SPOTLIGHT -
March 19th 2024
A psychiatrist reflects on the importance of time... and living in the moment.
March 2nd 2024
From personality disorders and common comorbidities to the effects of abortion bans on mental health, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.
February 29th 2024
The experts weighed in on a wide variety of psychiatric issues for the February 2024 issue of Psychiatric Times.
December 28th 2023
A medical student's award-winning piece on her battles with an eating disorder.
December 27th 2023
Here are highlights from some of the year’s top features in Psychiatric Times from throughout 2023.
Reconsidering Freud
A winner of the 2020 Sigourney Award reflects on a lifetime of reading, promoting, and revising Freud’s theories.
Poor DSM-5—So Misunderstood!
A DSM-5 diagnosis requires a biopsychosocial case formulation—not just a symptom checklist.
Feeling Lucky? Convergence Mental Health as a Mechanism for Serendipitous Innovation
This mindset might be the key to mental health breakthroughs.
Psychoanalysis as a Tool Against Violence
Mental health care for victims of violence may be a way out of the darkness for Latin America.
Psychiatry and the Shores of Social Construction: Sami Timimi, MD
Are current systems of mental health care alienating children and adults from the meaning inherent in their own emotional difficulties?
A New CME: Continuing Moral Education
Every phase of the COVID-19 pandemic brings new ethical challenges.
The Existential Fallout of COVID-19
During the pandemic, Albert Camus’ existential novels have become newly popular—and with good reason.
A People’s History of Depression: Jonathan Sadowsky, PhD
The story of depression, through time and around the world.
Psychiatry 2021: Team Psychiatry
Providing quality mental health care in all treatment settings requires one crucial element: teamwork.
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! ... It's a Psychiatrist!
Why superheroes would make the best psychiatrists?
Black Americans’ Distrust of the COVID-19 Vaccine
A case for why psychiatrists should discuss the COVID vaccines with their patients.
A Psychiatrist Weaving Conceptual and Empirical Work
An interview with Kenneth S. Kendler, MD, vice-chair of the American Psychiatric Association DSM Steering Committee, author of more than 1200 articles, and one of the highest-cited researchers in psychiatry.
If We Had a Hammer
What are best practices for difficult conversations about racism? How can psychiatrists help? The authors present 6 ways to advance discussions about racism in psychiatry.
Why Psychiatry Training Must Include Discussions on Structural Racism
The authors explore the impact of structural racism on psychiatry trainees and the patients they care for (and what can be done about it).
Partnering With Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioners
The shortage of mental health care providers is a crisis, but psychiatrists have a potentially powerful ally.
The 16-Minute Med Check
If we had 1 extra minute with our patients, what question would we ask?
Beneath the Wheel: A Resident Reflects on Burnout and Professional Identity
Unable to spend adequate time with patients, residents are not learning to function as doctors, but merely as technicians for the human body.
How Pharmaceutical Innovation Is Saving the World
Over the last 9 months, we have seen heroism, innovation, and precise science, performed under unbelievable pressure. The result is no short of miraculous.
Psychiatric Times Honors Black History Month
During the month of February, we will publish important stories commemorating Black History Month.
Laziness Does Not Exist
Patients and care providers often call themselves lazy. But what are the clinical consequences and cultural meanings of this term?
Can Existential Issues Really Be Divorced From Clinical Practice? From Our Readers
Although existential and religious issues may be distinguished in clinical care, the human condition’s complexity and the Dark Night of the Soul cannot.
The Faces of Madness
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many diagnoses can it make? The photographer and psychiatrist Hugh Welch Diamond, MD, shares insights into the humanity and stigma of mental illness in Victorian England.
Denial, The Capitol Takeover, and a Tragic American Legacy
What role does denial play in the collective American psyche?
A Quick Primer on the Serendipity of Psychopharmacological Development
When we finally open a trap door to explain or further understand a hypothesis, the answer often includes a house full of hallways.
Vaccines at the Dinner Table
The scientific method has delivered vaccines and other life-saving medicine, but not everybody trusts it.
What We Tell Patients about Depression, and What They Say They Have Been Told
Is there a way to find balance in discussing the chemical imbalance theory of depression?
There and Back Again: Joseph Pierre, MD
How can the best insights of mainstream and critical psychiatry be brought together?
The Psychiatric Pipeline: 10 Agents to Watch
There is much to look forward to in the realm of improved treatments for patients with psychiatric illness.
Seashells, Not an Ocean
Our basic science knowledge of the brain continues to explode beyond what science fiction of the past has predicted.
New Beginnings, New Promises
As we close the door to the past, the promise of tomorrow is yet to come.