SPOTLIGHT -
The New York Times Moves the Goalposts on ADHD
This critical analysis of recent ADHD coverage challenges misconceptions about treatment, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive approach to mental health.
Psychiatry: A Graveyard of Dumb Ideas
Dumb idea: We should expect rates of mental illness to melt away due to widespread treatment.
What We Want From Insurance
Who is the ‘bad guy’ of health care? Insurance? Clinicians? Or something else?
The Horror of Unjust Psychiatric Hospitalization
A recent New York Times “hard hitting expose” accused Acadia Healthcare of hospitalizing psychiatric patients inappropriately. What does this expose about psychiatric hospitalization?
The Dumbest Idea in Mental Health
Some of the things we do in the name of mental health will one day seem bizarre and barbaric to those who come after us…
The Goldwater Rule: A Mouthpiece, Not a Muzzle
Nothing prevents psychiatrists from taking full part in the political process or even the culture wars—as long as they do it outside of their roles as psychiatrists, says one doctor.
The Country Needs Us, and We Need the Goldwater Rule
A time for fighting or a time for peace?
Everyone Is Wrong About Benzodiazepines
An expert discusses how the risks of benzodiazepine prescribing have been exaggerated in the minds of government officials, critics, and the public at large.
The Anatomy of Gratitude: The Nature and Blessings of Gratitude in the World’s Great Spiritual Traditions
Check out this review of Ronald W. Pies’ latest book!
Benzodiazepines: Fellow Psychiatrists, We Still Have Work to Do
While benzodiazepine prescribing certainly carries risks, those risks have been demonstrably exaggerated in the minds of government officials, critics, and the public at large.
The Power of Plain Old Psychiatry
Patients should be confident about what psychiatric care offers, regardless of whether they utilize any specific treatments, or even recognize that they are receiving therapeutic care.
Treatment For Depression: Does it Work? Does it Matter?
Psychiatric treatment works to a degree comparable to other branches of medicine which address complex, chronic illnesses.
Psychotherapy: Lies Cost Lives
When the media repeatedly portrays such tepid ambivalence about psychotherapy, millions of suffering individuals get a vague and misleading impression of this treatment.
The Unheralded Revolution in Psychotherapy Research
Why does the media continue to persecute psychotherapy?
The Neurodiversity Movement: Confusing Illness with Stigma?
Where might proponents of neurodiversity and psychiatrists agree?
What the Public Does Not Know About Involuntary Hospitalization
An expert discusses the reality of and the true role of psychiatrists in involuntary hospitalization.
The Traumas of Involuntary Treatment
Involuntary treatment is a trauma.
Involuntary Treatment of Mental Illness: Here We Go Again
The perilous politics of involuntary treatment…
Psychiatric Illness and Its Prejudiced Critics
Mental illness is medically real.
Mental Health’s Most Toxic Myth
What if the psychiatrist’s public face changed from that of a distant prescriber to one of a fellow warrior in the trenches?
Are Psychiatrists Pill Pushers?
Let’s stop fighting amongst ourselves as a mental health movement and focus on biological as well as psychosocial treatment.
Psychiatry and Psychotherapy: The Great Divorce That Never Happened
A frequent criticism of psychiatry: psychiatrists do not learn, practice, or value psychotherapy. Is it true?
Is There a Cure for Ignorance? The Shocking Truth About Psychiatric Treatment
The truth: Psychiatric treatment works.
Psychotherapy: A Core Psychiatric Treatment
How important is psychotherapy today?
The History of Psychiatry—A History of Failure?
How does a recent critique of the history of psychiatry get it wrong?
The DSM: Diagnostic Manual or Diabolical Manipulation?
"Nobody likes the DSM..."
Just Because We Do Not Know Everything Does Not Mean We Do Not Know Anything
In this new series, explore how to approach the criticisms of psychiatry.
It’s Time for Us to Realize We Are All on the Same Side
According to 1 doctor, we all need to communicate the legitimacy of psychiatry as a medical specialty.
It’s Time for Us to Stop Waffling About Psychiatry
Commonplace criticisms generate an image of psychiatry that is both wildly distorted and profoundly destructive.
Psychiatrists: The Luckiest People on Earth?
In a spirit of gratitude, here are eight of the many extraordinary advantages of being a psychiatrist.
Coordinated Specialty Care: Paving the Way for Psychosis Recovery
Looking Ahead to the ASCP Annual Meeting With Joseph F. Goldberg, MD, and Anita H. Clayton, MD
Major Changes in the Treatment of Schizophrenia: A Long Time in the Making
Psychiatry’s Wrong Bet