Written to be used
Books by a board-certified psychiatrist — short, practical, and written to be read by the person who needs them, or handed to them by the clinician who cares for them.
The Outside Brain
The problem was never your effort. It was the tools.
If you have ever been called lazy, careless, or "so much potential if you'd just apply yourself" — this book is for you. You don't have an information problem. You know what to do. The plan simply doesn't arrive in your head at the moment you need it.
So the fix isn't more willpower. It's moving the plan out of your head and into the world around you, where it can't get lost. A bin in your path to the door. A note where the task actually breaks. That is the outside brain.
The method is five steps — CLEAR — learned once and run on one problem at a time:
- Choose one
- Lay it outside
- Engineer the if-then
- Aim small
- Return
No forty-item toolbox. No willpower. And unlike every system that shamed you for falling off — coming back is built into the method, not treated as failure.
Short enough to be read, structured to be handed to a patient. An evidence-informed adjunct — not a replacement for assessment or treatment — with a diagnostic guardrail grounded in DSM-5-TR criteria and explicit safety triage built in.
Light After Loss
Grief changes everything.
When you lose someone you love, the world continues — but your life may feel as if it has stopped. Emotions become overwhelming. Sleep becomes difficult. Everyday tasks feel exhausting. Friends may not know what to say. And the pain can feel endless.
Light After Loss is a compassionate, practical, and medically informed guide written to help you understand grief and learn how to live again after the death of a loved one.
This is not a book about getting over loss. It is a book about learning how to carry it.
"Healing does not mean forgetting. It means learning to live with love, memory, and meaning — after loss."
Dr. Harvinder Singh, MD
Dr. Singh is a board-certified psychiatrist in outpatient practice and the founder of Psychiatry Education Forum, a continuing-education platform used by clinicians nationally and internationally. He writes for two audiences: patients who need something short and practical they can actually act on, and the clinicians who hand it to them.
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Every title is available on Amazon. If you're a clinician, both patient-facing books are written to be recommended.