PsychiatryTalk

Dr. Blumenfield reviews the importance of maintaining remote treatment sessions during the Coronavirus Pandemic and perhaps even beyond

Dr. Blumenfield interview Dr. Ingram, Medical Director of the Karen Horney Institute and Clinic

Chance Keesling was a US soldier deployed in Iraq who participated in combat. While overseas he became depressed and committed suicide. His family did not receive a letter of condolence from the President of the United States as did other families of soldiers who died while serving on foreign soil. This interview describes the story led by the father Gregg Keesling that ultimately led to President Obama changing this policy.

Dr. Michael Blumenfield interviews Dr. Samuel Abrahams, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst on the occasion of his 102nd birthday.

Dr. Blumenfield interviews Dr. James Rundell, Jr. current President of the Academy of Consultation Liasion Psychiatry. Dr. Rundell discusses his 20 year career in the USAF as well as his subsequent work with the military. This includes his work with patients with HIV and PTSD as well as his role in the significant name change of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine to the Academy of Consultation Liasion Psychiatry

Dr. Myron Glucksman is author of a book titled Dreaming an Opportunity For Change. Dr. Glucksman is a training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New York Medical College where he is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. He has a private practice in Redding Connecticut and New York City. This interview was done several years ago at the time of publication of his book.

Guest: Anita Everett, M.D. Dr. Everett is the Immediate Past President of the American Psychiatric Association. She has been Chair of the APA Task Force on Health Care Reform and is Chief Medical Officer of SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Dr. Everett reflects on her recent term as President of the APA.

Guest: Elise Snyder, M.D. Dr. Snyder is Founder and President of CAPA (China American Psychoanalytic Alliance). She is a Clinical Associate Professor Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, Visiting Professor at the University of Sichuan and a consultant to the Ethics Committee of the Chinese Psychological Society. In 2012 she was recipient of the Sigmund Freud Award from the American society of Psychoanalytic Physicians and the Presidential Award from the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Snyder is currently in private practice in New York City.

Guest: James J. Strain, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Medical Education and designated Master Teacher at the Icahn School Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Dr. Strain speaks about his career as a pioneer in the subspecialty of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and his experience lecturing and teaching throughout the world. He also discusses his innovative concepts of depression and physical disease and how they have a reciprocal connection. These ideas are elaborated in a new book that Dr. Strain edited with Dr. Blumenfield titled Depression As A Systemic Illness recently published by Oxford University Press.

Guest:Norman B. Levy, M.D. Dr. Levy is a psychiatrist and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at State of New York Downstate Medical College and a former director of Consultation Liason Psychiatry at Downstate Medical College and New York Medical College. He is the leading expert on the psychological effects of kidney disease, dialysis and renal transplants. He is also the founder of the Pyschonephrology Foundation. He is currently in private practive in Beverly Hills, California.

Dr. Blumenfield discusses a correspondence that he had with Richard Nixon which demonstrates how Nixon may have contributed to the death of Lyndon Johnson.