Lab podcast, where we discuss science and science based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford school of medicine. Today. My guest is dr. Paul Conte. Dr. Conte is a psychiatrist who did his training at Stanford school of medicine and then went on to be chief resident at Harvard Medical School. He now runs the Pacific Premier Group, which is a collection of psychiatrists and therapists focusing on solving. Plex human problems, including trauma, addiction, personality, and psychiatric disorders. Today, we discuss trauma in detail and the therapeutic process in detail. For instance. We discuss. What is trauma? How do you know if you have trauma? Dr. Conte shares with us, for instance, that not every experience that we think is traumatic, as necessarily traumatic. And yet many people might have trauma without even realizing it. We also talked about the therapeutic process generally, for instance, how to, pick a therapist, how to best approach. Roach and go through therapy and how to evaluate whether or not therapy and your relationship to the therapist is working or not. We also talked about cell therapies because we acknowledge the not everyone has access to or can afford therapy and we talked about drug therapies. For instance, antidepressants antipsychotics. We talk about alcohol cannabis ketamine and the psychedelics including psilocybin LSD, and we talked about the clinical use of MDMA and what the future of that looks like, the reason for bringing Dr. Conte on to this podcast, is because I see him as the person who has the greatest, and most holistic view of therapy. Trauma drug therapies, talk therapies, and how self-therapy and work with others can be integrated for both healing and growing from difficult circumstances. Dr. Conte is also the author of an exceptional book entitled trauma, the invisible epidemic, how trauma works and how we can heal from it. That book describes trauma and its many features. And Any tools, some of which we discuss on the podcast today? So whether or not you have trauma or Not, by the end of today's episode, you will have a much deeper understanding about what trauma is. In fact, I'm confident that you will gain insight into whether or not you have trauma or not, whether or not people close to you have trauma or not and the various paths to recovering and indeed growing from trauma that we can all take as you will soon. Learn. Dr. Conte is an exceptional communicator and has a unique window into the trauma and therapeutic process that. I That all of us can benefit from