Breaking Through Unexpected Withdrawal Barriers

I have good news and bad news about Leslie’s healing journey since last week’s breakthrough. As promised, I will go over the energy healing techniques used and report on some of my clinical findings. Read on to find out how to heal some of the most common invisible determinants of mental health.
Read More →The Immune System’s Invisible Role in Psychiatric Medication Treatment

I recently had a thrilling breakthrough in my understanding of medication withdrawal. This breakthrough will help my patients with their recovery tremendously. Read on as I describe the nature of the problem, and in next week’s article, I’ll share some solutions as well.
Read More →Three Perspectives That I Don’t Assume Anymore

Today’s article is the third and last one in a series that reflects back on my years of practice and asks: What has changed? I’ve discovered that certain perspectives, which had once been a big part of my life, no longer influence me.
Read More →Three Interventions That I Don’t Use Anymore

Today I want to highlight three interventions that I don’t use anymore and why. Leaving these tools behind reflects new beliefs or a change in the healing paradigm that I’ve gained over the years.
Read More →Three Things That Don’t Freak Me Out Anymore

There are so many things that I don’t do anymore or don’t get freaked out about because of my experiences over the past 20 years as a holistic psychiatrist. Here is the first of a few articles on my insights.
Read More →Take It Off—But Don’t Just Do It Slowly

I’ve been finishing up my presentation for the Energy Healing Conference in Logan, Utah on April 2, 2022! It will be held at Ridgeline High School. Today, I want to give you a preliminary peek at my presentation and its funny style and content.
Read More →How Medicine Questions

What happens beyond information gathering during the usual eight years of medical training? Too often doctors are trained to mechanically do what they’re told without questioning why or what for. How does this happen? Today, I want to give you a peek inside the ivory towers of a medical training facility. It all begins with how medicine questions.
Read More →Medication Withdrawal, Dependence, or Harm?

It’s important that I go back over the basics and explain just what I mean by medication withdrawal, dependence, and harm. For this week, though, I decided to use a short YouTube video to talk about these issues.
Read More →The Best of the Best

My Holistic Updates began on August 16, 2016, and currently contain more than 197 articles on holistic mental health and psychiatric medication withdrawal. In today’s article, I want to show you around Holisticpsychiatrist.com and recommend some of my best articles and podcasts to you.
Read More →What’s in a Name? A Rose by Any Other Name . . .

Juliet once said in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” This may be perfectly true for Romeo, but not as easily translated when it comes to the labels we give to patients in psychiatry. Read on for my fable on flowers and names and mental illness.
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