ADHD

Gambling

Opioid Related Disorders

Alcohol Abuse

Amphetamine Related Disorders

Substance Use Disorder

Addiction & Substance Use

Disaster Psychiatry

Panic Disorder

Trauma And Violence

Traumatic Stress Disorders

Anxiety & Stress Disorders

Mania

Bipolar Disorder

COVID-19

Cannabis

Case Discussions

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Climate Change

Comorbidity

Compulsive Disorders

Cultural Psychiatry

Digital Therapeutics

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

Drug Watch

Eating Disorders

Emergency Psychiatry

Ethics

Munchausen Syndrome

Sexual Offenses

Forensic Psychiatry

Geriatric Psychiatry

Integrative Psychiatry

Major Depressive Disorder

Mental Health Awareness Month

Mood Disorders

Cognitive Disorders

Dementia

Alzheimer Disease

Autism

Neuropsychiatry

PTSD

Compulsive Personality Disorder

Dependent Personality Disorder

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Schizoid Personality Disorder

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality

Personality Disorders

Psychedelics

Psychopharmacology

Delirium

Metabolic Disorders

Somatoform Disorder

Psychosomatics

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Psychotherapy

Paranoid Schizophrenia

Psychotic Affective Disorders

Schizoaffective

Schizophrenia Psychotic Features

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Catatonic Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Nocturnal Paroxysmal Dystonia

Sleep Deprivation

Sleep Wake Transition

Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders

Sleep Disorders

Pervasive Developmental Disorder

Gender Issues

Military Mental Health

Special Populations

Suicide

Tardive Dyskinesia

Technology & Psychiatry

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

News

Media

Around the Practice

Between the Lines

PsychView

Expert Perspectives

Case-Based Psych Perspectives

Dialogues

Payer-Provider Perspective

Slideshows

Videos

Viewpoints

Conferences

Conference Coverage

Conference Listing

Publication

Psychiatric Times

Job Board

CME/CE

Partners

Editorial

Resources

Clinical Scales

Interactive Tools

Quizzes

Series

Special Reports

Subscribe

is an award-winning psychiatrist who specialized in the cultural and ethical aspects of psychiatry, and is now in retirement and refirement 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 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

Articles

Wisdom, age, and the presidential election...

Is Wisdom Connected to Age?

is a child psychiatrist, family psychotherapist, and philosopher in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he is professor of psychiatry & addiction medicine at the University of Montreal and President of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP). He has been recognized with numerous national and international awards, honorary professorships, and fellowships, and was recently elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and given the Distinguished Service Award of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr Di Nicola’s work straddles psychiatry and psychotherapy on one side and philosophy and poetry on the other. Dr Di Nicola’s writing includes:

 A Stranger in the Family: Culture, Families and Therapy 

(Atropos Press, 2011, winner of the Camille Laurin Prize of the Quebec Psychiatric Association),

 Psychiatry in Crisis: At the Crossroads of Social Sciences, the Humanities, and Neuroscience 

(with D. Stoyanov; Springer Nature, 2021); and, in the arts, his “Slow Thought Manifesto” (Aeon Magazine, 2018) and

 Two Kinds of People: Poems from Mile End 

(Delere Press, 2023, nominated for The Pushcart Prize).

Challenging what is normal and the value of order.

“The Trouble with Normal”: Reading 2 Canadian Bestsellers 

Write to us now to be part of our series focused on mental health awareness this month.

Presenting Our May Theme: Mental Health Awareness

The new formulation was approved to help patients with tardive dyskinesia who have trouble swallowing.

Ingrezza Sprinkle Capsules Received FDA Approval for Tardive Dyskinesia in Adults

Advertise

Contact Us

Terms and Conditions

Privacy Policy

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

Twitter

Facebook

LinkedIn

Spotlight

Expert Perspectives on the Unmet Needs in the Management of Major Depressive Disorder

Jeff Seaman, MS, MD

Articles