Couch in Crisis

April 15, 2021

A year after being hospitalized with COVID, a physician considers the pandemic’s larger meaning for American medicine—and for American society.

April 15, 2021

Affliction is not the same thing as a mental illness, but psychiatrists may be called upon to treat it just the same.

April 09, 2021

A tragedy has rocked the Muslim community. How can psychiatry try to help prevent further tragedies from occurring?

April 06, 2021

Patients who are report social phobia are unlikely to speak out for themselves. For them, confrontations with their boss or coworkers are even worse than water-cooler conversations. That is where psychiatrists can help.

April 05, 2021

ECT has undoubtedly been foundational in the field of interventional psychiatry, yet controversy remains an underlying theme.

April 05, 2021

There is consistent evidence of benefits following state-of-the-art modified ECT.

April 05, 2021

No one has precise data about how many Americans receive ECT each year, let alone how many treatments each patients receives or how closely providers space treatments. This is a troubling dilemma, according to the authors.

April 02, 2021

The more tools we have in our treatment toolbox, the greater the likelihood that we will ultimately find a treatment (or combination of treatments) to improve a given patient’s functioning and quality of life.

March 31, 2021

By considering different team members, it may be possible to address the broader needs of patients with mental illness.

March 30, 2021

The pandemic has driven a psychiatrist into isolation, but his long history in the arts helps him reconnect.