SPOTLIGHT -
Memorials to Mass Shootings: The Highland Park Model
Can an artistic memorial help recovery from gun-violence trauma as a sort of collective art therapy?
From the CDC to a Family: Organizational Culture Change is Hard, But Often Necessary
This major medical organization is making an effort towards changing their culture. Here’s why more of us need to emulate these actions.
What It’s All About: A Year of Psychiatric Views on the Daily News
Celebrating 1 year of Psychiatric Views on the Daily News!
Alligators and Other New Mental Health Care Strategies
These new wave mental health care strategies… would you try them?
The Word of the Day Is Climate, and the Psychology Is Mental Whiplash
Psychological changes from climate instability can be called weather whiplash.
Yes, There is Poly Psychopharmacology in Teens, but There is More to the Story
What lead to this teen being prescribed 10 psychiatric drugs and why is it a symptom of a larger problem?
As the Strike of Mental Health Workers Goes On, What Will the Rest of Us Do?
Can psychiatrists ethically remain bystanders?
A More Than Reasonably Optimistic Report on Psychiatrist Compensation for 2022
Do psychiatrists feel fairly compensated?
Will Transgender Care Follow the Path of Abortion?
Gender-affirming care: medically necessary for mental health.
Remember Hippocrates: Salman Rushdie Was Stabbed with a Knife 2 Times
Psychiatry’s tools: words, which can be as cutting as a knife.
In Memoriam: A Eulogy for a Prototypical Psychiatrist
Rest in peace Michael Papin, MD.
Apologizing To, and Learning From, Native Americans
There have been spotty and minor reparations to Native Americans, including one this year to Sacheen Littlefeather.
To Strike or Not to Strike at Kaiser Permanente in California
Have you ever gone on strike?
Free Speech and Therapeutic Speech
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me…
America and Psychiatry as Fields of Dreams
“Build it, and he will come.”
The Positive Psychiatry Baseball Hug of Sportsmanship Seen Around the World
A Little League World Series player just showed the world what sportsmanship should look like.
Going Into the Woods with Child Psychiatry
Psychiatry is in the woods…
SPIRIT (Social Psychiatry Interested in Recovery from International Trauma) Voices Some Current Concerns
All these events that occurred over the weekend bear social psychiatric weight.
The Dog and Doggone Days of Summer
Here’s why we need to better prepare for the doggone days of summer.
Oedipus Rex and the Capitol Crime
The ages-old father son conflict continues—but in a different, modern light.
The Wizard of Oz and The Walk-Off of the Medical Students
Medical students are just now starting their yellow brick road journey…
The Stories That We in Psychiatry Have to Tell
Does being a good storyteller make you a better clinician?
Buyers Beware in Alzheimer Disease Neuroscience
Is our research about Alzheimer disease wrong?
The Violinist Joshua Bell and the Goldwater Rule: The Psychological Power of Context
Would you recognize one of the greatest musicians in a subway station?
That’s What Friends Are Psychologically For!
You’ve got a friend in me…
President Biden Tests Positive for COVID and Baseball Drops the Ball
Here’s why vaccination remains important.
A Recipe for Leadership
What ingredients make a good leader?
The Values and Ethics of Leadership
Leaders codes of ethics: how are they similar and different?
When Will We Have A Webb Telescope to Learn More About Our Inner Space of the Brain?
We keep looking to the stars, but should we be looking inside instead?
Humor in Leadership
Laughter may be one of the best medicines in psychiatry and in leadership—if used correctly.