SPOTLIGHT -
July 14th 2025
A psychiatrist reflects on the recent flooding tragedy in Texas.
June 3rd 2025
Taking a page from the Olympics, psychiatry needs to work faster, higher, and stronger--together.
December 5th 2024
As a clinician, do you serve or empower your patients?
November 7th 2024
How can psychiatric clinicians help their patients (and themselves) identify and navigate the aftermath of the election?
November 4th 2024
A psychiatrist shares reflections via a note to America.
Follow Your Patient, Not A Manual
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.
Zen and the Art of Psychotherapy
The clarifying lens of Zen philosophy focuses our attention on common factors that drive change across the different forms of psychotherapy.
Mental Health on College Campuses: Supporting Faculty and Staff
How can we support faculty and staff mental health to benefit those individuals, as well as students and educational institutions?
“My Life Today is Wonderful. I Believe that I Am Needed.”
Reflections from the Russo-Ukrainian war and the importance of being needed.
Big Bonus Of Doing Psychotherapy—It Makes You a Better Person
Sometimes what you do for others benefits you, too.
Health and Solitary Confinement: Issues and Impact
How does isolation affect incarcerated individuals—and the broader society?
Talking About Psychotherapy: A New Blog
Exploring the importance of the psychotherapeutic relationship.
Health and Solitary Confinement: History and Background
How has isolation been used (and misused) in jails and prisons?
The Psychosocial Impacts of War and Armed Conflict on Children
A call to action both to support the youngest victims of war and to prevent future trauma.
A Psychiatrist's Reflections on the Situation in Ukraine
A psychiatrists shares his thoughts on the crisis in Ukraine.
Perspectives on Excited Delirium and Ketamine
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?
Before the Toils of War: Mental Health in Ukraine
The mental health of Ukrainians is essential, now more than ever.
In Case You Missed It: February 2022
Psychiatric Times featured a wide variety of psychiatric issues and current events throughout February.
From the Pages of Psychiatric Times: February 2022
The experts weighed in on a wide variety of psychiatric issues for the Psychiatric Times February 2022 issue.
Dehumanization
A psychiatrist's thoughts and reflections after the week's news.
To Disclose or Not to Disclose? Lessons From a Dying Therapist
When therapists are terminally ill, should they err on the side of self-disclosure or silence?
Putting the New Framework into Practice
Evaluating a new framework for evaluating undue influence and its implications for elder abuse and human trafficking cases.
Depression/Anxiety: Dimensional Treatment Decisions
Treatment decisions lie on a continuum—befitting a dimensional approach to diagnosis.
A New Framework: Exploring Efficacy
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.
Climate Distress in the Peace Garden State
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.
Vaccine Mandate Exemptions for Anxiety: Ethical and Practical Considerations
Does anxiety justify an exemption from vaccine mandates among health care workers?
Why Use the DSM When It Is Inaccurate? Cognitive Biases and Solutions
Exploring cognitive biases toward the DSM and their avoidable effects on treatment decisions.
Responding to Authoritarian Cults and Extreme Exploitations: A New Framework to Evaluate Undue Influence
How can we evaluate undue influence to get justice for victims of cults and other exploitation situations?
From the Pages of Psychiatric Times: January 2022
The experts weighed in on a wide variety of psychiatric issues for the first Psychiatric Times issue of 2022.
In Case You Missed It: January 2022
Psychiatric Times kicked off 2022 by featuring a wide variety of psychiatric issues and current events throughout January.
Addressing Shortages in the Psychiatry Workforce
The pandemic has worsened the psychiatry workforce shortage. What can we do about it?
Introducing the APSARD Health Equity Task Force
How are minority children with ADHD affected by diagnostic, treatment, and educational inequities—and what can we do about it?
King 3 Course Meal
Non-Sensuous Similarities: Language, Poetics, and Psychiatry
One doctor introduces the work of philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin and elements of his conceptualization of “experience.”
The Goldwater Rule Is Fine, if Refined. Here’s How to Do it.
How can we better define, clarify, and expand the Goldwater Rule for ethical and effective use in today's society?