Biography
Doris Iarovici grew up in New York City after arriving there at age 5 from Romania. She began writing shortly thereafter, and first published poetry and essays in Seventeen Magazine as a teenager. A graduate of Yale College and the Yale University School of Medicine, she has since divided her time between writing and medicine, and has published both fiction and non-fiction.
Her newest book, Coping on Campus: Mental Health and the University Student, released in December 2024, is available below or at your favorite bookstore.
Her most recent fiction collection, Minus One, can be ordered below or through your favorite bookstore.
She has been awarded writing fellowships from the Djerassi Resident Artists' Program in California, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Virginia, Hambidge Center in Georgia, Vermont Studio Center, and the North Carolina Arts Council.
She works as a psychiatrist at Harvard University, and lives in Boston.
In the midst of a mental health epidemic among college students, Doris Iarovici explains why this is happening now and what we can do about it.
College student mental health has been in decline since before the COVID-19 pandemic, which then led to a doubling of incidences of youth anxiety and depression symptoms. The past decade's breakneck rate of technological change—with the widespread adoption of virtual classrooms, smartphones, AI, and social media—has led to new mental health challenges as well as novel opportunities for treatment.
In Coping on Campus, Doris Iarovici, MD, discusses students' lifestyle issues and psychiatric concerns using case vignettes to explore a variety of interventions related to substance abuse, relationship difficulties, eating disorders, sleep issues, depression and anxiety, and perfectionism. Included is a guide to making emergency assessments, from risk classification and hospitalization to public safety and communication within and outside the campus community.