The Couch, The Clinic, and the Scanner, an interview with Dr. Hellerstein | Precision Health and PGx

David Hellerstein, MD, is professor of clinical psychiatry and an award-winning writer of 
nonfiction and fiction. Books such as Heal Your Brain: How the 
New Neuropsychiatry Can Help You Go from Better to Well (2011); A Family of 
Doctors (1994), a memoir of 5 generations of doctors in his family; Battles of Life 
and Death, an essay collection; and two novels, Loving Touches and Stone Babies. And recently The Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner. A must read!

A top psychiatric researcher, he has done cutting-edge studies on new treatment 
for depression, using MRI imaging to discover brain circuits related to illness and 
the effects of treatment. For the past five years, his research has focused on new 
psychedelic treatments of depression and other disorders, using psilocybin and 
other long-banned drugs.