The dogs are part of a mental wellness program that began after a rash of officer suicides. The unit’s fate is unclear as Commissioner Jessica Tisch shifts more officers to patrol duty. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Therapy and Rehabilitation”
Marriages, Kids, Careers: For 44 Years, They’ve Been Talking It Out
By Gotham Rex on November 26, 2025
Six women in their 70s, all married and all mothers and grandmothers, gather twice a month without fail. They credit their close-knit families to their longstanding friendships. Source: New York Times
New York Leads Effort to Stop Plan That Could Cut Housing for 170,000
By Gotham Rex on November 25, 2025
The Trump administration is pushing a new approach to America’s homeless crisis, favoring shelters and rehabilitation centers over long-term housing for people who use drugs and alcohol. Source: New York Times
Can This Man Stop Lying?
By Gotham Rex on November 29, 2022
Christopher Massimine, whose compulsive lying derailed a promising career in theater, maintains that it’s a mental illness that has dogged him since childhood. Source: New York Times
Dr. Mitchell Rosenthal, Phoenix House Founder, Dies at 87
By Gotham Rex on November 19, 2022
A psychiatrist, he was an early apostle for treating drug and alcohol addiction with group therapy in a residential setting. Source: New York Times
This Wellness Center Uses Ketamine for Mental Health
By Gotham Rex on March 11, 2022
Thanks to legal loopholes and a patchwork of compelling research, businesses like Nushama in New York City are writing the rules as they go. Source: New York Times
A Broadway Conductor's Difficult Journey Back from Long Covid
By Gotham Rex on February 24, 2022
A celebrated Broadway conductor caught Covid in the first wave. Two despairing years later, he is finally reclaiming his old life, breath by breath. Source: New York Times
The Rationing of a Last-Resort Covid Treatment
By Gotham Rex on July 12, 2021
While ventilator shortages have been largely averted in the U.S., this lifesaving therapy is scarce. How to choose which critically ill patients get it? Source: New York Times
Has Covid Remade Psychotherapy for Good?
By Gotham Rex on May 21, 2021
Treatment by Zoom has brought unexpected benefits — will it carry over to the post-pandemic age? Source: New York Times
Cliff Joseph, Artist, Activist and Therapist, Dies at 98
By Gotham Rex on December 4, 2020
After agitating for the inclusion of Black artists in New York museums, he helped introduce a multicultural perspective to the field of art therapy. Source: New York Times