About
Practice
Ethos
We aim to balance tradition with innovation – considering what we know works from evidence as well as new and emerging scientific models.
Together, our three core values of trust, agape, and curiosity allow us to prioritize safety, quality, and excellence in patient care.
Core Values
Trust
Sound trust forms the basis of the patient-physician relationship. We communicate with honesty and integrity and maintain the highest standards of confidentiality.
What is the essence of trust?
It is tranquility of soul in the one who trusts a person to bring that which is good for him into actuality.
– Rabbeinu Bachaya ibn Pekuda,
Duties of the Heart
Agape
Agape (ἀγάπη) is a Greek term tracing back to Homer. Agape means a love of humanity and the divine– in practice “loving-kindness”. This form of love – distinct from romantic or familial love– is core to the practice of psychiatry and medicine. We place the well-being of patients first and employ empathy rigorously.
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself
– Matthew 22: 37-40
Curiosity
Curiosity forms the foundation of reflective thought. We keep asking questions to understand our patients and treatments more deeply. To be curious means to have a simultaneous sense of humility and wonder, and to look at the familiar until it becomes unfamiliar.
Curiosity connects within the connective tissues of brain and body, system and society.
-– Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett,
Curious Minds
“To abandon tradition means to be incapable of handling the new.”