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Stephen B. Seager

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in Ogden, Utah, The United States
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Joan Didion, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson

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Stephen Seager was born in Ogden, Utah, descended from Mormon pioneers. He grew up in Daly City, California, a San Francisco suburb. Seager graduated from University of California at Davis and received his MD degree from Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. He worked as an Emergency Room physician for ten years which inspired his first two books, and then returned to residency training for four years and became a psychiatrist. Seager wrote of his internship in Psychward: A Year Behind Locked Doors. Seager is a board-certified psychiatrist employed at Napa State Hospital in Napa, California. From this experience comes his newest book to be released September 16, 2014, entitled "Gates of Gomorrah; A Year with the Criminally Insane".
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Stephen B. Seager People who are writers, write because they have to. If you are thinking about becoming a writer, go to medical school or become an attorney. You'll en…morePeople who are writers, write because they have to. If you are thinking about becoming a writer, go to medical school or become an attorney. You'll enjoy it and make a lot of money...Good, now that those people are gone. Being a writer is a gift from God. It's hard work and only occasionally, very occasionally, will you be financially rewarded. But ask anyone who has poured their soul into a manuscript, what it's like to see the finished product in the window of Barnes and Noble. They'll tell you the best thing about being a writer. You get to have your say in a meaningful way. That doesn't come along very often... (less)
Stephen B. Seager I'm working on a sequel to my book, "Behind the Gates of Gomorrah, living with the criminally insane." It's called (tentatively) "God of Gomorrah." Go…moreI'm working on a sequel to my book, "Behind the Gates of Gomorrah, living with the criminally insane." It's called (tentatively) "God of Gomorrah." Gomorrah is a name I've the hospital at which I work because as one character says, It's Gomorrah like in the Bible, as in "Sodom and...' Everybody know the place is bad but they're not sure exactly why. No one really knows the bad stuff that goes on in there." That's what I'm working on. (less)
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SHATTERED FAMILIES: THE COLLAPSE OF AMERICA'S MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM
My name is Stephen Seager MD. I have been a psychiatrist for twenty-five years and have worked extensively with the seriously mentally ill (SMI). Recently, I wrote a book, "Behind the Gates of Gomorrah, a Year with the Criminally Insane," and while doing publicity for this book, I came in contact with many families of persons with S Read more of this blog post »
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“(“He’s okay—I guess the murderers you know are better than the ones you don’t”).”
Stephen B. Seager, Behind the Gates of Gomorrah: A Year with the Criminally Insane

“Edit until your fingers bleed, then take a few deep breaths and edit some more...”
Stephen B. Seager, Behind the Gates of Gomorrah: A Year With the Criminally Insane

“It’s California,” Cohen added. “We elected the Terminator as governor. Anything is possible.”
Stephen B. Seager, Behind the Gates of Gomorrah: A Year with the Criminally Insane

“Next to music, beer was best.”
Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
Carson McCullers

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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