2025-02-07
14 分钟From Recorded Future News and PRX, this is click here.
I'm a psychiatrist, spent 28 years in the Army.
I came in 1970, retired 1998 as a brigadier general,
working with military families and veterans and do a lot of public health activity as well.
You know what?
You forgot your name.
Oh, Stephen.
No, I'm Steven Tsunakis.
From Recorded Future News, this is Click Here's Mic Drop, a longer cut of one of our favorite interviews of the week.
I'm Dena Temple Rouston.
So when you think of a psychiatrist, you probably have a picture in your head, calm demeanor, notebook, pen maybe.
Sitting across from a patient who's stretched out on a chaise lounge, nodding, taking notes, classic Freudian stuff.
But Dr.
Stephen Xanakis is not exactly that kind of psychiatrist.
For starters, he's a retired brigadier general in the army, so he deals with a different kind of patient.
He's worked with detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
He's advised top military officials on the impact of blast wave concussion.
And he's the kind of psychiatrist who is not afraid to go against the grain and try new things.
For example, he's a big proponent of psychedelic therapy for ptsd,
something that for a long time was considered kind of out there.