David Hellerstein, MD, is professor of clinical psychiatry and an award-winning writer of
nonfiction and fiction. Books such as Heal Your Brain: How the
New Neuropsychiatry Can Help You Go from Better to Well (2011); A Family of
Doctors (1994), a memoir of 5 generations of doctors in his family; Battles of Life
and Death, an essay collection; and two novels, Loving Touches and Stone Babies. And recently The Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner. A must read!
A top psychiatric researcher, he has done cutting-edge studies on new treatment
for depression, using MRI imaging to discover brain circuits related to illness and
the effects of treatment. For the past five years, his research has focused on new
psychedelic treatments of depression and other disorders, using psilocybin and
other long-banned drugs.
