14: Positive Psychiatrist Samantha Boardman On Wellness Narcissism, Snowplow Parenting & Keeping Romance Alive

The mindbodygreen Podcast · Aug 8, 2017 · 1h 6m

Samantha Boardman, psychiatrist and M.D., spent years treating clients with traditional psychiatric techniques—until a patient fired her. She told Dr. Boardman that every session made her feel worse. And it made sense. After all, therapy, the way most psychologists and psychiatrists are taught, focuses on the negative to the exclusion of the positive. And, Boardman realized, "she was right. I knew how to dial down her misery, but I knew nothing about how to build up her strengths and cultivate well-being." That's when she went in search of something different. She found it at the University…