The Evaluation of Risks

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

This rerun from August 16th, 2023, focused on the evaluation of risks. Even Freud, who seemed to recognize the horrors that humanity was capable of, was late to react to the threat of the Nazis. Now we struggle with what appears to be an inadequate response from psychiatrists and society to climate instability and to artificial intelligence. With the Goldwater Rule as an obstacle, we also have been trying to assess the risks of the candidates of both political parties. When, if ever, does a psychiatric ethical principle justify being broken?

If you have been viewing these rerun videos due to my vacation over the last few months, I hope they have still proved to be of interest and relevance. For me, it is striking and informative to assess the outcome of the content of videos from about a year ago and more. That helps keep me honest.

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.