Social Behavior

Do you have an idea for how to reduce gun violence?

Unless there are substantive societal changes at many levels, the answer may be yes.

How do social stressors contribute to patient symptoms?

8 in 10 physicians believe the United States cannot improve health outcomes or reduce health care costs without addressing social factors that affect patient health.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results.

Is the United States ageist?

Sami Timimi, MD, shares his thoughts on alienation and ADHD, and what role current systems of mental health play.

Happy April Fool’s Day!

Is the infamous slap from the Oscars an example of systemic violence?

Reflections from the Russo-Ukrainian war and the importance of being needed.

How the fetishization of Black bodies and the weaponization of European beauty standards are used against Black women in sport.

Is our destructiveness our own undoing?

Can psychiatry play a constructive role in understanding societies where conspiracy theories flourish?

New book explores the effects of modern life and technology on mental illness.

Presidents Day may be a good signifier of the changing times.

Evaluating a new framework for evaluating undue influence and its implications for elder abuse and human trafficking cases.

Empathy has been declining worldwide. How can we bring it back to society?

Malingering is a common challenge for emergency department clinicians, particularly during the pandemic. Here are 3 cases of COVID-19–induced malingering.

This Valentine's Day, we've got you covered...

How can we more effectively evaluate undue influence? Here are methodologies and findings for research into a new framework that may help victims of undue influence find justice.

Healing our relationships, and ourselves, through acts of self-care, compassion, and grace.

How can we evaluate undue influence to get justice for victims of cults and other exploitation situations?

Are social psychiatric problems the responsibility of psychiatrists? Governments? Laws? Sociologists?

With hate on the rise once more, remember these 10 conclusions.

West Side Story: entertaining, but also telling.

Don't hide the B sides of life.

The recent hostage situation at a synagogue in Texas in indicative of a larger underlying problem.

Several important events, all in 1 day.

It might be a token, but it says—and means—a lot...

The new Studio Lab at Northwestern University School of Communication aims to fight stigma by providing positive depictions of mental health in media.