Paul Simon's 1972, "A Mother and Child Reunion" has been playing over in my mind, coming subtly into my awareness as I move through my work this week. And something is breaking my heart about it. As any self-respecting psychoanalyst would do, I took it to be a message from...

I had a wonderful moment on Monday in my consulting room. I had just finished a therapy session with a particularly creative child with whom I usually draw and doodle and talk and design and weave it all together as we work out important issues. I put aside our markers...

My octagenarian psychoanalyst, Dr. Lenny, said:

"Debbie, you can't leave your breast at home while you go to work."

The Huffington Post is starting a Huffington Post Parenting blog. In
honor of this auspicious beginning, I thought I would start by opening a
discussion about breast-feeding and the...

I am anguished about what happened at Virginia Tech University Monday. I'm sickened both as a mother and a professional. This is every mother and father's worst fear. No, I take that back. What happened Monday is so heinous that no parent even allows the possibility of the occurrence to...

I actually started writing the following blog two months ago, got sidetracked and never submitted it. I thought to myself that I would submit it the next time there is news of violence in India.

Sadly, violence surely did strike. In light of Tuesday's terrible tragedy in India, it...

I just got burned again by Pacific Care, a particularly woesome managed health care company. More accurately, I should say, another of my patients got burned.

I have come to hate health insurance companies.

I hate how they masquerade as anything other than...

Okay, on the surface, an academic subject. But upon closer examination, probably one we all care about. This past week, the FDA announced it is looking into the link between stimulant medication and heart arrhythmias. It has come to light that there may be valid evidence that the use of...

Watching the Super Bowl last Sunday afternoon, one commercial really got to me. The "Dove Self-Esteem Fund" spot, featured girls and women revealing their insecurities of their bodies. I was happy to see this Public Service Announcement. I liked the attempt to spur the nation into thinking about these sorts...

I've just finished reading all the comments (50 to date) posted in response to my piece on Scientology's continuing attack on psychiatry. I appreciate all of them and want to give a brief rebuttal with regard to some of the points brought up in the various commentaries:

1. I did...

The other day I was driving along Sunset Boulevard and something caught my eye... However, I was driving too fast to actually read the new "anti-psychiatry" banner fluttering in front of the Church of Scientology. I knew that until recently, the church had flaunted huge banners pronouncing, "Psychiatry Kills". But...