Dr. Richard Francis Mollica MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
22 Putnam Ave Cambridge MA, 02139Rating
5/5
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Dr. Richard Mollica is a psychiatrist practicing in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Mollica is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Mollica diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Mollica may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Mollica treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Univ of Nm Sch of Med, Albuquerque Nm 1973
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Disability associated with psychiatric comorbidity and health status in Bosnian refugees living in Croatia.
- Waging a new kind of war. Invisible wounds.
- msJAMA: assessment of trauma in primary care.
- The trauma story: a phenomenological approach to the traumatic life experiences of refugee survivors.
- Longitudinal study of psychiatric symptoms, disability, mortality, and emigration among Bosnian refugees.
- Science-based policy for psychosocial interventions in refugee camps: a Cambodian example.
- Psychiatric effects of traumatic brain injury events in Cambodian survivors of mass violence.
- Surviving torture.
- Building primary care practitioners' attitudes and confidence in mental health skills in a post-conflict society: a Cambodian example.
- The Harvard Trauma Questionnaire. Validating a cross-cultural instrument for measuring torture, trauma, and posttraumatic stress disorder in Indochinese refugees.
- Medical best practices for the treatment of torture survivors.
- Assessing symptom change in Southeast Asian refugee survivors of mass violence and torture.
- A new focus on caring for survivors of extreme violence.
- Care providers' needs and perspectives on suffering and care in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Cambodia.
- The enduring mental health impact of mass violence: a community comparison study of Cambodian civilians living in Cambodia and Thailand.
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