Saturday, May 24, 2014

Quotidian Trauma, Quotidian Resilience: Boston Conference on Contemporary Developmental Neuroscience

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When Frank was a young boy, and he committed some typical toddler transgression such as having a meltdown when it was time to leave the play...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Roz Chast on Parent-Child Relationships

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Roz Chast's new book Can't we talk about something more pleasant? , a touching, funny, sad, and thought provoking graphic memoir, is...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Keep Mothers in Mind for Mother's Day and Mental Health Month

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In recognition of May as National Mental Health Awareness Month, President Obama made a proclamation  that included this statement My Admi...
Friday, May 2, 2014

Accepting Gratitude

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How often, when someone thanks us for something, do we respond with some variation of, "don't worry about it," or, "it...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Alex's Wake: trauma, creativity, and healing

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Martin Goldsmith's new book, Alex's Wake: A Voyage of Betrayal and a Journey of Remembrance is at one level a history lesson as mem...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Antipsychotics for foster care kids with ADHD?

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A recent study , one that received relatively scant media attention (compared with a concurrent  New York Times piece about a new psychiatr...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Autism: difference or disorder?

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About 2 years ago, when the change in diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder proposed for DSM 5 was in the news, I wrote a blog p...