Ellen Barry
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Covering mental health for the New York Times, former Boston, Delhi, Moscow bureau chief. At home in New England. Retweet ≠ endorsement. [email protected].
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EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, Nick Miroff reports: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
After a series of "dramatic failures," an A.I. therapist has had promising results treating users (patients?) with depression, anxiety or an eating disorder, Teddy Rosenbluth reports. nytimes.com/2025/04/15/hea…

The Trump admin's hasty RTO orders have led to cramped conditions at VA hospitals, forcing clinicians to treat patients with mental health issues in open, easily overheard settings like hallways, via The New York Times reporting by Ellen Barry Nicholas Nehamas nytimes.com/2025/05/04/us/…


Congrats to the beloved GOAT, Doug Mills.
.Awais Aftab urges psychiatry to listen carefully to critiques of prescribing practices, not lump them w RFK's claims. It's a travesty, he writes, that 40 years into wide use of Prozac, we still have no trials showing how to safely taper off SSRIs. nytimes.com/2025/05/03/opi…




