Film and Book Reviews

What one brings to the table from one’s own life may figure prominently -and poignantly -in one’s response to a film score.

A psychiatrist recounts her harrowing experiences at both Bellevue Hospital and one of the most notorious correctional systems in the United States.

In Dr. Andrew Farah’s new biography of Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway’s Brain, he details the neuropsychiatric demise of a great literary mind.

The noted Israeli author's latest book is set in a 1990s second-string comedy club.

How might a better understanding of the mind enhance someone’s life and optimize a clinical encounter?

The author's enthusiasm and love for his work shines through in every page of this new book.

We have criminalized mental health problems-a barbaric throwback to the dismal conditions before the Enlightenment.

If you haven’t seen the series or heard media coverage about it, the 13 reasons are a series of 13 audiotapes made by the character, Hannah Baker, to be listened to by the 13 people she felt in some way contributed to her decision to kill herself.

In Get Out, director/writer Justin Peele’s provocative debut, the bodies snatched are African American (mostly robust males); the cannibals of consciousness are white residents of an affluent Baltimore suburb, where the living is easy and the politics fashionably progressive.

Sometimes it just doesn't pay to fight.

People with mood disorders (and those who care about them) are likely to experience a healing reconsideration of their own experiences as they read this book.

Westworld-the HBO pitiless purgatory where everything goes worng!

Here's a review of a book about involuntary psychiatric commitment-- a major source of controversy when the public tries to understand who psychiatrists are and what we do.

As our understanding of the brain and new technologies have rapidly evolved, such an extensive text on psychiatric ethics is clearly timely.

Almost everyone can benefit from psychotherapy at some point in their lives.

Bravely enter territory that academia has largely neglected-the nebulous region between full bipolar disorder and major depression.

"Everyday experiences made sacramental through magical language, depth of feeling, and wells of knowledge"–one of your peers used this description for a book he found inspiring. Can you think of more?

A searching interrogation of scientific findings reflected against experience with patients.

Game of Thrones is the first of 5 novels comprising A Tale of Ice and Fire, by George M.M. Martin. The series has captivated millions of fans worldwide. I’ve unexpectedly joined them.

Unrelenting belief in the goodness of humankind while confronting an uncommon disease.

There is a paucity of information on complementary and integrative therapies, especially when they pertain to the topic of mental health and aging. But that's all changed.

Our societal challenges beat through each note in Simon's newest album-with far-reaching implications for psychiatry.

Film can be a powerful vehicle for conversation and social change in the fight against psychiatric stigma.

Methods of identifying and understanding the intricacies of psychosis in clinical settings.

Is a "good death" possible in the face of terminal illness?

After serving 18 years for sexual assault and attempted murder, new DNA procedures led to Steven Avery's exoneration. Surely, he must be guilty of something.

Forty years later, we are still in the belly of the managed care beast.

A man searches for the answers to what happened to him psychologically after a childhood of high achievement. But facts intersect with fiction in this documentary.

A review of a compelling documentary on the spectacular rise and catastrophic fall of British singer Amy Winehouse, a star with an old voice in a young body.