Episode 20 Helping Suicide Survivors Heal - Stigma about suicide is a serious problem for survivors. We need to recognize that this is a circumstance of death that is very difficult for the survivo

Episode 19: Unlike the song from Mash, Suicide is not painless especially for the survivors! - All losses of loved ones through death have an element of trauma built into them. - Thats most parti

PODCAST #18 “Surprise, Surprise! Men and women experience Depression differently!”

Episode #18   Surprise, Surprise!  Men and women experience Depression differently! - Dr Melissa Perrin parses out the different diagnostic categories in the DSM 5, including Major Depressive Disorders, Chronic Depressive which is Dysthymic,

Episode #17: Its not Depression Its Grief! - We are too quick to mistake normal grief for depression. Only 10 to 15 percent of grievers have severe reactions to the loss of a loved one and thus

Working with hoarders requires creativity because of the unique meaning they attribute to every little thing.  First goal:  stop acquiring! - © On Good Authority, Inc., 2019 SHRINKS TALK SHOP - A NEW podcast hosted by Barbara Alexander as sh...

Episode #6      “Living with a Schizophrenic Child.” -          Retired Administrative Law Judge, Karen Mellow describes to Barbara Alexander, with brutal frankness, what life with a schizophrenic child is like.

Episode #15:  Hoarders:  Why cleaning out their homes never works,  Part 2 - Dr Frost details how compulsive behaviors drive sufferers to pile objects throughout their homes. Hoarders’ beliefs about possessions and their difficulties in spatial percep...

Episode 14:   "Hoarders: When does collecting become hoarding?” Part 1 -        In their book Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, Randy Frost, Ph.D. and Gail Steketee, Ph.D. identify the key traits that identify a hoarder.

Episode 13: Promoting Post-Traumatic Growth, Part 2 - List Ferentz continues our discussion on Post-traumatic growth, with particular emphasis on the neurology of trauma and on the impact of the trauma survivors’s often brutal experience.