Treating Depression to Prevent Suicide

Click Here to Read: Treating Depression to Prevent Suicide: Letters to the Editor in The new York Times on August. 24, 2014.
Two Psychiatrists, on Treating Schizophrenia

Click Here to Read: Two Psychiatrists, on Treating Schizophrenia: Letters to the Editor in The New York Times on August 21, 2014.
When Cell Door Opens, Tough Tactics and Risk

Click Here to Read: “When Cell Door Opens, Tough Tactics and Risk” (“Locked In” series, front page, July 29): Letter to the Editor by Susan McNamara in The New York Times on August 7, 2014.
Who is a Psychoanalyst?

Click Here to Read: Who is a Psychoanalyst? Letters to the Editor on Commentary Magazine on November 01, 1985.
Letter by Joseph Schachter to the New York Times

If the rape of a college student is a crime, why doesn’t the victim report the crime to the police rather than to the college or university? College administrators, like upper level armed forces officers, have a vested interest in how sexual crimes are dealt with. The police don’t -or shouldn’t – have a stake in the […]
Read more...An Insurance Trap for Psychiatrists and Patients

Click Here to Read: An Insurance Trap for Psychiatrists and Patients: Letters to the Editor of the New York Times by Jeffrey Lieberman and Jack Drescher on December 20, 2013.
Jeffrey Lieberman Jack Drescher
Understanding Suicide: Mental Illness, Not Irony

Click Here to Read: Understanding Suicide: Mental Illness, Not Irony Letters to the Editors on The New York Times on December 10, 2013 .
Treating Mental Illness, in the U.S. and Abroad

Click Here to Read: Treating Mental Illness, in the U.S. and Abroad: Letters to the Editors in The New York Times on November 10, 2013 .
Comparing Dreams

Click Here to Read: Comparing Dreams: Letter to the editor by J. David Miller in The New York Times on October 27, 2013.
Click Here to Read: Data-mining Our Dreams on this website.
letter from Susan G. Lazar re: Psychiatric Care Insurance Article

Click Here to Read: Lacking Rules, Insurers Balk at Paying for Intensive Psychiatric Care by Reed Abelson in The New York Times on this website. Letter by Susan G. Lazar: In disagreement with Reed Abelson’s defense of insurance company violations of the Mental Health Parity Act prohibiting discrimination in benefits for psychiatric illness: “Unlike some physical […]
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