Home Inspection and Double Billing: Two Kindle Novels for Free, and Happy Holidays to Our Shrink Rap Readers
Happy Holidays!At this time of year, I like to set up free downloads to two of my novels. You can get these books for free on your Kindle from Sunday to Thursday.Double Billing is the story of a woman whose life changes when she discovers she has an identical twin. It's a quick read with a little psychiatry sprinkled in. One reviewer said: The book was a page-turner because of elegant structure and pacing. I really cared about the author ’s take on things –because she is a psychiatrist? because I’ve followed her blog for a while? – which meant that I was interested in the protagonist’...
Source: Shrink Rap - December 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
It Happened! Link to Yesterday's NPR Diane Rehm Show on Involuntary Psychiatric Care
The third time scheduled was a charm and we had a wonderful time going in to Washington to be on Diane Rehm's talk show. Okay, so the car wouldn't start at first, and I missed a turn, but we got there without event. The show included our friend, Pete Earley, and two people who had experienced involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations, Lily and Jaime -- they both did a great job of talking about their experiences. Pete, the author ofCrazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness and more recently co-author of the novelTreason, added a lot of life to the issue by talking about how har...
Source: Shrink Rap - November 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
Involuntary Psychiatric Care-- a Discussion on NPR's Diane Rehm Show on Tuesday : the Third Time's a Charm
I've posted twice about how we will be discussing our new book,Committed, on theDiane Rehm Show on National Public Radio. Well, national politics have gotten in the way, and we've been rescheduled for more time-sensitive issues. So I'm excited to tell you that we will be on the Diane Rehm Show this Tuesday, November 29th, during the second hour of the show -- 11 AM if you're listening on WAMU, 88.5 FM. Only it's gotten better -- while the show was originally supposed to be just the two authors, the programming has changed: Pete Earley, who wrote the foreword, will be joining us in the studio, and two...
Source: Shrink Rap - November 26, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
Tune in to Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang on Sirius XM #121
You're invited to tune in tomorrow, Monday Novermber 21st, when we join radio host John Fugelsang on his showTell Me Everything3PM on SiriusXM, #121We will be talking about our book,Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care-----Listen to our latest podcast atmythreeshrinks.com or subscribe to ourrss feed. Email us at mythreeshrinks at gmail dot com
Ourbook is out now. (Source: Shrink Rap)
Source: Shrink Rap - November 19, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
My Neverending iPhone 7+ Fiasco
If you've already read the beginning of this, you can scroll down to the Addendum added on 1/17/17.Please note that while this is usually a psychiatry blog, today I am using it to vent for my own personal psychotherapy. Please feel free to offer words of support, to make helpful interpretations to improve my insight, or if you know CBT techniques that may help me, I'm open to that. Is there a 12 step group for iPhone users? Medications to treat Post Traumatic iPhone Seven Disorder? --------------------Dear Mr. Jobs,I know you've died and left the job and I should leave you to your death in peace, but...
Source: Shrink Rap - November 18, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
An Open Letter to Steve Jobs Where Ever He May Be: My iPhone 7 Fiasco
Please note that while this is usually a psychiatry blog, today I am using it to vent for my own personal psychotherapy. Please feel free to offer words of support, to make helpful interpretations to improve my insight, or if you know CBT techniques that may help me, I'm open to that. Is there a 12 step group for iPhone users? Medications to treat Post Traumatic iPhone Seven Disorder? Maybe just a gin and tonic. In addition, let me tell you that there are some other stressful things going on in my life: When you shower in my bathroom, it rains in the kitchen. This has led to 6 weeks...
Source: Shrink Rap - November 18, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
An Open Letter to Steve Jobs Where Ever He May Be: My iPhone 7 Fiasco
Please note that while this is usually a psychiatry blog, today I am using it to vent for my own personal psychotherapy. Please feel free to offer words of support, to make helpful interpretations to improve my insight, or if you know CBT techniques that may help me, I'm open to that. Is there a 12 step group for iPhone users? Medications to treat Post Traumatic iPhone Seven Disorder? Maybe just a gin and tonic. In addition, let me tell you that there are some other stressful things going on in my life: When you shower in my bathroom, it rains in the kitchen. This has led to 6 weeks...
