020 roku, jeszcze przed wybuchem pandemii koronawirusa, która — nie oszukujmy się — wpłynęła na wszystkich negatywnie, głównie z powodu poczucia niepokoju, izolacji społecznej. Z kolei, według raportu ONZ dotyczącego związku COVID-19 ze zdrowiem psychicznym, pandemia może jeszcze pogorszyć te statystyki, które i tak nie były optymistyczne. Mamy problem ze zdrowiem psychicznym i tym bardziej zatrważa dostępność do specjalistów ds. zdrowia psychicznego - zgodnie z raportem ONZ, w skali świata, na każde 10 tys. osób przypada mniej niż 1 specjalista ds. zdrowia psychicznego. Co z tym można zrobić? Jedną z rzeczy, które mają wpływ na nasz nastrój i w tym na rozwój zaburzeń depresyjnych ma dieta. W tym odcinku skupiam się na związku diety z rozwojem zaburzeń depresyjnych. Nie skupię się jednak na przyczynach depresji czy innych zaburzeń nastroju, bo jest ich wiele, a ja nie mam takiej wiedzy żeby tutaj się mądrzyć z pozycji eksperta. Nawiążę do kwestii osi mózg-jelito, jelito-mózg, o której mówiłam w poprzednim odcinku (#20.) i zachęcam do odsłuchania. Jeżeli masz pytania do tego odcinka napisz do mnie na malgorzata@pielichowska.pl Odwiedź moją stronę: https://pielichowska.pl Zostań moim patronem: https://patronite.pl/pielichowska Odwiedź mojego Facebooka: https://www.facebook.com/pielichowska.dietetyk Odwiedź mojego Instagrama: https://www.instagram.com/diet.and.mindfulness/ Literatura: Marx W., Lane M., Hockey M., i wsp. Diet and depression: exploring the biological mechanisms of action. Molecular Psychiatry, Nov 2020.Firth J., Marx W., Dash S. I wsp., The Effects of Dietary Improvement on Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Psychosomatic Medicine (2019) 81 (5): 265-280. Lassale C, Batty GD, Baghdadli A, Jacka F, Sánchez-Villegas A, Kivimäki M, Akbaraly T. Healthy dietary indices and risk of depressive outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies. Mol Psychiatry. 2019 Jul;24(7):965-986.Li Y, Lv MR, Wei YJ, Sun L, Zhang JX, Zhang HG, Li B. Dietary patterns and depression risk: A meta-analysis. Psychiatry Res. 2017 Jul; 253:373-382.Zheng L, Sun J, Yu X, Zhang D. Ultra-Processed Food Is Positively Associated With Depressive Symptoms Among United States Adults. Front Nutr. 2020 Dec 15;7:600449.Liu RT, Walsh RFL, Sheehan AE. Prebiotics and probiotics for depression and anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2019 Jul;102:13-23.https://www.foundmyfitness.com/topics/bdnf Olajossy M., Olajossy B., Wnuk S., i wsp. Stężenia kwasu kynureninowego w surowicy krwi pacjentów leczonych elektrycznie z rozpoznaniem zaburzenia depresyjnego nawracającego i depresji w przebiegu choroby afektywnej dwubiegunowej oraz zaburzenia schizoafektywnego. Psychiatr. Pol. 2017; 51(3): 455–468Aly J., Engmann O. The Way to a Human's Brain Goes Through Their Stomach: Dietary Factors in Major Depressive Disorder. Front. Neurosci. (2020) 14:582853. https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/un_policy_brief-covid_and_mental_health_final.pdfhttps://zdrowedane.nfz.gov.pl/pluginfile.php/266/mod_resource/content/1/nfz_o_zdrowiu_depresja.pdf

Proximity and connectedness are basic requirements of mankind. Remarkable, in modern societies, despite high population density in metropolitan areas the number of people living alone seems to increase steadily. This is particular true for older people, however, over the total life span vulnerable phases can be identified which increase the risk of social isolation. Large scale prospective population based studies in many sites all over the industrialized world have evidenced that sustained feelings of social isolation and loneliness subsequently impact severely mental health but also somatic health of its victims.Particularly, this has been shown for cardio-vascular and metabolic diseases. Theses strong associations require medical explanations. We will give a condensed overview about the state of the art in psycho-(neuro)-physiology and will demonstrate why such adverse emotions of loneliness impact our health so deeply. Here, an impaired HPA axis and dysfunctions of the immune system play a most prominent role. We will not end without trying to draw conclusions of the actual basic research findings for supporting and treating these subjects at risk. Karl Heinz LADWIG - is Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychological Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and is affiliated to the Department of Psycho-somatic Medicine and Psychotherapy. http://www.psychosomatik.mri.tum.de He is also Head of the Mental Health Epidemiology Unit of the Institute of Epidemiology at the Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Centre for Environmental Health in Munich. As clinical epidemiologist, he coordinates the mental health issues of the Institute. Major research topics of KH Ladwig comprise mental health related stress research in psycho-diabetology, psycho-cardiology (bio-behavioural concepts in cardiology) – both in risk factor epidemiology and clinical research – aging research and psycho-traumatology. His group contributes since a long time research findings by elucidating epidemiological, clinical and basic findings to better understand the impact social support, isolation and loneliness on health. Recorded in Udine 4th July - IFOTES Congress "Leaving loneliness, building relationships"

