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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Should Patients Have Rights?

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We're getting ready for the release of our new book, Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care on November 1, 2016 (~g...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Why Professional Sports Should be More Like Psychiatry

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Okay, so we all have our strengths and our weaknesses.  I get calls from people all the time and they tell me their problems over the ph...
Sunday, September 04, 2016

Shrink Rap Embraces the Politically Incorrect (because this is kind of funny?), just for a moment.

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Oh, I have to say, last week I was away for the week and saw a T-shirt that said, "Please, Lord, help me to be the person my dog t...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016

Dear Boston Globe Spotlight Team: Access to Care is About So Much More than Public Safety

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The Boston Globe Spotlight Team -- the investigative reporting team featured in the Oscar-winning, best picture Spotlight -- is doing a...
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Friday, August 26, 2016

What's up here and our CPN Posts

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Oh, my -- it's been nearly a month and that is the longest I have ever gone without posting on Shrink Rap in 10+ years.  Just busy, t...
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Thursday, July 28, 2016

Murphy Bill --Now With Guns?

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Pretend there's a photo of the U.S. Capitol here.  Blogger is not cooperating. Let me first send you to Pete Earley's blog to rea...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Boy or Girl and Are You Sick?

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First, let me send you to an article in the New York Times : W.H.O. Weighs Dropping Transgender Identity from List of Mental Disorders. Th...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

News. News. And Too Much News.

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Oh my, time has been getting away from me  and it's been a bit since I've written a blog post on Shrink Rap!   First let me ste...
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Monday, June 27, 2016

Guns and Violence

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Oh there is so much to say and so little time. I'm sending you to two different sites today: My post on Guns & Mental Illness ...
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Monday, June 13, 2016

#Orlando

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No, not again.  I looked at my Twitter feed and learned about yet another mass shooting.   I can't even imagine what it's like ...
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Saturday, June 04, 2016

Book Review: Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants by Peter Kramer

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My post for today is a review of Peter Kramer's new book over on Clinical Psychiatry News.   You may remember him from Listening to...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Grief, Twice Removed

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Good morning.  I'm typing very quickly because I'd like to put up a blog post before the power company de-electrifies me for the day...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Mental Illness and Violence: Dispelling the Myths and Managing the Risks

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I'm passing along this information so that readers can register for this forum if interested: Mental Illness and Violence: Dispellin...
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Monday, May 16, 2016

Tweets from APA

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APA is in Atlanta this year and I'm not there.  ClinkShrink and Roy are, however, and they are tweeting. With their permission, here...
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Friday, May 13, 2016

Book News and More

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Greetings from Baltimore -- and if you're looking for me at APA in Atlanta this year -- do look for both Roy and ClinkShrink instead-...
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