Psychiatric Times Vol 17 No 12

Letter to a Young Psychiatrist: Confessions of a Psychodynamic Attending

Charles River Hospital, a 62-bed psychiatric facility in Wellesley, Mass., followed the trend of dozens of institutions, medical groups and some insurance companies last June. The hospital filed for bankruptcy.

Known as "the cancer of mental illness," schizophrenia can core a life, robbing a previously well-functioning person of what made the person uniquely them.

After this Tibetan monk's release, he fled across the Nepali border, made his way to India and then to New York City, where he was referred to a program for survivors of torture.