SPOTLIGHT -
Electing to Make America Sane Again: Countering Climate Instability
Should politicians be more interested in climate change to improve US mental health?
Electing to Make America Sane Again: Addressing Governmental Oppression
The biggest threat of oppression is governmental, whether that is from either political extreme.
Electing to Make America Sane Again: Reducing Oppression
Silence can enable oppression.
Electing to Make America Sane Again: Addressing Our Social Psychopathologies
The US election is less than 2 weeks away…
Lighting the Lifestyle Way: Nature and Music Therapy
Light and insight.
A Reverie: Fall Foliage Going Out in a Blaze of Glory
Fall can remind us of our own mortality.
In Memoriam: A Cautionary Tale and A Legendary Tale
Remembering 2 psychiatrists.
In Memoriam: Eliot Sorel, MD, The Global Psychiatrist
Honoring Eliot Sorel, MD.
In Memoriam: Mary V. Seeman, MD, An Inadequate Appreciation
Honoring Mary V. Seeman, MD.
Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Columbus Day, and the Holy Grail of a Human Race Day
What day celebrates all human beings?
Hillel’s Approach to the Anniversary of 10/7/23
“If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?”
Psychiatry and Peace Promotion
Any efforts to build lasting peace cannot ignore the massive mental health needs in war-torn regions.
Art and Travel for Your Life
Some studies indicate that individuals who engage in the arts, such as going to the theatre or museums, have a lower risk of dying early.
Between the Lines and Overcoming What Was Psychologically Left Behind
What can we learn from artists’ memoirs?
These Were a Few of My Favorite Psychiatric Things at the Door Kinetic Arts Festival
This celebration of the creativity of the arts comes at a time when the arts have been cut in school education and in psychiatry.
Making America Sane Again
How can we protect the mental health of our country?
We in Psychiatry Are Social Determinants of Mental Health
Psychiatrists and mental health clinicians: a social determinant of health.
An International Day of Peace and Psychiatry
Saturday was the International Day of Peace.
A Weekend of Social Psychiatric Problems
Here’s what Dr Moffic plans to cover in this week…
Managed Care Deja Vu
Are we reliving the evolution of managed care from the 1980s and 1990s?
Overcoming Obstacles: Ganesha Chathurthi and “The Life of Pi”
If psychiatrists of different religions and spiritual beliefs coupled with psychological insights cannot overcome conflict and achieve peace, who can?
The Boomerang Effect in Assassination Risks
The Boomerang Effect: when an individual’s attempt to persuade someone else has the opposite effect, coming back to haunt the messenger, like a boomerang thrown correctly comes back toward the thrower.
Armenia and Our Current Military, Cultural, and Psychological Genocides
We cannot learn from history unless we talk about it…
It Is Friday the 13th and Cats Are on the Loose
The season of the cat…
Imagine This: The Presidential Candidates Agree With One Another in a Debate
If a debate is only about who wins and who loses, about half of the country will seem to have won and half seem to have lost.
9/11 and 10/07: Do We Need to Roll the Dice for Peace?
The significance of numbers…
Cultural and Religious Recommendations for Ethical Clinician/Patient Matches
How can you best ethically treat patients?
Psychological Warfare in International War, Our Political Races, and Ourselves
Is there a unique, underrecognized psychological factor in the current dissemination of hate?
Physician Burnout Is Not Being Extinguished and Is Dangerously Spreading to Parents
Burnout rates have once again reached epidemic levels, in both physicians and parents.
The Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and Group Process
Group dynamics in band: can they illuminate greater truths for listeners?