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As a psychiatrist I spent years trying to change how people think. I thought if I could help them become more open-minded, less judgmental...

When I was in training to become a psychiatrist, an old-school mastermind in the field asked the class what I thought was an obvious...

It takes a great deal of courage to make an appointment with a psychiatrist. Oftentimes there is a lag between obtaining a therapist’s number...

Psychologists, social scientists and even ancient philosophers have long theorized that music has the power to change our lives. None of them, however, has...

In wellness, there’s no one-size-fits-all regimen. In fact, the first step on the path to a better, healthier, happier life, is choice. In a classic...

For many years, I had a dark and dingy office with a soot-smeared window in a sterile hospital building. It was minimalist, to say...