Art, Public Health, and the Depiction of Suicide - A Reading the Mind Discussion
13/2017 – Reading the Mind Update Reading the Mind Book (& Film) Group kicked off last night with a discussion of the Netflix Original...
How long does psychotherapy take? Why it is important for psychiatry residents to have long-term out
I was out for a hike in the hills surrounding Loch Raven Reservoir when the path forded a stream. Never one to hesitate plundering Mother...
Reading the Mind - Collaboration and Conversation
The Maudsley and Johns Hopkins Hospitals psychiatry residency training programs have a long history of collaboration. When we learned -...
Nature Red in Tooth and Claw - Lessons for Psychotherapy
Patapsco Valley State Park covers more than 16,000 acres along the Patapsco River a half-hour's drive from the hospital. Hiking, mountain...
Devotion to Patients, Devotion to Teaching: A Welcome Message From Our New Department Director
The following remarks were given by Dr. James "Jimmy" Potash, welcoming the new residents to the Johns Hopkins Hospital on this, his...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Springtime Aromas in Baltimore
A long time ago, I attended a college screening of the John Waters' film Polyester. Waters is an auteur of high camp, a teller of trashy...
To Market, to Market!
There are twenty farmers markets within ten miles of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, including one on the JHH campus on Thursday afternoons,...
Scholarship in Service to the Community
Baltimore had me at “hello,” literally. I walked out of the airport, shocked I had to remove my winter coat to adjust to the 50 degree...
To Everything There Is a Season...
Ecclesiastes is a beautiful book: the seasons turn, rivers flow into oceans, the earth remains. Leaving aside the impending ecological...
Hope and Thanksgiving in Baltimore
I was biking to work one day this summer and came upon a man decorating a police box. Y'know. A normal day in Baltimore. It was July 8th,...
