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Annita P. Sawyer Ph.D.

About

Annita Perez Sawyer, Ph.D., is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale University. She is a psychotherapist with over thirty years' experience treating children and adults in individual, couples, and family therapy. During the past dozen years she has become an award winning writer. Working to diminish the stigma of mental illness, she speaks to clinical and lay audiences around the country. She is the author of Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass: A Psychologist's Memoir.

Books by Annita P. Sawyer Ph.D.
Recent Posts
Mourning doves
Retiring in the Spring
Personal Perspective: After more than 40 years in clinical work I loved, It was time to retire. Now I'd have time for everything else I'd always wanted to do! It hasn't turned out quite like that.
thistle with bloom
My Climate Change
Personal Perspective: My yard was my emotional safe space. Then heat, mosquitos, and a cat disrupted the peace, challenging my naive image of nature.
I Don't Marvel; I Rejoice

Is keeping up with scary news wearing you out? An amaryllis blooming in my basement inspired a change in my perspective.

Is keeping up with scary news wearing you out? An amaryllis blooming in my basement inspired a change in my perspective.

Making Sense of Nothing - Part I

Recent studies suggest that despite belonging to the highest risk category, older adults appear to weather pandemic stress better than younger ones do. Here is one story.

Recent studies suggest that despite belonging to the highest risk category, older adults appear to weather pandemic stress better than younger ones do. Here is one story.

What Does It Really Mean to Make a Difference?

Do you struggle to find peace in these fraught pandemic times? Here's what I learned from watching a finch family in my gazebo.

Do you struggle to find peace in these fraught pandemic times? Here's what I learned from watching a finch family in my gazebo.

Reading at the Institute Library
I Should Be Over This by Now!

Should we expect old symptoms to disappear forever? Can I be whole, if I’m still haunted?

Should we expect old symptoms to disappear forever? Can I be whole, if I’m still haunted?

To Tell or Not to Tell

If your therapist had struggled with painful symptoms like yours and recovered, would you want to know about it? Should they tell you?

If your therapist had struggled with painful symptoms like yours and recovered, would you want to know about it? Should they tell you?