The season of the cat…
H. Steven Moffic, MD
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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.
Articles by H. Steven Moffic, MD
If a debate is only about who wins and who loses, about half of the country will seem to have won and half seem to have lost.
Today is the 23rd anniversary of 9/11.
The significance of numbers…
How can you best ethically treat patients?
Is there a unique, underrecognized psychological factor in the current dissemination of hate?
What is the impact of current political events on the public's mental health?
Burnout rates have once again reached epidemic levels, in both physicians and parents.
How can we tie politics, religion, and psychiatry into an organized project and work together to make a better world?
Group dynamics in band: can they illuminate greater truths for listeners?
How do you dress as a mental health clinician?
A snapshot of a speech at the DNC.
Gratitude: one of our social psychoexemplaries.
Let's examine the relationship between the president-vice president nominee pairings...
Holidays and couples therapy can remind us how precious relationships can be…
What should politicians be focusing on to improve the well-being of the country?
“In music, you have to listen to each other to create harmony. And when you apply that in society, you are a different person.”
What do politics, the 2024 Olympic Games, and psychiatry have in common?
What effect does nature have on mental health?
Mental health clinicians have the privilege to often be trusted with the darkest secrets of patients, but with the accompanying challenge to maintain their own well-being.
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em…”
When, if ever, does a psychiatric ethical principle justify being broken?
How much do we learn from nonverbal cues, like Sherlock Holmes did?
Is laughter in jeopardy online?
In the movie, "Oppenheimer," we see a glimpse of atomic fallout and the consequences of war. How does this apply to today's global events?
How does isolation for a typhoon compare with COVID-19 isolation?
What role do social psychopathologies play in the upcoming election?
It's never appropriate for people in power to use the term "crazy."
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