Qualifications 2005 Habilitation for `Sociological Psychiatry´ at the Medical Faculty, University of Munich, Germany 1988 Doctoral degree in Social Science, University of Wuppertal, Germany 1980 Diploma in Social Sciences, University of Bochum, Germany Positions 1998-present: Senior social scientist at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Munich 1991-1997: lecturer on Public Health, University of Düsseldorf […]
Steven Lippmann, M.D. We hear people say, “I need guns to protect myself and family.” Is there a relationship between firearms and American health care being the most expensive in world? Actually, rates for suicide, homicide, domestic violence, and accidental death all increase when there is possession of a gun in the home […]
“I am a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Here since 1976, I have done inpatient hospital psychiatry for three decades, consultation/liaison practice for several years, and currently am involved in a psychogeriatrics program. I have interest in general adult psychiatry, general medicine, drug abuse, pharmacology, and geriatrics. For over […]
Who includes diversity and is Nature, Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also, Who has not look’d forth from the windows the eyes for nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing, Who contains […]
A hassidic woman in Jerusalem, a member of the sect Toldot Aharon, which is called in Israeli newspapers “an extremist haredi sect,” is suspected of starving and abusing her three-and-a-half-year-old son. This story makes headlines in Israeli newspapers. The police have claimed that she not only starved her child at home over a period of […]
english translation by Peter Zollman Abandoned by my words I’m left alone or I’ve become an aimless overflown drifting river and in my murky mud I drag the flotsam washed up in the flood: old idioms exhausted vain pretences like broken hedgerows signpost maybe fences. Oh would the Master wisely grant the force that channels […]
Leo Sher, M.D. SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS Sher L., Kandel I., Merrick J. (editors). Special Issue of The International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health on Adolescence and Alcohol, 2006, Vol. 18, No. 1. Sher L., Merrick J. (editors). Special Issue of The International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health on Alcohol and Adolescent Suicide, […]
Dr. Snorri Bjorn Rafnsson is an epidemiologist and currently is Research Associate in Ageing and Welfare, Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK; Honorary Fellow in Epidemiology, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, UK; and Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Akureyri, Iceland. […]
Dr. Maurizio Pompili is currently Professor of Suicidology and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the II Medical School of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he received his M.D. degree, where he was trained in Psychiatry (both summa cum laude) and where he received his doctoral degree in Experimental and Clinical Neurosciences. He is the […]
Leo Sher, M.D. INVITED LECTURES AND GRAND ROUNDS Grand Rounds Presentation, “Preventing Suicide,” Bronx Psychiatric Center, Bronx, New York, June 13, 2005 Grand Rounds Presentation, “Alcohol and Suicide,” Cornell-Westchester Hospital, an affiliate of Weill Cornell Medical College, White Plains, New York, November 15, 2005 Grand Rounds Presentation, “CSF HVA studies in depression, alcoholism, and […]
