Today’s interview with artist, psychotherapist, and writer David J. Bookbinder couldn’t be better timed, because I had just read Kay Redfield Jamison’s introductory remarks to the Inaugural Arts and Psychiatry Series held by The Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center (where I, of course, was treated). Jamison, one of my very favorite authors (because she seems…

This group is about using art as a means to healing and transformation on both the individual and global levels. Please share your art and your stories, thoughts, and feelings. How has art — in the broadest sense of the term — influenced your life, either as creator or consumer?

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Beyond Blue reader Kay e-mailed me just before Christmas to ask me to address panic and anxiety. I feel blessed to have had a few months now without that dreadful knot in your stomach—actually I think of it as more of a croissant (it’s French and has attitude). But, oh, I know that feeling all…

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