American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
Assess the Situation Rather Than Yourself
Reflecting on my many years of working with depressed patients, I’m struck by how many of them felt a great [...]
Openness Towards Patients
Clinician openness towards patients is a multivalent concept with various meanings. From my work with psychiatry residents and other mental [...]
Advice for a 78-Year-Old Psychiatrist
Request for Advice “Jack, I’m writing because I ran across one of your LifeBriefs from some time back. In it [...]
Attitude Adjustments
One feature of human life is how consistent it is for many people from day to day and, in many [...]
My Inspirations for Successful Aging
Last week a participant in one of the online reading groups I belong to asked me a question, “Jack, as [...]
How to Understand and Treat Worry
I’ll start with my take-home message: chronic worriers do not want to stop worrying. Instead, they want to stop feeling [...]