Ravi Chandra, M.D. is a psychiatrist and writer in San Francisco, California. He is a graduate of Brown University and Stanford University Medical School, and completed a psychiatry residency at the University of California, San Francisco. He works in community mental health and private practice, and writes a regular blog (“Memoirs of a Superfan”) for the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, as well as “The Pacific Heart” blog for Psychology Today. His first book, “a fox peeks out: poems” won Honorable Mention for Poetry in the 2012 San Francisco Book Festival. He is currently working on a spiritual/travel memoir about war, peace and Buddhism in Asia, as well as another collection of poetry.
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Ravi Chandra, M.D. 
Ravi,
Really enjoyed your epigrammic comments in NY Times Letters
“…The mind is powerful, fragile and all too alone. We must ground ourselves in relationship to one another. Otherwise, our mind thinks that it knows what reality is, and it never knows the whole story. It can’t. None of us can contain reality on our own; we have only our perspectives and perceptions.
Thus, relationship is critical, and empathy is not optional or in any way secondary to professional competence….”
Looking up your blog, I’m also grateful for your poem, “Manga-Bangalore”.
Best,
Dan
Hi Dan,
Thanks for taking the time to leave such a nice comment – I’m glad my words resonated with you. If you wish, you can sign up for my roughly quarterly newsletter at http://www.ravichandramd.com, and keep abreast of my other writing.
Best,
Ravi
Dear Dr. Ravi Chandra,
I like your blog and look forward to reading your work.
I write sometimes, am in the health care field in management cum clinical, and have a rich life of experiences that need someone like you to say in a story.
Warm regards,
Ponni aka Pari
Dear Ravi Chandra, I enjoyed ur comments on Yoko’s “Sit”. I met her and her brother Masako as children when I “sat” and
stayed a couple of visits in their father’s temple in a small village outside Kyoto many years ago.
P Since then i’ve been able to attend his visiting teaching sessions at the Austin Zen Center and received Buddhist vows from him.
I am a retired clinical psychologist with longtime interests in Japanese culture (as well as Indian and Hinduism). I’d love to read ur insights into Asian anger. Thank u!
Thanks! I appreciate your reading. More at my main website http://www.ravichandramd.com
I’m not sure if my comments and info got posted, so sending info again.
Hi, Dr. Ravi. Thanks for the post.
I’m almost finished a book “The fear free mind” which is a (proven) psychodynamic technique to permanently remove fear from people. Amongst other things, it contains a complete description of the human (monkey) mind, some of which is at the start.
I realise you are probably extremely busy, but I would love to get some feedback from you if you are feeling charitable (or curious: I’m told it’s reasonably entertaining and informative).
I have put the opening section here: https://deafInOneEye.com/
Please pop over and take a look if you have the time and the inclination.
Just to be clear: I am not asking you for an endorsement or whatever: just some feedback :-).
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
e.