Of all the issues in psychiatry, even in all of medicine, suicide may be the most challenging to discuss responsibly in public. Any suicide is a tragedy. We know that language matters, and that using ...

I sat at a dinner table with a well-known politician recently. He said, “All men between the ages of 22 and 50 should be working.” I knew his intent: we, as Americans, should value a hard-working ...

There isn’t just one way to sound like a scientist, or to sound like a scholar. Scientists and scholars come from a wide variety of backgrounds and speak in different ways, in different accents, ...

If you stumble when you need to talk to someone in a language that isn't your native language, do you think: "I just don't have the knack for languages" or "Maybe I am not cut out to learn another ...