Commentary

Articles

A television drama looks at eating disorders from the patient, physician, and family perspectives. What does it get right—and wrong?

Breaking the Skinny Standard: Anorexia on Screen 

At almost every turn, insurance payers, based on seemingly ignorant and unethical justifications, continue to undermine the quality of psychiatric care.

Aiding and Abetting Burnout

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

, which has become the leading suicide prevention nonprofit organization in the United States. He is also a founding member of the National Council for Suicide Prevention, serves on the National Lifeline Advisory Committee, the Executive Committee of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, and is the past Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Health Council.

Videos

There is 1 suicide every 11 minutes... how can crisis response systems help?  

Reforming Crisis Response Care

Powerful psychic defenses are keeping humanity from facing a number of interconnected crises. How can these psychic defenses be overcome? 

Introducing a New Series: Racism and Climate Change 

A lawyer discusses how the legal system treats (and mistreats) those with mental illnesses. 

Reconsidering Care and Coercion in Psychiatry: Kathleen Flaherty, JD

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

Lessons From a Difficult Year

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

More Than a Murder-Suicide

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.





The Other Side of the COVID-19 Crisis: The Silent, Socially Phobic Minority 

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

Electroconvulsive Therapy: Obsolete and Dangerous or Still Just Misunderstood?

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

Couch in Crisis