Among the lawyers whom I have known, it occurs to me that the only ones I've liked have had bouts of depression. So when Dan Lukasik, lawyer and depression sufferer, invited me to write a piece for his lawyerswithdepression.com, I gladly agreed.
In Surviving America's Depression Epidemic, I explain how...
Posted December 13, 2007 | 06:01 PM (EST)
I have been a clinical psychologist in private practice for more than two decades in southwestern Ohio, a Republican stronghold in the state that broke Democrats' hearts in 2004. Three years later, it appears that most of the "blue team" remembers Ohio only for voter fraud, but I remember how...
Posted November 27, 2007 | 04:45 PM (EST)
If forced to choose between labeling immobilizing depression as either a character weakness or a disease, it's understandable that disease would be the preference. But there is a third choice, one that normalizes depression and which -- for people such as myself -- feels more respectful and better reduces suffering.
...Posted November 13, 2007 | 01:19 PM (EST)
Lifting the spirits of the demoralized is a craft--not a science--and a wall covered with diplomas does not translate to talent and wisdom in this area.
I have been a clinical psychologist for more than two decades and have found that most of my fellow mental health professionals talk far...
Posted October 29, 2007 | 04:56 PM (EST)
While psychiatry--similar to the Bush administration -- may want to blame its current unpopularity on the press, the corporate media is generally reluctant to challenge a powerful institution until it is already out of favor. Thus, the unpopularity of a powerful institution is usually well-earned through undeniable deceit, incompetence, corruption...
Posted October 5, 2007 | 01:52 PM (EST)
On September 14, 2007, New York Times reporters Alex Berenson and Benedict Carey foiled, at least temporarily, Big Pharma and its psychiatry allies' attempt to eliminate the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warning label about increased suicidal thoughts and behaviors in minors using antidepressants.
Berenson and Carey refuted a...

Posted July 24, 2008 | 06:13 PM (EST)