Steering into the hard stuff-- A father and husband's story
Dr. H sits down with his friend Brian, who watched his daughter, and then his wife, plunge into the depressive abyss. This is the journey of a father and husband, of a "we can fix this" engineer try...
10 Nov 202043min
Touching the edges of life-- Healing from divorce
In this third of an intermittent series about therapists in the abyss, Dr. H sits down with his colleague Dr. Elena Estanol, a Colorado-based psychologist, to explore Elena's "fourth dark night of th...
20 Okt 202049min
Craig's letters from the past: Mistakes made, lessons learned
Dr. H finds a trove of patient letters from the last 15 years and shares three of the most poignant, using each as a springboard for lessons learned. Dr. H and BFTA https://www.craigheacockmd.com ...
6 Okt 202025min
A mother's story-- Body dysmorphia, psychosis, and powerlessness
After a difficult final year of high school, Tessa hoped and prayed that her youngest son would make the transition to college and find a way to thrive. He would be only an hour away, he wanted to go,...
22 Sep 202041min
Trauma, yoga, and spiritual recovery
Trauma embeds in the complex zone between body and spirit, deep within the realm of primary consciousness. The typical psychiatric approaches of meds and talk therapy rarely access these unconscious r...
1 Sep 202038min
Psychiatry in one question + When ketamine therapy gets difficult
In the first half of this two part mini-episode, Dr. H explores the four stages where fully dissociative doses of ketamine can get a little rocky: *reaching escape velocity *re-entry *dissociative s...
18 Aug 202015min
Craig and Saj Razvi talk shop— Dissociation, the unconscious, countertransference sadism, and psychedelics
Saj Razvi (of Innate Path and Psychedelic Somatic Institute) returns to BFTA to help Craig do a deep dive into listener questions. Have questions you want us to address in a future episode? Email th...
4 Aug 202037min
A special place in my drug addict heart-- Finding safety with Suboxone
We typically think of addiction as a symptom of a deeper issue, such as trauma or a psychiatric disorder. Sometimes, however, addiction is the main event, and powerlessness is the starting point, not ...
21 Juli 202059min
