Child in Mind

Children who grow up in poverty are at risk for problems of emotional, behavioral and attentional regulation. Today's Globe reports   th...

Dancing Lessons ,  a  new play  recently premiered at Barrington Stage Company , is ostensibly about an actual dancing lesson. An injured d...

When I hear debate over the association between SSRI’s (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, a class of antidepressant medication) ...

Psychoanalysts for over a hundred of years have recognized the significance of early relationships in health and development. Now the explo...

In the course of working on my new book about listening to parents and children, I have had the pleasure of immersing  myself in the writin...

In yoga, a pose referred to by my teacher as "how wonderful" involves a lifting of the head and chest, and opening of the arms out...

At the recent gubernatorial candidates forum on mental health , Martha Coakley repeated the oft-heard phrase that depression is like diabete...