Therapy, It’s More Than Just Talk

The easy guide to mental health issues

Lloyd I Sederer M.D.

Sometimes Decency and Grit Win

Never before has a Somali (and woman and Muslim) won a statewide or national election in the USA.

Abductions: Two Film Reviews

Unpacking Unsane and Priceless, two films about abductions that could not be more different.

Little League: A Play by Jack Spagnola

What will tomorrow bring? Anyone who thinks they know should know better.

The Young Karl Marx

Writing and shooting a film about communism meant for Westerners, especially Americans, can’t exactly be easy.

The Deadly Flow of Opioids

Opioids work (until they don’t): they are an immensely effective means of alleviating physical and psychic pain, as well as social malaise and ennui.

4 Strategies for Families Facing Addiction

Hardly any family member, friend or co-worker is spared knowing someone with addiction. What can you do to help?

Fulfilled: How the Science of Spirituality Can Help You Live

A new book takes us into the consulting room through stories in warm and clear prose.

Born To Be Wild: Why Teens Take Risks, and How We Can Help

What happened to that wonderful, even angelic child we knew before he or she turned teen? Did we do something wrong…

Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care

No other issues in mental health seem to ignite flames as great and persistent as do liberty and privacy.

The Mind of God

"The Mind of God" is an elegant and wise book that leads us to wonder about and fashion our own unique answers to some of the most baffling and vital of questions.

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen

An estimated 15% of these incarcerated men and women will have a serious mental illness, and approximately 50% have an active substance use disorder, or both.

Warning: This Drug May Kill You

In this beautiful and sorrowful HBO documentary, we crisscross this country to meet families who represent today’s victims of the opioid epidemic.

4 Secrets to Improving our Health and Mental Health

Do you know the 4 secrets, hiding in plain sight, to improve our health and mental health? Take a read...

God Knows Where I Am

This documentary takes us into the life of Linda Bishop, and her family and caregivers. She was found dead in a New Hampshire home several months after her hospital discharge.

This Close to Happy, by Daphne Merkin

Why do some people do well and others not when ill with a disease?

The Telomere Effect

Want to lead a longer, healthier life? The answer is in your telomeres!

The Lysergic Acid ‘Solution’ for Depression?

Can microdosing acid (LSD) help a variety of serious mental and addictive disorders?

Three Steps Towards a New Year, Not Just Another Resolution

How change can happen is possible, but not just by hoping.

Crossing the Political Chasm

How can this divided country find common ground, instead of divisive disdain?

Middle America and the Opioid Addiction Epidemic

The opioid addiction epidemic is raging through middle America, and its families.

A Profile of Siddhartha Mukherjee

A profile of the Pulitzer Prize winning Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee

"So You're Going Crazy" by Hilary Dean

Psychosis is a deeply powerful and commanding experience...

Voices

Voices is a beautifully rendered documentary on the lives of three people with severe, persistent, psychotic illness. For 56 minutes we enter lives upended by an illness, schizophrenia, which for these three led to substantial disability, homelessness and catastrophe.

My Sunday Morning With Mental Health Advocates

I wanted to spend our time hearing the thoughts of those who attended, families and patients, about they believed stood in the way of improving mental health services and what we could do about it

The 'Other' Marshmallow Test

The tower building exercise - and its marshmallow - reveals another secret of successful human behavior, in this case for mental health professionals: when we put the goals of our patients first and foremost, they are going to be more effective, and so will we.

Hope: Entertainer of the Century, A Book Review

Bob Hope was arguably the most successful American entertainer of the 20th century.

When Mental Illness Enters The Family

My TEDx talk, whose link is in this blog, offers four messages for families with a loved one with a mental illness. I hope you will view this talk, which offers practical advice and hope.

Je Suis Charlie: A First Person Account From the Paris Rally

Paris was full of people in its streets, nameless and without renown, coming from everywhere – a rainbow of colors, religions, ethnicities, and social classes, marching for freedom of expression, saying no to extremism.

Suspicious Minds: A Book Review by Dr. Lloyd Sederer

If you want a deep, smart, entertaining dive into the history of mental illness, especially delusions, pick up a copy of “Suspicious Minds.” As Drs. Joel and Ian Gold remark, “Today’s delusion is tomorrow’s headline.”

A Most Violent Year

The lawlessness of New York in 1981 is the subject of Participant Media’s year-end release of A Most Violent Year, as well as one man’s effort to find a way past the violence that threatens to ruin him, his family, and his life’s work.

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