SPOTLIGHT -
The Wounded Healer: The Pain and Joy of Caregiving
This book stresses beauty, healing, and love.
Anger Among Health Care Professionals
It is an uncomfortable emotion that is often suppressed—but potent.
The Management of Depression Among Older Adults
In this CME, evaluate the treatment options for depression among older adults.
Research Explores Neurocognitive Profile, Cognitive Impairment in MDD
Study supports evidence for long-term impairment in memory, executive function.
World Health Day, or WHO Plans and Russia Winks
Man plans and God winks.
New Approval for Treatment of Agitation Associated with Schizophrenia or Bipolar I or II Disorder
The FDA has approved dexmedetomidine sublingual film for the acute treatment of agitation associated with schizophrenia or bipolar I or II disorder in adults.
Learn With Us in San Diego
The 2022 Annual Psychiatric Times World CME Conference is coming in August.
Predicting Depression and Alzheimer Disease Through Major Depressive Disorder Risk Factors
Individuals with depression may be at a greater risk to develop late-onset Alzheimer disease, but a new study suggests depression onset may help predict Alzheimer disease.
Challenging and Critical Conversations
The Power of Words
Here’s how talking or writing about emotions influences our mental health.
Eros and Jon Batiste Take Center Stage at the 2022 Grammys
Did you watch the Grammys?
Beyond the Binary
How can we better serve our nonbinary patients?
Does Russia Suffer From "Paranoid Government Disorder”?
Psychiatrists are in a unique position to serve as consultants to intergovernmental organizations dedicated to conflict resolution. Learn more here.
Mindwandering: Mood for Thought
Daydreaming, fantasizing, worrying—these are all examples of mindwandering.
Dealing with Our Death Drive
According to Freud, inside each of us is a counterintuitive desire to die instead of live.
Correctional Health Care Conferences Focus on Mental and Medical Health Care
Mental health and medical care are the focus of the upcoming NCCHC in-person and virtual conferences on correctional health care.
Psychiatric Care in the US: Are We Facing a Crisis?
What US state has the best mental health care?
No Foolin’! There’s at Least 100 Social Psychiatric Problems
Happy April Fool’s Day!
Ending the Psychotherapy Civil War
There is absolutely no good reason for competition among therapies—none is by itself necessary or sufficient, and most are completely complementary, even synergistic.
Working With High-Profile Clients
A look at the unique challenges of working with powerful and influential clients and strategies for success.
The Oscars Ceremony Needs to be Reviewed Too
Is the infamous slap from the Oscars an example of systemic violence?
Doctoring
Reflections on National Doctor Day.
A Jill of All Trades
This mother and leader is an inspiration.
Prolonged Grief Disorder: Helping Those With Maladaptive Grief Responses
Is prolonged grief disorder an important addition to the DSM-5-TR?
Guiding Patients: Beating False Allegations of Abuse in Child Custody Cases
Here’s a step-by-step guide of how to beat false allegations of child abuse.
A Spate of Analyses of Putin, But Nary a One by a Psychiatrist
What can we say about President Putin?
This Is What Courage and Leadership Look Like
Valeriia Palii, president of the National Psychological Association of Ukraine, demonstrates the courage of her people.
Vaccination Avoidance as Risk Avoidance Driven by Fear and Helplessness
We seek to reduce vaccine side effects—but what about the social media-compounded fears of anti-COVID vaccination?
Prodromal Mania and Psychosis
Predicting mania versus psychosis: Researchers performed a retrospective study of prodromal symptoms, risk factors, and vulnerability markers in first-episode mania and psychosis.
“We Stand With You”: The Struggle for Political and Psychological Freedom
President Biden’s speech in Poland concerning Ukraine carries greater messages for psychiatry.
