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Writer's Contest
In the Room With Climate Anxiety
November 27, 2018
Psychiatrists and other mental-health clinicians are being increasingly called upon to respond to patients’ worries about the destabilization of many aspects of our world.
Portraits of a Psychiatrist’s Life
November 27, 2018
We invite you to write an article about a day in your life for a series of articles about psychiatry and self-disclosure, with the help of the editors at Psychiatric Times and Editorial Board member H. Steven Moffic, MD.
From Unwanted to Unconditional: How One Mother's Love Changed My Career
June 22, 2017
Up until her last year of training, this psychiatrist was convinced she only wanted to consult in the hospital-that is, until she met a 31-year-old expectant mother.
Solace
May 30, 2017
My patient allowed me a glimpse into the suicidal mind. And, in that way, she taught me a lot.
A Dog Says "Thank You"
May 22, 2017
The human-animal relationship can provide insight into the patient’s ability to connect, to interact, and to show care and empathy. Plus, companion animals tend not to breach confidentiality.
Accepting Patients as They Are: The Joys and Pains of Street Rounds
May 16, 2017
A recent experience on street rounds offered a moment that brought this psychiatrist back to one of the main reasons she chose psychiatry as a profession.
The Freedom in Accepting Our Limits
April 10, 2017
A psychiatrist realizes he is completely powerless against his patient's opiate addiction.
An Expectation to Heal
March 23, 2017
In a tale of two cases, the author comes to realize he is but one agent of change in the lives of his patients.
How About a Game of Chess?
March 13, 2017
A psychiatrist's chess game with his patient didn't go the way he expected.
Julia and the Little Shoots
March 06, 2017
The therapist "goes underwater" with the patient to find what lies in her mind.
The Patient’s Son Is Normal
November 25, 2016
"You just never think people like that can have normal children.” And then I I think of when I was 14 years old and answered a late-night phone call at home.
Ms. L, Delirious Mania
November 11, 2016
To this day, I fiercely debate whether I would want to remember such an experience if it had happened to me. How tortured would I feel?
A Flood of Losses
November 10, 2016
Now, when I think back O.P's plight and isolation, I marvel that he could remain standing. He reminds me of many other courageous young men-the writer, the newly graduated physician, and all the others whom I treated and who died of AIDS. He also reminds me of the vibrant gay community that was destroyed by a microscopic retrovirus.
Jewell
November 10, 2016
Jewell’s answer taught me that successful diagnosis and treatment of an illness weren’t everything. They were not the most important things.
There’s No Place Like Gnome
November 09, 2016
Being an outpatient psychiatrist is a lot like being married. Things go along, the same-old, for long periods. But then there's a moment. Today, with Leslie, I remember why I love my work.
Fumbling Through
November 04, 2016
This is the story of Peter. I feel chosen to have gotten to know him and to have the memory of what such an experience has carved into me.
Powerful Stories-Winners of Our Writer’s Contest
August 05, 2016
Even though I’ve read these stories a number of times, I still have an intense emotional response to each of them. They remind me that our work is of incredible personal importance to our patients and of such emotional meaning to us too.
The Mirror
August 05, 2016
"You don’t have the hands of a surgeon, or the demeanor. It’s a good thing you are a psychiatrist.”