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Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

By: David Puder M.D.
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Join David Puder as he covers different topics on psychiatry and psychotherapy. He will draw from the wisdom of his mentors, research, in-session therapy and psychiatry experience, and his own journey through mental health to discuss topics that affect mental health professionals and popsychology enthusiasts alike. Through interviews, he will dialogue with both medical students, residents and expert psychiatrists and psychotherapists, and even with people who have been through their own mental health journey. This podcast was created to help others in their journey to becoming wise, empathic, genuine and connected in their personal and professional lives.2018 DAVID PUDER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Hygiene & Healthy Living Mental Health Awareness Physical Illness & Disease Science
Episodes
  • Disengagement Precedes Enactment: Mastering Countertransference with Dr. Karen Maroda

    Disengagement Precedes Enactment: Mastering Countertransference with Dr. Karen Maroda
    Jun 12 2026

    In this episode of the podcast, Dr. David Puder sits down with Dr. Karen Maroda, a renowned psychoanalyst, assistant professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and author of influential books including The Power of Countertransference and The Analyst's Vulnerability. Together they explore a powerful clinical insight: disengagement precedes enactment. Learn how therapists' unprocessed countertransference (irritation, boredom, guilt, anger, or helplessness) often leads to emotional withdrawal before erupting into destructive enactments that can rupture the therapeutic relationship.

    Dr. Maroda shares candid examples from her own practice, including a personal enactment she later processed with her patient, and demonstrates practical strategies for catching disengagement early, using constructive self-disclosure, and maintaining emotional presence. The conversation features a live role-play, deep discussion of parentification in therapists' histories, setting healthy boundaries, managing guilt and shame, and turning potential pitfalls into opportunities for deeper connection.

    By listening to this episode, you can earn 1.25 Psychiatry CME Credits.

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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse: Shame, Masculinity, Disclosure & Healing in Therapy with Doriel Jacov

    Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse: Shame, Masculinity, Disclosure & Healing in Therapy with Doriel Jacov
    Jun 5 2026

    Doriel Jacov joins Dr. Puder to explore the often-overlooked struggles of male survivors of sexual abuse. With one in six males experiencing childhood sexual abuse before age 18, Jacov unpacks the profound impact of shame, masculinity norms, disclosure barriers, and identity fractures that make healing uniquely challenging for men. The conversation covers grooming, power imbalances, coercion, the myth that survivors become abusers, arousal and body betrayal, sexual identity confusion, trauma reenactment, and the complex transference dynamics that arise in therapy, including erotic transference and projective identification.

    By listening to this episode, you can earn 1.25 Psychiatry CME Credits.

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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • Trauma-Specific Reflective Functioning (T-RF): 5 Trauma Mentalization Profiles & Impact on Parenting

    Trauma-Specific Reflective Functioning (T-RF): 5 Trauma Mentalization Profiles & Impact on Parenting
    May 29 2026

    In this episode, Dr. David Puder explores Trauma-Specific Reflective Functioning (T-RF) with researchers Dr. Nicholas Berthelot and Dr. Julia Garron-Bissonnette. Discover how childhood trauma affects mentalization and learn about the five distinct trauma mentalization profiles identified in mothers with histories of maltreatment: identification with the perpetrator, functionally grandiose, absorbed in trauma, global failures in mentalization, and those with no major failures who show remarkable resilience. The conversation examines how these different ways of processing trauma significantly impact parenting, attachment security, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma.

    By listening to this episode, you can earn 1.25 Psychiatry CME Credits.

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    1 hr and 30 mins
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listening to this podcast, I slowly became more knowledgeable, as you would expect from a scientific podcast. But I also became a better therapist and a better human. I look forward to this podcast everyweek and appreciate what Dr. Puder does. He is a great mental health practionar and a great presenter/host. All episodes are well researched and creative. I have never found an episode uselss or boring. if you are even remotely into psychology or psychiatry this is for you. Dr. Puder also hosts alot of great guests, including one wonderful guest called Dr. Cummings. if it's in the brain, Dr. Cummings will know about it and explain it. Honesty, its a crime to skip on such a masterpiece. All the love and respect to Dr. Puder.

the absolute best psychiatry podcast

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