Stepping into the River: Four Lives

(in progress)

This book tells the story of four lives as seen through the lens of therapy. Two women and two men begin their journey through adolescence with major struggles. The worlds of poverty and privilege pose their own challenges which these patients learn to navigate as teenagers. The book accompanies them through their young adulthood and ends with them setting up their own corrective emotional experiences through creating their own families.

Holding Lives in Your Mind:

A Close Up View of the Practice of Developmental Psychiatry (in progress)

This collection of 21 short stories of the treatment of patients across the life span with the integrated treatments of developmental psychiatry is based on the actual diagnosis and treatment of children, adolescents, young  and not so young adults. The stories are told from the perspective of the treating physician as he prepares for intervention or carries them out. The reader gets an intimate view of the professional life of a developmental psychiatrist as he diagnoses and intervenes, and as he struggles with conundrums and frustrating situations.