Film and Book Reviews

The history of modern psychopharmacology: a history of epic proportions.

Karl Deisseroth's new book is a compelling, educational experience.

Dune releases in theaters this week. What echoes of our current socio-cultural situation does it contain?

The philosopher Plato kicked poets out of his republic because they elevated passion over reason. Do they belong in a psychiatrist's office instead?

Candid examples from psychotherapy and supervision makes this book by Jerome S. Gans, MD, a useful and enjoyable book for mental health professionals.

This book is a rich roadmap on how to bring discipline and direction to integrative medicine.

A 17-year-old girl starts panicking about sharks thousands of miles from the ocean. Did a movie cause her fear?

A new book argues it’s time for psychiatrists to let the public know that mental illness is common, real, serious, and treatable.

How can freedom of thought conquer the conquerors?

Frankness, honesty, and humor make this doctor’s poetry collection special.

Which father figure are you?

A television drama looks at eating disorders from the patient, physician, and family perspectives. What does it get right—and wrong?

Two doctors discuss the controversial, highly debated film, The Snake Pit.

Motherhood depicted in film is replete with meaning, symbolic to the core.

Over the last year, we have compiled numerous videos about all aspects of psychiatry, medicine, and society. Check out a sampling here.

Psychiatrists who want to understand white supremacy should watch this series…

A psychiatrist shares the pearls of his life, clinical and otherwise.

“As soon as Lexi reaches home, she abruptly sinks into depression and curls up in a fetal position, almost catatonic in her bed.”

How did we become what we are and where on earth are we headed?

A high-powered lawyer faces her toughest opponent yet: mental illness stigma.

What was life like in the 1950s Bronx for a budding preeminent psychiatrist?

The recent Disney Pixar film has a doctor contemplating what makes us all unique, and how we can care for ourselves.

What drives leaders, and how does that help us better understand them?

This book provides key tools to help combat racism in the mental health profession.

The viewing of horror films, though paradoxical, can be therapeutic through sensation-seeking, catharsis, and existential relief of our deepest fears.

An interview with Dr Anne Harrington, who offers a stimulating and thought-provoking historical perspective on the evolution of biological psychiatry from the German histopathologists to the present time in her recent book.

Emergency Psychiatry: Principles and Practice has something for everyone and is easily applicable to emergency and primary care.

Conceived as a needed sequel of Islamophobia and Psychiatry, this volume reflects not only the intellectual cogency and scholarly vision of its Editors but also a solid presentation of multiple perspectives on a complex social phenomenon.

Pseudopatients and their discontents: an historical perspective.

"The idea of seeing a patient, not just a diagnostic label, is an extremely valuable lesson. Being primed to see certain behaviors as pathological in certain contexts and perfectly normal in others is something that all doctors should be aware of." -Susannah Cahalan