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About James Lake
Dr. Lake is a Board certified psychiatrist in the San Francisco Bay area. He has chaired symposia and workshops on integrative mental healthcare at national and international conferences on non-conventional and integrative mental health care. Dr. Lake was previously a clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Stanford. He founded and chaired the American Psychiatric Association’s Caucus on Integrative Medicine from 2004 through 2010. He is a founding member and former chair of the International Network of Integrative Mental Health.
Dr. Lake is the author of a 10-volume series on integrative mental healthcare, self-published in 2015, and the author, co-author or editor of four textbooks on non-conventional mental health care: Chinese Medical Psychiatry: A Clinical Manual, (with Bob Flaws), Blue Poppy Press, 2000; Textbook of Integrative Mental Health Care, Thieme, 2006; and Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care (co-edited with David Spiegel), American Psychiatric Press, 2007, and Integrative Mental Health Care: A Therapist’s Handbook, Norton, 2009. Long-standing interests include the role of culture in mental illness, the philosophy and history of medicine, and the role of consciousness and intentionality in healing.
