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Radically Genuine Podcast with Dr. Roger McFillin
Hosted by Roger K. McFillin, Psy.D., ABPP · EN
The Radically Genuine Podcast cuts through the noise of conventional mental health advice, offering an unfiltered exploration of what it truly takes to overcome life’s challenges. Dr. McFillin doesn’t shy away from controversial topics, tackling head-on the failings of the mental health industry and exposing the often-ignored realities of resilience.
Each episode features raw, honest conversations with survivors, experts, and freethinkers who challenge the status quo. From dismantling harmful psychiatric practices to uncovering ancient wisdom for modern well-being, this podcast goes where others fear to tread.
It’s more than just talk – it’s a revolution in how we approach mental health and personal growth.
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223. The CIA's Connection to Modern Psychiatry
Mar 1900:47:56Tap to summarizeA document written in 1952. Declassified in 1983. Quietly re-cataloged in 2025 — without a single headline. Dr. Roger McFillin follows that document to where he believes it leads. The destination is not Cold War history. It's your medicine cabinet.Before there were SSRIs, there were research programs. Before the DSM, there were experiments. Dr. McFillin connects dots the mainstream has never connected — using only public records, peer-reviewed data, and 20 years of sitting across from people the system was supposed to help. The trail is longer than you think. And it ends somewhere you won't expect.
Transcribe →222. Your Thoughts Are Not Your Own: An Introduction to Mind Control
Mar 1200:44:25Tap to summarizeDr. Roger McFillin explores the hidden mechanisms of mind control, societal programming, and how media, history, and psychology shape our perceptions and behaviors. This episode uncovers documented research, historical experiments, and practical insights to empower individuals to reclaim mental sovereignty. By the end of this episode, you will understand the system you are living inside. And you will understand why one person willing to refuse changes everything.
Transcribe →221. A Yale MD on Angels, Telepathy & the Spiritual Root of the Mental Health Epidemic
Mar 501:10:55Tap to summarizeDr. Anna Yusim didn't abandon western material science. She outgrew it. Stanford. Yale. NYU. Board certified. Faculty at one of the most prestigious medical institutions in the world. And she will tell you, without hesitation, that guides and angels are real, that dark entities attack people, that spiritual awakenings get misdiagnosed as psychosis every day, and that the psychiatric system is doing harm it cannot see.This is the conversation that extends beyond the limitations of our 5 senses. We cover what opened her framework, what post-materialist research at Yale and Hopkins is actually finding, why psilocybin works better when it gets spiritual, how forgiveness functions as medicine, what telepathy really is, and what protects you from energies that Western medicine has no language for.Dr. Anna Yusim, MD | Yale Faculty | Author of Fulfilled
Transcribe →153. Uncovering The Greatest Mental Health Fraud In American History w/ Robert Whitaker
Feb 2601:42:15Tap to summarizeIn this explosive episode, award-winning journalist Robert Whitaker and Dr. Roger McFillin blow the lid off one of the biggest medical scandals of our time. Whitaker reveals shocking evidence of widespread fraud, corruption, scientific misconduct and deliberate misinformation that has shaped mental health care for decades. From manipulated drug trials to buried research and conflicts of interest reaching the highest levels of the medical establishment, this conversation exposes a web of deception that has potentially harmed millions. A must listen and one of the most important Radically Genuine Podcast episodes for the millions of people experimenting on psychiatric drugs and those who are prescribing them under the pretense of "safe and effective". Robert Whitaker is an American journalist and author who has won numerous awards as a journalist covering medicine and science, including the George Polk Award for Medical Writing and a National Association for Science Writers’ Award for best magazine article. In 1998, he co-wrote a series on psychiatric research for the Boston Globe that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. His first book, Mad in America, was named by Discover magazine as one of the best science books of 2002. Anatomy of an Epidemic won the 2010 Investigative Reporters and Editors book award for best investigative journalism. He is the publisher of madinamerica.com. Chapters00:00 The Crisis in Mental Health and Misinformation03:09 Robert Whitaker: A Journalist's Journey14:20 The Rise of Prozac and the Chemical Imbalance Theory35:21 The STAR-D Trial: A Deceptive Narrative49:20 Institutional Corruption and the Medical Establishment01:00:24 The Need for Informed Consent and AlternativesOriginal STAR*D PaperWhitaker MAD in America Story and links to scientific misconduct papersCounterPunch StoryMcFillin Radically Genuine Substack on STAR*D
Transcribe →220. Epstein, Eugenics and How To Break A Human Being
Feb 1900:21:52Tap to summarizeThe release of the Epstein files is a window into something far larger: power operating in the shadows, shaping culture, medicine, and the future of humanity itself. In this episode, I connect that to the transhumanist movement, which is nothing more than eugenics repackaged for a new era, and to the psychiatric industrial complex, which has always been part of that anti-human project.I then share 10 minutes from a recent conference talk where I spoke directly about what I believe is a systematic assault on human consciousness. Pathologizing the inner world, suppressing spiritual identity, severing people from God, from nature, from one another. This is not accident or incompetence. It is by design. When you disconnect people from their soul, you create a population that is dependent, confused, and easily controlled. That is the function of the mental health industrial complex. It is time to reclaim your sovereignty, your spirit, and your mind.
