Morehead’s Better Brains

Ideas & Advocacy

Writing & Speaking

Dr. Morehead writes and speaks nationally on mental health — for clinicians, for faith communities, and for the public. Mental health issues affect every one of us, and healing in mind, body, and spirit is both our individual quest and our community responsibility.

Dr. Morehead speaking at a lectern

The Book

Book cover: Science Over Stigma — Education and Advocacy for Mental Health, by Daniel B. Morehead, MD

Science Over Stigma: Education and Advocacy for Mental Health (American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2021) makes the case that mental illness is real, common, and treatable — and that everyone who cares about people with mental illness should learn to say so with confidence.

Written for clinicians, families, and advocates alike, it gathers the scientific evidence behind psychiatry into a plainspoken argument against the last socially acceptable prejudice.

View the book at APA Publishing

Mental illness is real, mental illness is common, and mental illness is treatable. It is time everyone knew it.

The argument of Science Over Stigma

Essays & Columns

Dr. Morehead writes a regular column for Psychiatric Times. A selection:

This list is updated as new pieces appear. Patient education materials will be added over time.

Speaking

Dr. Morehead has taught and lectured throughout his career — grand rounds, national conferences, residency courses, and community and faith gatherings across the country and abroad.

Frequent topics

  • Mental health advocacy and the public face of psychiatry
  • The science behind psychiatric treatment — and its critics
  • Benzodiazepines and the anxiety around prescribing
  • Psychotherapy as a core psychiatric treatment
  • Neuroscience, spirituality, and mental health
  • Faith communities and mental illness

Recent venues

  • American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting
  • Harvard South Shore VA Grand Rounds
  • Mass General Brigham (Salem Hospital) Grand Rounds
  • LSU Psychiatry Grand Rounds
  • King Saud University International Psychiatry Conference, Riyadh
  • Montana Psychiatric Society Annual Conference
  • NAMI conferences and Hawaiian Islands Ministries

Recorded talks

Podcasts & Conversations

Scholarly Work

Beyond the column, Dr. Morehead’s scholarly writing spans psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and religion — including papers in Psychoanalytic Quarterly and Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, contributions to Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts (Yale University Press), and chapters on psychology, pastoral care, and Augustine for Oxford University Press and Lexington Books.

Invite Dr. Morehead

Dr. Morehead speaking on stage

To invite Dr. Morehead to speak — at a clinical conference, a university, or a faith community — write to [email protected].