EDUCATION
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B.B. King, an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer
The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources – spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.
Norman Cousins, an American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate
For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet… and hoped that they would go away.
Richard Codey, an American politician, governor of New Jersey from 2004 to 2006
The significance of the family in counseling/therapy.
When I opened my private practice, I was looking for a name for it. My goal was to get a name that would reflect my counseling philosophy. Finally, I came up with Family and Individual Therapy abbreviated as F.A.I.Th. Intentionally, I put the word “family” at the first place emphasizing my confidence in the high importance of the families in…
Healthy Minds | Bipolar Disorder, Part One: A Conversation With Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.
“You are not alone,” – says Dr. Jamison to an audience, and she truly means it. Kay Redfield Jamison is a world-famous writer, clinical phycologist, and Dalio Professor in Mood Disorders and Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her first book “An Unquiet Mind” is memoirs from her childhood to young adulthood where she tells a moving story of her family and her living with bipolar illness starting at a relatively early age. Being both a consumer and a mental health professional Dr. Jamison knows very well the needs of her patients treating them with genuine empathy.