This lecture by Judy Chu, EdD considers boys’ development through a relational framework, which calls into question the traditional goals of individuation and separation in the name of growth, maturity, and (for boys) manhood.

Conscious Mind Episode 3 features a discussion with Emily E. Haas, MD, talking about the different types of trauma, how trauma affects people’s lives, and the treatments available for those living with trauma.

This session by Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH contextualizes mental health inequities across diagnostic categories within a sexual and gender minority stress and resilience framework, proposes culturally responsive tailoring of evidence-based clinical practices, and offers strategies for building inclusive, affirming, and trauma-informed mental health care environments in order to optimize mental health outcomes for LGBTQIA+ people.

Dr. Andrew Tatarsky’s Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy (IHRP) provides a framework for effective therapy with people along the entire spectrum of risky and addictive behavior, in all stages of change and working toward all positive change goals.

Conscious Mind #2 - Dr. Jeff Katzman talks about his first year in medical school, sings a song about the brain, and explains how his time spent practicing medicine in Africa sparked a personal interest in microbiology.

Rocco Marotta, MD, PhD, Director of the Center for the Treatment and Study of Neuropsychiatric Disorders, and Amanda Fialk, PhD, LCSW, LICSW, Partner and Chief Clinical Officer of The Dorm will take a careful look at how this is defined such as failure of different antipsychotics, neuroimaging, and neurobiological characteristics of treatment resistant schizophrenia.

This program by Sanjaya Saxena, MD, DFAPA, FACNP, a Clinical Professor at UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry will provide an overview of the diagnosis, clinical presentation, epidemiology, and treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Hoarding Disorder.

In our debut episode of Conscious Mind, a new feature of Silver Hill Radio, Howard Weiner, MD, attending psychiatrist in the Neuropsychiatric Program, reflects on his days at medical school and speaks about what being a doctor means to him.