Film and Book Reviews

January 15, 2021

The recent Disney Pixar film has a doctor contemplating what makes us all unique, and how we can care for ourselves.

January 08, 2021

What drives leaders, and how does that help us better understand them?

December 01, 2020

This book provides key tools to help combat racism in the mental health profession.

November 12, 2020

What was life like in the 1950s Bronx for a budding preeminent psychiatrist?

October 28, 2020

The viewing of horror films, though paradoxical, can be therapeutic through sensation-seeking, catharsis, and existential relief of our deepest fears.

July 20, 2020

An interview with Dr Anne Harrington, who offers a stimulating and thought-provoking historical perspective on the evolution of biological psychiatry from the German histopathologists to the present time in her recent book.

June 01, 2020

Emergency Psychiatry: Principles and Practice has something for everyone and is easily applicable to emergency and primary care.

April 28, 2020

Conceived as a needed sequel of Islamophobia and Psychiatry, this volume reflects not only the intellectual cogency and scholarly vision of its Editors but also a solid presentation of multiple perspectives on a complex social phenomenon.

March 09, 2020

Pseudopatients and their discontents: an historical perspective.

February 18, 2020

"The idea of seeing a patient, not just a diagnostic label, is an extremely valuable lesson. Being primed to see certain behaviors as pathological in certain contexts and perfectly normal in others is something that all doctors should be aware of." -Susannah Cahalan

February 11, 2020

As historians and mental health professionals both know, in the words of the writer William Faulkner, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

February 11, 2020

To read Linehan’s memoir is to realize that she underwent a crucifixion and resurrection of her own, and that the Pontius Pilate in her story is psychiatry itself.

January 27, 2020

A Conversation in Critical Psychiatry with Peter J. Whitehouse, MD, PhD.

January 20, 2020

Many patients can benefit from herbs with gentler action, fewer adverse effects, and some health benefits beyond their antidepressant effects.

January 09, 2020

It is a new year, an election year, with impeachment looming and the Iranian conflict-funnily enough, this book is not about the President of the United States. It's all about cults.

January 04, 2020

Since a disappointingly large number of people equate the critical psychiatry movement with the antipsychiatry movement, two psychiatrists shed light on why that is not the case.

December 28, 2019

"Psychiatry has been frozen in time since the 80s, and hence the absence of progress since then is no surprise." So says, S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH, in the next installment of Conversations in Critical Psychiatry with Awais Aftab, MD.

December 17, 2019

For your bookshelf: Psychiatric Times’ Editorial Board shares reading recommendations.

December 10, 2019

Can kindness help determine who gets sick and who stays healthy?

October 28, 2019

"Go out into the real world; work in prisons, in run-down towns with high unemployment or with refugees or in remote areas. Go overseas or into underprivileged parts of your own country. And that is how you learn about real psychiatry," says Niall McLaren, MBBS, FRANZCP, in the next installment of Conversations in Critical Psychiatry.