New Leaf Behavioral Health LLC

12/15/2025

Dr. Rathbun had a reputation as a “hard” supervisor, and I was assigned to him only by special permission, at the recommendation of another supervisor who thought it was a good match. Marc was a fellow “grumpy old man” even 20 years ago, and I felt a kindred spirit, and admired him immensely. Also, he made me work really hard! - I learned so much from him. He was especially instrumental in helping restore my faith in psychotherapy, and helping me to discern good therapy - the kind that changes you! - from ineffective therapy. Because of him, I nearly had a first job at the (famous) Austin Riggs hospital in MA… which would have led me down a *very* different path. Marc was a great teacher and clinician and the world will be a little darker in his absence.

View Marc Lewis Rathbun's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

10/20/2025

https://www.zmescience.com/other/interviews/the-psychologist-who-defined-the-dunning-kruger-effect-says-youre-probably-using-it-wrong/

Dunning, co-discoverer of the Dunning-Kruger effect, investigates the misinformation gap built into our brains: We don't know what we don't know.

10/10/2025

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/drug-rehabs-lure-in-patients-for-insurance-money-then-leave-them-on-the-street/ar-AA1O6UM4?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Another important issue.

Operators promise high-end treatment, help addicts sign up for insurance then pile on charges for little in return, say former patients and insurers.

10/10/2025

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/08/paper_chase_a_global_industry_fuels_scientific_fraud_in_the_us_1139567.html

This is an important issue

In southern India, a new enterprise called Peer Publicon Consultancy offers a full suite of services to scientific researchers. It will not only write a scholarly paper for a fee but also guarantee pu

08/21/2025

Warning!
This morning, several people have received notices from a program called Sharefile, telling them that I am sharing a file with them and to click-the-link to read the file.

I do not have a Sharefile account, and these messages are not coming from me.

Dr. Nyberg

08/09/2025

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/07/28/addiction_fiction_dopamine_is_not_why_kids_love_tiktok_1124276.html

Nowadays, it seems we can be addicted to anything – not just alcohol and drugs, but po*******hy, random Internet browsing, video games, and smartphones. Academic research papers have investigate

08/01/2025

We have always run New Leaf as an "inefficient" business, in which passion and concern for the community wins out over "I bet we could charge for that."

This was an interesting reflection - and warning - about a growing trend in healthcare as well as "business in general" :

Squeezing ‘inefficient’ businesses run for greater purpose will generate cash, but not value

06/24/2025

https://gazette.com/colorado-watch/parental-evaluator-fraud-prison-sentence/article_6aeb9cb3-7c85-4c8a-9fb1-63dba9fe845d.html

This is awful

Shannon McShane, a former parental evaluator in Colorado, was sentenced to four years in prison for lying about her credentials and committing fraud on the court system. McShane had falsified

06/24/2025

Finally: an article that appears to be about sports - which is highly unusual for me! But the real point is about bias, and how people dismiss warning signs that they don't want to see in any "risk" scenario, and/or how people focus on convenient excuses and environmental factors when there are obvious 'cracks' in any system - in this case, the bodily system, but equally applicable to any risk assessment and/or any attempt to "read the warning signs" for some potential problem.

Tyrese Haliburton’s Achilles rupture wasn’t a freak injury—it followed a predictable pattern we’ve seen before.

06/24/2025

Next up: a review of recent findings about the interaction between your intestines and your brain. I foresee some of these discoveries as having importance for both mitigation in criminal cases (related to my typical line of work) and also as highly important to new therapies to "mystery" conditions like IBS.

A rapid expansion of new discoveries and knowledge lays the foundation for a new era in medicine

06/24/2025

So many good articles in the news today. First, on clean water - a public health issue that I care about personally:

For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease.

06/10/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/us/scott-panetti-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.N08.6aft.6yd2gEg7VX58&smid=url-share

Diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, he spent 30 years on death row. In 2007, the Supreme Court raised the bar for executing the mentally ill, though Texas still tried to put him to death.