SPOTLIGHT -
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?
Do Clothes Help Make the President?
How do you dress as a mental health clinician?
Cohering: My Favorite Moment from the Democratic National Convention
A snapshot of a speech at the DNC.
Gratefully Connecting to Our Past Relationships
Gratitude: one of our social psychoexemplaries.
Two Lovely Holidays and Public Couples Therapy
Holidays and couples therapy can remind us how precious relationships can be…
10 Things I Would Psychiatrically Like to See at the Democratic Convention
What should politicians be focusing on to improve the well-being of the country?
The Healing Music and Harmful Politics of Venezuela
“In music, you have to listen to each other to create harmony. And when you apply that in society, you are a different person.”
Blacklisting Psychiatric Clinicians
Politics and All That Jazz
The Secret Garden and the Healing Aspects of Nature
What effect does nature have on mental health?
The Pieta Lamentation of an Albee Play
Mental health clinicians have the privilege to often be trusted with the darkest secrets of patients, but with the accompanying challenge to maintain their own well-being.
Through Trapdoors and Glass Ceilings: A Presidential Pathway to Greatness
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em…”
Detecting the Differences and Similarities Between Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud
How much do we learn from nonverbal cues, like Sherlock Holmes did?
Losing Laughter Online
Is laughter in jeopardy online?
The Frozen Moments in a Typhoon
How does isolation for a typhoon compare with COVID-19 isolation?
The Battle Against the Social Psychopathologies in Our Presidential Race
What role do social psychopathologies play in the upcoming election?
My Mental Health Political Monitor: Don’t Say “Crazy”!
It's never appropriate for people in power to use the term "crazy."
Hannibal Lecter Makes a Scary Psychiatric Appearance in the Presidential Race
The mention of Hannibal Lecter may increase stigmatization of mental illness and mental health care.
A Psychiatrist is Going to His 60th Year High School Reunion
What psychiatric benefits come from reunions?
