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A winner of the 2020 Sigourney Award reflects on a lifetime of reading, promoting, and revising Freud’s theories. 

Reconsidering Freud

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What words do people associate with the past year? 

Our Readers' Words Provide Insight Into COVID Time

Dr Pies is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Lecturer on Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine; and Editor in Chief Emeritus of 

 (2007-2010). Dr Pies is the author of several books. A collection of his works can be found on

A DSM-5 diagnosis requires a biopsychosocial case formulation—not just a symptom checklist.

Poor DSM-5—So Misunderstood!

 is a masters candidate in Global Affairs from New York University.

is head of the OECD New Approaches to Economic Challenges Unit.

This mindset might be the key to mental health breakthroughs. 

Feeling Lucky? Convergence Mental Health as a Mechanism for Serendipitous Innovation

is a psychoanalyst and cofounder of the School of the Psychoanalytic Letter and the Social Trust of Psychoanalysis.

Mental health care for victims of violence may be a way out of the darkness for Latin America.  

Psychoanalysis as a Tool Against Violence

Are current systems of mental health care alienating children and adults from the meaning inherent in their own emotional difficulties?   

Psychiatry and the Shores of Social Construction: Sami Timimi, MD

Every phase of the COVID-19 pandemic brings new ethical challenges. 

A New CME: Continuing Moral Education

During the pandemic, Albert Camus’ existential novels have become newly popular—and with good reason. 

The Existential Fallout of COVID-19

The story of depression, through time and around the world. 

A People’s History of Depression: Jonathan Sadowsky, PhD

Providing quality mental health care in all treatment settings requires one crucial element: teamwork.  

Couch in Crisis