Mental Health
Artificial Intelligence in Psychiatry
As seen in Psychology Today. ChatGPT stunned the world last November when it was released. The chatbot can generate seemingly accurate and even eloquent answers to difficult questions that typically require a thorough understanding of engineering, law, or medicine to answer. Trained using large language models and natural language processing, generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems […]
Is Integrative Psychiatry Going Mainstream?
As seen in Psychology Today. As a practitioner of mental health with an integrative approach to psychiatric treatment for over 25 years, the American Psychiatric Association’s Annual Meeting last week in San Francisco felt a bit like vindication. There is no doubt a growing acknowledgment within psychiatry that psychiatric conditions are not merely psychological or […]
The Road to Better Mental Health Passes Through the Gut
As seen in Psychology Today. Psychiatry has undergone several major evolutions over the last century. We’ve gone from a primarily psychoanalytic approach centered on talk therapies to a more neurobiological approach that pairs psychotherapies with medications capable of targeting specific neurotransmitters in the brain. Both modalities, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, rose to prominence rapidly and disrupted […]
