Psychiatrist and psychotherapist Heather Clague offers reflections on the difference between private psychotherapy practice and working in the psychiatric emergency room, how prescribing medication broadens psychotherapy, and the joy and heartache of working with those society is "happy to ignore."
Neuroscience has unlocked many mysteries about the nature of mental health and illness, says former NIMH chief Thomas Insel, but now must yield to effective psychological and social interventions.
In a poignant memoir chronicling her return to wholeness, Vivian Conan, with the help of her therapist, Jeffery Smith, shares her tortuous yet liberating journey.