These are both really powerful tributes about two people I wish I'd known. I now have more reading to do- Stein's work. You write very effectively and warmly about them.
Lisa Wallace's writing and especially artwork are incredibly powerful. Thank you for sharing her work. RIght now I am seeing a patient who would appreciate the representation of her journey.
Reading her pieces, I feel some recognition as a medical patient who just seems to have to fight the system, but shares Wallace's ambivalence about the value of just "complaining" and being angry in patient forums. I wish it were not this way in Psychiatry, for smart, perceptive people who really are doing their best to live their lives.
I am shocked and saddened to hear of Dan Stein's sudden passing. He and I had several correspondences over the past nearly 20 years, and I was privileged to have provided a back cover "blurb" for Dan's excellent 2008 book, “Philosophy of Psychopharmacology”. I think Dan's legacy will live on for many years, but he will be sorely missed.
These are both really powerful tributes about two people I wish I'd known. I now have more reading to do- Stein's work. You write very effectively and warmly about them.
Lisa Wallace's writing and especially artwork are incredibly powerful. Thank you for sharing her work. RIght now I am seeing a patient who would appreciate the representation of her journey.
Reading her pieces, I feel some recognition as a medical patient who just seems to have to fight the system, but shares Wallace's ambivalence about the value of just "complaining" and being angry in patient forums. I wish it were not this way in Psychiatry, for smart, perceptive people who really are doing their best to live their lives.
RIP Lisa and Dan 😞
Beautiful tributes to remarkable people. I'm glad to have learned a bit about their lives and contributions via Psychiatry at the Margins.
I really appreciated coming across Lisa Wallace's writing especially.
Condolences.
I am shocked and saddened to hear of Dan Stein's sudden passing. He and I had several correspondences over the past nearly 20 years, and I was privileged to have provided a back cover "blurb" for Dan's excellent 2008 book, “Philosophy of Psychopharmacology”. I think Dan's legacy will live on for many years, but he will be sorely missed.
Ronald W. Pies, MD
What a wonderful way to end the year. Very heartening.
Such a moving essay on two exceptional people🥲