SPOTLIGHT -
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
Here’s how we can best stand up to hatred…
March 27th 2025
A social psychiatrist who stays on the ethical way.
March 25th 2025
Is psychiatry up to the challenge of protecting social well-being?
March 12th 2025
Psychiatry has a lot to learn from the case of Gabby Petito.
From the Pages of Psychiatric Times: May 2023
The experts weighed in on a wide variety of psychiatric issues for the May 2023 issue of Psychiatric Times.
It May Be Life or Death: A Public Advisory on Social Media
Social media is the new cigarette…
US Surgeon General Issues Advisory on Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health
The advisory identifies positive and negative effects of social media usage and next steps for making social media safer for youth.
A Yin and Yang Dialectical Psychiatry
Do we need a dialectical approach to psychiatry?
Mayday! Mayday! It Is B-Day for Migrant Mental Health at Our Border
It’s time for psychiatry to address the crisis at the border.
A Time for Remembering
Psychiatric Times® salutes our armed forces and remembers those who have fallen during service.
Mayday! Mayday! King Charles Reigns in Great Britain, While Thanatos Reigned in the United Stated Last Saturday
The United States versus Great Britain…
Psychoeducation or Psychiatric Contagion? Social Media and Self-Diagnosis
"I have autism. All my friends say so. I do have autism. You just don't get it."
The Time Has Come for Social Prescribing
Social prescribing was rolled out in 2019 as 1 of the 6 core pillars of a comprehensive model of personalized patient care.
All Psychiatrists Are Social Psychiatrists!
Social psychiatry is embedded in the practice at large.
Religious Holy Days, Intercultural Conflicts, and the Transmission of Intergenerational Trauma
Work with compassion to try to prevent the transmission of intergenerational trauma.
In Conversation With a Sigourney Award Winner: Gender & Sexuality
We sat down with Jack Drescher, MD, to discuss his recent 2022 Sigourney Award win and more.
Following the Money in the Social Aspects of Psychiatry
Here’s how money ties back to most social determinants of health.
This is Not a Time for Complacency!
We cannot be complacent. Here’s why.
Social Psychiatrists as Freedom Fighters!
Psychiatrists can fight for freedom in external society and internally for our minds.
The Foolishness of Predicting the Future: Social Psychiatric Prediction #8
Prophetic predictions…?
There Will Be More Psychiatrist Eulogies Like This One on Pedro Ruiz, MD: Social Psychiatric Prediction #7
Celebrating the life of Pedro Ruiz, MD…
A Comeback of the Indigenous: Social Psychiatric Prediction #6
Indigenous individuals: original discoverers of the world, and potentially its saviors.
A Social Psychopathologies Classification: Social Psychiatric Prediction #5
Should we medicalize social psychopathologies?
The United States Psychiatric Association: Social Psychiatric Prediction #4
Should the American Psychiatric Association change its name?
A Psychiatrist US Surgeon General: Social Psychiatric Prediction #3
Should a psychiatrist be the “Nation’s Doctor”?
Psychedelic Daily “Vitamins”: Social Psychiatric Prediction #2
The second coming of psychedelics… what will the outcome be?
Lessons Learned from a Resident-Driven Mental Health Policy Elective Experience
One psychiatry resident describes his experience creating a mental health policy and advocacy elective.
Artificial Psychiatry: Social Psychiatric Prediction #1
AI and psychiatry: where are we headed?
Social Psychiatric Predictions About the Future: A Series
We may need the luck of the Irish to avoid future disasters…
Hinduism and Psychiatry
Religious holidays seem to have psychological meaning in terms of processing internal and external oppression.
Mental Health and the Global Race to Resilience
There is no shortage of evidence for the elevated and sustained psychological trauma, mental illness, distress, and anxiety about climate change.
The Truth Is on Trial in Society, Psychiatry, and Religion
Should we tell the truth?
The Mental Health Benefits of Travel
Do you need a vacation?
Psychiatry and Hate: Projected, Scapegoated, and Realistic Hatreds
What are the 3 different types of hatred?
