Memoirs/Essays

“Fifteen,” Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall/Winter 2005
(Nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Named as a Notable Essay of the Year, Best American Essays 2006)

“The First Place,” Puerto del Sol, Summer 2004

“Trains,” Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall 2003
(Named as a Notable Essay of the Year,” Best American Essays, 2004)

“Migraine,” CRAZYHORSE, Fall 2003

“Elephant Girl,” in OPEN HOUSE: Writers Redefine Home, Ed. Mark Doty, Graywolf Press, June 2003

“Kiddie Pants or Kiddie Porn?” Salon, March 12, 1999

“Analyze This” (cover story) Los Angeles Times Calendar section, August 3, 2000

“Drawing Boundaries,” adapted from In Session, Psychology Today, June 1999

“The New Flirting Game,” Psychology Today, February 1999

“Of Dice and Men,“ LEARS, January 1993

“A Family Sick as Dogs,” LEARS, June 1991

“Health Department,” LEARS, March 1991

Mental Health journalism

As a Senior Writer/Editor for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, wrote numerous reports, interviews, Q&As, and other web content.

Also co-wrote “The Resource Parent Trauma Curriculum,” a two-day training for resource parents on child trauma and its consequences, 2011.

As a Contributing Editor to Psychiatric Times

“Chronically Depressed Patients with Childhood Trauma Histories Respond Better to Psychotherapy,” March 2004

“Unlearning Fear: Calcium Channel Blockers and the Process of Extinction: An Interview with Mark Barad, PhD,” May 2003

“Studies Supporting Empirically Validated Therapies Questioned,” April 2002

“Physician, Treat Thyself?: the Risks of Self-Prescribing,” December 2001

“New Treatments for Anxiety Disorders in Children,” September 2001

“News Brief: Use of Psychotropics in A Preschool Population,”On-Line Reports from the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. May-August 2001

“Trauma: From Bosnia to the Inner City : the Work of Robert Pynoos,” May 2001

“Evidence for Unconscious Mental Processes: Was Freud Right?” July 2000

On-Line Reports from the American Psychiatric Association Meeting, May-August 2000

“Risk Management with the Suicidal Patient,” March 2000

“Childhood Trauma, CRF Hypersecretion and Depression,” October 1999

“Childhood Onset Schizophrenia: Latest NIMH Findings,” September 1999

“Switching Antipsychotic Agents in Schizophrenia,” May 1999

“Eating Disorders and the Family: Controversies and Questions,” September 1998

“EMDR: Achieving Legitimacy in Psychotherapy?” June 1998

“Brain Development, Attachment, and Impact on Psychic Vulnerability,” May 1998

“Making the Case for Long-Term Psychodynamic Therapy,” September 1997

“Search for the Mutative Moment,” September 1997

“Eye-Tracking and Working Memory Deficits Studied in Schizophrenia,” November 1993

“Former Researcher Jensvold Urges Clean Sweep at NIMH,” October 1993

“Trauma, Transference Explored by Psychoanalysts at National Meeting,” July 1993

Other medical/mental health journalism

“Psychologist-Writer Collaborations,” the Los Angeles Psychologist, May-June 1999

“Depression in Dementia: Untangling the Threads,”(cover story), Caring for the Ages, July 2000

“Enter the Case Manager,” Rx Homecare Magazine, June 1989

“Marketing through Ostomy Awareness, ” Rx Homecare Magazine, October 1987

“Sweet Dreams, Baby” (home apnea monitoring), Rx Homecare Magazine, December 1987

“How Sweet It Is” (diabetes), Rx Homecare Magazine, January 1988

“Hey, Look Me Over” (self-monitoring), Rx Homecare Magazine, February 1988

“The Pressure’s On” (pressure ulcer prevention), Rx Homecare Magazine, March 1988

“Why Not Co-op?” (co-op advertising in home health care), Rx Homecare Magazine, May 1988

“Anatomy of An Apnea Monitor Recall,” Rx Homecare Magazine, July 1988

“Ostomy from A Patient’s Perspective,” Rx Homecare Magazine, October 1988

“Taking Physical Therapy Seriously: the Tradition at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital,” (cover story, premier issue) Rehab Management Magazine, November 1988

“Autonomy and Control: Physical Therapists and Physicians,” Rehab Management Magazine, February 1988