Transcribe →219. They Told Her She Was Dangerous. Her Patients Say She Saved Their Lives
Feb 1201:26:27Tap to summarizeA board-certified psychiatrist trained at one of the most prestigious psychiatric institutions in the world was fired for refusing to put a young woman on medication after the last prescription nearly killed her. Dr. Aruna Nammi left the system and built something radically different, combining functional medicine with 5,000-year-old Ayurvedic wisdom to reverse conditions psychiatry calls chronic and incurable. We go deep on why depression is a disconnection syndrome, the three root causes of all disease, what ancient traditions understood about psychosis that modern psychiatry ignores, and the shift in consciousness that may be unfolding on this planet right now.Trinergy Health Website Visit Center for Integrated Behavioral HealthDr. Roger McFillin / Radically Genuine WebsiteYouTube @RadicallyGenuineDr. Roger McFillin (@DrMcFillin) / XSubstack | Radically Genuine | Dr. Roger McFillinInstagram @radicallygenuineContact Radically GenuineConscious Clinician CollectivePLEASE SUPPORT OUR PARTNERS15% Off Pure Spectrum CBD (Code: RadicallyGenuine)10% off Lovetuner click here
Transcribe →218. The Psychiatric Drug Complex and the War on the Human Soul
Feb 501:14:01Tap to summarizeDr. McFillin was a guest on the popular Health Ranger Report. This is the full interview. He was joined by Tracy Thurman-a person of faith until a cardiologist—not a psychiatrist—put her on Prozac for "energy." Within weeks, her connection to God vanished. She became a materialist atheist for seven years. In this episode, Tracy and Dr. McFillin expose what they call the psychiatric industrial complex's "spiritual weapon of war"—and why these drugs are designed to make you feel dead inside and that experience is measured as "working". A fascinating episode featuring a topic rarely discussed.
Transcribe →217. The Harms of SSRI's During Pregnancy Debate w/ Dr. Adam Urato and Dr. Robert Chen
Jan 2901:47:13Tap to summarizeThree facts are scientifically undisputed: Serotonin is essential for fetal brain development. SSRIs disrupt the serotonin system. SSRIs freely cross the placenta. So why are pregnant women being told these drugs carry "little or no risk"?In this rare head-to-head debate, Dr. Adam Urato—maternal-fetal medicine specialist and FDA expert panelist—faces off against Dr. Robert Chen, a psychiatry resident willing to do what most of his colleagues won't: step into the arena and defend the establishment position.What unfolds is a striking conversation where both physicians actually agree on more than you'd expect—including that informed consent is failing pregnant women, that the chemical imbalance theory is dead, and that "untreated depression" is a misleading frame designed to sell drugs. The uncomfortable question neither side can fully answer: If SSRIs are correcting depression, why does the research show worse outcomes for women who stay on them?This isn't anti-medication propaganda. It's the conversation your doctor isn't trained to have with you.Listen before you fill that prescription. Visit Center for Integrated Behavioral HealthDr. Roger McFillin / Radically Genuine WebsiteYouTube @RadicallyGenuineDr. Roger McFillin (@DrMcFillin) / XSubstack | Radically Genuine | Dr. Roger McFillinInstagram @radicallygenuineContact Radically GenuineConscious Clinician CollectivePLEASE SUPPORT OUR PARTNERS15% Off Pure Spectrum CBD (Code: RadicallyGenuine)10% off Lovetuner click here
Transcribe →216. I Was A Prisoner Of My Own Mind w/ Dr. Riz Ahmad
Jan 2202:03:03Tap to summarizeDr. Riz Ahmad could have been diagnosed with social anxiety, autism spectrum, and depression as a teenager. Instead, he became one of the most talented psychologists I've ever worked with.In this episode, Riz shares his journey from fear-driven perfectionist—completely fused with his mind and disconnected from his body—to an eight-week stay at a Zen Buddhist monastery that changed everything. What happened when his mind finally went quiet? And what does his story reveal about the dangers of how we label and treat human suffering today?A radically genuine conversation about ego, consciousness, and what mainstream psychology is missing. Visit Center for Integrated Behavioral HealthDr. Roger McFillin / Radically Genuine WebsiteYouTube @RadicallyGenuineDr. Roger McFillin (@DrMcFillin) / XSubstack | Radically Genuine | Dr. Roger McFillinInstagram @radicallygenuineContact Radically GenuineConscious Clinician CollectivePLEASE SUPPORT OUR PARTNERS15% Off Pure Spectrum CBD (Code: RadicallyGenuine)10% off Lovetuner click here
Transcribe →215. This is What Happens When You "Medicate" Grief with Mary Ann Kenny
Jan 1501:03:45Tap to summarizeWhen does sadness become a disease? Grief? Dr. Roger McFillin sits down with Mary Ann Kenny a lecturer, a mother of two, and the author of The Episode: A True Story of Loss, Madness and Healing. Ten years ago, her husband went out for a morning run and never came home. What followed was grief—and then a collision with a psychiatric system that would change her life in ways she never could have anticipated. Visit Center for Integrated Behavioral HealthDr. Roger McFillin / Radically Genuine WebsiteYouTube @RadicallyGenuineDr. Roger McFillin (@DrMcFillin) / XSubstack | Radically Genuine | Dr. Roger McFillinInstagram @radicallygenuineContact Radically GenuineConscious Clinician CollectivePLEASE SUPPORT OUR PARTNERS15% Off Pure Spectrum CBD (Code: RadicallyGenuine)10% off Lovetuner click here
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