Welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Podcast. The podcast to help you in your journey

towards becoming a wise, empathic, genuine and connected mental health professional.

I'm your host, Dr. David Puder, a psychiatrist who splits his time practicing psychopharmacology,

individual and group psychotherapy, medical director of a day treatment program,

medical education research, and teaching, residence, and medical students.

Welcome to the podcast. I am joined here by Dr. Soon-to-be-Dr. Ayanna Cunningham.

Like legally, not quite yet. Give it a few months.

And today we are going to be talking about micro expression.

And we have been working on a paper on this, and we will be putting up some pretty amazing resources

on the website. What is micro expression? Well, it's brief emotion, very brief,

like one fifth of a second. And in our topic today, we're going to be covering

how it can be used, the training of it can be used to increase empathy,

which can be used to create something that we would like to think that we've coined,

called micro connection. I think we coined it. I didn't find it anywhere

in any of the lit review stuff that we did. And we come through 75 plus articles.

Yeah. And so we're going to be talking about how to kind of create micro connections,

to overcome loneliness, to facilitate relationships, long term,

and especially in the psychotherapy context, like how do we use micro expression

to build a better therapeutic alliance, to create more psychological safety,

to connect with the person in front of you.

So we're going to be talking both to the person who is the therapist,

or psychiatrist, or mental health provider, but also I think this is one of the topics

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