Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories
Hosted by Dr H and Craig · Craig Heacock MD
4.9from 769 ratings
- 168
- Episodes
- 49
- Transcribed
- 769
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories
Back from the Abyss will change the way you think about psychiatric illness. Instead of dwelling on diagnoses and treatment theories, you hear patients tell their stories of how they fell into darkness-- and how they found their way back. It's intimate, psychologically rich, medically interesting, sometimes heartbreaking, often irreverent, and ultimately hopeful. Join psychiatrist Dr. Craig Heacock as he hosts this deep dive into powerfully moving stories of hope and healing, as well as topical explorations of psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and psychedelics.
- Publisher
- Craig Heacock MD
- Category
- health & fitness · health & fitness · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 18 Jun 2019
- Latest episode
- 11 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
49 of 168 episodes have a transcript.
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14 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
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31 Jul 2026
BFTA Summer Special: Healing sexual trauma with psychedelics and entheogens-- Laura Mae Northrup shares her journey
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Summer Special Part 2-- Laura Mae Northrup and her treatment journey
Published 14 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I just, I'm not trying to say that's the answer, but we are spiritual beings. And I think spirituality is an important part of our existence and to reject it flat out, I think is it produces a an unwellness in us i have so many patients ask me how does ketamine work or how do mushrooms work and i'm thinking of this question these greater energies and forces spirituality and i believe as you do that part of the way these work is sort of beyond words and it's beyond us and it involves forces and energies that are incredibly difficult to describe Yeah, that's the great mystery, right? I mean, this is a question in psychedelic, you know, the psychedelics field all the time. […]
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- Kate Gibson
- Jade Miller
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- 509 ratings
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- 260 ratings
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- Engagement
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Dr H and Craig host the show. Published by Craig Heacock MD.
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