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Murderbot: Schizoid Personality, Neurodivergence, and the Search for Humanity in AI
Jun 26, 2026
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Side Effect Mastery in Psychopharmacology: Rawlings–Thompson A-F Classification, Low Slow Titration & Real-World Management with Dr. Michael Cummings & Dr. Blaire Heath
Jun 19, 2026
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Disengagement Precedes Enactment: Mastering Countertransference with Dr. Karen Maroda
Jun 12, 2026
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Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse: Shame, Masculinity, Disclosure & Healing in Therapy with Doriel Jacov
Jun 5, 2026
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Trauma-Specific Reflective Functioning (T-RF): 5 Trauma Mentalization Profiles & Impact on Parenting
May 29, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/26/26 | Murderbot: Schizoid Personality, Neurodivergence, and the Search for Humanity in AI | Dr. David Puder and Dr. Eric Bender explore the Apple TV+ series Murderbot through a psychiatric lens. Based on Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries, they analyze the hacked SecUnit's journey as a profound portrait of schizoid personality dynamics, neurodivergence, social anxiety, masking, trauma, and the deep human longing for connection while fearing it. Drawing on Nancy McWilliams' work on schizoid dynamics and D.W. Winnicott, the discussion examines AI identity, reflective functioning, PTSD, and what Murderbot reveals about humanity in the age of artificial intelligence. By listening to this episode, you can earn 1.0 Psychiatry CME Credits. Link to blog Link to YouTube video | — | ||||||
| 6/19/26 | Side Effect Mastery in Psychopharmacology: Rawlings–Thompson A-F Classification, Low Slow Titration & Real-World Management with Dr. Michael Cummings & Dr. Blaire Heath | Dr. David Puder sits down with psychopharmacology expert Dr. Michael Cummings and Dr. Blaire Heath to discuss Side Effect Mastery in Psychopharmacology. This episode dives deep into the Rawlings–Thompson A-F Classification system for understanding and managing medication side effects, emphasizing low and slow titration strategies to improve tolerability and patient outcomes. They discuss practical, real-world approaches to common challenges, including orthostatic hypotension, excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis from SSRIs/SNRIs), tremor management, alopecia from valproic acid and lithium, anticholinergic burden, and much more. Dr. Cummings shares his insights on receptor dynamics, metabolizer status, bedtime dosing, and when to reconsider diagnosis after treatment failures. By listening to this episode, you can earn 1.25 Psychiatry CME Credits. Link to blog Link to YouTube video | — | ||||||
| 6/12/26 | Disengagement Precedes Enactment: Mastering Countertransference with Dr. Karen Maroda | In this episode of the podcast, Dr. David Puder sits down with Dr. Karen Maroda, a renowned psychoanalyst, assistant professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and author of influential books including The Power of Countertransference and The Analyst's Vulnerability. Together they explore a powerful clinical insight: disengagement precedes enactment. Learn how therapists' unprocessed countertransference (irritation, boredom, guilt, anger, or helplessness) often leads to emotional withdrawal before erupting into destructive enactments that can rupture the therapeutic relationship. Dr. Maroda shares candid examples from her own practice, including a personal enactment she later processed with her patient, and demonstrates practical strategies for catching disengagement early, using constructive self-disclosure, and maintaining emotional presence. The conversation features a live role-play, deep discussion of parentification in therapists' histories, setting healthy boundaries, managing guilt and shame, and turning potential pitfalls into opportunities for deeper connection. By listening to this episode, you can earn 1.25 Psychiatry CME Credits. Link to blog Link to YouTube video | — | ||||||
