Thinking About Mental Health
Occasional thoughts on psychiatry, diagnosis, psychopharmacology, treatment, and the practice of medicine.
Why I Don’t Accept Health Insurance
My decision not to accept health insurance is rooted in a simple conviction: psychiatric care should be guided by the needs of patients, not the requirements of insurance companies.
Lithium: The Most Underestimated Drug in History?
Lithium is a naturally occurring element, one that...
How Safe is Cannabis?
Over the past decade, the landscape surrounding...
Sometimes It Takes a Village
In child psychiatry, we routinely seek information from parents, teachers, and others. Why do we so often abandon this valuable approach when patients become adults?
Why Diagnosis Matters
In psychiatry, as in the rest of medicine, it is important to distinguish between symptoms and the underlying cause of those symptoms—the diagnosis