SPOTLIGHT -
June 25th 2024
How does climate change affect mental health in individuals and communities?
Judith Joseph, MD, MBA, shares her journey of balancing clinical work with social media mental health advocacy.
June 14th 2024
The CDC suggests that disrupted access to ADHD medications may increase risk of overdose and injury.
June 10th 2024
The Psychiatric Times Editor-in-Chief discusses the clinical uses and casual prescribing of ketamine for the treatment of psychiatric disorders.
June 4th 2024
A psychiatrist reflects and laments on the state of the country.
ECT: An Effective and Safe Treatment
There is consistent evidence of benefits following state-of-the-art modified ECT.
ECT: Dangerous on Either Side of the Pond
No one has precise data about how many Americans receive ECT each year, let alone how many treatments each patients receives or how closely providers space treatments. This is a troubling dilemma, according to the authors.
No Free Lunch
The more tools we have in our treatment toolbox, the greater the likelihood that we will ultimately find a treatment (or combination of treatments) to improve a given patient’s functioning and quality of life.
Expanding Psychiatry’s Reach
By considering different team members, it may be possible to address the broader needs of patients with mental illness.
Calling on the Arts to Thrive During a Pandemic
The pandemic has driven a psychiatrist into isolation, but his long history in the arts helps him reconnect.
Personal Reflections on Climate Change
A psychiatrist reads the news and responds with art.
Reconsidering Freud
A winner of the 2020 Sigourney Award reflects on a lifetime of reading, promoting, and revising Freud’s theories.
Poor DSM-5—So Misunderstood!
A DSM-5 diagnosis requires a biopsychosocial case formulation—not just a symptom checklist.
Feeling Lucky? Convergence Mental Health as a Mechanism for Serendipitous Innovation
This mindset might be the key to mental health breakthroughs.
Psychoanalysis as a Tool Against Violence
Mental health care for victims of violence may be a way out of the darkness for Latin America.
Psychiatry and the Shores of Social Construction: Sami Timimi, MD
Are current systems of mental health care alienating children and adults from the meaning inherent in their own emotional difficulties?
A New CME: Continuing Moral Education
Every phase of the COVID-19 pandemic brings new ethical challenges.
The Existential Fallout of COVID-19
During the pandemic, Albert Camus’ existential novels have become newly popular—and with good reason.
A People’s History of Depression: Jonathan Sadowsky, PhD
The story of depression, through time and around the world.
Psychiatry 2021: Team Psychiatry
Providing quality mental health care in all treatment settings requires one crucial element: teamwork.
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! ... It's a Psychiatrist!
Why superheroes would make the best psychiatrists?
Black Americans’ Distrust of the COVID-19 Vaccine
A case for why psychiatrists should discuss the COVID vaccines with their patients.
A Psychiatrist Weaving Conceptual and Empirical Work
An interview with Kenneth S. Kendler, MD, vice-chair of the American Psychiatric Association DSM Steering Committee, author of more than 1200 articles, and one of the highest-cited researchers in psychiatry.
If We Had a Hammer
What are best practices for difficult conversations about racism? How can psychiatrists help? The authors present 6 ways to advance discussions about racism in psychiatry.
Why Psychiatry Training Must Include Discussions on Structural Racism
The authors explore the impact of structural racism on psychiatry trainees and the patients they care for (and what can be done about it).
Partnering With Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioners
The shortage of mental health care providers is a crisis, but psychiatrists have a potentially powerful ally.
The 16-Minute Med Check
If we had 1 extra minute with our patients, what question would we ask?
Beneath the Wheel: A Resident Reflects on Burnout and Professional Identity
Unable to spend adequate time with patients, residents are not learning to function as doctors, but merely as technicians for the human body.
How Pharmaceutical Innovation Is Saving the World
Over the last 9 months, we have seen heroism, innovation, and precise science, performed under unbelievable pressure. The result is no short of miraculous.
Psychiatric Times Honors Black History Month
During the month of February, we will publish important stories commemorating Black History Month.
Laziness Does Not Exist
Patients and care providers often call themselves lazy. But what are the clinical consequences and cultural meanings of this term?
Can Existential Issues Really Be Divorced From Clinical Practice? From Our Readers
Although existential and religious issues may be distinguished in clinical care, the human condition’s complexity and the Dark Night of the Soul cannot.
The Faces of Madness
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many diagnoses can it make? The photographer and psychiatrist Hugh Welch Diamond, MD, shares insights into the humanity and stigma of mental illness in Victorian England.
Denial, The Capitol Takeover, and a Tragic American Legacy
What role does denial play in the collective American psyche?
A Quick Primer on the Serendipity of Psychopharmacological Development
When we finally open a trap door to explain or further understand a hypothesis, the answer often includes a house full of hallways.