| 6/5/26 | Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse: Shame, Masculinity, Disclosure & Healing in Therapy with Doriel Jacov | Doriel Jacov joins Dr. Puder to explore the often-overlooked struggles of male survivors of sexual abuse. With one in six males experiencing childhood sexual abuse before age 18, Jacov unpacks the profound impact of shame, masculinity norms, disclosure barriers, and identity fractures that make healing uniquely challenging for men. The conversation covers grooming, power imbalances, coercion, the myth that survivors become abusers, arousal and body betrayal, sexual identity confusion, trauma reenactment, and the complex transference dynamics that arise in therapy, including erotic transference and projective identification. By listening to this episode, you can earn 1.25 Psychiatry CME Credits. Link to blog Link to YouTube video | — | ||||||
| 5/29/26 | Trauma-Specific Reflective Functioning (T-RF): 5 Trauma Mentalization Profiles & Impact on Parenting | In this episode, Dr. David Puder explores Trauma-Specific Reflective Functioning (T-RF) with researchers Dr. Nicholas Berthelot and Dr. Julia Garron-Bissonnette. Discover how childhood trauma affects mentalization and learn about the five distinct trauma mentalization profiles identified in mothers with histories of maltreatment: identification with the perpetrator, functionally grandiose, absorbed in trauma, global failures in mentalization, and those with no major failures who show remarkable resilience. The conversation examines how these different ways of processing trauma significantly impact parenting, attachment security, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. By listening to this episode, you can earn 1.25 Psychiatry CME Credits. Link to blog Link to YouTube video | — | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | Cohort Group Consultation and Reflective Function: Transforming Countertransference into Clinical Insight | In this episode, Dr. David Puder is joined by cohort leaders Dr. Allie Riege and Dr. Jeremiah Stokes to explore how reflective function transforms countertransference into deep clinical insight. Through their experience leading psychodynamic cohort consultation groups, they discuss the challenges therapists face with vulnerability, disavowed emotions, and the gap between theory and real-world application. The conversation dives into common therapist personality dynamics, enactments, boredom and irritability as valuable clinical data, and how group consultation helps clinicians develop greater self-awareness and empathy in their work. Drawing from Nancy McWilliams' Psychoanalytic Diagnosis and key concepts like concordant and complementary countertransference, this episode offers practical wisdom for mental health professionals seeking to improve their reflective functioning and psychodynamic case conceptualization. Link to blog Link to YouTube video | — | ||||||
| 5/11/26 | Understanding Mature Defense Mechanisms in Psychotherapy: Nancy McWilliams Framework with Clinical Examples from the Tuesday Cohort | In this episode, Dr. David Puder and the Tuesday 2025–2026 Psychotherapy Cohort explore mature and neurotic defense mechanisms through the lens of Nancy McWilliams' influential framework. Building upon the previous discussion on primitive defenses, they provide an in-depth look at how higher-level defenses such as regression, repression, compartmentalization, isolation of affect, intellectualization, rationalization, moralization, undoing, displacement, reaction formation, and sublimation operate in both everyday life and clinical practice. Filled with rich clinical examples drawn from outpatient psychiatry, emergency settings, trauma work, grief, OCD, and private practice, the cohort discusses the adaptive value as well as the potential costs of these defenses, offering practical insights for recognizing and working with them effectively in psychotherapy. By listening to this episode, you can earn 2.0 Psychiatry CME Credits. Link to blog Link to YouTube video | — | ||||||
| 4/24/26 | Primitive Defense Mechanisms Explained: Sexualization, Dissociation, Acting Out, Withdrawal, Denial, Splitting, Omnipotent Control, Projective Identification | In this episode, Dr. David Puder and his talented Cohort deliver a comprehensive exploration of primitive defense mechanisms, which are the earliest, most fundamental ways the mind protects us from overwhelming anxiety, trauma, and threats to the self. Drawing directly from Nancy McWilliams' Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, they break down key primitive defenses. You'll hear clear definitions, developmental origins, clinical presentations, countertransference implications, literary examples, and real-world clinical vignettes, plus a rich group discussion on when these defenses are adaptive versus maladaptive. By listening to this episode, you can earn 2.5 Psychiatry CME Credits. Link to blog Link to YouTube video | — | ||||||
