Living with a mental illness is all too often accompanied by poverty and social disadvantage, which contribute to shortened life spans and reduced quality of life. However, there approaches for addressing many of the preventable causes of poor health and mortality in this patient population.

Addressing Premature Mortality: Living With Serious Mental Illness

Policy initiatives can improve both physical and mental health care quality and outcomes for those with serious mental illnesses.

Early Mortality in SMI: Federal and State Policy Initiatives

Mental health conditions are highly prevalent in homeless populations. Further research and advocacy are needed to address the obstacles that homeless individuals encounter in accessing mental health care.

The Never-Ending Loop: Homelessness, Psychiatric Disorder, and Mortality

Have we learned anything? Looking back at the Spanish flu epidemic as the world deals with the COVID pandemic.

The Spanish Flu Pandemic and Mental Health: A Historical Perspective

Without normative attachment, children can move into their middle years without the tools to succeed in peer relationships, school, and extracurricular activities, opening the door to perils in adolescence.

Understanding Child Maltreatment

A recent study shows that meditative practice is surprisingly effective for bipolar depression. The late poet helps explain why.

What Leonard Cohen Can Teach Us About Depression

With increasing interest in pathologically healthful eating, there is considerable need for additional research and psychiatrists who can diagnose and treat orthorexia nervosa (ON). 

Orthorexia Nervosa

Beethoven’s baton, the genius "gone mad," deaf to criticism, his joy as he conducted, all the notes he trusted the orchestra to play . . .

A Question of Character

This innovative program at Massachusetts General Hospital addresses postoperative pain while preventing relapse in patients a history of opioid use disorder.

Special Issues for Patients With SUDs Undergoing Surgery

In honor of National Foster Care Month, this article sheds light on these issues and provides information for psychiatrists caring for this vulnerable population.

Challenges and Strategies in Foster Care

Beyond unsettling our minds, the current pandemic unsettles our souls in ways we are just beginning to understand. Just as the COVID-19 virus attacks the respiratory tract, the pandemic itself can assault the soul. Dr Pies identifies five manifestations of the crisis.

Care of the Soul in the Time of COVID-19

Some health care workers have been particulary vulnerable to the stress of uncertainty and loss of control engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic, illustrated by 3 cases presented here.

Brief Psychotic Disorder Triggered by Fear of Coronavirus?

Many physicians thought we could not overestimate the value of having a patient’s full, in-person attention,  nonverbal cues and all. In the current crisis, all of that seems quaint.

Reflections on the New Normal

Many serious challenges will face us once the curve has been flattened, and we work as a nation toward recovery in the war against COVID-19.

COVID-19: The Long, Slow Recovery

The Chairman and Founder of Psychiatric Times' parent company introduces the May issue.

Opening Up

Guidance for mental health care practitioners to better explain the complexities of the current crisis to their patients.

COVID-19: Protecting the Vulnerable and Opening the Economy

Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are among the most serious psychiatric disorders and play a disproportionate role among individuals who end up homeless, incarcerated, and who die by suicide. Why the lack of research?

Psychiatric Times Vol 37, Issue 5