We Are in Divorce Proceedings With the Earth

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

In considering a rerun video for today, it took me back to a video from 3 years back during our first year of weekly videos, not for Valentine’s Day but Earth Day. That seemed just right for now because on Valentine’s Day last Friday, we celebrated trees.

Ironically though, 3 years back we were in the midst of COVID-19 and an improvement in the environment because we humans were in lockdown. That has now reversed and our climate and environmental concerns continue to escalate.

Three years ago, in the video, I also advocated for an expansion of our model to a bio-psycho-social-eco model. Allow me to advocate for that again, especially since the new federal governmental administration is eliminating some of the environmental protection policies, as if we are in the beginning stages of divorce proceedings from our love affair with the environment.

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 presented the third Rabbi Jeffrey B. Stiffman lecture at Congregation Shaare Emeth in St. Louis on Sunday, May 19, 2024. 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.