Richard Alan Friedman, M.D.

Weill Cornell Medical College

Richard Alan Friedman is professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, attending psychiatrist at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital^[1] and director of Psychopharmacology at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic.^[2] He is an expert in the pharmacologic treatment of personality, mood and anxiety disorders, obsessive–compulsive disorder, PTSD and refractory depression.^[3

^{Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Friedman}

Richard Alan Friedman, M.D. appears in the following:

We have this idea of what therapy is supposed to look like. There’s a couch. An objective therapist sitting across the room scribbling notes. But of course it’s not that simple.

Deciding When to End Therapy

Wednesday, February 07, 2024

The trend in society has been to encourage most people to enter therapy; a professor of clinical psychiatry explains why many of us may actually benefit from quitting therapy.

A Drug to "Forget" Trauma?

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

If you could take a drug that would erase a traumatic memory, would you do it?

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Putting the Terrorism Threat in Perspective

Monday, December 07, 2015

A clinical psychiatrist says that while Americans should treat terrorism as a legitimate concern, they shouldn't allow it to consume their lives.

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A Better Way to Treat Schizophrenia

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

A new study published this week in the American Journal of Psychiatry concludes that less medication and more talk therapy is, in fact, a better method of treatment for schizophrenics.

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Finding a tenure-track position in the humanies is very difficult.

What Parents Should Know About Campus Suicides

Tuesday, August 04, 2015

With a highly-publicized spate of college suicides in recent months, a call-in for parents to discuss ways to protect their children as they head off to campus.

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Are Some Kids Just Born to Be Bad?

Monday, July 19, 2010

Last week, Dr. Richard Friedman wrote an article for The New York Times called “Accepting That Good Parents May Plant Bad Seeds.” It suggested that good parents who have bad kids sometimes just can’t help it.

In other words: Just as some kids are wired to be smarter or shorter, some are wired to be meaner and naughtier, regardless of how good or bad their parents are.

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