Is medicine a calling or a job?
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
Is it healthy to cut off family and friends due to political differences?
It's time for kindness...
Hope for veterans on this Veterans Day.
“People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”
While still following the Goldwater Rule, how can psychiatrists help improve mental health following the election?
We need psychiatrists now more than ever...
It’s Election Day. What lingering traumas are we still processing as a country?
The importance of holidays…
How should we choose our leaders?
This Halloween, we should be scared of sexism.
Is this the best possible world? If not, how can we improve it?
Should politicians be more interested in climate change to improve US mental health?
The biggest threat of oppression is governmental, whether that is from either political extreme.
Silence can enable oppression.
The US election is less than 2 weeks away…
The autumn leaves are dying...
Light and insight.
Fall can remind us of our own mortality.
Remembering 2 psychiatrists.
Honoring Eliot Sorel, MD.
Psychiatry is expanding its interests...
Honoring Mary V. Seeman, MD.
What day celebrates all human beings?
Work, burnout, war, and disastrous weather: issues in our collective mental health.
Is it time to take patient healing further?
“If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?”
Any efforts to build lasting peace cannot ignore the massive mental health needs in war-torn regions.
Some studies indicate that individuals who engage in the arts, such as going to the theatre or museums, have a lower risk of dying early.
How can we enhance our connection to the world and each other?
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