My Brother's Keeper

A leading psychiatrist seeks to transform our understanding of mental health care and how it fits into larger social and economic forces—and proposes an effective and compassionate new framework for healing.

Nicholas Rosenlicht, M.D. is a clinical professor at UC San Francisco School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. During his time at UCSF, he has worked at the San Francisco VA hospital in both the outpatient department and on the consultation-liaison team and has served on the Human Subjects Committee of their Human Research Protection Program. He has more than forty years of clinical, research, administrative, and teaching experience and was previously on the faculty at the UCLA School of Medicine, UC Davis School of Medicine, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) and is the author of more than thirty peer-reviewed publications.