PRIYA NARAYANAN, M.D

Dr. Narayanan received a BA in Biology graduating summa cum laude from Smith College, MA. She received her MD degree from McGill University, Montreal and completed her Psychiatry Residency at New York University Medical Center. She went onto a Fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry from Albert Einstein Medical Center and spent several years working at Riker’s Island Correctional Facility in New York. She currently heads an Assertive Community Treatment program in Los Angeles serving the needs of people with severe and persisting mental illness such as Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder.

Dr. Narayanan is a senior faculty member with the Art of Living Foundation and travels around the country to teach meditation and self-development workshops with a focus on addressing burnout and increasing resiliency among health care professionals. She is a strong advocate for the role of alternative modalities of healing and promotes the role of yoga, meditation and healthy living as adjuncts to conventional psychiatric treatment.

Dr. Narayanan has a Masters in Screenwriting from the London Film School and her short film “The Breadfruit Tree” was screened and won awards at numerous film festivals around the world. Inspired by Robert Whitaker’s book “Anatomy of an Epidemic” which exposes the corporate corruption in the psychopharmaceutical industry, she is currently working on a feature film that exposes the pit falls of the current drug based paradigm of care.

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