Podcast 447: Addressing Adolescent ADD & ADHD with Child Psychiatrist Dr. Sami Timimi
CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf
Dr. Caroline Leaf
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk to child and adolescent psychiatrist, psychotherapist, professor, mental health advocate and author Sami Timimi about the dangers of pathologizing childhood, the myths surrounding ADHD, a better way to approach children’s mental health, and more. This is part 1 of a 2 part series I am doing with Dr. Timimi, so be sure to tune in again soon when part 2 is released!
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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
2:00 Sami’s amazing work
3:10 The failures of the current mental healthcare system
6:11, 24:00 Why we urgently need to redefine mental health culture
12:18 The reality behind mental health diagnoses
20:00 The circular thinking that defines current mental healthcare
26:10 How little we actually know about mental health
28:50 The commodification of human emotion
32:30 Pathologizing mental health from youth & its consequences
37:16, 50:55 The myths surrounding ADHD
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Mace. |
| 0:10.7 | In today's podcast, I talk to Professor Sam Tamemi, who is a consultant child psychiatrist |
| 0:16.6 | in a national health service in the UK, as well as a professor of child psychiatry and |
| 0:21.5 | mental health improvement at the University of Lincoln, UK. |
| 0:25.2 | He has published over 130 articles, a tens of chapters and five books relating to mental |
| 0:30.6 | health and childhood. |
| 0:32.4 | In today's podcast, which is part one, we talk about the dangers of pathologizing and |
| 0:37.3 | biologizing childhood to psychiatric diagnosis and labeling for mental health. |
| 0:42.5 | We also begin the discussion on ADHD. |
| 0:45.5 | Professor Tamemi explains how the manufacturing of ADHD has come about. |
| 0:50.0 | How there is no characteristic genetic abnormality, how brain imaging studies have not uncovered |
| 0:54.9 | any specific characteristic abnormality, nor characteristic chemical imbalance associated |
| 1:00.4 | with ADHD. |
| 1:02.1 | In part two, we look deeper into these and examine an alternative narrative that is scientific. |
| 1:07.1 | Let's begin the podcast. |
| 1:12.8 | Wow, I am sitting in the studio with one of my heroes, Dr Sam Tamemi, a child psychiatrist |
| 1:19.2 | who has, you have been my mental for years without even knowing it. |
| 1:23.5 | I have read so many of your, most I think just about everything you've ever written, |
| 1:27.6 | listened to everything you've ever spoken on YouTube. |
| 1:31.6 | You have such an incredibly brilliant and simple way of explaining truth when it comes |
| 1:37.6 | to mental health. |
| 1:39.4 | And it's an absolute privilege to be interviewing you today and to have you join me. |
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