Ep. 7 | Behavioral Health In Crisis: Rethinking How Healthcare Defines And Delivers Care

Behavioral Health Brief · Aug 5, 2026 · 1h 5m · transcript

For more than 15 years, Dr. Luke Bergmann has worked inside public health systems in New York and California, confronting a troubling contradiction: behavioral healthcare is designed to respond to emergencies, but not always to prevent them. While nearly every other area of medicine focuses on managing conditions before they become critical, behavioral health continues to organize itself around the language of “crisis.”

For Bergmann, this is more than a professional concern. His family’s experiences with mental illness and substance use have shown him what happens when people are forced to…