June 25th 2024
How does climate change affect mental health in individuals and communities?
Preventing and Treating School Refusal and Severe Social Withdrawal
May 19th 2015Twenty five years ago, “hikikomori” was a new term in Japan, used to describe severe and prolonged school refusal in teenagers, sometimes evolving into complete social withdrawal. The shut-in phenomenon has since gone global.
To the Clinicians of the Co-Pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525
April 10th 2015“I may never know who you are,” writes this psychiatrist, “but if you provided medical or psychiatric care for the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525, we are colleagues. And you too are his victims, of sorts. I hope your reputation does not suffer unduly.”