I've been going mental I'm losing my mind

because you're on and all of the time

I've been going mental but I'm feeling just fine.

Going mental all of the time.

On today's episode, I'm joined by Dr. Brandon Unru.

He is the medical director of the Gunderson Residence,

an intensive specialized residential program for women

with severe personality disorders at McLean Hospital.

His clinical approach is anchored in the integration of evidence-based treatments such as dialectical

behavioral therapy, mentalization-based treatment, and general psychiatric management.

He has published on a variety of topics,

including medical ethics and general hospital psychiatry,

and his academic interests include the examination

of philosophical and spiritual issues from In Sure thing. So my name is Brandon Unru and I'm a psychiatrist and psychotherapist at

McClain Hospital which is a freestanding psychiatric hospital located just

outside of Boston in Massachusetts.

And for the last 10 years since finishing my training as a psychiatrist,

I've been a specialist in treating what are referred to within our field as personality disorders.

And my day job is that I run two different programs that deliver treatment for

personality disorders. In one of those jobs I'm the medical director of the

Gunderson residence which is named after John Gunderson who was was sort of the

so-called parent of borderline personality disorder and I'm also the director of an outpatient

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