Psychiatric Views on the Daily News

Psychiatric reflections on this weekend's news.

Is the sobering news a wake-up call for managed care?

As a clinician, do you serve or empower your patients?

On Giving Tuesday, let’s examine gratitude.

Vivek Murthy, during his tenure as surgeon general, has stressed the importance of mental health.

Who are the most righteous people in the world?

Do we need a hero like Zorro now more than ever?

We are always ready for individual patient care. Can we also be ready for social psychiatric care?

There has been a general increase in mental disorders and disturbances on all political and religious sides over years.

Can paradoxical psychotherapy help us face our fears when it comes to society?

What serendipitous, psychological meaning can we find in music in dark times?

Is medicine a calling or a job?

Is it healthy to cut off family and friends due to political differences?

Hope for veterans on this Veterans Day.

“People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”

While still following the Goldwater Rule, how can psychiatrists help improve mental health following the election?

It’s Election Day. What lingering traumas are we still processing as a country?

The importance of holidays…

How should we choose our leaders?

This Halloween, we should be scared of sexism.

Should politicians be more interested in climate change to improve US mental health?

The biggest threat of oppression is governmental, whether that is from either political extreme.

Silence can enable oppression.

The US election is less than 2 weeks away…

Light and insight.

Fall can remind us of our own mortality.

Remembering 2 psychiatrists.

Honoring Eliot Sorel, MD.

Honoring Mary V. Seeman, MD.

What day celebrates all human beings?