Couch in Crisis

Reflections on National Doctor Day.

How can you communicate the diagnosis in a way that relieves suffering and helps patients and their caregivers prepare for the future?

It's been 9 years since DSM 5 was released. Does this revision advance psychiatric practice?

Depending on how you look at it, manuals have either played a heroic role in the history of psychotherapy or have been responsible for its degradation.

The clarifying lens of Zen philosophy focuses our attention on common factors that drive change across the different forms of psychotherapy.

How can we support faculty and staff mental health to benefit those individuals, as well as students and educational institutions?

Reflections from the Russo-Ukrainian war and the importance of being needed.

Sometimes what you do for others benefits you, too.

How does isolation affect incarcerated individuals—and the broader society?

Exploring the importance of the psychotherapeutic relationship.

How has isolation been used (and misused) in jails and prisons?

A call to action both to support the youngest victims of war and to prevent future trauma.

A psychiatrists shares his thoughts on the crisis in Ukraine.

Parenteral ketamine is commonly used to manage agitation that is deemed severe and obstructive to necessary medical evaluation and treatment. But what does this suggest about the relationship between medicine and society?

The mental health of Ukrainians is essential, now more than ever.

Psychiatric Times featured a wide variety of psychiatric issues and current events throughout February.

The experts weighed in on a wide variety of psychiatric issues for the Psychiatric Times February 2022 issue.

A psychiatrist's thoughts and reflections after the week's news.

When therapists are terminally ill, should they err on the side of self-disclosure or silence?

Evaluating a new framework for evaluating undue influence and its implications for elder abuse and human trafficking cases.

Treatment decisions lie on a continuum—befitting a dimensional approach to diagnosis.

How can we more effectively evaluate undue influence? Here are methodologies and findings for research into a new framework that may help victims of undue influence find justice.

A fourth-year medical student at the University of North Dakota and member of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance writes about his concerns regarding climate effects on health.

Does anxiety justify an exemption from vaccine mandates among health care workers?

Exploring cognitive biases toward the DSM and their avoidable effects on treatment decisions.