Child in Mind

I consider my most successful cases to be the ones that do not seem me any more. Not that they are "better", but they and their fa...

In the Academy Award winning film, Precious , the main character’s transformation comes about largely through her ability to tell the story ...

Doctors are trained to solve problems and to fix things. For much of what we do, this is an appropriate and helpful strategy. But for prim...

Yesterday my 11 year old son ate his first oyster. "I slurped it down," he said."It was chewy and tasted of lemon." I as...

OK- Just one more. Here is a letter published in today's New York Times Science section. The 150 word limit helped me present a clear an...

In today's Boston Globe I have an op-ed about DSM-V: " Warning label on a new diagnosis ." Interestingly, while I wrote the pi...

As I wrote in my previous post, I was quite disturbed at the implications of Judith Warner’s recent New York Magazine article, where she su...