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Saving our lives one step at a time
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
Just one month into the new year, some of our resolutions for self-improvement may have already started to split along the fault lines of old comfortable habits and resistance...
More than a few good interns
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
By the time this column appears in January, the interview phase of the annual internship sweepstakes will be in full swing. But as I write in December, I have just finished...
Ebenezer Scrooge and the Season of Second Chances
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
What I love most about the dark cold days of December is the opportunity they give us to notice and enjoy glimpses of contrasting light and warmth. Outdoors the cold makes...
Living by stories
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
When I decided to spend part of a recent Sunday afternoon at a reading by Robert Coles in a bookstore in a nearby town, I knew I was in for a pleasant drive through the fall...
Prescription authority comes with risks, uncertainties
By Edward Stern J.D.
Forces are in the health care system changing its landscape. The greatest changes seem to revolve around the payments of insurance, including who will provide particular...
Ambushed by insight
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
Metaphors abound in everyday speech but psychologists use them mindfully, most often to clarify something that we think is important for our audience to remember. We like to...
Bridges
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
When our hospital closed in April, we lost our internship and, with it, a long list of practices, rituals and ceremonies that had come to mark the seasons of a year dedicated...
The risks of restraint and seclusion
By Edward Stern J.D.
Last month, New England Psychologist looked at the use of restraint and seclusion. In this installment, the column examines some of the risks of these methods to both...
Use of restraint, seclusion is controversial, Part 1
By Edward Stern J.D.
The first of a two-part column.
When the justice and mental health systems believe that someone is a risk to himself/herself or a threat to others, the courts...
Half-finished notebooks
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
At morning rounds the other day while waiting for something important to record in my recycled, spiral-bound notebook, curiosity nudged me to flip through the filled front...