When Dr Simon Breidert tried to discontinue use of the hair growth medication Finasteride, he experienced a myriad of very disturbing and disabling symptoms in multiple body systems. But the medical system doesn’t recognize Post Finasteride Syndrome and has labeled any one who says they experience those symptoms as hysterical. Dr Breidert was now confronted by his own profession’s deeply embedded medical bias. Simon was experiencing horrible physical symptoms, but the health care system had already decided his diagnosis is psychosomatic. Talk about major cognitive dissonance. Simon had to reconcile years of medical education that psychologizes everything it does not yet understand, with his own body’s experience. Simon and I talk about how his body broke down, his hellish health care journey and the strategies he employs to manage Post Finasteride Syndrome. Simon also shares what he now thinks of the medical system, psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine, and how he’s leveraging the trauma of serious illness and medical marginalization and gaslighting, into growth by founding the charity PFS Research. Connect with Dr Simon Breidert https://twitter.com/simonbreidert https://www.pfsresearch.org/ Be a podcast patron Support Medical Error Interviews on Patreon by becoming a Patron for $2 / month for audio versions.  Premium Patrons get access to video versions of podcasts for $5 / month. Be my Guest I am always looking for guests to share their medical error experiences so we help bring awareness and make patients safer. If you are a survivor, a victim’s surviving family member, a health care worker, advocate, researcher or policy maker and you would like to share your experiences, please send me an email with a brief description:  RemediesPodcast@gmail.com  Need a Counsellor? Like me, many of my clients at Remedies Counseling have experienced the often devastating effects of medical error. If you need a counsellor for your experience with medical error, or living with a chronic illness(es), I offer online video counseling appointments. **For my health and life balance, I limit my number of counseling clients.**  Email me to learn more or book an appointment:  RemediesOnlineCounseling@gmail.com   Scott Simpson:  Counsellor + Patient Advocate + (former) Triathlete I am a counsellor, patient advocate, and - before I became sick and disabled - a passionate triathlete. Work hard. Train hard. Rest hard. I have been living with HIV since 1998. I was the first person living with HIV to compete at the triathlon world championships. Thanks to research and access to medications, HIV is not a problem in my life. I have been living with ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis) since 2012, and thanks in part to medical error, it is a big problem in my life. Counseling / Research I first became aware of the ubiquitousness of medical error during a decade of community based research working with the HIV Prevention Lab at Ryerson University, where I co-authored two research papers on a counseling intervention for people living with HIV, here and here.  Patient participants would often report varying degrees of medical neglect, error and harms as part of their counseling sessions. Patient Advocacy I am co-founder of the ME patient advocacy non-profit Millions Missing Canada, and on the Executive Committee of the Interdisciplinary Canadian Collaborative Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Research Network. I am also a patient advisor for Health Quality Ontario’s Patient and Family Advisory Council, and member of Patients for Patient Safety Canada. Medical Error Interviews podcast and vidcast emerged to give voice to victims, witnesses and participants in this hidden epidemic so we can create change toward a safer health care system. My golden retriever Gladys is a constant source of love and joy. I hope to be well enough again one day to race triathlons again. Or even shovel the snow off the sidewalk.  

Are you in benzo withdrawal? Do you feel stuck? Hopeless? Do you wish you could be more positive? More active? In part two of this three-part series, you will learn tips for improving your physical and mental health. Maintaining a positive mindset during withdrawal may sound like a near impossibility — but it's a goal worth fighting for. And keeping active — while a continuous struggle – can be equally as challenging but just as key to your sanity and success. https://www.easinganxiety.com/post/managing-the-fear-of-benzo-withdrawal-part-2-bfp004Video ID: BFP004 Chapters 00:00 Introduction02:27 Q&A08:15 Feature: Managing the Fear of Benzo Withdrawal (Part 2)23:07 Moment of Peace  Episode Summary Welcome to the second segment of our 3-part series on Managing the Fear of Benzo Withdrawal. This series is derived from a chapter in my book titled, “Managing the Fear,” which focuses on reducing the fear, anxiety, and stress during benzo withdrawal. Before we dive too deep into our featured topic, we will chat a bit and cover a few questions in our Q&A section on short-term use and symptoms in protracted withdrawal.  Feature Series SERIES: Managing the Fear of Benzo Withdrawal In my opinion, fear, and the stress and anxiety related to that fear, cause more distress and more complications during withdrawal than anything else. And this fear is not some natural psychological fear. It's chemically enhanced. On top of the original anxieties we had before our dependence on benzos, we now have a damaged nervous system that can't process fear correctly. A system that can send us into a panic state — both psychologically and physiologically — at the least sign of distress. Above all, stop worrying. Worry, fear and anxiety increase all withdrawal symptoms. Many of these symptoms are actually due to anxiety and not signs of brain or nervous system damage. People who fear withdrawal have more intense symptoms than those who just take it as it comes and think positively and confidently about recovery.