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Monday, March 30, 2015

What Adds Value to Mental Health Care? Looking for Your input....

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I need  your help.  This year at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in Toronto, I will be talking on what adds ...
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Sunday, March 29, 2015

"Mental illness" is not the Endpoint Answer to Why Someone Commits Mass Murder

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Over on Clinical Psychiatry News , I wrote a an article about still-unfolding story of the Germanwings co-pilot who deliberately cras...
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Saturday, March 28, 2015

Resilience: Two Sisters, Mental Illness, A Trust Fun and Quite the Ride

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Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness is a memoir written by Jessie Close with journalist/advocate Pete Earley, plus a ...
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Sunday, March 15, 2015

How Was Your Stay in a Psychiatric Hospital? -- Please Take My Survey: 5 quick questions

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I'd like to tell you something.  The comments we get on this blog, especially lately,  talk about how horrible it is to be treated in...
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Thursday, March 12, 2015

How Psychiatrists Spend Their Time and Why the Agency Demands Contribute to the Shrink Shortage

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Over on Clinical Psychiatry News this week, I wrote an article called Addressing the Psychiatrist Shortage: What Keeps us from seeing Mor...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Responding to the reaction to Are There Ways To Lessen The Violation That People Feel After Psychiatric Hospitalizations? Polarized responses!

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I saw the Mad in America article about my post on Are There Ways To Lessen The Violation That People Feel After Psychiatric Hospitaliz...
Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Big Girls Don't Cry. Take a Pill.

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Updated for typos! In Sunday's New York Times there was an interesting article by Dr. Julie Holland about how women's emoti...
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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Are There Ways To Lessen The Violation That People Feel After Psychiatric Hospitalizations?

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In last week's New York Times there was an article with a rather interesting title: " Doctors Strive to do Less Harm by Inatten...
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Sunday, February 08, 2015

On Government Oversight and Caring for the Sickest

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This is going to be another post on the issue of "Us" versus "Them" because that seems to be what psychiatry is about...
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Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Links You'll Like

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From my twitter feed:  First, my column on Clinical Psychiatry News expressing my displeasure that APA is supporting The Helping Famili...
Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Does "coming out" with your psychiatric diagnosis help?

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So I'm sending you over to read  a wonderful piece in the New York Times by Scott Stossel,  'Coming Out as Anxious."   Th...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015

The APA and The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act

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If you are not familiar with Representative Tim Murphy's legislation to overhaul America's broken mental health system, this pos...
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Friday, January 30, 2015

TGIF!

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  Wishing you a wonderful weekend.  Tigermom and her blogging friends sent this to me this morning and I thought I'd share it with o...
Monday, January 26, 2015

A Quick Guide to Identifying the Mentally Ill for Puposes of Preventing Gun Violence.

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I often hear people talk about how we have to keep guns away from the mentally ill.  A judge friend recently said it quite bluntly, ...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

The lovely wife on the psych ward

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I have one thing to say about Mark Lukach's essay, " My lovely wife on the psych ward. "  That one thing is: Read it!  It...
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