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Ellen Barry

@ellenbarrynyt

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…

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“I was in paradise,” she said. “I would very much like to stay in paradise.” The story of Harvard researcher Kseniia Petrova, who has been in ICE detention for nearly two months and fears she will be deported to Russia. nytimes.com/2025/04/11/sci…

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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…

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One of President Trump's first acts was to rescind remote work agreements for federal workers. In the VA, where ≈100k health care staff were working remotely, the "return to office" order has resulted in crowding that risks violating health care privacy law. Some clinicians are

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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/…

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.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…

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Scientist Kseniia Petrova, finishing her third month in ICE detention, writes for NYT about her longing to return to a life of total absorption in science. She writes of "beautiful colleagues," an astonishing microscope. Her case comes before a judge tomorrow.

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One of the NYTimes’s witnesses for their investigation into Israel’s killing of the 15 medics in Rafah was himself killed this weekend.

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“What I do know is that my colleagues, many…like me, foreign scientists, are terrified of being detained or having their visa status revoked.” It’s 3 months since ICE put Kseniia Petrova in detention for a customs violation normally handled with a fine.

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11 a.m: A federal judge in Vermont set a bail hearing for scientist Kseniia Petrova, setting the stage for her release. 2 p.m.: federal prosecutors announced criminal smuggling charges against her. Her lawyer says the charge is "is clearly intended to make Kseniia look like a

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The introduction of criminal charges against Kseniia Petrova, months into a deportation case, is unusual, experts say. Typically the govt determines whether a crime occurred right away & the criminal process takes priority. "The question it raises in my mind is why it would