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Jacob M. Appel, MD, JD, MPH
April 17th 2025
The Lancet Commission report on nonfatal self-harm identifies key challenges, causes, and more.
April 11th 2025
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April 1st 2025
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H. Steven Moffic, MD
March 27th 2025
A social psychiatrist who stays on the ethical way.
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Missing White Woman Syndrome: Psychiatrists and Societal Bias
Psychiatry has a lot to learn from the case of Gabby Petito.
8 Psychiatric Perspectives on Political Participation
The revolution has been televised. Check out these 8 psychiatric perspectives on the current state of politics.
Beyond Dogmatism: A Pluralistic Framework to Conceptualize Social Media Use in Children and Adolescents
The relationship between social media use and mental health remains inconclusive. How can you best treat child and adolescents and guide their social media use?
The Positive Social Psychiatry Aspects of the Super Bowl
Did you watch the Super Bowl?
Media Excess & Mental Health
Is our unlimited access to mass media causing more mental health issues?
Mental Illness Is an Equal Opportunity Employer
How does affluence impact mental health outcomes?
Social Psychiatric New Years Resolution #4: Preventing Rotting Brains
How can we prevent brain rot?
Social Psychiatric New Year Resolution #1: Stopping Dr. Strangelove
Nuclear war capability: why we should be worried psychiatrically.
Holiday Blues, Oohs, and Bad News
What are the psychological challenges of this upcoming holiday season?
A Social Psychiatrist Looks Back on 2024 and Forward to 2025: Hurry Up and Slow Down!
Festina lente—hurry up and slow down!
Mind the Media: Teaching Psychiatry Fellows to Engage in Media Meaningfully
In the age of misinformation, how can young psychiatrists navigate patient care and social media use?
Post-Election Moral Family Planning for the Upcoming Holidays
Is it healthy to cut off family and friends due to political differences?
Terms of the Social V: Relational Psychology and Therapy
“Only the shallow know themselves.”
HOPE Notes for Veterans Day
Hope for veterans on this Veterans Day.
The Breaking of Glass Windows and the Maintenance of Glass Ceilings on the 86th Anniversary of Krisstalnacht
“People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”
How Can Psychiatrists Help Our Post-Election Mental Health?
While still following the Goldwater Rule, how can psychiatrists help improve mental health following the election?
It's Time for Psychiatrists to Step Up
We need psychiatrists now more than ever...
At a Crossroads: Clinicians and Law Enforcement, a Partnership to Protect Mental Health
How can we lessen fatal interactions between individuals with mental illness and police? The best possible avenue is partnership and cooperation between mental health clinicians and law enforcement.
Terms of the Social IV: The Relational Self
The relational self is at once both social and intimate.
Empowering Minds, Shaping Futures: Voting and Child Mental Health
Here’s how you can encourage young voters to actively participate.
Electing to Make America Sane Again: Reducing Oppression
Silence can enable oppression.
Terms of the Social III: The Relational Dialogue
The relational dialogue is to relational therapy what free association is to psychoanalysis.
Electing to Make America Sane Again: Addressing Our Social Psychopathologies
The US election is less than 2 weeks away…
Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Columbus Day, and the Holy Grail of a Human Race Day
What day celebrates all human beings?
“How To Connect Things”: A Relational Dialogue about Social Psychiatry
Our chosen image of what and who we are in this world.
How Do Your Clinician Peers Use Social Media?
Enter your email to see the results of our polls on social media usage amongst mental health clinicians!
We in Psychiatry Are Social Determinants of Mental Health
Psychiatrists and mental health clinicians: a social determinant of health.
“With Art We Build What Poverty Destroys”: Adalberto de Paula Barreto, MD, PhD, on Integrative Community Therapy in Brazil
With art we build what poverty destroys.
A Weekend of Social Psychiatric Problems
Here’s what Dr Moffic plans to cover in this week…
Integrative Community Therapy in Brazil: An Interview with Adalberto de Paula Barreto, MD, PhD – Community Psychiatry Part II
A therapist asks a question that makes me glimpse the eternal.