Commentary

is Postdoctoral Scholar, George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA. His website is 

Articles

Black soldiers’ lack of access to opiate analgesics and antidiarrheals was typical, not exceptional, when considered within the broader scheme of Civil War medicine.




Race and Opioids: Lessons From the Civil War-Era Opioid Addiction Crisis

A potential young psychiatrist lost too soon. 

Purcell Pearson: A Young Black Man Who Dreamt of Becoming a Psychiatrist

 is a research associate with Charles R. Drew University and Kedren Health Systems Inc.

Why Is Black History Month Important to Psychiatry?

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. 

A Psychiatrist Weaving Conceptual and Empirical Work

is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and the medical director of the Southside Acute Partial and IOP Program part of Western Behavioral Health/UPMC, in Pittsburgh, PA.

is attending psychiatrist and assistant program director for the Post Pediatric Portal Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

The authors explore the impact of structural racism on psychiatry trainees and the patients they care for (and what can be done about it).

Why Psychiatry Training Must Include Discussions on Structural Racism

Series Editor, Frank A. Clark, MD, introduces the Black History Month series by talking about his greatest mentor when so few were available. 

Mentorship: Salute to a Windy City Educator

During the month of February, we will publish important stories commemorating Black History Month.

Psychiatric Times Honors Black History Month

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. 

The Faces of Madness

A prominent forensic psychiatrist and the grandson of founding father Alexander Hamilton, Allan McLane Hamilton, MD, was a proponent for the use of nitrous oxide for diagnostic and therapeutic use. 

Nitrous Oxide and Alexander Hamilton’s Grandson

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

Dr Pies offers an analysis of psychiatry’s place on the spectrum of science using “causality” and “meaning” as lenses. 

History of Psychiatry