Psychiatrist and Author of Thinking Again, Encountering Treatment Resistance,
Rational Psychopharmacology & Rollercoaster
Reducing Cognitive Errors in Psychiatric Practice
Typical medical training calls for the learning, storing, and recalling of large amounts of information, but few medical professionals receive instruction on how to recognize, anticipate, and avoid innate mechanisms that can easily lead to cognitive error. This book provides insight and direction into reducing the cognitive errors routinely made by mental health and other medical providers.
Thinking Again
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1/15/26
New Tools for Reducing Medical Error
Early assessments of medical errors frequently focused on deficiencies in procedures and systems, yet research shows that 75% of those errors are individual and cognitive. And although typical medical training calls for the learning, storing, and recalling of large amounts of information, few medical professionals receive instruction on how to recognize, anticipate, and avoid innate mechanisms that can easily lead to cognitive error. I’m happy to report that American Psychiatric Publishing,...
May 13, 2024
It Stands to Reason: Unlocking Success for Treating Patients
“Thinking about how we think” helps develop a logical progression of treatment options and increases our chances of success, rather than unconsciously submitting to the irrational distortions of probability that our minds are prone to rely on.
