Sunday, May 26, 2013

NYT on mental illness, talk therapy, drugs: what about children?

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Last week there was an invitation to dialogue in the New York Times on this subject.  In today's Times there is a fascinating array...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

To CDC on children's mental health: consider office of homeland attachment security

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Change is in the air for children's mental health care. The latest CDC (Center for Disease Control) special supplement to the MMWR (...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

DSM, NIMH on mental illness: both miss relational, historical context of being human

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It seems that the National Institute of Mental Health  (NIMH) may have dealt a death blow to the recently published Diagnostic and Statistic...
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Saturday, May 4, 2013

Using media to promote change while celebrating Brazelton's 95th

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I had the privilege this week to participate in the 95th birthday celebration of pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton on the occasion of  the  a...
Thursday, May 2, 2013

Grieving for Boston

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It was a heartbreakingly beautiful day.  I work at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and as I live in Western Massachusetts, I had not yet had r...
Monday, April 22, 2013

Music, mourning, and family narrative

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(I wrote this post before we learned of the complex family and historical background of the alleged Boston Marathon bombers. I was again g...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Mourning and music: a song for Boston

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I had been working on a post on the subject of mourning and music. But with the trauma of the Boston Marathon bombing still so fresh, it did...