Steven S. Sharfstein, MD

Assisted outpatient treatment is not intended to replace comprehensive, easy-to-access, voluntary treatment. Here's why we need it, according to one expert.

What was life like in the 1950s Bronx for a budding preeminent psychiatrist?

Tina, a 35-year-old legal secretary, is admitted to the hospital hearing voices that demand she gouge out her own eyes as punishment for having lived a sinful life. She was seen in the local emergency room prior to admission, both for involuntary certification and treatment for corneal damage from having attempted to harm herself. She states to the admitting psychiatrist, "If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out!"