Mental Health Care Today

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Judith L. Herman, M.D., and Frank W. Putnam, M.D. on April 22, 2024

Recent research has identified family-oriented fiscal and therapeutic interventions that produce important positive effects across two and even three generations.

Psychopharmacology

Why Are Medications So Expensive in the US?

Judith L. Herman, M.D., and Frank W. Putnam, M.D. on March 11, 2024

We know that Americans pay more for a given medication than our peers in the Western World. Why is that? Many blame drug companies, but another entity, the PBM, is at work.

Health

Doing and Undoing in Mental Health Services

Judith L. Herman, M.D., and Frank W. Putnam, M.D. on January 2, 2024

As the federal government dramatically increases the number of eligible behavioral health providers, many states are drastically decreasing the number of eligible clients.

Depression

The Impact of COVID-19 on Adolescent Mental Health

Judith L. Herman, M.D., and Frank W. Putnam, M.D. on November 6, 2023

Research on the first full year of COVID-19 reveals its negative impact on adolescents' mental health and socioeconomic and demographic disparities in who received care.

Health

Our Broken Mental Health Care System

Judith L. Herman, M.D., and Frank W. Putnam, M.D. on November 6, 2023

How did we get here?

Health

What Is Happening to Mental Health Care?

Judith L. Herman, M.D., and Frank W. Putnam, M.D. on August 22, 2023

Navigating and battling the ever-evolving mental health care system.