H. Paul Putman III, MDSep 22, 20235 minSplit Personality: Common Misperceptions about Mental Health and Mental IllnessIn this series we have been reviewing commonly held ideas about mental illness and mental health that, outside of psychiatry, are often...
H. Paul Putman III, MDJun 8, 20234 minViolence and the Mentally Ill: Common Misperceptions about Mental Health and Mental IllnessAre people with mental illnesses more violent than those without them? Many state legislatures have recently acted on the idea that they...
H. Paul Putman III, MDDec 5, 20226 minCharacter Sketches: Values, Utopia, and a Man UndeterredWe have been discussing in this series the link between values and self-esteem: how defining the former can inform conscious choices...
H. Paul Putman III, MDAug 26, 20224 minCharacter Sketches: Maintaining Self-Esteem During Bad Times Joshua Waitzkin, the subject of the book and movie Searching for Bobby Fischer,[1],[2] describes in his own book, The Art of Learning: An...