Source: Shrink Rap - November 18, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
A Call for Kindness
Something surprising happened on Tuesday : despite the predictions of the pollsters and pundits, Donald Trump was elected President. During the campaign, Mr. Trump was often unkind. For a short list, he poked fun of the press, dubbed his opponents with nasty nicknames in the way a middle school student might, was belligerent at times, refused to release his tax returns, picked a fight with the parents of a dead marine, talked of building a wall to keep Mexicans out, and made the Muslim members of our country feel unwanted as though they all might be terrorists. He accepted support from the Ku Klux K...
Source: Shrink Rap - November 11, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Diane Rehm Show: Stand by for a New Date
As I mentioned in the last post, we were scheduled to be on the Diane Rehm NPR radio talk show this morning to discuss our new book:Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care. And then came the Presidential Election where the predicted winner lost, and the world is asking why, and what will it mean to have Donald Trump as our president. Today, no one is thinking very much about forced psychiatric care and the NPR producer asked if we would reschedule to later in the month as they felt it was important to continue with election coverage. Stand by, we will get back to you with a new d...
Source: Shrink Rap - November 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
You're Invited to Listen to Us Talk About Our New Book on NPR's Diane Rehm Show this coming Thursday
Thursday, Nov 10 2016•11 a.m. (ET)The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric CareGuest Host: Indira LakshmananTwo psychiatrists explore the ongoing debate over involuntary treatment through first hand accounts of those hurt and helped by it.Guests Dinah Miller, MD psychiatrist in outpatient practice; instructor in psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.; co- author of "Committed: The Battle over Involuntary Psychiatric Care" Annette Hanson, MD assistant professor of psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine;...
Source: Shrink Rap - November 5, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
Are you Decisive?
Psychiatrists at the Johns Hopkins Hospital are doing a study on the nature of Doubt. So are you decisive? Take an anonymous survey, help science, and learn something about yourself in just a few minutes. Click Here to go to the survey. -----Listen to our latest podcast atmythreeshrinks.com or subscribe to ourrss feed. Email us at mythreeshrinks at gmail dot com
Ourbook is out now. (Source: Shrink Rap)
Source: Shrink Rap - November 2, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
Behind the Book: On Writing Committed
Yesterday our book,Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care was officially released. Our publisher, Johns Hopkins University Press, asked if I'd write a post for their blog, which I was more than happy to do. With permission, I've asked if I could reprint the piece on our other social media venues, including here at Shrink Rap. I hope you enjoy reading about what went into writing this book, and please do visit theJHUP blog over at https://www.press.jhu.edu/news/blog; they have some terrific authors writing about all sorts of topics.------------- (Source: Shrink Rap)
Source: Shrink Rap - November 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
Reviews of Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care
Happy Halloween everyone! Please don't dress up as a psychiatric patient, it's not funny, and depicting people with illnesses in harsh ways is...harsh and insensitive, promoting stigma and fear.In addition to Halloween --and yes there will be candy at my house tonight --- tomorrow, November 1st, is the official publication date of our new book,Committed : The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care. The printer got a little excited and released the books to Amazon (and maybe some libraries) a bit early, but our hard-working publicist, Gene Taft, at the Johns Hopkins University Press has been trying to keep thi...
Source: Shrink Rap - October 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
The Heated Battle Over Involuntary Committment
So often I write blog posts about topics I read about in the paper. I take a few quotes and expand upon them. Today I want to look at book review by Dr. Damon Tweedy, a psychiatrist at Duke University and author ofBlack Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflection on Race and Medicine. Only this is a little different. Dr. Tweedy is reviewing a book that We wrote! And a fine job he did, if I do say so myself.So from the Washington Post, to appear in print tomorrow, Tweedy writes about Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care Here, they explore forced psychiatric care, perhaps t...
Source: Shrink Rap - October 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
Attend a Penn Conference on Ethics and Correctional Mental Health for Free
Ah, technology. The Scattergood Foundation is having an all day conference on Ethics and Correctional Mental Health today in Philadelphia. No the conference is not free, but I imagine there will be time to get a cheesesteak (whiz, please) and if you've lived in Philly, you'll understand the reference to Cheese Whiz. The Conference is being lived streamed, so you want to learn about ethics and mental health care in our jails and prisons, do consider attending, in your pajamas if you'd like. Here is the information:Ethics and correctional Mental Health Conference live stream from 8:45 AM&nbs...
Source: Shrink Rap - October 19, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
