Asperger’s

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From my earliest memories, I wanted to become a doctor — because I wanted to fix my family. You see, although nobody knew the names and the terms at the time, both my father and my brother had Asperger’s Syndrome.

Graphic of Autistic Spectrum Disorders in a ring

I studied the brain from inside and out. I became a neurosurgeon and I worked in psychiatric drug development. For the past 40 years I practiced medicine in every type of situation imaginable — from the US Army to prisons to community mental health centers to exclusive private psychiatric hospitals and clinics.

Now I’m devoting my life to helping those whose lives are affected by Autistic Spectrum Disorders.

I don’t believe mainstream medicine is doing a good job. The cost-containment model of healthcare in America doesn’t allow very much help to actually reach the patients.

I’m here for the patients AND the families. I have seen major improvements in patients and I have been researching ways to help that are not strictly drug oriented.

I want families and — yes, even patients — to contribute to the conversation, to compare notes, and to look for ways to improve life for everyone involved.

I will share my knowledge and I will answer questions. I’ll do whatever I can.

Feel free to ask me questions and I’ll answer them in this blog.

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Insight is the awareness of one’s own illness and/or situation.

This summary is as good as any textbook definition of this relatively amorphous concept that has completely infiltrated the fabric of psychiatric practice. Read more on Estelle The Translator…

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Two mentally challenged individuals had been having a bit of a spat with raised voices about which of one or another alien races had been exterminated in some futuristic interplanetary war.  They had obviously been emotionally involved.  It could have been truly ugly if they had let go and started beating each other.

There were a lot of things wrong with this picture. Read more on Alien Warfare — True Or False?…

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The person who walks into a psychiatrist’s office looking for help is not necessarily the patient.

Often, they are simply the family of the patient.

Sometimes, they themselves have something – possibly a disorder, but maybe just an emotional or attitude problem — that would seem somehow lesser in magnitude than the psychiatric diagnosis the person who is or should be the patient has actually got. Read more on Families Often Indicate Psychiatric Problems…