Child in Mind

When I see children in my pediatric practice for behavior problems, I often hear stories from mothers who struggled terribly when their chil...

Recently I attended a reception at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA for the new medical director. Austen Riggs is an inpatient p...

When I first learned of the planes hitting the twin towers, my initial thought was that I wanted my children, then three and six, home with ...

In 2006-2008, years I hope will turn out to have been the peak of the bipolar diagnosis in young children, it was not uncommon for parents t...

This will be a brief post (I'm on vacation with my family) just to call attention to two important and related items published yesterda...

I continue here with the theme of my previous post. I was inspired to write by a conversation over dinner last night with a friend who is a ...

Last week I had the privilege of reconnecting with Anna Ornstein, a brilliant child psychiatrist and one of my original mentors. In preparat...