Carrie Barron, MD, (Grace Caroline Barron, MD) is director of the Creativity for Resilience at Dell Medical School in Austin, Texas, a faculty fellow at the UT Humanities Institute, a board-certified psychiatrist/psychoanalyst and a graduate of Princeton University. She continues to serve on the faculty of the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Barron maintained a private practice in New York City for almost two decades. In addition to her book The Creativity Cure, Barron has published in several peer-reviewed journals. She gives talks and conducts workshops on “human flourishing” and has been interviewed by many journalists in podcasts, radio shows, magazines and newspapers. Barron maintains a blog that has had over three million readers on Psychology Today.