SPOTLIGHT -
What’s in a Name? That Which We Call Medicare Advantage Is Managed Care by Any Other Name
Managed care has a new name…
The Challenge of Forgiveness in Mass Shootings and Elsewhere
Is forgiveness healing?
What the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Trial Tells Us About Psychiatry
Is hatred a mental health issue?
Meteorologist Al Roker Reaches for the Sky to Address the Climate
Let’s reach for the sky and beat back climate change.
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Trial and the Gordian Knot of a Social Psychopathology
The medicalization of anti-Semitism: a possibility?
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Trial and Other Mental Illness Considerations: Take 2
Updated commentary on the developments in the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting trial.
The Body is Keeping Score and It Is Losing
This book on trauma has shot up the best-seller list… why?
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Trial and Mental Illness: Take 1
Have you kept up on the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting trial?
From Highland Park to Fireworks in the Dark, This Was a Record-Setting July Fourth
This Fourth of July broke records…
The July 4th Holiday and the State of Our Public Mental Health
Where is the state of public mental health?
Musicians Address Eastern and Western Cross-Cultural Understanding
“The more one is able to leave one’s cultural home, the more easily is one able to judge it…”
Tales of 2 Psychiatrists and 2 Sea Disasters
To all the lives lost at sea…
Heading High and Diving Deep: The Human Quest for Exploration and the Fate of the Submersible “Titan”
The submersible meant to explore Titanic wreckage suffered a “catastrophic implosion.”
Gun Control. Serbia Just Did It. Why Can’t We?
New gun laws in Serbia were created after a number of mass shootings.
A Social Psychiatric Prescription for Mid-Grief Celebrations of Life After Death
A new, creative kind of grieving process…
Juneteenth and All That Jazz in Psychiatry
Racism must be addressed on an ongoing basis.
Famous Fathers for Father’s Day
What can we learn from fathers of myth?
The Threats to Our 5 Senses and the Sensory Sanctuary of Our Clinical Offices
Our 5 senses… are they under attack?
Social Psychopathologies Lose at the Tony Awards
The winners of the 2023 Tony Awards showed that social psychopathologies are the real losers.
National Best Friends Day!
Happy belated National Best Friends Day!
Commencement Addresses for Psychiatrists, #2: Now
Join us for a mock commencement!
Commencement Addresses for Psychiatrists, #1: Then
The Psychiatric Times, they are a-changin’!
The Debt Crisis and A Bio-Psycho-Social-Financial Model for Psychiatry
Does the bio-psycho-social model still appropriately fit the current mental health needs of the United States?
Anti-Semitism on Trial
Anti-Semitism is on trial as much as the perpetrator of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter…
Paul Simon’s Song Journey from Social Determinants of Mental Health to Death and Dying
Exploring death through music and art…
River Deep, Mountain High: A Psychiatrist Eulogy for Tina Turner
Saying goodbye to Tina Turner…
It May Be Life or Death: A Public Advisory on Social Media
Social media is the new cigarette…
Eulogies for Culturally Diverse Psychiatrists
We mourn these psychiatrist leaders…
A Yin and Yang Dialectical Psychiatry
Do we need a dialectical approach to psychiatry?
Mayday! Mayday! The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Approach to Our Country
What do the United States and borderline personality disorder have in common?
