So you want to be a psychiatrist? At least play one on TV? Here’s what you gotta know.
The part of the brain below the tentorium handles the basics, like breathing. It’s not the interesting part. Forget about it.
Kim Rosenthal, MD
Psychiatry, Inspiration, and Humor
Author and Psychiatrist
Imagination, exploration, and the occasional chuckle
Welcome. This is a world where roses follow you around demanding attention, everyone is assigned a personal cheerleader, and having a mental illness means you have an incredible future ahead. We’re home to the Weird and Wacky Workbook for Recovery. The site is also inhabited by 120+ psychiatric articles, classes in Jungian exploration, and the occasional chuckle.
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Substance abuse counselor, brain coach, creativity guru, and humorist in one, the Weird and Wacky Workbook for Recovery (WW) is a book to help people get past addiction and make recovery worthwhile. The book is written for clinicians and the general public. It will be available in bookstores in 2020, if fate allows! Contact us to reserve your copy!
Curious about the benefits of aging? Want to know more about Asperger’s, medications, talk-therapy, or relationships? What about guided imagery? Mental Health and You is a blog and psychiatric database with more than 120 articles. We try to publish at least once/week.
Using artwork, fiction, reading, late-night philosophy, and Jung’s Active Imagination, this course is about you and who you are. Jump in at Class One and explore life.
Why Ships & Giggles? Cuz sometimes you need something random and funny. There’s no real point here except to have fun. If you have any good jokes or stories, let us know.
About the author
Dr. Kim Rosenthal is a board-certified psychiatrist at a state hospital in North Carolina. She works with the severely mentally ill and criminally insane — and believes there’s hope for everyone. Rosenthal has been practicing medicine for 19 years. She wouldn’t trade it for the world.
Rosenthal writes both fiction and nonfiction. She’s published half a dozen short stories in various anthologies and was a featured author at the Chicago Bookseller’s Fair. Her true love is novel-writing. Her stories are about distant cultures in alternative universes. It’s always the same question: if it doesn’t have to be this way, what else is there? One never runs out of answers.
For more info, check out her bio.
Featured articles
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Behavioral Therapy: why you shouldn’t drive by your ex’s house
When was the last time you did something you regret? Like drive by that old boyfriend’s house just “because.” It starts out innocently enough. There’s
Kim Rosenthal, MD
Class 1: Buy notebook, tighten seat belt, and hold on for life
The Library of Libraries is a book-filled paradise. Its walls carry the testimonies of all humans, those who’ve lived and those who will live…
Kim Rosenthal, MD
Exciting stuff about aging
“For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with
Kim Rosenthal, MD
When emotions are too scary and thoughts too sharp
It’s deeply personal. Maybe it’s a recent diagnosis, something chronic and unescapable? The doctors say you have a year or less, and that’s that. There’s
Kim Rosenthal, MD
The 5 physical benefits of nicotine
I stand amidst a gaggle of Big Tobacco engineers, and someone slips a vial of clear liquid into my hand. A voice utters three important words: “This is nicotine.”
Kim Rosenthal, MD
What to Do When You’re Too Depressed to Think
This article is based on a workbook I wrote a decade ago called, “What to Do When You’re Too Depressed to Think.” Thus the title.
Kim Rosenthal, MD
When you need answers: the imaginary visitor
The music is a delight at the ear, and sunlight plays lacework shadows across the floor. This is a safe place — but the emotion remains all-encompassing.
Kim Rosenthal, MD
Is happiness a choice? If in doubt, google it.
Jeanne Calment took up fencing at 85, rode a bicycle at 100, starred in a movie at 114, and didn’t quit smoking until 120 years of age…
Kim Rosenthal, MD