What's the deal with Psychiatry? What's hopeful, what's gone amiss with Dr. Will Van Derveer

Dr. H sits down with Dr. Will Van Derveer of the Integrative Psychiatry Institute and Higher Practice podcast in a wide-ranging exploration of what's good (and not so good) in current psychiatric practice.

They explore topics including:
 •Problems with diagnostic nosology
•Depression as a spiritual problem or a symptom of disconnection
•Integrative psychiatry and how this differs from standard psychiatry
•Getting at root causes of psychiatric illness
•The role of psychotherapy in good psychiatry practice
•Diagnosing and treating ADD
•Ketamine-- Dosing, route,  how and when to include adjunctive psychotherapy
•Ketamine via tele-health....Expanding access or increasing risk?
•What other psychiatric and non-psychiatric clinicians are missing
•Vicarious trauma and grief in psychiatry
•Hopes and concerns with recent psychedelic decriminalization

Psychedelic Practitioner Immersive
https://www.enduringlovetherapy.com/events-1/psychedelic-practitioner-immersive-psychedelic-space-holding-integration

Dr. Will Van Derveer and the Integrative Psychiatry Institute
https://psychiatrycenters.com/team-members/will-van-derveer-md/

Higher Practice podcast
https://psychiatryinstitute.com/podcast/

BFTA on Instagram. @backfromtheabysspodcast
https://www.instagram.com/backfromtheabysspodcast/

BFTA/ Dr. H
https://www.craigheacockmd.com/podcast-page/

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