The following article began as a discussion over Sunday brunch with three close friends who are all active or retired psychotherapists.

At a recent seminar I was asked to tell psychiatry residents why they needed to learn how to do psychotherapy.

Suicides are always tragic, but the nightmarish crash of Germanwings Flight 4U9525, in which co-pilot Andreas Lubitz killed himself and 149 others on March 24, raises issues of special concern to psychiatry.

Charlie is seven years old.

A half century ago -- before mental health professionals began arguing over the relative benefits of biological and verbal therapies -- the battle focussed on which methods of psychotherapy worked best.

I have been a psychiatrist for more than twenty-five years and was trained to use a bio-psycho-social model of evaluation and treatment.

Blame the parents, a simplistic way to think about adult psychopathology.

A quick-start guide for people who have been diagnosed with cancer or who have a friend or family member who has been.

Here are some formulas that may be useful in estimating human functionality and dangerousness.  

I am an adult and child psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, trained in the 1980’s, pre-Prozac era, whose fundamental conviction about my role in helping patients is under attack.

Depressed patients indicate the treatments that are likely to benefit them through a variety of clinical clues.

My response to a father’s soul-searching letter about how to care for his bipolar adult son