Mdedge Psychcast

In this, the 100th episode of Psychcast, Nick Andrews talks with Lorenzo Norris, MD, MDedge Psychiatry editor in chief, about the January front-page article in Clinical Psychiatry News that featured Matthew E. Seaman, MD, an emergency physician with depression who took his own life. The article describes the Dr. Seaman faced. Later, Christine B.L. Adams, MD, a psychiatrist who practices in Louisville, Ky., discusses her book, “Living on Automatic: How Emotional Conditioning Shapes Our Lives and Relationships” (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2018), with Dr. Norris. Take-home points from Dr. Adams Children learn emotional patterns in families. These behaviors get reinforced. As children form dating relationships, for example, those patterns continue to be reinforced. People may go on autopilot and have knee-jerk reactions in response to people, which allows them to react emotionally without thinking about what’s necessary for each person. Long-term dynamic psychotherapy can help patients observe what they are doing