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April 11th 2025
In this time of crisis, it can be easy to feel unmoored. Here are a few celebrations to help keep us grounded.
April 1st 2025
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H. Steven Moffic, MD
March 27th 2025
A social psychiatrist who stays on the ethical way.
March 25th 2025
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March 12th 2025
Psychiatry has a lot to learn from the case of Gabby Petito.
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Ethics as first therapy.
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Social Media and Substance Use: What Clinicians Need to Know
Social media is here to stay, and its use must be a consideration in the treatment of psychiatric conditions, particularly substance use disorder and alcohol use disorder.
The Hidden Suffering of Social Anxiety Disorder
Social anxiety disorder: increased screening and recognition are essential for proper diagnosis, and psychotropic and psychotherapeutic options can be effective.
Extending the Terms of the Social: Digital Worlds and the Fluid Social
Digital worlds and the fluid social.
Terms of the Social II: The Sociology of Knowledge
Ideas are a product of their context.
Celebrating Abraham L. Halpern Humanitarian Award Winner H. Steven Moffic, MD
What does being a humanitarian mean to H. Steven Moffic, MD, winner of the 22024 Abraham L. Halpern Humanitarian Award?
“Psychiatry and the Humanities”: An Innovative Course at the University of Montreal
Expanding the medical model to embrace the humanities.
The Benefits of Intentional Solitude
Not all alone time is the same...
How the Current Social Media Legislature Landscape Impacts Youth Mental Health
Social media content moderation: a brief for clinicians.
Terms of the Social: Updating the Lexicon of Social Psychiatry
Society starts with two—one is a fiction.
The Social Determinants of Health—Social Psychiatry’s Basic Science
From populations to patients.
H. Steven Moffic, MD, Receives Humanitarian Award at APA Annual Meeting
H. Steven Moffic, MD, received the Abraham Halpern Humanitarian Award at the 2024 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. Here’s what he spoke about during his acceptance.
What Does Humanitarian Mean?
H. Steven Moffic, MD: winner of the Abraham Halpern Humanitarian Award at the 2024 APA Annual Meeting.
A Beacon of Hope: Psychiatrists on Socials
Psychiatrists, by maintaining active social media pages, can promote positivity and establish themselves.
Protesting Homelessness
It’s time to center homelessness in the conversation around mental health.
Student Protests, 1968 and Now
How do the current student protests compare with that of the late 60s?
The Confluence of Human Trafficking, Drug Trafficking, Militias, and Substance Use
Explore the devastating impact of substance abuse, human trafficking, and conflict on individuals and communities.
Polarization: On the Threshold Between Political Ideology and Social Reality
An analysis of polarization: “To be aware of the abyss of polarization is already to be forewarned and forearmed.”
A Year of Record-High Suicide Rates
The suicide rate in the United States recently reached its highest peak since 1941.
The Many Meanings of Solar Eclipses
Are you watching the solar eclipse?
“The Web of Meaning”: Family Therapy is Social Psychiatry’s Therapeutic Branch
What are the links between social psychiatry and the family therapy movement?
Loneliness, Dr Ruth, and the US Surgeon General a Year Later
How can we fix our loneliness problem?
Four Years of COVID and the Weekly Video Series
It has been 4 years of COVID-19. Are we in a better spot now than we were then?
Social Psychiatry Comes of Age
Welcome to the new column, “Second Thoughts… About Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychotherapy.”
My Social Psychiatric Predictions One Year Later
“A narrow way through”: can H. Steven Moffic, MD, predict the future of psychiatry?
From the Pages of Psychiatric Times: February 2024
The experts weighed in on a wide variety of psychiatric issues for the February 2024 issue of Psychiatric Times.
Social Psychoexemplaries: The Other Side of Social Psychopathologies
What is positive social psychiatry?
Dopamine Detoxification for Problematic Gaming
Problematic gaming is challenging to treat. Here's how you can get started.
The Chiefs and Love Win the Super Bowl
Love: a distraction or inspiration?