Learn Psych Podcast

Episode 009 Theory of Mind, Mature & Neurotic Defense Mechanisms with Dr. Michael Casher   Today's show explores Freud's "Theory of Mind" the id, ego, super-ego, the conscious, pre-conscious, and unc...

24 Elo 201642min

The biopsychosocial formulation is a way of writing an assessment of a patient in psychiatry. As the name implies, it combines biological, psychological, and social information to develop a full pictu...

10 Elo 20161h 18min

Episode 7 - Assessment of Decision Making Capacity Today's show is about how to resolve competing interests when a patient wants to do one thing, but the medical team thinks something else would be be...

27 Heinä 201648min

Episodes 6 with Dr. Charles Surber. On today's episode, we discuss delirium, a clinical syndrome that many medical students will encounter, often while not on their psychiatry rotation. We define deli...

13 Heinä 201656min

Episode #5 with Dr. Ed Deneke. We explore a case about a patient who believes he is being poisoned. We discuss the differential diagnosis and also explore the question how a physician can best treat a...

22 Kesä 201651min

Mental status exam, part 2, with Dr. Michael Casher. Topics discussed in this episode include: Thought content - phobias, delusions Perceptions - hallucinations and what sorts of conditions hallucinat...

15 Kesä 20161h 7min

Episode #3, released on June 8, 2016 and recorded in Spring 2016. Today's topic is the mental status exam, and I will be interviewing Dr. Michael Casher, one of the attending psychiatrists at the Univ...

8 Kesä 201653min

Interview with Dr. Laura Hirshbein, MD, PhD, of the University of Michigan. Podcast covers topics: - What is psychiatry? How does it compare to psychology or neurology? - What is a psychiatric illness...

1 Kesä 201655min