Steve Sobel, M.D. graduated from Tel Aviv University Medical School in Israel. His passion for understanding human motivation, behavior and emotion led him to enter the field of psychiatry. Upon completion of his residency at Hillside-Long Island Jewish Medical Center, he stayed on for an additional year of a psychiatric research fellowship, focusing on a study of individuals experiencing their first episode of schizophrenia. Realizing he preferred to battle mental illness in the trenches, where help seemed most needed, he began working at a rural community mental health center in northwestern...