Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: adolescent psychiatry

  • How reliving adolescence made me a better psychiatrist

    Marta AbrantesLisbon, Portugal My own adolescence still dwells within me, a submerged tide that mostly ripples calmly, but at other times unleashes heavy storms. I remember what I lived through, or swear “never again” with a lingering shame, yet I cannot deny the marks that are indelibly engraved inside me. As a child and adolescent…