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This model of care aims to bear witness and break the cycles of trauma that can otherwise permanently damage us as individuals, families, and communities.

We need to focus on gun violence and control. Here’s what psychiatry can do.

Patience should always be used in the service of healing and helping.

A look at the latest in evidence-based care and innovative treatment for substance use and addiction.

The US Surgeon General officially addresses health care worker burnout.

What are the neuropsychiatric effects of sparring in mixed martial arts? New research presented at the 2022 APA Annual Meeting elucidates the issues.

“This model challenges the idea that many neurodivergent individuals necessarily have neurological or cognitive pathologies, as well as the idea that neurotypicals are necessarily superior...”

Research explored how a traumatic explosion affected individuals around the world.

Is psychotherapy under attack?

What are the current dosing guidelines for the implementation of pharmacogenetics into practice?

How can we more effectively help patients with PTSD? Charles B. Nemeroff discusses the diagnosis, epidemiology, and pathophysiology of PTSD, along with current and emerging treatments, at the 2022 APA Annual Meeting.

Does this governor candidate for California sound like a psychiatrist? How do his policies stress the importance of psychiatry?

How can we help individuals who are under undue influence or authoritative control?

Do classification systems make a difference? A presentation at the 2022 APA Annual Meeting noted 4 key diagnoses that differ significantly in the classification systems.

New research presented at the 2022 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting evaluated program to help address the opioid epidemic.

The Accelerating Medicines Partnership in Schizophrenia aims to develop better treatments for the early stages of psychotic illness.

Prolonged grief disorder honors patients' loss by helping them integrate that loss into their lives—transforming and restoring lives of purpose and meaning.

This year’s winner is a pioneer for the human rights of individuals with mental illness in West Africa.

Medical trust: being optimistic that the caregiver will put your interests first.

Axsome Therapeutics announced the robust antidepressant efficacy demonstrated in this latest study.

What is the clinical impact of climate psychiatry?

“Respecting someone’s pronouns is vital to respecting the person in front of us and their identity. Gender has a different meaning to everyone. There are many different pronouns, even beyond they/their/them.”

Happiness and wellness—what’s the difference and how are they being treated differently in the workplace?

“All of us have already experienced collective trauma... and we are being repeatedly traumatized each and every day."

Here’s why we should be paying special attention to women's depression treatment.

If Roe v Wade is overturned, how will patients with serious mental illness be affected?

Are you attending APA’s 2022 Annual Meeting in New Orleans? Don’t miss us!

How can we—psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners—work together to move the psychiatric field forward?

Trust but verify.

What do you do when there seems to be too much sorrow and hate in the world? One psychiatrist answers, "I hope..."