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MPS Members Actively Taking New Patients: Appointments Within 1-2 Weeks

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

To facilitate appointments for the expanding number of people seeking behavioral health treatment during the pandemic, the MPS has compiled the following list of psychiatrists with immediate availability. Mostly sees patients with a Mood Disorder: Depression, Anxiety and Bipolar Disorder. Mercedes Rizo, M.D.

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Conveying Hope, Empowering Teens: An Interview With Jessica Schleider

Mad in America

J essica Schleider is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and founding director of the Lab for Scalable Mental Health ( www.schleiderlab.org ). Most recently, she’s the author of Little Treatments, Big Effects: How To Build Meaningful Moments that Can Transform Your Mental Health.

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

His work spans everything from the cultural history of mental illness to mindfulness, death anxiety, and resiliencenot the hollow kind that comes from pretending everythings fine, but the kind that comes from staring into the void and refusing to flinch. On a personal note, Brent has played a foundational role in my own journey.

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What Happens When There Is No Help?

Mad in America

M y long and complicated lifelong relationship with mental health issues and mainstream psychiatry takes place across three different countries. Naturally, I developed an eating disorder and OCD at an early age. Around age 11, I had a classmate commit suicide. It all started quite early in my life.