It's Time for Psychiatrists to Step Up

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

Over the past year, not much has changed as far as the rising prevalence of formal mental disorders as well as what I call the social psychopathologies. Since our genetics haven’t changed much over this past decade or so, the reason has to lie in the social determinants of mental health. Our challenge—and that of our new American presidential administration—has to be to reduce the scapegoating, divisiveness, trauma, and wars around the world.

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.