January 27, 2021
Article
When meeting patients online, mental-health practitioners must confront a host of issues.
December 21, 2020
Article
Schools need to be at the heart of our response to the COVID-19 mental health crisis.
October 01, 2020
Article
Mental health providers who battle a pandemic may find that it unsettles their deepest sense of self.
April 30, 2020
Article
The cure should not be worse than the disease; so must we be cautious about our response to COVID-19. More in this video with Harold J. Bursztajn, MD.
April 29, 2020
Slideshow
In a time of panic, despair, and demoralization, art continues to inspire the author's reflections as it has over the last 40 years. Here, he shares some images that he finds inspirational and helpful. Even in winter there is hope.
April 28, 2020
Article
Local, state, and federal officials are rushing to implement massively life-altering measures in the current pandemic even as we enter a situation that is still poorly understood.
April 07, 2020
Article
For an inspiring model of communal hope and resilience under a dire threat to survival over COVID-19 fears, the author turns to the Fekalists, the prisoners condemned to be sanitation workers in the Lodz ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland, his parents among them.
September 26, 2019
Article
This article explores why Enduring Personality Change After Catastrophic Experience (EPCACE) is a clinically useful diagnosis.
August 16, 2017
Article
As I’ve seen in my parents’ remarkable journey from the doomed Jewish ghetto in Lodz, Poland, and in my psychiatry practice, photographs have immense power to heal.
September 10, 2015
Article
The authors explore possible reasons why young people in the West leave their families, friends, and home culture to join terrorist organizations.