Facts Over Fiction: The Current State of PsychiatryJune 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.
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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.
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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
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