Tuesday, October 29, 2013

What might redefining "term pregnancy" mean for parents and babies?

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So far the discussion on the policy change by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology  (ACOG) has focused on the implication for ...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Moving beyond the DSM paradigm of mental health care

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A paradigm is a way of thinking about things. For the past 60 or so years, our thinking about mental health and illness has been dominated b...
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Reflections on the government shutdown: why is health care so threatening?

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 I may be putting myself out on a bit of a limb here, but the draw of the blog makes it hard to sit silent while our country heads towards d...
Saturday, October 5, 2013

Mental illness and motherhood: lessons from Miriam Carey

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We do not have medical records or diagnoses. The news is filled with speculation. What we do know is that Miriam Carey’s one-year-old da...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Protecting a space for parenting in an age of expert advice

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In my behavioral pediatrics practice , it never ceases to amaze me how, given the space and time, parents come around to making sense of the...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

In the age of DSM 5, what is normal?

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In an interesting coincidence, a couple of weeks ago I received two emails on the same day asking me to write about books that are about the...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Investing in early childhood means investing in infants

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Why is this so difficult for us to see? The United States has one of the most restrictive parental leave policies in the world, as my fellow...