Holy Days and Holy Wars

This video series is taking a short break while Dr Moffic travels. For now, enjoy the rerun of this video with updated commentary.

For the fourth year running now, we have shown this video because it is the annual time of important holidays for the major religions, and religion has become such an important factor in both coping and conflict in the world. This year we now have a Holy War in the Mideast and even a Holy War in the imagined future of the movie "Dune: Part Two."

Over these years psychiatry has made strides in the interfaith relationships that can contribute to unity among religious diversity. Since these relationships are now threatened by the wider cultural conflicts in the United States and the world, we must courageously try to be a model for the benefits of working together.

Dr Moffic is an award-winning psychiatrist who specialized in the cultural and ethical aspects of psychiatry and is now in retirement and retirement as a private pro bono community psychiatrist. A prolific writer and speaker, he has done a weekday column titled “Psychiatric Views on the Daily News” and a weekly video, “Psychiatry & Society,” since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged. He was chosen to receive the 2024 Abraham Halpern Humanitarian Award from the American Association for Social Psychiatry. Previously, he received the Administrative Award in 2016 from the American Psychiatric Association, the one-time designation of being a Hero of Public Psychiatry from the Speaker of the Assembly of the APA in 2002, and the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in 1991. He is an advocate and activist for mental health issues related to climate instability, physician burnout, and xenophobia. He is now editing the final book in a 4-volume series on religions and psychiatry for Springer: Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Christianity, and now The Eastern Religions, and Spirituality. He serves on the Editorial Board of Psychiatric Times.