1st Edition

Unseen Field Notes of a Global Psychiatrist

By Craig L. Katz Copyright 2025
174 Pages 1 Color & 1 B/W Illustrations
by Jenny Stanford Publishing

174 Pages 1 Color & 1 B/W Illustrations
by Jenny Stanford Publishing

174 Pages 1 Color & 1 B/W Illustrations
by Jenny Stanford Publishing

Stigma still surrounds suffering from mental health problems, and in most low-resource settings in "developed" and especially the "developing" world, this prejudice is compounded by an utter lack of resources to address these problems. The class of mental health problems is the greatest source of morbidity worldwide compared to all other categories of health problems and is also the most... Read more

1. Sam

2. The Missionary

3. Berko

4. Sylvia

5. Sam II

6. The General Hospital

7. Into the Depths

8. Mobile Psychiatry

9. Lecture

10. Convergence

11. Orphanage

12. Connections

13. Peanut, Butter, and Jelly

14. A Rose in the Garden

15. Derapy

16. Harold P. Doll

17. Story Lines

18. Sam III

Epilogue

Biography

Craig L. Katz, is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Medical Education, and System Design & Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, USA, and the founder and director of Mount Sinai’s Program in Global Mental Health. Inspired by their chance involvement in helping families following the fatal crash of Swiss Air Flight 111 in 1998, Dr. Katz and his colleagues co-founded Disaster Psychiatry Outreach (DPO), with him as its president, to utilize psychiatrists to help disaster-affected communities. This foresight later enabled DPO to organize hundreds of psychiatrists to provide support and care after 9/11. However, when DPO ventured to overseas places like post-tsunami Sri Lanka in early 2005, he was dismayed by how underserved mental health needs were even before the disasters. He decided he no longer wanted to wait for disaster to strike and founded the Mount Sinai Program in Global Mental Health to try to improve everyday access to mental health care for everyone, everywhere.