I am writing this at 4 in the morning. I have been lying
horizontal in the dark for the past 4 hours, failing miserably to close the
deal with the gods of sleep. Two hours
between 10 and midnight - that was it. Then my racing mind took over. I'm in DC
at the APA annual meeting, and I'm obviously way overstimulated.
I have no... Read more
It's 5 PM and I'm about to call it a day. I'm in Washington DC
at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting. Yesterday, I picked
up my media credentials, got the lay of the land, then went back to my hotel. I
had circled in a breakfast symposium that I was planning on not waking up on
time for, but no such luck. At 5 AM... Read more
It's 6 AM and I need to be sleeping. I'm flying out tomorrow from
San Diego to Washington DC.
Yikes! What if I fly out today? Suddenly I'm wide awake.
My PowerPoint presentation! I suddenly realize. One of the slides
is wrong!
I was up till 2 AM trying to get my old piece of crap Windows
laptop to burn a disk of my... Read more
I am putting together a talk that I will be delivering next month in Princeton as a grand rounds lecture to psychiatrists and other clinicians. The name of the talk is:“Controversies in Psychiatric Treatment: A patient/reporter discusses compliance.”Psychiatry is only starting to wake up to the issue, and you can make a strong case... Read more