James H Lake Author & Editor

James H. Lake, M.D. is a board-certified psychiatrist in private practice in Monterey, California. He has served as a clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Stanford, and is currently a visiting assistant professor of medicine at University of Arizona School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine. He founded and chaired the American Psychiatric Association’s Caucus on Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Mental Health Care from 2004 through 2010 and was appointed to a special APA Task Force on CAM and integrative medicine. He was a founding member and former chair of the International Network of Integrative Mental Health. Dr. Lake has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and contributes a regular column on integrative mental health care to Psychiatric Times. Dr. Lake is the author or editor of four textbooks on integrative mental health care.