by Don Kerson | Jan 5, 2009
I am constantly meeting patients who have been evaluated by multiple psychiatrists and/or multiple therapists. Nevertheless they have no clear idea what the practitioners thought was wrong with them or why they were being given certain medications and/or therapy. My...
by Don Kerson | Sep 1, 2008
Bipolar illness is a very common but poorly understood set of conditions, a group of conditions that, like its cousin ADD, is routinely misdiagnosed and mistreated. When people are stuck, when they seem to be mysteriously unable to function at a level commensurate...
by Don Kerson | Mar 1, 2008
It’s been a busy month for mental health in the media. First there was another university shooting; this time five were killed. This was followed rather quickly by the bloody stabbing and murder of a private psychotherapist in her Manhattan office. In between...
by Don Kerson | Jan 20, 2008
Last week The New York Times printed an article on its front page calling attention to the fact that pharmaceutical companies have been routinely failing to report and publish studies of anti-depressant efficacy that do not support the drugs they are...
by Don Kerson | Jan 6, 2008
A study has been conducted at the UCLA department of psychiatry testing the proposition that training in mindfulness meditation in a group setting can have a positive effects on the symptoms of adult ADD. Results were highly promising and suggest that there is a role...
by Don Kerson | Jan 6, 2008
This is a simply wonderful book by seventh degree black belt and zen priest Jeff Brooks. Jeff runs a dojo (a karate studio) and a zendo (a school for Buddhist study and practice) in Northampton, Massachusetts, and I found his book so inspiring that I began...
