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Providing detailed descriptions of interactions that occurred between patient and therapist moved our field forward by both honing our technique and considering more effective ways to help our patients. But is the sharing of cases ethical?

If we fail to cultivate and exercise virtues such as wisdom, curiosity, intellect, aesthetic sensitivity, compassion, empathy, and generosity, we fail to exemplify human flourishing.

Tracking and measuring the nation’s health is no easy undertaking. How are we doing?

Advances in digital publishing that allow instantaneous dissemination of changes at minimal cost have paved the way towards the adoption of a continuous improvement model for DSM, in which revisions are pegged to specific scientific advances.

The era of evidence-based best practices has arrived, and psychiatry needs to get on board.

These 3 steps can help you ensure that shared decision making is actually taking place.

How much should you reveal about yourself to your patients? To colleagues? To the state medical society? H. Steven Moffic, MD, takes a look at this issue in this video.

A lighthearted exploration of Erikson’s stages through residency training.

The author's enthusiasm and love for his work shines through in every page of this new book.

With over 10,000 mental health related smartphone apps out there, how can a psychiatrist determine which are useful and which may be harmful? Chair of the American Psychiatric Association’s Workgroup on SmartPhone Apps offers tips in this brief video.

What is integrated care anyway?

COUTERPOINT: A small number of psychiatrists have been critical of our profession’s restraint regarding public comments by psychiatrists about the mental health of the 45th President.

POINT: After 41 years of membership, a psychiatrist resigns from the APA after it holds its ground on the Goldwater Rule.

Not just a nuisance, no-shows are an opportunity to turn things around for patients with bipolar disorder, whose treatment adherence hovers around 60%.

Got a challenging case-a patient for whom the diagnosis is unclear or uncertain? Want a diagnostic opinion? This is a call for cases. Michael First, MD-a nationally recognized expert on psychiatric diagnosis and assessment issues-will review details and offer insights on select cases.

In psychiatry, hot debates abound if you just look around-and if this Special Report collection is any indication, the result is a balance of opinion and civility made richer by virtue of opposing views.

Here: a review of the definition of sexual harassment, its prevalence among physicians and medical students, its potential impact on physicians and trainees, and guidance about its management.

In the midst of 6 presentations this year, the author notices the elephant in the room.

The looming specter of emotional and physical exhaustion in residency often takes hold well into a physician's career. So what are we doing about it?

Making a beginning on a work memoir is one way to enhance your mental health.

In psychiatry, as in every field of medicine, there is still gender disparity in salary and promotion.

These 2 psychiatrists who recently passed away left the world a better place.

A psychiatrist realizes he is completely powerless against his patient's opiate addiction.

The points summarized in this pocket guide-drawn from actual cases-recur repeatedly as problems for practitioners.

I loved being a psychiatrist. Note the past tense.

Culture is far from having outlived its usefulness for psychiatry.

In a tale of two cases, the author comes to realize he is but one agent of change in the lives of his patients.

Strategies to reduce aggression in psychiatric treatment settings.

Here's an overview of motivation for assaults by chronically aggressive inpatients and steps to de-escalate.

Here's what's known about the growing shortage of psychiatrists -- why it's happening-- and possible solutions.