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|Articles|December 9, 2021
Holiday Reflections
Author(s)Frank A. Clark, MD
The holidays can both be a time of joy and a time of stress...
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POETRY
Reflections as we cope with the various emotions that are evoked during the holiday season.
Seasonal feelings
A holiday pendulum
Mindfulness matters
Dr Clark is an outpatient psychiatrist at Prisma Health-Upstate and clinical associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville. He served on the American Psychiatric Association’s Task Force to Address Structural Racism Throughout Psychiatry, and he currently serves as the Diversity and Inclusion section editor and advisory board member for Psychiatric TimesTM.
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