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About Dr. Lake
Dr. James H. Lake is a Board Certified psychiatrist who attended medical school at the University of California, Irvine, and completed a residency in psychiatry at Stanford University Hospital. His long-standing interests include studying the interface between mental health and culture, and examining philosophical and scientific perspectives of different systems of medicine as they pertain to the assessment and treatment of mental illness. Dr. Lake is in private practice in Monterey, California, where he uses both conventional biomedical therapies and evidence-based alternative therapies. From 1998 through 2000 he was an attending physician at Stanford University Hospital, where he consulted on psychiatric cases in the Complementary Medicine Clinic. Dr. Lake is also on adjunct clinical faculty at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University Medical School.
Dr. Lake's research and writing interests include the integration of Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of psychiatric disorders, natural product-derived psychotropic medications, EEG neurofeedback in the treatment of anxiety disorders, ADHD and traumatic brain injury, and the roles of consciousness and directed intention in healing. With Bob Flaws, he co-authored Chinese Medical Psychiatry, A Textbook and Clinical Manual, Blue Poppy Press, 2000, and has written book chapters and articles on many areas of alternative and integrative medicine. Dr. Lake is on the advisory board, and contributes articles to the Alternative Medicine Research Report, and previously contributed to The Integrative Medicine Consult. He is on the editorial review board of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, and the Journal of Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology. Dr. Lake has lectured at national and regional symposia on rational uses of natural products in psychiatric treatment, other emerging treatments in psychiatry and evidence-based uses of integrative approaches in psychiatric assessment and treatment. His two most recent books are Textbook of Integrative Mental Health Care: Foundations and Clinical Applications and Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care.
For more information about Dr. Lake's background and publications see CV for Dr. Lake.
For information about current and forthcoming publications see the publications page.
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