Sacred Psychiatry author and holistic psychiatrist/psychoanalyst Dr. Judy Suzanne Reis Tsafrir joins us for a 75-minute conversation on what it means to treat healing as both personal and transpersonal. We’ll start with the big picture behind Sacred Psychiatry: Bridging the Personal and Transpersonal to Transform Health and Consciousness and then go deeper into the book’s practical “bridges” between mind, body, soul, relationship, environment, and meaning. Along the way, Judy shares her own path from conventional psychiatry into a more integrative and spiritually oriented model of care, what it took to bring this book into the world as “personal medicine,” and how she holds nuance, safety, and ethics when spirituality enters the clinical and healing space. We’ll close with what’s next for her work and how listeners can engage these ideas with groundedness and discernment.
About Judy Tsafrir, MD
Judy Suzanne Reis Tsafrir, MD, is a board certified holistic psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, Tarotist, astrologer, shamanic practitioner, and artist with a private practice of holistic psychiatry in Massachusetts. She serves on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. Judy is also the author of the award-winning Sacred Psychiatry: Bridging the Personal and Transpersonal to Transform Health and Consciousness.