Mental Illness Treatment

Book Review: The Guardians -- An Elegy

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 05.15.2012

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

Serious mental illnesses can be agony: They are as painful as physical illnesses but further bedeviling because there is no broken bone, no dead heart or lung tissue, no cancer or non-functioning organ to point to.

Mental Health And The Family Tree

Craig Garner | Posted 11.17.2011

Craig Garner

Unlike cancer or heart disease, psychiatric disorders continue to stand as an enigma to much of the modern world. This often leaves those closest to the patient wondering both how to feel and what to do.

PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Attachment, Parenting and Childhood Mental Illness

Ken Duckworth, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Ken Duckworth, M.D.

Most children with mental illness respond to standard treatments and interventions and experience relief from their symptoms; for some families, recovery can be a greater challenge.

Look Inside, Not To God

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

In the aftermath of the shooting last week on another college campus, I am reminded of a common response to such horrors: to pray and seek solace from...