Depression As A Systemic Illness

Guest: James J. Strain, M.D.

Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Medical Education and designated Master Teacher at the Icahn School Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. 

Dr. Strain speaks about his career as a pioneer in the subspecialty of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and his experience lecturing and teaching throughout the world.  He also discusses his innovative concepts of depression and physical disease and how they have a reciprocal connection. These ideas are elaborated in a new book that Dr. Strain edited with Dr. Blumenfield titled Depression As A Systemic Illness recently published by Oxford University Press.