Locum Tenens Psychiatry
Lawrence H. Climo, M.D. ~ Author ~ Speaker

*"The Patient Was Vietcong: An American Doctor in the Vietnamese Health Service, 1966-1967" McFarland & Company, 2013
* “Practicing Psychiatry as an Itinerant: Where’s the Satisfaction?” Locum Life, April 2010 p.30-31
* “Editing My Memoir: A Memoir-Meditation” Journal of Aging, Humanities and the Arts, (July-September 2010) 4:230-233
* “Turning to Locum Tenens at Retirement.” Locum Life, March 15, 2009
* “The Journey of the Locum Tenens.” The Psychiatric Times, (2008) 25/No. 2:63-69
* “Highlights From My Tour as a Temporary Psychiatrist in a VA Mental Health Outpatient Clinic.” Journal of Psychiatric Practice,
(2007) 13:411-419
* “Hematite.” American Journal of Psychiatry, (2007) 164:566-567T
* “Outside the Box.” Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, (2007) 13:42-45
* “Mask and Gown at Trail’s End.” The Healing Muse: A Journal of Literary and Visual Arts Center for Bioethics and Humanities,
SUNY Upstate Medical University (2006) 6:85:87
* “Terms of Agreement: My Respite from Gender Wars.” Ascent Aspirations Magazine.com, (February 2006) v. 10, no. 1
* “I Don’t Really Want to Know” (a meditation). Underground Voices.com (July 2005)
* “Stepping up to the Plate” (a screenplay).” Wild Child Publications.com, (June 2005)
* “Unorthodox Practice: An American Doctor in Vietnam.” Vietnam, (2003) April: 26-32
* “Measures of Heart: The Rest of the Story.” Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, (2001) 7:13-17
* “Doctor to the Montagnards.” Vietnam, (1999) December: 48-52
* “God’s Turn, Jonah’s Turn: A Meditation on the Transforming Encounter.” ORIM: A Jewish Journal at Yale, (1986) 2:87-96
* “Chemical Restraint: A Public Sector Psychiatrist’s Protest.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, (1986) 29:256
* “Treatment-Resistant Catatonic Stupor and Combined Neuroleptic-Lithium Therapy.” Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology,
(1985) 5:166-70
* “Some Thorny Medical Judgments and Their Outcomes: The View From the Public Mental Hospital.” Medical Decision Making,
(1984) 4:415-424
* “Helping Some State Hospital Mental Patients Make Small But Necessary Changes: Transference Openings From Countertransference Traps.” Community Mental Health Journal, (1983) 19:129-136
* “Anorexia Nervosa Associated with Hypothalamic Tumor: The Search for Clinical-Pathological Correlations.” Journal of the University of Ottawa, (1982) 7:20-25
* “Phobic Encounters: A Growing Impasse?” Contemporary Psychoanalysis, (1977) 13:484-506
* “Acting Out of Character: Window on the Identity Crisis.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence, (1975) 4:93-107