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H. Steven Moffic, MD
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Dr Moffic is an award-winning psychiatrist who specializes in the social, cultural, ethical, spiritual, and religious aspects of psychiatry, and since 2012 is in retirement as a private pro bono community psychiatrist. A prolific writer and speaker, he has done a weekdays column titled “Psychiatric Views on the Daily News” and a weekly video, “Psychiatry & Society,” since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged. Among his diverse and rare combination of major awards for psychiatrists, he was selected to receive the international Oskar Pfister Award for his contributions to religion, spirituality, and psychiatry at the American Psychiatric Association (APA) annual meeting in May 2026. Previously, he was chosen to receive the 2024 Abraham Halpern Humanitarian Award from the American Association for Social Psychiatry; the 2016 Administrative Psychiatrist Award from the American Psychiatric Association; in 2002, the one-time designation of being a Hero of Public Psychiatry from the Speaker of the Assembly of the APA; at the turn of the new millennium, an APA Art Association award at the annual meeting for his displayed collage “Any Point of View (of Rusti) is Pure Delight”; and in 1991 the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. He also presented the third Rabbi Jeffrey B. Stiffman lecture at Congregation Shaare Emeth in St. Louis on Sunday, May 19, 2024. He has been an advocate and activist for mental health issues related to climate instability, physical burnout, and xenophobia, among other social justice causes, serving on many related local and national community and professional Boards. He has edited the requested 5-volume series on religions and psychiatry for Springer: Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Christianity, The Eastern Religions and Spirituality, and in 2026, the Second Edition of Islamophobia and Psychiatry. He serves on the Editorial Board of Psychiatric Times.
Articles by H. Steven Moffic, MD
Election year has rolled around again… what role do psychiatrists and mental health clinicians play in these tense times?
Anti-Semitism: the canary in the coal mine for other discrimination.
What if psychiatrists provided their insights to the community via residency?
What does it mean to be humanitarian?
When we say “Happy New Year,” how can we ensure that wish leads to genuine happiness for others?
The diversity of the arts leads the way for greater social change…
Psychiatry has much more to do to reduce racism at all levels.
Celebrating the life of Gordon Warme, MD.
A dream for social psychiatry, in the vein of Martin Luther King, Jr.
What can we learn from war trauma?
Love over hate is crucial, now more than ever.
What did Einstein and Freud have to say about war, and how does it apply today?
Here's something we can do physically to prevent suicide.
With the upcoming election and the rising risk of COVID, here’s how we can avoid physical and psychological trauma.
"Together we will win..."
Many social psychiatric challenges are worse, a year later...
Here’s to being curious in 2024!
Here's how the Jewish stereotype of the hooked nose represents a greater problem: the resurgence of anti-Semitism.
You've heard of social capital and financial capital... but what about psychiatric capital?
A transgender psychiatrist, open about her gender transition to patients and the public, just died.
50 years ago, we stopped referring to homosexuality as a mental illness. Where are we now?
The color of the year is…
John A. Talbott, MD: More than just a community psychiatrist.
Wishing you light this holiday season!
A eulogy for an entertainer.
With hate speech prevalent on college campuses and elsewhere, a psychiatrist ponders the psychiatric perspective and importance of therapeutic speech.
As the trauma and grief of the Mideast war hit his own community , a psychiatrist helps promote healing.
What have we learned—and what do we need to know—about the mental health implications of organizational and governmental dictatorships?
Dr Moffic thanks those who fostered his faith.
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