Wanderings: A Psychiatrist Reflects on People, Places, and Health, 1e

Griffith
APA
280 pages
ISBN: 9798894551401
November 2025

Barbados, the Czech Republic, Great Britain, France, Italy, Morocco: Over the course of 5 years, Dr. Ezra E. H. Griffith, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and African American Studies at Yale University, visited these countries and more, bearing witness to and documenting acts of living in different eras and cultures. Leveraging academic literature and anthropological discourse, he considered the psychosocial experiences of the individuals he encountered.Now, more than 50 of these brief reflections—originally published as columns in the American Psychiatric Association's Psychiatric News—have been gathered in this qualitative, culture-based collection of narratives.