SPOTLIGHT -
Your Opportunity to Contribute to Our Nation's Classification of Racial and Ethnic Identities
What do our ethnocultural identities mean for each of us and for our patients?
Making Love, Not War, at the Oscars
What can we learn psychiatrically from the Oscars?
Let Us Be a Courageous Tower of Voices
These challenges need our courage and unity…
Tributes for International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month
Celebrate the women in your life!
Is the Prophecy Coming True? Psychiatrists as Coaches During the Pandemic
As more and more psychiatrists turn to coaching, what’s behind this supportive profession?
The Truth Is on Trial in Society, Psychiatry, and Religion
Should we tell the truth?
From Pandora’s Box to the Perception Box in the Human Quest for Mental Wellness
Should we open this box…?
The Mental Health Benefits of Travel
Do you need a vacation?
Public Art and Public Psychiatry
Art is embracing the world… is psychiatry?
Psychiatry and Hate: Projected, Scapegoated, and Realistic Hatreds
What are the 3 different types of hatred?
The Anniversary of Russian Bullying
Today is the 1-year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine…
Cullud Wattah and the Psychiatric Toll of the Ecological Flint Water Poisoning
The Flint, Michigan water crisis persists.
Let the Good Times Roll for Psychiatry
How are you celebrating Mardi Gras?
Presidents’ Day and Social Psychiatric Leadership in the American Psychiatric Association
American Presidents and APA Presidents celebrate today…
Remembering Burt Bacharach: That’s What Shrinks Are For!
Do you have any songs with special meaning to you?
Love, Death, and Regret
Do you have regrets?
Sex, Loneliness, the Super Bowl, and Valentine’s Day
This Valentine’s Day may serve as a message to Americans…
A Black Quarterback Leads His Team to an Optimistic Victory in the Super Bowl
Superbowl Sunday: what are the mental health implications?
Herzl Spiro, MD: Mourning A Spiritual Founder and Leader of Community Psychiatry
We mourn the loss of Herzl Spiro, MD.
The Body Sighs for Mental Health
New research suggests the power of breath, sighing, and meditation.
Natural Healers: The Black Jack of All Trades
When there is psychological trouble, look for the healers.
Interviewing Groundhog Phil and the Tu BiShvat Tree
Imagine an interview with these 2 talking entities…
Psychiatric Lessons from the Memphis Scorpions: What’s in a Name?
Names can hurt, and they can lead to broken bones.
Psychiatric Lessons from the Memphis Scorpions: The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma
Could police brutality be part of a larger legacy of American trauma transmission?
Burning Out About Physician Burnout
“Anyone who cares about patients is doomed to burnout.”
Psychiatric Lessons from the Memphis Scorpions: The Importance of Supervision in the Helping Professions
Should we try to be the keepers of our brothers and sisters?
There is a World of Social Psychiatric Challenges and You can Help Solve Them!
How can you get involved and be more knowledgeable about social psychiatry?
Watching for Words as Weapons on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Be on the lookout for anti-Semitic messages.
Will This Be the Year of More Return to Our Technological Past?
Back to the future… or blast to the past?
A Lapse of Cultural Psychiatrist Humility in the Monterey Mass Shooting
This morning, we mourn the victims of the Monterey Park mass shooting.