Psychotherapy for Psychosis with Dr. Michael Garrett

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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In this week's episode of the podcast, we interview Dr. Michael Garrett, Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry and former Vice Chair and Director of Psychotherapy Education at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY. He also wrote a book called, Psychotherapy for Psychosis: Integrating Cognitive-Behavioral and Psychodynamic treatment. He is husband to the prior beloved presenter, Dr. Nancy McWilliams. In this episode, we will discuss how psychotherapy can be effective for patients experiencing psychosis.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the podcast. I am joined today by psychiatrist Dr. Michael Garrett. He is a
0:19.6	professor of clinical psychiatry and the director of the psychotherapy education in the department of
0:25.2	psychiatry and behavioral sciences at this state university of New York, sunny downtown medical center in
0:32.8	Brooklyn. He is a psychiatrist and was a psychoanalyst and then went back and studied CBT and he
0:42.4	wrote a book called Psychotherapy for Psychosis, Integrating Cognitive Behavioral and Psychodynamic
0:49.1	Treatment. He is also married to a prior presenter, mine, Dr. Nancy McWilliams. Some of you may
0:58.7	remember that episode as well. So welcome to the podcast. Very glad to be here and thanks for inviting me.
1:05.6	I was going to say probably one of your biggest accomplishments was Mary Nancy McWilliams.
1:11.2	Absolutely. That's right at the top of my CV. That's nice. Yeah. How was this
1:19.6	like writing process? Do you guys have like coffee and talk about what you're writing or what
1:25.3	she's writing or how does that look like? We live in a small town in New Jersey and we have
1:34.0	separate office spaces. So we come back and forth and back and forth during the day. Yeah. I read
1:40.4	pretty much everything. She writes and she reads stuff that I write. I'm working on a second book now
1:47.0	and she's at this very moment reading a chapter. Nice. It's a good collaboration. That's great.
1:53.6	Yeah, that's wonderful. So yeah, I think it might be worthwhile to kind of talk a little bit about
1:59.8	your journey through psychiatry. It sounds like you were in the public sector quite a long time
2:06.6	in the public sector as in like treating people with more severe mental illness.
2:11.7	Yes, that's correct. In my roughly 40 years of experience as a psychiatrist,
2:19.4	I started out just after residency training interested in in patient psychiatry. I also got my
2:27.2	psychoanalytic training at that time and I was wanting to do psychological work with more
2:34.9	disturbed patients and I found that the preparation I got from my psychoanalytic training was helpful
2:44.4	in understanding what was going on but didn't necessarily need to
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