Meet the Author

Clovis Raymond, MD

Clovis Raymond, MD, is dual board-certified in General Adult Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. He serves as Chief of Psychiatry at Rockland Psychiatric Center and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University. A retired Major in the U.S. Army Reserve and author of Psychology Today’s “The Human Drive,” he brings more than two decades of clinical, teaching, forensic, and community experience to recovery-oriented care.

In The Sparks That Endure, he blends clinical stories, neuroscience, and lived experience to reveal the resilient threads of meaning that persist even when diagnosis or dysfunction dominates the narrative.