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When Healers Share, Healing Spreads

The recent New York Times feature on dissociative identity disorder (DID) did something rare. It approached a complex and often misunderstood diagnosis with care, nuance, and humanity. Rather than relying on caricature or sensationalism, it centered the lived experiences of people navigating DID and...

Endowing Our Faculty, Strengthening Our Mission

A little over a decade ago, McLean embarked on a significant effort to adopt a divisional structure and install nationally respected leaders to oversee seven key domains. Three of the divisions focus on diagnoses, including depression and anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, and substance use...

Honorary Trustee Establishes Fund To Support Hill Center Staff

It started with a phone call. Jeanne Blake, a McLean Hospital honorary trustee, had provided philanthropic support to the Trauma Continuum of Care at the Hill Center. Now, she heard that hospital staff—still weary from the demands of the pandemic—could use a boost. So, she called Milissa Kaufman, MD...

Joining Forces To Provide a Full Continuum of Trauma-Focused Care

McLean Hospital has a strong reputation as being one of the premier locations in the United States for trauma-related patient care and research. With exposure to traumatic events occurring worldwide, we continue to adapt to meet the needs of the communities we serve. To address this, McLean’s Hill...

Milissa Kaufman, MD, PhD, Nominated for 2020 Excellence in Mentoring Award

Milissa Kaufman, MD, PhD, is McLean Hospital’s nominee for the 2020 Excellence in Mentoring Awards. Presented by Harvard Medical School, the award recognizes “the value of quality mentoring relationships and the impact they have on professional development and career advancement in basic/clinical...

Advancing the Understanding of PTSD

Perhaps one of the most misused words in modern society, “trauma” is used in daily language to describe all sorts of unpleasant or uncomfortable situations. But for 5-10% of the population, trauma and the accompanying post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a very precise condition with very real...