David Goldbloom, M.D., is senior medical advisor at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto. His career has spanned clinical care, education, research, administration and advocacy, and he remains active as a clinician and teacher. In 2007, he was appointed vice-chair of the Board of the Mental Health Commission of Canada, and subsequently served as chair from 2012 to 2015. Dr. Goldbloom is an Officer of the Order of Canada.

How Can I Help: A Week in My Life as a Psychiatrist

In any given year, one in five Canadians will require psychiatric care. Timely, empathetic and highly readable, How Can I Help? offers an insightful and compelling picture of a challenging branch of medicine, dispelling the myths that have long coloured our perception of psychiatry. This book opens a window on the profession through a behind-the-scenes account of a week in Dr. Goldbloom’s life. His daily encounters with a wide range of psychiatric cases — from his own patients to emergency department arrivals — put a human face to a much misunderstood area of medicine.