Recent Writings
In 2024 I left the street medicine team and retired from clinical work. However, I am still regularly involved with trainings and workshops, with supervision and mentoring the next generation, and with advocacy especially for recovery-based mental health services.
In 2023-2024, in my 60’s I did an “encore” to my career returning to working on the streets with homeless people. I brought my decades of perspectives and strategies with me as the “old guy” on the team. This was during a time of lots of attention and effort focused on “the homeless crisis” in Los Angeles. These three articles, two written at the beginning and one at the end of my stint, put together my ideas.
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I chose to retire only from clinical psychiatry and not retire from giving trainings, workshops, consultations, supervision and mentoring primarily because I still believe that the Recovery Model is vastly better than the current model both for the people we serve and for our staff. Since I have a lifetime of recovery conceptualizations, stories, and strategies, I feel I should continue to actively promote recovery. The three long articles “The Recovery Model”, “The Mental Health Story That None of Us Know, But We So Badly Need”, and “Recovery Based Psychiatry” are some of my most complete, “mature”, writings about recovery.
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