Patricia Ainsworth, M.D. is assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and has a private practice in Ridgeland, Mississippi. She is author of Understanding Depression and coauthor of Understanding Mental Retardation, both published by University Press of Mississippi.
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