Sherwin Nuland on Depression

A beautiful talk by Yale surgeon and scholar, Sherwin Nuland, about his depression and recovery with ECT.  Click here to watch.

Joseph Goldstein on Suffering

Joseph Goldstein is one of the greatest living teachers of Vipassana/Buddhist meditation. I have included links to a talk on the nature of suffering (click here) and mindfulness/contemplative practices for reducing suffering (click here).

Kay Jamison on Bipolar

Kay Jamison is an inspiration to patients and physicians. She is the co-author of the preeminent textbook on bipolar disorder, Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, and a memoir about her own experience of bipolar disorder, An Unquiet Mind. Click here to for her talk on living with mania and depression. 

Marsha Linehan on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a phenomenal framework and practice for learning how to regulate intense and painful emotions. Here's a talk by Marsha Linehan, who developed this therapy. If you like it, I recommend her DBT skills training manual.