Mood Disorders Related Content

The Pavilion: Providing Transformative Mental Health Care for 20 Years

More than 20 years ago, McLean Hospital launched a unique residential program focused on helping patients get a clearer picture of their mental health. This self-pay service, The Pavilion, continues to provide unparalleled diagnostic care today. When its doors were opened in November 1999, The...

Video: Elizabeth’s Journey to Recovery

Elizabeth struggled with her mental health until a friend suggested The Pavilion. Watch Elizabeth share her mental health story and how her time as a patient at The Pavilion helped her on her journey to recovery.

Video: Patient Story – Becca

Becca realized that getting help for her mood disorder was an important piece of achieving her goal of a college degree. McLean’s College Mental Health Program was beside her every step of the way. Watch Becca share her story of treatment and her ongoing journey of recovery.

A Bridge From Hospital to Home

The first 30 days following a period of psychiatric treatment can be treacherous. Patients have left the supportive, highly structured environment of the hospital, with its singular focus on recovery, to return to the same old stressors. They also have to navigate new stressors, such as explaining...

Video: McLean Hospital – A Leader in Mental Health

As a leader in the field, McLean Hospital is committed to offering world-class patient care, conducting cutting-edge research, and delivering exceptional education for mental health professionals and the general public.

Program Newsletters Educate Staff and Streamline Communication

Staff at the Alcohol, Drug, and Addiction Inpatient Program have noticed a significant drop in emails from Christopher A. Richard, BSN, RN, the nurse manager for the program. That’s because about a year and a half ago, Richard began publishing a two-page weekly newsletter chock full of timely...

Staff Profile: Alexander Vuckovic, MD

Since 1999, Alexander Vuckovic, MD, has been medical director of The Pavilion, where he has overseen the care of more than 2000 patients, in addition to thousands more in his outpatient practice. He has spent his entire 34-year post-residency career immersed in the diagnosis, clinical care, and...

Staff Profile: Harrison G. Pope, MD, MPH

Harrison G. Pope, MD, MPH, has conducted research in a wide range of areas in psychiatry and has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed papers. This work includes many publications on the diagnosis and treatment of psychotic disorders and major mood disorders, together with extensive research on...

Staff Profile: Eliza W. Menninger, MD

Eliza W. Menninger, MD, is the medical director of the Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program where she treat patients with various diagnoses, most frequently major depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, and schizoaffective. As a means of providing continuity of care, she also sees patients in the...

Staff Profile: Richard S. Schwartz, MD

At McLean, Richard S. Schwartz, MD, focuses on the education of psychiatric residents as teacher, supervisor and mentor and senior consultant for the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program. He is co-director of the Program in Psychodynamics, offering more intensive and advanced...

Staff Profile: Junghyup Suh, PhD

Junghyup Suh, PhD, is an assistant neuroscientist at McLean Hospital and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He was a post-doctoral fellow and research scientist in the laboratory of Susumu Tonegawa, PhD, at MIT, where he investigated how the hippocampus and entorhinal...

Staff Profile: Paola Salvatore, MD

Paola Salvatore, MD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Parma University in Italy, and research associate in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Recently she also was promoted to associate professor of psychiatry by the Italian Ministry of Education. A Parma University magna cum laude...

Staff Profile: Sara Thomason, PsyD

Sara Thomason, PsyD, is a psychologist at the McLean SouthEast Adult Psychiatric Partial Hospital Program where she serves as a clinical case manager and primary supervisor for APA pre-doctoral psychology interns.

Staff Profile: Tanya Farber, PsyD

Tanya Farber, PsyD, is a staff psychologist at McLean Hospital, where she provides individual and group psychotherapy as part of the LEADER (Law Enforcement, Active Duty, Emergency Responder) Outpatient Mood, Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma Clinic. She also provides consultations to other hospital...

Staff Profile: Efrat Shavit, MD

Efrat Shavit, MD, is the associate medical director of the Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program at McLean Hospital. She is a board certified psychiatrist specializing in the treatment of mood, anxiety, and psychotic disorders. Dr. Shavit has a particular interest in complementary and...

Staff Profile: Peter B. Adams, MD

Peter B. Adams, MD, has been interested in working with children and adolescents since he started medical school. Since then Dr. Adams has been consistently involved with the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and works with children and adolescents at the acute residential...

Staff Profile: Alice W. Asby, MD, JD

Since 2008, Alice W. Asby, MD, JD, has been a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital’s Adult Outpatient Services, where, using individual psychotherapy, group therapy, and psychiatric medications, she works with adults who have a variety of challenges, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders...

Staff Profile: Stephanie White-Bateman, MD

In her clinical work, Stephanie White-Bateman, MD, focuses on the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders using medication management as well as psychotherapeutic and neurotherapeutic approaches. She began her career at McLean as an attending psychiatrist on the inpatient Short Term Unit for mood...

Staff Profile: Kurt Brenner, PhD, MSc

Kurt Brenner, PhD, MSc, is a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating disorders related to mood, anxiety, and psychosis. He does intake consultations, group therapy, and individual therapy in the Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program, and leads a bipolar CBT (cognitive behavioral...

Staff Profile: Donald R. Cluett, MD

Donald R. Cluett, MD, is a staff psychiatrist in McLean Hospital’s Adult Outpatient Services. Dr. Cluett provides medication evaluation and management treatment and support to a general adult population with a variety of psychiatric challenges. He incorporates patient education and support with a...