The Carlat Psychiatry Podcast

The Carlat Psychiatry Podcast


A New Treatment for Postpartum Depression

August 26, 2019

William S. Meyer is a clinical social worker and psychoanalytic psychotherapist who holds faculty positions at Duke in the Departments of Psychiatry and Ob/Gyn. He has spent 20 years working with postpartum depression at the Duke Medical Center. In this interview, he discusses the role of psychotherapy, community, family, and where medications and the new neurosteroid brexanolone (Zulresso) fit in the big picture.


Publication Date: 8/26/19


Runtime: 15 minutes, 58 seconds


Articles Referenced: Brexanolone: A New Treatment for Postpartum Depression,” The Carlat Psychiatry Report, January, 2019


"Brexanolone (Zulresso) for Postpartum Depression," The Carlat Psychiatry Report, June 2019