Woman staring at the beach, episode about mindful mental healthcare with Dr. Stuart Eisendrath MD & Dr. Ron Frey Ph.D.

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Mindful Mental Healthcare Management

Original Air Date Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Human beings require interpersonal relationships to be fulfilled in life. But many who suffer from bouts of depression find it difficult to take the necessary steps to get motivated or to communicate their needs with others. Researchers are studying how to create mindfulness techniques that can break cycles of depression for willing participants.

To find out more about the mindfulness-healthy mind connection, Harvesting Happiness Podcast Host Lisa Cypers Kamen speaks with two authors who promote being in the present moment and who practice mindful mental healthcare management.

Dr. Stuart Eisendrath describes his alternative method to mindfully manage depression. And, Dr. Ronald Frey, whose book, Feeling Better: Beat Depression and Improve Your Relationships with Interpersonal Psychotherapy, shares his externally referenced relationship-based approach to overcoming depression.

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Lisa Cypers Kamen · Mindful Mental Healthcare Management with Dr Stuart Eisendrath MD & Dr Ron Frey PhD

Meet Our Guests:

Dr. Stuart Eisendrath is a psychiatrist who cares for patients with depressive disorders. He leads groups in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to treat depression and anxiety. He was the UCSF Depression Center’s founding director and is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences.

Book: When Antidepressants Aren’t Enough: Harnessing the Power of Mindfulness to Alleviate Depression

Dr. Stuart Eisendrath — Mindful Mental Healthcare:

Meditation mixed with cognitive therapy is Dr. Eisendrath’s alternative method for healing depression. {2:16}
How mindfulness breaks up the depressive spiral. {5:54}
In his book, When Antidepressants Aren’t Enough, Dr. Eisendrath writes that depression can be cured. {9:53}
How depression generates a list of thoughts, and how those thoughts generate more depression. {13:07}
An MRI can measure brain function and offer a technique to change a depressed person’s focus. {16:23}
The technique of asking questions about our depressed condition diverts focus away from depression. {18:21}
In one study, exercise was found to be one of the greatest antidepressants. {22:21}

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Ronald J. Frey, PhD is a former acting chief psychologist for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and a registered forensic and clinical psychologist. He is the co-author of Feeling Better and the co-director of the Institute for Interpersonal Psychotherapy with Cindy Stulberg. Ron lives in Quebec.

Book: Feeling Better: Beat Depression and Improve Your Relationships with Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Dr. Ron Frey Ph.D. — Feeling Better:

Dr. Frey explains the basics of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) and how it approaches depression. {27:29}
How can clinicians motivate patients to take action and try IPT to combat depression from the book Feeling Better: Beat Depression and Improve Your Relationships with Interpersonal Psychotherapy. {28:57}
Even though intimate conversations require some type of risk it is those conversations that are essential to healing. {35:53}
How Dr. Frey brings resistant patients into the IPT model. {40:48}
How an externally referenced therapy model differs from an internally referenced therapy model. {45:19}
Dr. Frey describes the process and duration of Interpersonal Psychotherapy. {48:11}

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Shareables:

“Thoughts are mental events. You don’t have to believe them as facts.” — Dr. Eisendrath on @HHTalkRadio Share on X “Depression generates thoughts and those thoughts, in turn, generate more depression.” — Dr. Eisendrath on @HHTalkRadio Share on X "Humans require relationships. It’s what makes them feel happy." @FBthebook on @HHTalkRadio Share on X "In any interpersonal relationship you have with somebody there is a grayness in the relationship." @FBthebook on @HHTalkRadio Share on X

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