| 4/10/26 | Problem-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Targeting Symptoms, Relationships, Trauma & Behavioral Change with Dr. Fredric N. Busch✨ | Problem-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapysymptom relief+3 | Dr Fredric N Busch | Psychiatry CME CreditsCornell+1 | — | anxietydepression+3 | — | 1h 38m 16s | |
| 4/3/26 | Psychiatrist Effect in First-Episode Psychosis: HAMLETT Study, Antipsychotic Tapering, Dopamine Supersensitivity & Sex Differences with Franciska de Beer✨ | first-episode psychosispsychiatrist effect+3 | Franciska de Beer | clozapineHAMLETT-OPHELIA Consortium+4 | — | CME Creditsshared decision-making+1 | — | 1h 11m 48s | |
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| 3/21/26 | Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Explained: Trauma, Neuroscience, Controversies & Recovery✨ | Dissociative Identity DisorderTrauma+3 | Dr Lauren LeboisDr Melissa Kaufman+1 | the Psychiatry PodcastHarvard+10 | — | DIDPTSD+8 | — | 1h 16m 22s | |
| 3/13/26 | Understanding Delusions Leading to Violence: Types, Assessment, AI Risks & Treatment in Forensic Psychiatry✨ | delusionsviolence+4 | Dr Blaire HeathDr Michael Cummings | Simple Delusional Syndrome ScaleBrown Assessment of Beliefs Scale+1 | — | persecutory delusionsCapgras syndrome+8 | — | 1h 28m 59s | |
| 3/6/26 | What Is Reflective Functioning? Mentalization, Attachment Theory & RF Scoring with Dr. Miriam Steele✨ | reflective functioningmentalization+5 | Dr Miriam Steele | the London Parent-Child ProjectMain Attachment | — | CME creditssecure attachments+4 | — | 1h 25m 54s | |
| 2/27/26 | Hard Feelings: Daniel Smith on Embracing Shame, Envy, Annoyance, and the Wisdom in Dark Emotions✨ | shameenvy+4 | Daniel Smith | Hard Feelings: Finding the Wisdom in Our Darkest EmotionsNew York Times+1 | — | CME Creditspsychotherapy+5 | — | 1h 55m 22s | |
| 2/20/26 | Empathy in Therapy: Mastering Empathic Engagement with Dr. Douglas Flemons✨ | empathytherapy+2 | Dr Douglas Flemons | Empathic Engagement in Clinical Practice | — | empathic engagementcognitive empathy+2 | — | 1h 15m 42s | |
| 2/6/26 | How to Overcome Guilt: Break Free from Unreasonable Expectations with Jennifer Reid, MD✨ | guiltshame+4 | Jennifer Reid Md | Guilt Free: Reclaiming Your Life from Unreasonable Expectations | — | post-COVIDperfectionism+3 | — | 1h 06m 03s | |
| 1/30/26 | Schizoid Dynamics Explored: Kafka's Writings, Fear of Engulfment, and Clinical Insights for Better Empathy✨ | schizoid personality dynamicsFranz Kafka+3 | — | Psychiatry CME CreditsLetter to His Father+1 | — | schizoid personality disorderNancy McWilliams+3 | — | 1h 48m 32s | |
| 1/5/26 | Disavowed Anger and Positive Emotions with Paul Wachtel✨ | disavowed angerpositive emotions+3 | Paul Wachtel | Psychiatry CME CreditsYouTube+1 | — | self-protectionboundaries+3 | — | 1h 44m 08s | |
| 12/16/25 | Countertransference and Transference with Frank Yeomans, MD | Join Dr. David Puder and renowned psychodynamic expert Dr. Frank Yeomans in this Q&A episode on countertransference, transference, and projective identification in psychotherapy. Drawing from object relations theory and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), Dr. Yeomans illustrates these concepts with real clinical examples. Explore how therapists can harness countertransference to deepen empathy, how this differs from DBT, the challenges of training, and the limitations of AI in therapy. By listening to this episode, you can earn 1.75 Psychiatry CME Credits. Link to blog Link to YouTube video | — | ||||||
| 11/21/25 | "AI Psychosis": Emerging Cases of Delusion Amplification Associated with ChatGPT and LLM Chatbot Use | Prolonged conversations with ChatGPT and other LLM chatbots have created rapid developments of severe delusions, paranoia, and even death by suicide in some cases. In this episode, Dr. David Puder sits down with Columbia researchers Dr. Amandeep Jutla and Dr. Ragy Girgis to unpack five shocking real-world cases, explain why large language models are dangerously sycophantic, trained to agree, mirror, and amplify any idea instead of challenging it. By listening to this episode, you can earn 1.25 Psychiatry CME Credits. Link to blog Link to YouTube video | — | ||||||
