Recent Updates
Holiday Family Gatherings a Contributing Factor to Yearly Winter Flu Epidemic, Study Reports
Yes, ‘tis the season once again. Time to repost and reread this insanely useful study—your world will be rocked.
Thrilled to Announce
The Proud Author and W. W. Norton & Company are Thrilled To Announce the Publication of Her Second Book Today 9/17/2024.
The Day My Veggie Freezer Died
Tragedy struck in the wake of a storm-related power outage a month ago on a Saturday night. But I didn’t know it yet.
Good Things Come in Threes
Indeed they do! I’ve had quite the July.
On 7/18/24, I received a box of first editions of my second book! (That’s one.) The same day friends who had pre-ordered it, received theirs! (That’s two.) Oh. My. God. This book is really happening.
Book Review: 7 1/2 Lessons About The Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
“A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.” David Eagleman
This short, accessible, and frequently amusing book opens with “The Half Lesson: Your Brain Is Not for Thinking.” It’s not? Already my mind boggled. Then what’s it for? Wipe your mind of whatever you were thinking (ha) and prepare for a shock.
Breaking: My Second Book Drops This September! You Can Pre-Order It Now
I bet you are asking yourselves: Doorknob bombshells? Doorknob bombshells in therapy? What is that?
A doorknob bombshell, also known as a doorknob moment, is a clinical phenomenon that occurs in a wide variety of settings. That’s when a patient drops distressing personal information critical to the treatment on their way out the door, hand on the doorknob, and then breaks down.
What should a caring clinician do when a patient does that? It’s a near universal dilemma for clinicians.
It's Mental Health Awareness Month (aka May)!
Since its inception in 1949, Mental Health Awareness Month has been all about making public, in a spirit of advocacy, the many, many challenges faced by millions of Americans living with mental health conditions.
But there’s not much out there about the working and personal lives of mental health providers. And what there is, is inaccurate, being based on fiction, such as the television sitcom Frasier. Let me make you aware of what my life as a psychiatrist is like.
Let me make you aware of what my life as a psychiatrist is like.