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Join me and Ellie Jay in this episode tackling the systemic over-diagnosis and over-medication in American psychiatry. Starting with the argument that generalized anxiety disorder isn't a valid diagnosis at all — it's a symptom, not a disease, and pharmaceutical companies exploit that nonspecificity...

Dr. Jim Phelps — psychiatrist, educator, and founder of Psychoeducation.org — joins Dr. Ethan Short for a wide-ranging conversation about lithium, one of psychiatry's most powerful yet underutilized tools. They explore Dr. Phelps' unlikely path to becoming a lithium advocate (he didn't use it once d...

ACT Therapist Dr. Jessica Borushok: Stop Fighting Anxiety—Change Your Relationship to It: In this episode of Renegade Psych, psychiatrist Ethan and co-host Ellie Jay examine the Lindsay Clancy case, in which a Massachusetts mother experiencing severe postpartum mental health struggles tragically kil...