Articles by Saul Levine, MD

“…Have We really Changed after Lo, these Many Years?”

We Refuse to Hate
ByOmar Reda, MD,H. Steven Moffic, MD,Rahn K. Bailey, MD,John R. Peteet, MD,Ahmed Hankir, MD,Rama Rao Gogineni, MD,Sharon Packer, MD,Andrew J. McLean, MD, MPH,Mary V. Seeman, MD,Jack Gorman, MD,Saul Levine, MD,Sigalit Gal, PhD,Narpinder Kaur Malhi, MD,SPIRIT (Social Psychiatrists Interested in Recovery from International Trauma) The recent hostage situation at a synagogue in Texas in indicative of a larger underlying problem.

Psychiatrists Concerned With the Afghanistan Situation: Ethical and Practical Issues
ByOmar Reda, MD,H. Steven Moffic, MD,Saul Levine, MD,Mary V. Seeman, MD,Rahn K. Bailey, MD,Narpinder Kaur Malhi, MD,Neil Krishan Aggarwal, MD, MBA, MA, DFAPA,Rania Awaad, MD,Andrew J. McLean, MD, MPH,Rama Rao Gogineni, MD,John R. Peteet, MD,Ahmed Hankir, MD,SPIRIT (Social Psychiatrists Interested in Recovery from International Trauma) What can psychiatrists do to help veterans, Muslims, immigrants, refugees, and all those affected by the US withdrawal?

An Interfaith Psychiatrist Prescription for Middle East Peace
ByOmar Reda, MD,H. Steven Moffic, MD,Andrew J. McLean, MD, MPH,John R. Peteet, MD,Mary V. Seeman, MD,Rama Rao Gogineni, MD,Rahn K. Bailey, MD,Narpinder Kaur Malhi, MD,Sharon Packer, MD,Jack Gorman, MD,Saul Levine, MD,Sigalit Gal, PhD,Ahmed Hankir, MD,Rania Awaad, MD,SPIRIT (Social Psychiatrists Interested in Recovery from International Trauma) A cease fire is welcome, but a far cry from what we want to achieve—lasting Middle East peace.

We humans need to believe. We tend to feel better, more grounded, and safer.

In many jurisdictions, children and adolescents are currently being treated with cocktails of various psychotropic medications, the vast majority of which have never been empirically tested or validated in the age group in which they are being prescribed. Stating otherwise is being disingenuous. Medications are prescribed so often that one frequently cannot discern which symptoms are clinically derived and which are iatrogenic.