Child in Mind

Psychoanalyst Peter Blos describes the "second individuation process of adolescence," referring to the way in which adolescence s...

Recently in my behavioral pediatrics practice I saw James, a 5-year-old boy (details, as always, have been changed to protect privacy) who s...

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...