A Psychiatrist Goes to War

After seven years and so many powerful stories, Craig announces a tectonic shift in the BFTA plates.Support the show! https://www.buzzsprout.com/396871/supportClosing song-- "Come and go" by Timber ChoirBringing Therapy into Med Management-- An intensive workshop for psych NPs an ...  Show more

Amidst a long catalog of previous BFTA stories featuring complex or developmental PTSD, today’s story is one of classic DSM-style PTSD, it’s a story of both medical and parenting trauma, of facing the fear of annihilation and death. In this three part story, first we hear Tracy t ...  Show more

John, an infantry officer for 19 years, was held up at gunpoint, bombed and saw friends and colleagues killed in action. He tells Claudia Hammond about the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that he suffered when he left the armed forces. And in the first-ever UK study of military pe ...  Show more

A war correspondent tells his story. 

Can a 24-hour medicine experience break through trauma that decades of therapy couldn’t touch? Navy SEAL Veteran DJ Shipley opens up about his transformative Ibogaine journey in Mexico that saved his marriage, eliminated suicidal ideation, and revealed the unexpected source of hi ...  Show more

Will Christ represented our country in the US Army for more than a decade, but alcohol began to consume his life, his marriage, and his family. At the time of the recording of this podcast episode, Will has 19 months clean and is now a clinical intern at Calvary Healing Center in ...  Show more