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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
Here’s how we can best stand up to hatred…
H. Steven Moffic, MD
March 27th 2025
A social psychiatrist who stays on the ethical way.
March 25th 2025
Is psychiatry up to the challenge of protecting social well-being?
Susan Hatters Friedman, MD, MSt, DFAPA
March 12th 2025
Psychiatry has a lot to learn from the case of Gabby Petito.
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From the Pages of Psychiatric Times: May 2023
The experts weighed in on a wide variety of psychiatric issues for the May 2023 issue of Psychiatric Times.
It May Be Life or Death: A Public Advisory on Social Media
Social media is the new cigarette…
US Surgeon General Issues Advisory on Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health
The advisory identifies positive and negative effects of social media usage and next steps for making social media safer for youth.
A Yin and Yang Dialectical Psychiatry
Do we need a dialectical approach to psychiatry?
Mayday! Mayday! It Is B-Day for Migrant Mental Health at Our Border
It’s time for psychiatry to address the crisis at the border.
A Time for Remembering
Psychiatric Times® salutes our armed forces and remembers those who have fallen during service.
Mayday! Mayday! King Charles Reigns in Great Britain, While Thanatos Reigned in the United Stated Last Saturday
The United States versus Great Britain…
Psychoeducation or Psychiatric Contagion? Social Media and Self-Diagnosis
"I have autism. All my friends say so. I do have autism. You just don't get it."
The Time Has Come for Social Prescribing
Social prescribing was rolled out in 2019 as 1 of the 6 core pillars of a comprehensive model of personalized patient care.
All Psychiatrists Are Social Psychiatrists!
Social psychiatry is embedded in the practice at large.
Religious Holy Days, Intercultural Conflicts, and the Transmission of Intergenerational Trauma
Work with compassion to try to prevent the transmission of intergenerational trauma.
In Conversation With a Sigourney Award Winner: Gender & Sexuality
We sat down with Jack Drescher, MD, to discuss his recent 2022 Sigourney Award win and more.
Following the Money in the Social Aspects of Psychiatry
Here’s how money ties back to most social determinants of health.
This is Not a Time for Complacency!
We cannot be complacent. Here’s why.
Social Psychiatrists as Freedom Fighters!
Psychiatrists can fight for freedom in external society and internally for our minds.
The Foolishness of Predicting the Future: Social Psychiatric Prediction #8
Prophetic predictions…?
There Will Be More Psychiatrist Eulogies Like This One on Pedro Ruiz, MD: Social Psychiatric Prediction #7
Celebrating the life of Pedro Ruiz, MD…
A Comeback of the Indigenous: Social Psychiatric Prediction #6
Indigenous individuals: original discoverers of the world, and potentially its saviors.
A Social Psychopathologies Classification: Social Psychiatric Prediction #5
Should we medicalize social psychopathologies?
The United States Psychiatric Association: Social Psychiatric Prediction #4
Should the American Psychiatric Association change its name?
A Psychiatrist US Surgeon General: Social Psychiatric Prediction #3
Should a psychiatrist be the “Nation’s Doctor”?
Psychedelic Daily “Vitamins”: Social Psychiatric Prediction #2
The second coming of psychedelics… what will the outcome be?
Lessons Learned from a Resident-Driven Mental Health Policy Elective Experience
One psychiatry resident describes his experience creating a mental health policy and advocacy elective.
Artificial Psychiatry: Social Psychiatric Prediction #1
AI and psychiatry: where are we headed?
Social Psychiatric Predictions About the Future: A Series
We may need the luck of the Irish to avoid future disasters…
Hinduism and Psychiatry
Religious holidays seem to have psychological meaning in terms of processing internal and external oppression.
Mental Health and the Global Race to Resilience
There is no shortage of evidence for the elevated and sustained psychological trauma, mental illness, distress, and anxiety about climate change.
The Truth Is on Trial in Society, Psychiatry, and Religion
Should we tell the truth?
The Mental Health Benefits of Travel
Do you need a vacation?
Psychiatry and Hate: Projected, Scapegoated, and Realistic Hatreds
What are the 3 different types of hatred?