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

Tardive dyskinesia hits affected populations hard, especially older folks with poor support systems.

Few professional interactions create more anxiety, worry, and deep concern than telling someone unpleasant and painful news. Without a supportive environment, such conversations can enhance the chances of burnout.

At a minimum, a mental disorder is considered an undesirable and unwanted condition either for the individual or the society. However, that is clearly very relativistic and does little to protect against social misuse of disorder designation.

A dysfunction-based defense against misuse of disorder designation has serious conceptual deficiencies, is vulnerable to social biases, and offers very little protection in practice.

Part 1 of a three-part series on a pertinent philosophical question in the era of diagnostic inflation: What conceptual means are available to prevent deviant and undesirable behavioral conditions from being diagnosed as mental disorders as a result of social bias and stigma?

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

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

Promising results from a phase 2 trial of olanzapine plus samidorphan in patients with schizophrenia.

Changes in social behavior on a mobile device may indicate relapse risk that could be assessed in the clinical setting.

Withdrawal and retreat are the counter-transference pitfalls in TRD.  It is often done to the tune of “this is as good as it gets.” Scratch that. A bonus podcast accompanies this piece.

Podcast: Treatment strategies on a long-debated issue, 18 experts reveal what they really do in practice.

How do people with a shred or more of superego assuage the pricks of an uneasy conscience knowing they are sliding down a slippery dark slope?

This Special Report addresses several specific areas of concern that are of importance to psychiatrists: Can depression be prevented after traumatic brain injury? What are the risks? Are there special issues involved in treatment?

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a public health epidemic. Psychiatric symptoms after TBI are not just common, but also troublesome.

The association between traumatic brain injury and negative psychiatric outcomes has a relatively long history. A review of the current state of the science and strategies for intervention.

Across all age groups, an estimated 5.3 million Americans are living with a TBI-related disability. Many of these individuals will live to be older adults.

The chronic and relapsing course of TBI-associated depression poses a challenge to the management of afflicted patients.

On December 27, I learned that my pregnancy would not come to fruition with a baby for me. The healing process begins for me as it has for countless women before me. More in Portrait of a Psychiatrist.

Successful, trauma-informed care for patients with serious mental illness requires providers to assess, acknowledge, and treat trauma.

A small exploratory study provides a first look at the role of social relationships in maintaining sobriety.

This article provides a comprehensive understanding of the clinical and conceptual challenges presented by psychosis that is due to TBI.

Although psychotic illnesses are fortunately rare in children, contrary to common belief, psychotic symptoms can be fairly common in very young healthy children.

A prediction model may help identify treatment characteristics associated with TD among patients with psychiatric disorders taking antipsychotic medications.

The controversial question of whether to legalize cannabis has emerged front and center as an important issue that deserves a serious and thoughtful dialogue.

Cannabis continues to be the most commonly used illicit drug in the US, and the potential beneficial effects of CBD on cognition in patients with schizophrenia have critical importance.

The profound effects of climate change on mental health have become increasingly difficult to ignore. 

What to do when a patient says they need disabled status, but you believe otherwise?

Many have said that truth is the first casualty of war. In the war on drugs, truth died before the first shot was fired.

We fled the computer room like inmates after lightning fries the prison fence. Then we rounded with nurses who knew the doses and what made patients moan...