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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Honoring Carrie Fisher

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10. On not being defined by your mental illness: ...
Monday, December 26, 2016

Helping Doctors Get Help

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Every year, roughly 400 doctors and medical students die from suicide.  To put this in perspective, there are roughly 100 medical student...
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Sunday, December 18, 2016

Home Inspection and Double Billing: Two Kindle Novels for Free, and Happy Holidays to Our Shrink Rap Readers

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Happy Holidays! At this time of year, I like to set up free downloads to two of my novels. You can get these books for free on your K...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

It Happened! Link to Yesterday's NPR Diane Rehm Show on Involuntary Psychiatric Care

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The third time scheduled was a charm and we had a wonderful time going in to Washington to be on Diane Rehm's talk show.  Okay, so th...
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Sunday, November 27, 2016

Involuntary Psychiatric Care-- a Discussion on NPR's Diane Rehm Show on Tuesday : the Third Time's a Charm

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I've posted twice about how we will be discussing our new book, Committed , on the Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio.  Well, ...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

Tune in to Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang on Sirius XM #121

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You're invited to tune in tomorrow,  Monday Novermber 21st,  when we join radio host  John Fugelsang on his show Tell Me Ev...
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Saturday, November 19, 2016

My Neverending iPhone 7+ Fiasco

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If you've already read the beginning of this, you can scroll down to the Addendum added on 1/17/17, or to Addendum #2 added on 1/26...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

A Call for Kindness

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Something surprising happened on Tuesday : despite the predictions of the pollsters and pundits, Donald Trump was elected President.  Dur...
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Thursday, November 10, 2016

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Diane Rehm Show: Stand by for a New Date

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As I mentioned in the last post, we were scheduled to be on the Diane Rehm NPR radio talk show this morning to discuss our new book: Comm...
Sunday, November 06, 2016

You're Invited to Listen to Us Talk About Our New Book on NPR's Diane Rehm Show this coming Thursday

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Thursday, Nov 10 2016 • 11 a.m. (ET) The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care ...
Thursday, November 03, 2016

Are you Decisive?

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Psychiatrists at the Johns Hopkins Hospital are doing a study on the nature of Doubt.  So are you decisive?  Take an anonymous survey, h...
Wednesday, November 02, 2016

Behind the Book: On Writing Committed

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Yesterday our book, Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care was officially released.  Our publisher, Johns Hopkins Unive...
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Monday, October 31, 2016

Reviews of Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care

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Happy Halloween everyone!  Please don't dress up as a psychiatric patient, it's not funny, and depicting people with illnesses in ...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

The Heated Battle Over Involuntary Committment

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So often I write blog posts about topics I read about in the paper.  I take a few quotes and expand upon them.  Today I want to look at bo...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Attend a Penn Conference on Ethics and Correctional Mental Health for Free

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Ah, technology.  The Scattergood Foundation is having an all day conference on Ethics and Correctional Mental Health today in Philadelphi...