Mental Health Blog
Sharing optimistic news about serious mental health concerns such as schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, and OCD.
EP15: Psychiatric Advance Directives with Bebe Smith, LCSW
Episode 15 of the Mental Horizons Podcast was with Bebe Smith, MSW, LCSW and the topic is Psychiatric Advance Directives. Listen to the episode on Stitcher, iTunes, or SoundCloud. Bebe is director of mental health and coordinator of the North Carolina Evidence Based...
Virgil reflects on the mental health crisis in America
In the following post, I amble through a forest of wisdom I have recently observed in others. While observing their differences I have also seen that most are woven into a common theme: restoring a sense of community, belonging, connectivity, engagement, and...
EP14: Psychiatric Interventionist or Psychiatric Preventionist? With Brad Richards.
Episode 14 of the Mental Horizons Podcast is with Bradley Richards. Brad is a skilled and sensitive psychiatric and behavior interventionist and care navigator. He enters crisis situations, quickly grasping and understanding the facts in a way that allows him to...
EP13: Mental Illness & Faith Communities with Matthew Stanford, PhD
Episode 13 of our Mental Horizons Podcast is with Matthew Stanford, PhD, the CEO of the Hope and Healing Center and Institute in Houston, Texas and adjunct professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and Houston Methodist Hospital Institute for Academic...
Reflections on the Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare conference
On October 18th and 19th, 2019 I attended the Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare conference in Boston, Massachusetts. This conference is offered by the McLean Hospital Continuing Education department and the Institute of Coaching (IOC). Special thanks to the...
EP12: Legal Remedies for Long-Term Mental Health Planning with Debra Rahmin Silberstein, Esq, PhD
Episode 12 of our Mental Horizons Podcast is with Attorney Debra Rahmin Silberstein, Partner at Burns & Levinson LLP in Boston. In this episode, Virgil and Debra discuss Legal Remedies for Long-Term Mental Health Planning. Listen Now iTunes Stitcher SoundCloud...
EP11: Legal Remedies to Mitigate Mental Health Crises with Lisa Cukier, JD
Episode 11 of the Mental Horizons Podcast is with Lisa Cukier, Partner at Burns & Levinson in Boston where Lisa is also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. This show is part one of a 2-part podcast series. In part 1, Lisa talks to us about legal remedies...
Nutritional Psychiatry: a brief introduction.
We recently published the 10th episode of our Mental Horizons Podcast and that conversation was with Chris Palmer, MD, Harvard Medical School assistant professor of psychiatry, director of continuing education at McLean Hospital, and pioneering researcher in the area...
EP10: Nutritional Psychiatry, Metabolic Disorders, and the Ketogenic Diet as Medical Intervention
In episode 10 of our Mental Horizons Podcast, Dr. Chris Palmer of McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School introduces us to the growing field of nutritional psychiatry. Find the episode on: SoundCloud iTunes Stitcher Dr. Palmer is a graduate of Washington University...