— Prof. Ashton, The Ashton Manual This series is broken down into three separate parts: PART 1 (https://www.easinganxiety.com/post/managing-the-fear-of-benzo-withdrawal-part-1-bfp003) — Series Introduction— 1) Taking Responsibility for Your Own Recovery PART 2 (this video)— 2) Keeping Positive— 3) Maintaining Mental and Physical Activity PART 3 (https://www.easinganxiety.com/post/managing-the-fear-of-benzo-withdrawal-part-3-bfp005)— 4) Having Kindness for Yourself and Others— 5) Finding Acceptance of Your Condition  Episode Description Today we discuss two essential elements to maintaining a stable mindset during withdrawal: positivity and activity. 2) POSITIVITYAllowing your feelings to happen, all feelings, is critical to maintaining mental health. A positive mindset is not about suppressing your feelings or glossing over them and putting on a good face. That plan of attack can lead to disaster. What I'm talking about is a positive mindset. You still feel sad, angry, mad, and everything else at different times. But when something happens in your life, you will lean a bit more on the positive side than the negative side. Focus on what is good in your life. 3) ACTIVITYKeeping an active mind and body is critical to success during withdrawal. More and more studies show that keeping your mind active is key to keeping it healthy. This goes double for people with anxiety and triple for people going through benzo withdrawal. And being physically active is equally as important. Studies have shown that the first twenty minutes of exercise garners the most health benefits. Even if you can't do anything else, a brisk walk every day can do wonders. It's not just about exercise, it's about being active.  Resources The following resource links are provided as a courtesy to our listeners. They do not constitute an endorsement by Easing Anxiety of the resource or any recommendations or advice provided therein. — Ashton, C. Heather. Benzodiazepines: How They Work and How to Withdraw (aka The Ashton Manual). 2002. Accessed April 13, 2016. http://www.benzo.org.uk/manual/.— Babyak, Michael, James A. Blumenthal, Steve Herman, Parinda Khatri, Murali Doraiswamy, Kathleen Moore, Edward Craighead, Teri T. Baldewicz and K. Ranga Krishnan. “Exercise Treatment for Major Depression: Maintenance of Therapeutic Benefit at 10 Months.” Psychosomatic Medicine 62(5)(October 2000):633-38. Accessed April 12, 2018. http://www.hibody.co.uk/Exercise%20treatment%20for%20major%20depression.pdf.— Bach, Richard. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. New York: Creature Enterprises, 1977. Print.— Finding Nemo. DVD. Directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich. Performed by Ellen DeGeneres. Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, and David Reynolds. 2003. Buena Vista Pictures, 2003.— Foster, D E. Benzo Free: The World of Anti-Anxiety Drugs and the Reality of Withdrawal. Erie, Colorado: Denim Mountain Press, 2018.— McCarthy, Justin. “More Americans Say Crime Is Rising in U.S.” Gallup. October 22, 2015. Accessed April 12, 2018. http://news.gallup.com/poll/186308/americans-say-crime-rising.aspx.— Meixler, Eli. “‘Remember to Look Up at the Stars.' Read Some of Stephen Hawking's Most Memorable Quotes.” Time. March 14, 2018. Accessed March 15, 2018. http://time.com/5198842/stephen-hawking-quotes-universe-life.— Roser, Max and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina. “Global Extreme Poverty.” Our World in Data (Online Resource). 2018. Accessed April 12, 2018. https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty.— Roser, Max and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina. “Global Rise of Education.” Our World in Data (Online Resource). 2017. Accessed April 12, 2018. https://ourworldindata.org/global-rise-of-education.— Roser, Max and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina. “Homicides.” Our World in Data (Online Resource). 2018. Accessed April 12, 2018. https://ourworldindata.org/homicides.  The PodcastThe Benzo Free Podcast provides information, support, and community to those who struggle with the long-term effects of anxiety medications such as benzodiazepines (Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, Valium) and Z-drugs (Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata). WEBSITE: https://www.easinganxiety.comMAILING LIST: https://www.easinganxiety.com/subscribe YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@easinganx DISCLAIMERAll content provided by Easing Anxiety is for general informational purposes only and should never be considered medical advice. Any health-related information provided is not a substitute for medical advice and should not be used to diagnose or treat health problems, or to prescribe any medical devices or other remedies. Never disregard medical advice or delay in seeking it. Please visit our website for our complete disclaimer at https://www.easinganxiety.com/disclaimer. CREDITSMusic provided / licensed by Storyblocks Audio — https://www.storyblocks.com Benzo Free Theme — Title: “Walk in the Park” — Artist: Neil Cross PRODUCTIONEasing Anxiety is produced by…Denim Mountain Presshttps://www.denimmountainpress.com ©2022 Denim Mountain Press – All Rights Reserved