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Welcome to your 2022/2023 NCPS Council

Richard Altesman, MD, DLFAPA
Councilor at Large (2022-2025)

Richa Bhatia, MD, DFAPA

Councilor at Large (2022-2025)

'The greatness of humanity is in being humane'
- Mahatma Gandhi

Jim Eyerman, MD, DLFAPA
North Bay Chapter President

Cloninger was my supervisor in residency and prompted me to collect data on 482

inpatients’ experience with Holotropic Breathwork (HB)a non-drug psychedelic
therapy developed by Stan Grof in the 1980’s. Johns Hopkins has begun a study of
HB in PTSD treatment based on my report of the 482 pts clinical experience of
HB.

Cloninger’s text describes the genetics of personality development into transper-
sonal dimensions based on Erik Erickson’s Personality Theory

Kathryn Brown, MD, MBA
Kaiser Oakland Resident Co-Councilor

my (now) two favorite people -- my daughter holding my son for the first time
(he was born 6-7-22)
“We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are” – Anais Nin

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