Mind Dive

Psychosis is often treated like a medical emergency that must be “stabilized” before anyone can think with the person, but that stance can quietly teach patients that their inner life is not worth understanding. We talk with psychiatrist and author Dr. Michael Garrett, a pioneer in psychotherapy for psychosis, about how to listen for meaning inside hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized speech without rushing to flatten everything into a checklist of symptoms. Our north star is the idea ...

Depression can turn a loving relationship into a confusing maze: one person is suffering, the other is scrambling to help, and both end up feeling alone. We sit down with Dr. David Dozois, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Western University and author of What to Do When Your Partner Is Depressed, to get practical, research-informed guidance for couples living with depression. We dig into what partners most often get wrong, not because they do not care, but because they reach for the...

When a child develops an eating disorder, food becomes the battlefield, but the deeper struggle is often about fear, control, shame, and the need to feel understood. We sit down with Dr. Tom Wooldridge, board-certified psychologist, psychoanalyst, and eating disorder specialist, to talk about what actually helps families when anorexia or other eating disorders turn meals into daily conflict. His message is both relieving and challenging: eating disorders are not caused by one thing, parents a...

If you have ever wondered why therapy that feels life-changing can be so hard to find and so hard to afford, this conversation puts real numbers and real power dynamics on the table. We sit down with Dr. Linda Michaels, licensed psychologist, co-founder of the Psychotherapy Action Network, and author of *Advancing Psychotherapy for the Next Generation: Humanizing Mental Health Policy and Practice*, to talk about what people actually want from psychotherapy and why the mental health system so ...

TikTok can make autism and ADHD feel instantly recognizable, but recognition is not diagnosis. We sit down with Dr Alton Bozeman, Director of the Menninger Assessment Center, to separate viral “signs” from the clinical reality of neurodevelopmental disorders and to explain what qualified psychological assessment actually looks for: persistent patterns, true deficits, and real life impairment. We dig into the biggest misconceptions around autism spectrum disorder, including the id...