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Morehead’s Better Brains
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Morehead’s Better Brains

Daniel Morehead, MD • Psychiatry & Psychotherapy • Austin & Portland

The Practice

Psychiatry &
Psychotherapy

Comprehensive mental health treatment — psychiatric evaluations and second opinions, medication management, and psychotherapy. You work with Dr. Morehead directly, in every session and every decision.

Enter the practice Ideas & Advocacy

Writing &
Speaking

Essays, books, and talks on mental health — for clinicians, congregations, and everyone with a brain. Including Science Over Stigma and a regular column in Psychiatric Times.

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Daniel Morehead, MD

Dr. Morehead is a physician and psychiatrist who has practiced psychiatry since 1998 — always combining psychotherapy with medications and second opinions, and always treating the whole person. His three main interests within psychiatry are neuroscience, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and spirituality.

Board Certified — General Psychiatry (ABPN) Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry (UCNS) Distinguished Life Fellow, APA Residency Director — Menninger & Tufts

Inside the office

A leather armchair beside a bookcase in Dr. Morehead’s office
Where the conversation happens
An anatomical model of a human brain on a wooden desk
Neuroscience, on the desk
A stack of psychology and psychiatry books
Thirty years of reading
A ceramic phrenology head on a shelf
How far the field has come