Cultural Psychiatry

Access to illicit drugs is now as easy as a few swipes on a smartphone. Here's a primer for clinicians who aren't well acquainted with this trend and who aren’t familiar with the many substances themselves.

The authors outline the ingredients for the transformation of mental health care in America.

Creativity should not be seen as “optional” in psychiatry. Rather, it helps us to approach clinical problems in new ways.

There are no simple solutions to the plight of the terminally ill patient. With commentary by Cynthia Geppert, MD.

Culture is far from having outlived its usefulness for psychiatry.

Westworld-the HBO pitiless purgatory where everything goes worng!

In a tale of two cases, the author comes to realize he is but one agent of change in the lives of his patients.

A 10-1 federal appeals court decision allows Florida doctors to gun ownership with their patients; a psychiatrist on the front lines in war-torn areas; a new rule that allows for 24-hour shifts plus an additional 4 hours for residents-these and other recent stories are covered in this roundup.

"If I only had a heart."

A rare glimpse into the bipolar life, where behavioral markers often come in 3’s.

On the risk of accepting the practice of psychiatric diagnosis from afar.

Now is the time to be vigilant and active in the advocacy efforts to fund all the terrific new opportunities the 21st Century Cures Act offers. Here are 9 aspects of the law that focus on psychiatric practice and treatment of those with serious mental illnesses.

Will the new Administration disrupt mental health coverage in this country?

Editors' picks for recent stories in mental health, including Executive orders and "Islamophobia,” effect of parental obesity on childhood development, personality, and global mental health.

Given that “specific phobias” are a diagnostic category in DSM-5, is "Islamophobia" a diagnosable disorder?

In some segments of the evolving health care system, primary health care teams with psychiatry at their core are becoming a reality. Here are 6 ways psychiatrists add value to primary care health teams.

How would you handle information about a patient obtained from an Internet search? Take the quiz.

President Barack Obama’s last bill signed into law; Carrie Fisher’s legacy gives voice to mental illness; psychological outcomes of women who had abortions against those denied abortion; and other psychiatry news.

Where would we be without mother birds?

As our understanding of the brain and new technologies have rapidly evolved, such an extensive text on psychiatric ethics is clearly timely.

The most popular searches in Psychiatric Times during 2016. See what your colleagues are searching for and reading!

Here’s a very unscientific survey of this year’s most meaningful issues is psychiatry. Quite a year.

This psychiatry roundup includes important or noteworthy stories in the news, including the Surgeon General's initiative against addiction, the implementation of DSM's Continuous Improvement Model, art and psychiatry, pediatric opioid poisoning, and more.

Here is a year's worth of CMEs you can take right now.

These few stories of refugees remind us what a stress to one’s sense of self the immigrant experience entails. They emphasize how important this perspective is when we are asked to evaluate and treat those recently here in the US, and sometimes those who have been here for a generation.

New research over the past decade has suggested that links between media violence and child aggression are less clear than previously thought. How has our understanding of media violence effects changed?

When a psychiatrist evaluates a patient, there is much to be valued in trying to adopt the patient’s internal perspective of cultural mores and world views. But what are the limits to cultural sensitivity?

Here: a review of issues related to assessment of patients for suicide risk in the ED -- and an overview of emerging approaches and research that one day will lead to more reliable assessment and interventions based more on science than on art or luck.

This just in from the Center for Infectious Joy.

What do behavioral activation, video therapy, family constellation, ibogaine, and psychomagic have in common? These topics and more were chosen for this month's roundup.