Dr. James Lake: The Future of Mental Healthcare

Dr. Lake is a Board-certified psychiatrist who practices on the central California coast. He has chaired symposia and workshops at APA meetings and other national and international conferences on complementary, alternative and integrative mental health care. Dr. Lake has served as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Stanford, and the University of Arizona School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Lake founded and chaired the American Psychiatric Association’s Caucus on Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine from 2004 through 2010 and was a founding member and chair of the International Network of Integrative Mental Health. Since 2019 Dr. Lake has been an adjunct Fellow, National Institute of Complementary Medicine, Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University. 

 

Dr. Lake has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles and chapters on integrative medicine and psychiatry, and serves on the editorial review boards of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Journal of the Association for Advances in Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, and Jour of Clinical Psychiatry. Dr. Lake is the author or editor of: Chinese Medical Psychiatry: A Clinical Manual, (with Bob Flaws), Blue Poppy Press, 2000; Textbook of Integrative Mental Health Care, Thieme, 2006; Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care (co-edited with David Spiegel), American Psychiatric Press, 2007, Integrative Mental Health Care: A Therapist’s Handbook, Norton, 2009, and An Integrative Paradigm for Mental Health Care: Ideas and Methods Shaping the Future, Springer, 2019. He has also published a series of 10 e-books on integrative mental healthcare intended as self-help guides for patients on the integrative management of depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, substance abuse and other common mental health problems.

 

Dr. Lake’s website: http://progressivepsychiatry.com/

Dr. Lake’s series of self-help books: https://theintegrativementalhealthsolution.com/ 

 

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