Editor's note
A recent USA Today headline—quite startling, really—splashed across its pages: MENTALLY ILL DIE 25 YEARS EARLIER, ON AVERAGE. One would think this would strike the psychiatric world like a 9/11, stirring drastic changes. It did not.
They've known for decades that psychiatric patients die earlier that the average population....
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As the world now knows, on April 16, 2007, student Cho Seung-Hui, the son of Korean immigrants, opened fire on the Virginia Tech campus in a mad rage and took the lives of 32 people, then himself. In the following days, massive media interest questioned what could have...
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Editor's note
As Safe Harbor enters its ninth year in 2007, we thought we'd take a moment to review changes in the world of mental health since our inception.
Although it has been our good fortune to meet many competent, forward-thinking psychiatrists over the past years, we have had to conclude...
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Safe Harbor has been fortunate over the years to work with some of the world’s brilliant innovators in the field of alternative mental health treatment. One of those people is Dr. Jeffrey Sager, a naturopath working at a psychiatric hospital in New England.
When Dr. Sager sought a research...
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It has been little over a year since our last issue of the Alternative Mental Health News and, from the many emails we received, we know our one-of-a-kind ezine has been missed.
As the founder of Safe Harbor, I stepped down so that I could better juggle a number...
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Editor's Comment
Here at the Safe Harbor, we are busy as bees in spring preparing for our annual medical conference - Non-Pharmaceutical Approaches to Mental Disorders - coming up on June 4-5 at the Glendale Hilton.
As we receive the lecture notes from various speakers, it has become more and more...
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