Reflections on Psychiatry, Therapy, and Mental Health

We will be posting quirky or surprising images once monthly on our home page that nevertheless point in a serious way to important themes...

No doubt smoking is a major health scourge, and given that success rates with various interventions are surprisingly low, few patients come to our office seeking help for the serious addiction that smoking represents. Regardless, patients who come for other reasons often allow us to talk about it. Just the other day, a woman came in for a routine medication check. She is stable overall and had been treated for PTSD. At this point in her life she is wrestling with more ordina

Roughly a decade before I was born, Albert Hofmann, a Swiss chemist working with ergot alkaloids, a class of compounds that seemed promising in Ob-Gyn medicine, first synthesized LSD. An accidental exposure to this compound suggested to him that the drug had remarkable psychoactive properties. A few days later he intentionally took what would be considered a heroic dose leading to a legendary moment in the history of psychedelics. Just a few years later, Hofmann would go on