As a psychiatrist, I spend an entirely too much of my existence thinking about minds. That bleeds into aspects of my improv and writing but in addition, being a psychiatrist has played an outsized role in what I write about (i.e., psychiatrist characters, psychiatric hospitals, suicide, etc.)
I am triple-boarded currently in adult and forensic psychiatry, and addiction medicine. I spend much of my time in emergency and urgent care psychiatry so acuity and complexity is probably my specialty as much as any particular illness.
More recent interests
Harm reduction in fentanyl use – CityTV, Yahoo!
Brief Contact Intervention and the impact of telephone calls on fixed suicide risk
Mental Illness vs. Mental Un-wellness
Law enforcement interactions with mental illness and crisis response
Past interests
13 Reasons Why from a cultural and analytical perspective
Portrayal of psychiatry and mental illness in media
The impact of media on the experience and development of mental illness
Publications
Butler J, Hyler S: Hollywood Portrayals of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Treatment: Implications for Clinical Practice. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinics of North America, July 2005
Butler J, Kleinman S: An International View of the PTSD Stressor Criteria. American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Newsletter, January 2007
Stone MH, Butler JR, Young KM: Sadistic Personality Disorder. Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology (ed. Millon T). Oxford University Press, London, 2008