My op-ed recently appeared in the NY Daily News In recent memory we’ve witnessed the death by suicide of numerous celebrities and...

Over the last twenty years we’ve witnessed a stunning setback in the US. While there are multiple organizations working to reduce suicide...

Over the past year, suicide prevention and mental health have received a tremendous amount of attention in the media. Much was written...

In a recently published essay, the NY Times science and mental health writer Benedict Carey discusses the vexing gap between psychiatric...

In part I of this post I discussed what we know about and how we can understand reports of increased rates of mental health complaints,...

There is much currently being written in the popular press about the catastrophic impact that the COVID19 pandemic is having on mental...

It should not come as news that people are influenced by those around them. Historically, this influence was often seen in ethical or...

In part 1 of this discussion, I addressed some of what we may have learned about ourselves-emotionally and psychologically- from...

This past nine months, as we’ve confronted the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, have presented the world with an extraordinary array of...

In the past several weeks, two impressive reports have been released that can help guide policy and practice around mental health systems...

It is well established that having strong social connections is a significant factor in lowering risk for mental illness and suicide. At...

Popular culture-as expressed in popular music, literature, TV, film and theater-exists in an interesting mutual feedback relationship...

I have a friend whose mother survived several years in a Nazi concentration camp during her youth. From time to time, I would ask him how...

Bryan, Bryan and Anestis recently published a valuable and illuminating paper (https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2020.1848672) adding...

The CDC recently reported on the reduction in deaths among people with HIV (see: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6946a1.htm)....