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Treatment Works! The Recipe to Recovery and Storytelling as Medicine

  • By: Tom Wright, MD Rosecrance Health Network
  • October 1st, 2018
  • community support, mental health, purpose, recovery, stigma reduction, storytelling, substance use disorder, treatment
  • 1532    0

When I was training to be a child psychiatrist many years ago, I had a mentor who was one of the most well-known and beloved child psychiatrists in Illinois: Jay Hirsch, MD. Jay had many sayings, quotes, and “clinical pearls” he taught all of us and I continue to use today. One of my favorites...

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