By building a practice model that we enjoy, it enhances our ability to “cure sometimes, treat often, and comfort always.”

Introduction: Meeting Our Personal and Professional Goals

People-staff and patients both-confide secrets to strangers. We all need to unburden in a way that won’t come back to bite us.

Locum Psychiatric Practice: Unexpected, Unheralded Benefits

The challenges of using social media can be as numerous as the benefits.

The Role of Social Media in Private Practice

The Internet has transformed the way we get information. It is no surprise that finding health information online is a common activity.

Turning a Negative Into a Positive: Ways to Avoid and Overcome Negative Reviews

This article discusses the risks of supporting versus withholding support for a patient’s disability claim and six key definitions psychiatrists need to understand when they are asked to support such a claim.

Disability: Overview of Concepts Psychiatrists Need to Know

Finding the right dosage of a psychotropic may be notoriously time consuming, but thought should be granted to the sexually dimorphic expression of CYP450 enzymes when prescribing medication. 

Should We Prescribe Different Dosages of Psychotropic Medications to Men and Women?

There has been significant improvement in the outcome of many malignancies, which have required balancing anti-tumor immunity and immune toxicity.

Introduction to Immunotherapy of Malignancies for Psychiatrists

There’s an old joke about change: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but the light bulb really has to want to change.

Cassandra or Happy Warrior: How Paradoxes of Psychiatry Can Sustain the Green New Deal

HBOT can bring about dramatic improvement in many neurological conditions for which we have had very little to offer other than palliative care.

Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury With Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Winter had not yet fallen. A crimson tide of red leaves rained down from the heavens...

Looking for America

To many Lao, the concepts of mental illness and spirituality are tightly intertwined.

Spirit Chicken-or Lunch? Medical Tales From the Far Side of the World

Psychiatry has finally crossed into a new paradigm in the treatment of TRD, bringing the glutamate system on board to join the modulation of the monoamine systems.

Depression’s Journey From Monoamines to Glutamate

Between the extremes of priest and provider lies the healing heart of the physician.

Priests, Providers, and Protectors: The Three Faces of the Physician

They ask me to sign the moment before my poetry reading and I comply...

Conflict of Interest Form

Experts are divided on the issue, but there’s one thing nearly all agree on.

Antidepressants in Bipolar II Disorder

She wondered what the secret was to life as a psychiatrist, a grieving daughter, and a new mother of twins.

The Grief Monster

As interest in mental health technology grows, so do questions about its risks and benefits. more in this book review.

Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus

Negative symptoms identified from the Negative Symptom Assessment and the behaviors that might be observed in each of 5 domains.

Psychiatric Times Vol 36, Issue 5