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June 10th 2025
The government has always played an important role in health care. Recent changes, however, are actively altering the practice of medicine and are posed to have a deep and lasting psychiatric impact on patients. Learn more here.
June 10th 2025
Mental health: it is time to do what is needed now or it will be more extensive and expensive later.
May 29th 2025
How do psychiatrists feel about the current polycrises? “Overwhelmed.”
Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FCAHS, DLFAPA, DFCPA, FACPsych
May 28th 2025
Vincenzo Di Nicola discusses the importance of pluralism in social psychiatry and the need for culturally relevant psychotherapy at the 2025 APA Annual Meeting.
Jacob M. Appel, MD, JD, MPH
April 17th 2025
The Lancet Commission report on nonfatal self-harm identifies key challenges, causes, and more.
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From the Pages of Psychiatric Times: February 2024
The experts weighed in on a wide variety of psychiatric issues for the February 2024 issue of Psychiatric Times.
Social Psychoexemplaries: The Other Side of Social Psychopathologies
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The Goldwater Rule: Preparing for the Upcoming Election
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The Case for a Social Classification of Social Psychopathologies
We need improved recognition of the social determinants of mental health.
January: “National Poverty in America Awareness Month”
Did you know January is Poverty Awareness Month?
What Is a Humanitarian Psychiatrist?
What does it mean to be humanitarian?
Resolution #5: A Tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr, I Have a Social Psychiatry Dream
A dream for social psychiatry, in the vein of Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Department of Psychiatry’s Embrace of Philosophy: From Amnesia at the Margins Toward Parrhesia at the Center
Welcome to the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and psychiatry.
Community Healing During the Mideast War and Other Social Conflicts
As the trauma and grief of the Mideast war hit his own community , a psychiatrist helps promote healing.
Calendar Psychiatry and a Hoped for International Day of Thanksgiving
How do specific calendar days impact mental health?
We Answer the Call for a Joint Jewish and Muslim Psychiatrist Statement
Respect is the single most important factor that helps to sustain long term relationships.
Psychiatric Boarding in Emergency Departments
What does it mean to receive crisis care in the typical emergency department? Psychiatrists have a powerful role in reducing boarding.
Don’t! A Prescription for Reducing Counterproductive Revenge
A list of what not to do about conflicts.
Testing the Principles of Transformational Community: What We Can Learn From the Burning Man Mudpocalypse About a Civilization Under Climate Duress
The 2023 Burning Man gave us a glimpse into the power of community under climate duress.
Psychiatry in the Courtroom: Climate Disruption and ACEs
Hallelujah! A Series on Awe
Do you have any recent experiences of awe?
Travel Log Redux: How Can We Assess the Success of Climate Activism?
Climate activism: how can you be involved as a mental health clinician?
Social Media Use and Youth Mental Health: A Guide for Clinicians Based on Youth Voices
Check out this guide for supporting youth in their social media use.
Nasal Spray Demonstrates Ability to Reduce Social Anxiety Disorder Symptoms
Fasedienol meets trial endpoints by reducing anxiety during public speaking simulations in patients with social anxiety disorder.
Psychiatry on TikTok: Providing Education to Teens in an Ethical Manner
84% of 500 TikToks offered inaccurate or potentially damaging medical advice. How can you address TikTok as a mental health professional?
Gun Control. Serbia Just Did It. Why Can’t We?
New gun laws in Serbia were created after a number of mass shootings.
A Social Psychiatric Prescription for Mid-Grief Celebrations of Life After Death
A new, creative kind of grieving process…
The Three Line Model of Mental Health
Learn how to use this simple heuristic model, which illustrates both the interplay of social (historical and current), psychological, and biological factors in the development of psychopathology.
Juneteenth and All That Jazz in Psychiatry
Racism must be addressed on an ongoing basis.
National Best Friends Day!
Happy belated National Best Friends Day!
Examining the Reality: The Influence of Social Inequities on Child and Adolescent Mental Health
The recent social disruption and stress placed on families has led to heightened mental health concerns in children and adolescents. Here's how you can address them.