H. Steven Moffic, MD

On a daily basis, our patients demonstrate their resilience to face reality and rise above their challenges, despite the odds. So shall we.

The public has questioned the wisdom of a judge to release a psychiatric inpatient, but not just any patient. Enter our metaphoric haunted house at your own risk.

Will novel treatments from around the world be treats or tricks? Whatever they turn out to be, they are as fascinating and varied as Halloween costumes.

Let us consider the case of a "bad" psychiatrist to serve as a warning of where we can go wrong.

We are ethically constrained by the Goldwater Rule, but here are the data from an artfully crafted secret poll on the Presidential campaign.

In a first-ever poll of its kind, we'd like to know about your fears, concerns, and hopes about how this election will affect your profession and your patients.

If left untreated, burnout can become chronic and debilitating. Here are tips to recognizing the signs and symptoms.

Our societal challenges beat through each note in Simon's newest album-with far-reaching implications for psychiatry.

Do you think we can-and should-increase our mental wealth? If so, what would you recommend?

In recent years, health care insurance companies (and the businesses that use them) have begun to invest in mindfulness research and programs What has happened to explain this development?

Is a "good death" possible in the face of terminal illness?

We celebrate April Fool’s Day for sound psychological reasons, and there are lessons to be learned.

Forty years later, we are still in the belly of the managed care beast.

A man searches for the answers to what happened to him psychologically after a childhood of high achievement. But facts intersect with fiction in this documentary.

Recently, there were two reports about concerns over changes in terminology in our field. So, what's in a name?

Hopefully the words imparted here convey the scope of our profession and psychiatry at its best. We have been-and should be-so much more than the current 15-minute med check.

Remembering notable clinicians and members of the public who made a difference.

To honor him beyond his professional skills, let us learn some important medical lessons from the life and death of Robin Williams.

A little bit of narcissism can make a leader. “Too much” can be a problem. On the nature of leadership from a psychological perspective.

The stories of two psychiatrists who died recently-one who passed away gently at the end of a long life; the other died violently, much too soon.

In addition to helping indiviiduals with PTSD, psychiatrists can play an active role in resolving trauma experienced by the country as a whole.

Whether Pope Francis has ever met with, or made a referral to, a psychiatrist, it is clear that he knows something essential about psychiatry.

Maybe psychiatry should take a lesson from a fashion designer -- and promote our messages to the public via billboards.

Clinicians have some degree of power. We must curb abuse-whether under the guise of research, transference in psychotherapy, in prescribing medication, or when deciding on treatments.

By writing a series of profound pieces after he found out that he had a terminal illness, Oliver Sacks, MD, the renowned neurologist and writer, taught us much about how to live and die.

A story of what can happen (and has happened) when the expertise of a psychiatrist is not followed in complex cases that involve substance use and other disorders.

Organized psychiatry and psychology share a common acronym-APA. Some of our clinical work overlaps, but sometimes they differ in response to world events.

If forgiveness soon after trauma helps avert mental disorders or retaliation, how could the aftermath of the Charleston tragedy not end up being one of the great moments of forgiveness in history?

I don't know of anything like the film, "Voices." See it if you haven’t, and recommend it to others, too.