| 11/7/25 | Genetic and Environmental Influences of Schizophrenia | In this episode, Dr. Puder is joined by Dr. Liam Browning and Dr. Nicholas Fabiano to explore the complex genetic and environmental factors that contribute to schizophrenia. They unpack how heritability is measured, what twin and genome-wide association studies reveal, and why the "missing heritability" problem matters for our understanding of mental illness. The discussion also covers how prenatal factors, childhood trauma, cannabis use, and social adversity increase risk and how modern neuroscience reframes schizophrenia as a disorder of brain connectivity rather than a single genetic disease. | — | ||||||
| 10/31/25 | Combatting the Negative Effects of Sleep Deprivation | In this episode, Dr. David Puder and Dr. Brandon Luu explore the science of sleep deprivation. How missing sleep impacts your brain, metabolism, emotions, and long-term health. Discover evidence-based strategies that can help you protect cognitive performance and recover from sleep loss, including exercise, creatine, caffeine, and bright light therapy. We'll discuss studies showing how even short bouts of high-intensity interval training (HIIT), proper creatine dosing, and morning light exposure can reverse many of the damaging effects of sleep restriction. By listening to this episode, you can earn 1.25 Psychiatry CME Credits. Link to blog. Link to YouTube video | — | ||||||
| 10/24/25 | Devaluation, Transference, Narcissism with Diana Diamond | In this episode, Dr. David Puder is joined by world-renowned psychologist Diana Diamond, PhD to explore devaluation, narcissism, attachment, and transference in psychotherapy. Together they examine why patients with narcissistic personality traits or narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) often devalue their therapists, how dismissing and disorganized attachment styles shape treatment, and why these cycles can be so painful for clinicians. Dr. Diamond shares clinical insights from Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), including how to recognize subtle and overt devaluation, how to hold boundaries, how to think psychodynamically about these behaviors, and how to respond without reenacting the patient's internal object relations. The discussion also highlights the role of trauma, reflective functioning, countertransference, and the deeper tragedy of pathological narcissism. By listening to this episode, you can earn 0.75 Psychiatry CME Credits. Link to blog. Link to YouTube video | — | ||||||
| 10/17/25 | Intergenerational Trauma Explained: The Role of Reflective Function and Mentalization in Healing Attachment | In this episode, we explore how intergenerational trauma shapes attachment patterns and how reflective function (RF) and mentalization can help break the cycle. Drawing on research from Fonagy, Slade, and Berthelot, we examine how trauma-specific reflective functioning influences disorganized attachment and how therapies such as Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT), Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), and Minding the Baby (MTB) strengthen reflective capacity and promote secure attachment. Join Dr. David Puder and colleagues as they discuss the science of mentalization, attachment repair, and trauma healing, bringing together psychoanalytic, developmental, and biological perspectives to offer hope and clinical insight for patients, parents, and therapists alike. By listening to this episode, you can earn 1.25 Psychiatry CME Credits. Link to blog. Link to YouTube video | — | ||||||
| 9/26/25 | Understanding Real Event OCD: When the Past Fuels Obsession | In this episode, Dr. David Puder is joined by OCD specialist Kevin Foss to dive deep into Real Event OCD, which is a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder where real past experiences become the focus of endless rumination, guilt, and shame. Together, they unpack the symptoms, real-life examples, and how this subtype differs from PTSD, moral injury, and other forms of OCD. The discussion highlights evidence-based treatments like Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and medication options, while also offering guidance for loved ones supporting someone with OCD. | — | ||||||
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33 placements across 33 markets.
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33 placements across 33 markets.