My student’s question caught me off guard: “What’s ‘pessimistic’?” She smiled meekly and added, “I’m sorry, but I don’t know what it means.” She was puzzling over a multiple-choice question about ...

No, the modern pessimist, the true, incurable pessimist, is not, perhaps, a pessimist at all. He does not rail, or curse God, or despise man. If his state of mind can be described, it is by saying ...

As the first medical director and attending psychiatrist at the World Trade Center Mental Health Program at Bellevue/NYU, Sue Varma directly supported and treated civilian and first-responder ...