Good sleep can mean the difference between crazy and sane … between crying between meetings at work or lashing out at your husband over laundry and a semi-functional person who can fake it enough to keep her marriage and her job intact. It’s one of the members of my holy trinity of good mental health,...

Psychologist Elaine Aaron discusses the need for personal space for highly sensitive types in her bestseller, “The Highly Sensitive Person.” Now her claim comes with specific numbers of just how much space is needed The space surrounding the body (known by scientists as ‘peripersonal space’), which has previously been thought of as having a gradual...

What should you look for in a therapist? I asked one of my favorite psychologists that question. Ryan Howes is a clinical psychologist in Pasadena, California. He writes the “In Therapy” blog on Psychology Today and is the coauthor of “What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Sex.” He shares what he knows as a...

Earlier on Sanity Break I interviewed Dr. Ronald Pies on the topic of overmedication in America. Given the complex nature of this question and the controversy that surrounds it, I wanted to follow up with another interview on how to respond to people who say that we are overmedicating. I’ve been in this position countless...

Today I have the honor of interviewing one of my favorite psychiatrists on a topic that troubles me: overmedication in America. Dr. Pies is Professor of Psychiatry and Lecturer on Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston....