Professor of Psychiatry, Lecturer on Bioethics & Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Tufts University
I am a psychiatrist and ethicist affiliated with SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY; and Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. I write on a variety of cross-disciplinary topics, ranging from mental health to philosophy of mind to spirituality. Most recently, I have authored the novella, "The Late Life Bloom of Rose Rabinowitz;" and the poetry chapbook, "The Myeloma Year."
Why bigotry is a public health problem
Nov 26, 2018 17:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
\Over a decade ago, I wrote a piece for a psychiatric journal entitled Is Bigotry a Mental Illness? At the time, some psychiatrists were advocating making pathological bigotry or pathological bias essentially, bias so...
'Alternative facts': A psychiatrist’s guide to twisted relationships to truth
Mar 02, 2017 03:43 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The phrase alternative facts has recently made the news in a political context, but psychiatrists like me are already intimately acquainted with the concept indeed, we hear various forms of alternate reality expressed...
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