Gain evidence-based strategies for minimizing withdrawal symptoms through biochemical individuality, nutrient repletion, and carefully managed tapering protocols.
Antidepressant withdrawal syndrome is a growing crisis, often overlooked in modern psychiatry. Many patients experience severe withdrawal symptoms such as insomnia, brain fog, mood swings, and agitation when discontinuing antidepressant medications. With up to 55% of patients reporting significant withdrawal effects, the need for a more patient-centric, personalized approach to deprescribing has never been more critical.
Join functional medicine expert and best-selling author of Functional Medicine for Antidepressant Withdrawal, James Greenblatt, MD, for an in-depth online course to guide you through a safer, more individualized withdrawal approach using a functional medicine model that addresses the underlying causes of withdrawal symptoms.
Doctors are trained how to prescribe medications, not how to stop them.
Gain a clinical toolkit to help your patients withdraw from antidepressants safely and effectively.
PROGRAM FORMAT A live, guided training lecture led by James Greenblatt, MD
LIVE TRAINING LECTURE DATE: December 7th at 11am EST
ENROLLMENT FEE: $49
THIS TRAINING IS IDEAL FOR: Psychiatrists and clinicians (MD/DO), nurses and practitioners, psychologists, therapists, social workers, general and family practice physicians, pediatricians, physician assistants, naturopathic physicians, dietitians, and other health and mental health clinicians
Discover the science behind the clinically-proven model outlined in Functional Medicine for Antidepressant Withdrawal.
This bestselling book serves as a guide for the Antidepressant Withdrawal & Deprescribing course—providing foundational knowledge in functional medicine specifically for discontinuation of SSRIs and SNRIs. In this course, Dr. Greenblatt will expand upon these concepts and deliver clinical guidance for real patient cases, offering providers clinical pearls and key insights for enhanced withdrawal and tapering.
Key Course Concepts
- Understanding Antidepressant Withdrawal Syndrome: Assessing why certain patients experience severe withdrawal symptoms and others do not.
- Biochemical Imbalances & Personalized Treatment: Exploring how nutritional deficiencies, such as those involving essential vitamins and neurotransmitter synthesis, impact withdrawal severity.
- Functional Medicine Deprescribing Protocols: Evidence-based protocols that integrate personalized lab testing and nutrient repletion to ease the tapering process and improve patient outcomes.
- Ethical Considerations in Psychiatric Prescribing: Emphasizing the importance of informed consent and educating patients about the risks and side effects of long-term antidepressant use.
Why Enroll in this Course?
Antidepressants were designed to revolutionize psychiatric treatment. However, many patients face significant challenges while taking them, as well as when attempting to discontinue these medications—with some patients remaining on SSRIs or SNRIs for decades. Add to that, every patient presents a unique biochemistry that requires careful testing and treatment fine-tuning to ensure successful and comfortable withdrawal.
This course provides clinicians with the tools to guide patients through a safer, more individualized withdrawal process using a Functional Medicine model that addresses the root causes of withdrawal symptoms. By integrating lab testing, nutrient repletion, and personalized protocols, you’ll discover a valid path for practitioners to help patients discontinue antidepressants and achieve recovery on their terms.
Antidepressants shouldn’t be a life sentence. Enroll now to help your patients find relief.
What You’ll Learn
- How to identify the symptoms and challenges associated with antidepressant withdrawal
- The importance of patient education regarding the risks and side effects of antidepressant medications
- How to assess and address key biologic imbalances and deficiencies to minimize withdrawal symptoms
- How to implement Functional Medicine laboratory tests and personalized tapering strategies to support antidepressant discontinuation
What You’ll Get
Hands-on mentorship, effective clinical protocols, testing guidance… and so much more.
- Comprehensive understanding of how biochemical imbalances impact withdrawal severity
- Protocols for analyzing and addressing micronutrient deficiencies
- Specific interventions for preventing debilitating neurological and psychological symptoms
- Science-backed functional medicine strategies for highly-personalized care
- Guidelines for testing and recommendations for supplementation and augmentation
- Direct guidance and clinical pearls gleamed from Dr. Greenblatt’s 30 years of clinical experience
Clinician-Led Education & Guidance
Discover a new way to treat mental illness from James Greenblatt, MD—a psychiatrist with decades of clinical experience in functional medicine and nutritional psychiatry.
James Greenblatt, MD
A pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, James M. Greenblatt, MD, has treated patients since 1988. After receiving his medical degree and completing his psychiatry residency at George Washington University, Dr. Greenblatt completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Dr. Greenblatt currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer at Walden Behavioral Care in Waltham, MA for nearly 20 years, and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine.
An acknowledged integrative medicine expert, educator, and author, Dr. Greenblatt has lectured internationally on the scientific evidence for nutritional interventions in psychiatry and mental illness. Through three decades of practice and research, Dr. Greenblatt is a leading contributor to helping physicians and patients understand the role of personalized medicine for mental illness.
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He is the author of eight books, including the best-seller, Finally Focused: The Breakthrough Natural Treatment Plan for ADHD. His updated edition of Answers to Anorexia was released in October 2021 and his newest book, Functional & Integrative Medicine for Antidepressant Withdrawal is available now.
Dr. Greenblatt is the founder of Psychiatry Redefined, an educational platform dedicated to the personalized, evidence-based treatment of mental health. Psychiatry Redefined offers continuing online education, CME-approved courses, webinars, and a professional Fellowship in functional and integrative medicine for mental illness. To learn more, please visit www.JamesGreenblattMD.com.
Join Dr. Greenblatt to learn effective and essential strategies to help your patients withdraw safely.
Course Fee:
$49
Questions? Please email training@psychiatryredefined.org.