Birth: 1964
There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not just illnesse….
I'm a practicing psychiatrist and I think that I really believe in the advances of psychiatry. Our diagnoses are more precise..
I think President [Barack] Obama is exactly right, we need to combat [gun shoots] because this really can become the new normal, but that`s really wh….
I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just psychiatric ones. Breast cancer would ….
Particularly with schizophrenia you see a lot of concern that these people could escape and kill people, or they could threaten our political order..
Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race..
I think that one of the other lessons about what happened here is that open carry laws, even though many police, sheriff departments in Colorado supp….
The issue of guns, as president [Barack] Obama mentioned, which is particularly assailant in Colorado, a very complicated gun story, and I think a po….
I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats against the smooth….
Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even the most biological finding refl….