Amanda Garcia Torres and Lisa Chantler introduce us to the basics of Chairwork and discuss why this is such a powerful tool for clients who have experienced trauma. Garcia Torres has further developed her Chairwork practice to give voice to clients from marginalized communities, focusing on what she has identified as the five core problems of oppression.

Trauma Focused Chairwork with Amanda Garcia Torres

Dr David Preece studies Alexithymia. He discusses how to use this construct in clinical settings to recognise clients who struggle to understand and process emotions, and how that in turn influences the effectiveness of therapy.

What Is Alexithymia? Dr David Preece

New Clinically thinking presenter Aaron Neaves meets Jonathan Shedler; author, consultant, researcher, Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and faculty member at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. 
Dr Shedler firmly presents the case for the evidence base and effectiveness of Psychoanalytic Therapy.

The Case for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy-  Jonathan Shedler

Cognitive Analytic Therapy integrates Psychodynamic and Cognitive Theory and is a transdiagnostic therapeutic modality that approaches psychological problems from a relational perspective. Matt Cartwright speaks with Dr Louise McCutcheon from Orygen, The Australian Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health in Melbourne. 
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Cognitive Analytic Therapy, with Dr Louise McCutcheon

This week Lisa Chantler speaks to Rachel Menzies about the impact of death anxiety in clients presenting with broader symptoms of anxiety and depression. They discuss cultural attitudes to death, CBT, Terror Management Theory and the role of Stoic philosophy in developing a healthy acceptance of death.

Clinical Responses to Death Anxiety, with Rachel Menzies

Assoc Professor Chris Lee tells Dr Sara Quinn about his career researching and treating trauma. They discuss exposure, EMDR, stabilisation, helping clients reach the "ah-hah" moment, and the importance of self-care for professionals working in this space.

Key Developments in Trauma. Chris Lee and Sara Quinn

Dr Allen Frances was chair of the task force writing the DSM-IV, but subsequently became an outspoken critic of the rapid expansion of mental health diagnoses in DSM-5, and what he sees as the over medicalisation of behaviours that fall into the normal range of human life. 
Dr Frances offers a US perspective on issues such as treating ADHD and Autism, the pros and cons of early diagnosis, the appropriate role of drugs in mental health, and strategies to bring public mental health care to the greatest numbers of people.

Saving Normal: The problem of diagnostic inflation. Dr Allen Frances.

Dr Aaron Frost with a challenge to clinicians: the path to improving client outcomes lies not in learning yet another new therapy, but in improving the way we do therapy, with consistent use of Deliberate Practice and Routine Outcome Measures.

Meaningful Improvement in Therapy with Deliberate Practice. Aaron Frost

Professor Robyn Young from Flinders University is our guest discussing the presentation and diagnosis of Autism specifically in female clients. Our wide ranging discussion covered broader issues including Autism and the criminal justice system, changes in Autistic presentation with age, training for Autism assessments, clients who camouflage Autistic characteristics, the impact of Australia's NDIS funding on the diagnosis and assistance for Autism, and much, much more.
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Autism and the Female Phenotype. Prof. Robyn Young

World leading neuroscientist, pain researcher and educator, Prof. Lorimer Moseley, discusses the complex relationship between our minds, our bodies and pain.

Lorimer Moseley. Understanding Chronic Pain

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Saving Normal: The problem of diagnostic inflation. Dr Allen Frances.

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