Doris Iarovici

Doris Iarovici is a psychiatrist and author whose book Mental Health Issues and the University Student, published in 2014 by Johns Hopkins University Press, has become a standard reference work for college counselors, administrators, and mental health professionals working with young adults in higher education settings. She is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Duke University, where she has worked in the Duke University Counseling and Psychological Services for many years.

Her clinical work focuses on the mental health needs of college and graduate students — a population facing distinctive pressures including academic stress, social transition, emerging adult identity challenges, and for many, the first encounter with serious psychiatric conditions. She has written and lectured widely on topics including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, ADHD, and the particular dynamics of providing psychiatric care within an academic institutional setting.

Mental Health Issues and the University Student covers the full range of psychiatric conditions commonly seen in college student populations, with particular attention to the practical challenges facing clinicians, counselors, and administrators trying to support students while managing confidentiality, safety, and the demands of academic life. The book is valued for its integration of clinical knowledge with cultural and developmental context.

Iarovici has also written personal essays and creative nonfiction on the practice of medicine and psychiatry, and her work in this vein has appeared in medical humanities publications and literary journals. She is recognized as a thoughtful practitioner and educator who brings both scientific rigor and humanistic sensibility to her work with young people navigating the challenges of emerging adulthood.