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Ravi Chandra, M.D., is a psychiatrist<\/a> and writer in San Francisco. \u00a0He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. \u00a0Facebuddha<\/strong><\/em> is his full length nonfiction debut; the book won a 2017 Nautilus Silver Book Award for Religion\/Spirituality of Eastern Thought. He blogs regularly for Psychology Today (The Pacific Heart)<\/a>\u00a0and for the Center for Asian American Media (Memoirs of a Superfan<\/a>). \u00a0His ebook on Asian American Anger is available for free download<\/a>. \u00a0He was published in the award-winning anthology of South Asian American Poetry, Indivisible<\/strong><\/em>, and his first book of poetry, a fox peeks out<\/strong><\/em>, won Honorable Mention at the San Francisco Book Festival. \u00a0His latest book on gun psychology and identity is Guns Are Not Our God! The NRA Is Not Our Church!<\/strong> Details, press and more writing at www.RaviChandraMD.com<\/a>. The Pacific Heart podcast is available\u00a0on Stitcher<\/a>, Soundcloud<\/a> and iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ravi Chandra, M.D., is a psychiatrist and writer in San Francisco. \u00a0He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. \u00a0Facebuddha is his full length nonfiction debut; the book won a 2017 Nautilus Silver Book Award for Religion\/Spirituality of Eastern Thought. He blogs regularly for Psychology Today (The Pacific Heart)\u00a0and for the Center for … <\/p>\n

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