Child in Mind

A spate of tragic cases involving the Department of Children and Families (DCF) in Massachusetts recently led Governor Baker to call for “t...

(The following story was told to me by a friend; details have been changed to protect privacy.) An early winter snowstorm left Janet with ...

 As both a pediatrician and psychoanalyst, D.W. Winnicott had a unique view of human development. In his pediatric practice, he was immerse...

(I have been fully absorbed in the editing of my soon-to-be released book The Silenced Child so have had less time for my blog. I hope read...

In a recent conversation with a group of pediatrician colleagues, we bemoaned the lack of access to good therapy for our child patients and...

I recently ran in to a colleague, an experienced psychotherapist, who marveled at my ability to "get out from under the medical model ...