SPOTLIGHT -
July 12th 2024
"...the beauty still intoxicating, the spirit of the research like a child swimming for the first time in the sea, awed..."
July 11th 2024
"By now I’ve lost track of time with this boy who reminds me of myself when I imagined becoming a doctor..."
July 5th 2024
"Remember? Remember wanting to play every minute, as if that was why we were born?"
June 28th 2024
"How free is our will if our fate is decided by our melanin. What is the meaning of Black lives when so many people don’t think we matter?"
June 21st 2024
"Of all the questions you might want to ask about angels, the only one you ever hear is how many can dance on the head of a pin..."
A Headlong Act of Love: The Gerald F. Berlin Creative Writing Award
The Gerald F. Berlin Creative Writing Award is rewarding future doctors and poets alike.
Exfoliation
We can all benefit from a mental health facial.
Celebrating National Poetry Month
Psychiatric Times contributors share poems about psychiatric issues from grief to Black mental health.
"Sweat"
"When I was nineteen and still had time, I worked college breaks in my father’s factory, and let sweet leather’s smell soak into my skin..."
White Coat
What does a doctor look like?
Now That Anything Could Happen
"You know, now that anything can happen, it’s hard to know what will, and what will you do now that you know?"
Sweat
"And then he stepped back, straightened his hat, let me sweat my own decision."
"While Listening to Annie Lamott Give Tim Ferriss Her Advice for Writers"
"The clock just ticked minute 41, and Annie, just as you predict, my attention is wandering, even if I haven’t hit Step 3: Make the reader feel something is at stake, which I’ll have to focus on in my revision."
Looking at Photos
"...My mother like a distantly spilled perfume."
Doctoring
Reflections on National Doctor Day.
Communion
"I am her book of poems and it is I."
Pandemic Resilience? Remnants
“…we need a break.”
Embracing Hope
One medical student shares how writing poetry can help us embrace our creativity and cope with life’s challenges.
The Snow Is Deep on the Ground
"Always the light falls. Softly down on the hair of my belovèd."
Ubuntu and Shalom: An Octogenarian, Psychiatrist Looks Back, and Forward
“…Have We really Changed after Lo, these Many Years?”
Sunset Reflections
Being grateful and enjoying one's surroundings can go a long way after a long, hard day.
While Listening to Annie Lamott Give Tim Ferriss Her Advice for Writers
“Step 1: put your butt in a chair for 45 minutes every day and get down a shitty draft.”
"Dress Rehearsal"
Here's a thank you note to all the musicians.
A Psychiatrist's Ode to Women's History Month
Musings on Women's History Month...
To See You Go
“I saw your rise, and missed your fall. I couldn’t have caught you if I tried…”
Free, Free, Free
"Pain can't touch me no more, For I am free, I am free, I am free..."
Our Lady of Tenacious Hope
During war and winter, can hope shine through?
Dehumanization
A psychiatrist's thoughts and reflections after the week's news.
Memorial Hoops
"But Who am I kidding? The weekend was about Basketball."
Adrift in Winter
"All anyone wants to know is when spring will get here..."
Ode to Black Mental Health
Using words and music to help heal...
Dress Rehearsal
"...they’ve returned like songbirds, exhausted from flight but wild to swagger the songs they carry..."
Grief After Suicide
An adolescent psychiatric RN shares “Heavy Damage,” a poem about managing grief after losing a loved one to suicide.
Poetry, Psychiatry, and the Meaning of Love
Love in a Time of Climate Change
"...so close that your emissions of carbon are mine, so close your sea rises with my heat.”