Stephanie Hartselle, MD of Hartselle & Associates

07/31/2022

Dr. Hartselle speaks with NBC about the science behind compulsive shopping.

LX News Storyteller Eric Rodriguez can’t stop buying vinyl records. But why? To find out what was behind this compulsion, he spoke to Dr. Stephanie Hartselle, a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University. She explains why someone might feel drawn to purchase something they don....

07/16/2022

After!

07/16/2022

Posted with permission. We have patients who struggle with OCD. I have bets with people about exposures. When a patient is able to complete a top tier exposure, they can chose my hair color. She chose bright blue “ends”. And I attempt to achieve the dye request.

06/19/2022

Hey everyone! Happy pride.

06/16/2022

Brown Commencement, 2022

05/08/2022

In 2013, I was the medical director of the psych ER at Hasbro Children’s Hospital where these numbers were already skyrocketing. That year, I founded the Emergency Child Psychiatry Committee at AACAP, and won a grant to study the numbers of children boarding in northeastern U.S. ERs and the lack of consistency in training and resources in major cities. Nine years later, things have only worsened. A lack of inpatient beds, intensive program space and the daily battle for insurance companies to pay for care all stand in the way of seeing an end to this crisis.

With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.

05/04/2022

Historically, psychiatrists have been told to keep themselves politically neutral or hidden. F**k that. Hartselle & Associates supports abortion care as health care.

04/25/2022

Dr. Lowehaupt on the current public health crisis of mental health.

Brown University faculty in psychiatry and pediatrics are leading a call to action urging policymakers to address the worsening child and adolescent mental health crisis. On April 19, the Rhode Island Council for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (RICCAP); the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Acad...

04/13/2022

Pediatricians recommended to now screen children 8 and up for anxiety. Link to article in bio.

04/08/2022

More adventure today -peel and stick wallpaper for the office bathroom. Maybe? Haven’t decided.

04/08/2022

New library stamp courtesy Dr. Wolfe. Illustration from my tattoo courtesy and

03/30/2022

TW: su***de.

300-400 physicians complete su***de yearly -an entire medical school. These are most certainly undercounted as doctors know how to make things look accidental. Questions by medical licensing boards hinder our seeking medical care. It must change.

The culture of medicine means no crying, no sleeping, no making mistakes. And no getting help.