A Psychiatrist Goes to War

In this second of two parts, Laura Mae Northrup shares stories of how she found a healing path through connection, therapy, and psychedelics. Support the showLaura Mae Northrup https://www.lauramaenorthrup.com/Elemental Psychedelics https://www.elementalpsychedelics.com/Explore eve ...  Show more

This is the first of a two part summer special with Laura Mae Northrup, who was first featured in the original BFTA summer special back in 2022. In this first episode, in an excerpt from her wonderful podcast called Inside Eyes, we hear Laura describe her long and grueling battle ...  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

He was deployed to Fallujah, Iraq in 2004. In the 20 years since, he has struggled with PTSD and addiction. She has long taken on the role of his caregiver, ready to jump in when she senses the old traumas are rising. This has often meant sacrificing her own needs as an individua ...  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