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Mind Dive, A Podcast for Mental Health Professionals

Welcome to Mind Dive, Menninger's podcast for mental health professionals, with Robert Boland, MD, senior vice president and chief of staff, and Kerry Horrell, PhD.

Podcast Focus

Each month, they dive into topics that fascinate them as clinical professionals and hopefully fascinate you, too. They examine dilemmas faced by professionals here at Menninger and colleagues across the nation while working with some of the most challenging cases. They explore the latest research and other trending topics on the minds of psychiatrists, psychologists and others who are interested in the treatment and study of the mind.

Drs. Boland and Horrell also make it a goal to cover information that gets little attention in formal training programs.

Most Recent Episodes

Episode 60: Surviving Personal Crisis with Christine Yu Moutier, MD

This episode of Mind Dive features Christine Yu Moutier, MD, chief medical officer at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), for a conversation about how clinicians and community members can become better educated on the signs of mental health crisis and aid one another in supporting individuals who suffer from suicidal ideation.  

 Dr. Moutier shares her insights into the evolving journey of understanding the many factors that surround suicide and mental health crises. Drawing from Thomas Joyner’s interpersonal theory of suicide, she stresses the need for integrating diverse research disciplines to better recognize and support individuals in crisis. In her role at AFSP, Dr. Moutier has made it the organization’s mission to create large scale public health initiatives and raise greater awareness for mental health causes.

Dr. Moutier is the author of Suicide Prevention, a Cambridge University Press clinical handbook. She has also contributed articles and book chapters for publications such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Lancet, Academic Medicine, the American Journal of Psychiatry, the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Depression and Anxiety, and Academic Psychiatry. 

“There’s a lot of assumptions and projecting about weakness or cowardice,” says Dr. Moutier. “What’s actually happening in the brain of somebody who is suicidal is that they’re not able to think about their connections to loved ones, their optimism or their own healthy coping strategies.”  

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Meet the Hosts

Dr. Boland is an educator at heart with decades of experience teaching and mentoring psychiatry residents. In addition to his roles at Menninger, he is the executive vice chair of the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine.

A psychologist on our Compass Program for Young Adults, Dr. Horrell also loves teaching. She completed a predoctoral internship and postgraduate fellowship at Menninger and Baylor College of Medicine.

Both are well read, love canines (and have to resist rescuing too many) and are curious about many subjects.

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We hope you’ll join us on our podcast journey. And if you have a topic in mind that you would like us to dive into, drop us a note.

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