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Greetings. I'm Amy Biancoly, family editor here, and today I'll be speaking with James Greenblatt.

He's an innovator and longtime authority in the fields of integrative medicine and functional

psychiatry, focusing on nutrition and other natural modes of treatment

for people in distress, including teens with eating disorders and children and adults diagnosed with

ADHD. He's the author of eight books, most recently on antidepressant withdrawal, and founder of

the website Psychiatryredefined.org, where he works

to educate professionals on the science and practice of functional, integrative, and metabolic

psychiatry. Greenblatt serves as chief medical officer and vice president of medical services at

Walden Behavioral Care, which is based in

Massachusetts. He teaches at the Tufts University School of Medicine and the Dartmouth College

School of Medicine as well. Dr. Greenblatt, welcome. Glad to have you here today. Thank you,

Amy. It's good to be with you. I have a lot of questions today

because you've done so much interesting work, but for a start, for our listeners, could you

define functional medicine and integrative psychiatry? And how do those approaches differ from

conventional psychiatry? What do people need to know going into this

conversation about what you do and how it differs? Good start. I mean, so we can have three,

three buckets here. Conventional psychiatry, we're all quite aware of is pretty much a symptomatic-based

polypharmacy treatment model. We have one tool,

and it's a medicine for a symptom, the second, third, and fourth medicine. I think we're all

aware of that and the limitations of that. We throw in psychotherapy, but the model is medications.

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