Nov 9, 2020
Today’s guest Cherry shares her experience being prescribed benzodiazepines and God instead of receiving the emotional support she was seeking. We explore the impact of culture and stigma on mental health services, the heroism of clients, and what we can learn from the remarkable conclusions of antidepressant outcome studies.
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Introduction: 0:00 – 6:21
Part One: 6:21 – 33:01
Part Two: 33:01 – 1:10:42
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(Benjamin Michael Fineman - Registered Associate MFT #119754 - Supervised by Curt Widhalm, LMFT #47333)
Show Notes:
- Donate to Women for Women International
- The Heart & Soul of Change: Delivering What Works in Therapy
- Selective publication of antidepressant trials and its influence on apparent efficacy
- Listening to Prozac but hearing placebo: A meta-analysis of antidepressant medication
- Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect
- Psychiatrist effects in the psychopharmacological treatment of depression
- Common psychosocial factors in psychiatric drug therapy
- Subject Expectations of Treatment Effectiveness and Outcome of Treatment With an Experimental Antidepressant
- Bergin and Garfield’s Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change