"He'll just have to hit bottom." That bit of outdated advice can be terrifying. How do clinicians trying to help the person with an addiction who refuses to set foot in our office render assistance?
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On behalf of the editorial staff, we are very pleased to welcome Dr John J. Miller as the new Editor in Chief of Psychiatric Times and Dr Scott L. Zeller who recently joined our Editorial Board.
Autism was first described by child specialists, and even today most autism-specific services are focused only on children. This CME provides a comprehensive overview of autism in adults.
Opioids, suicide, and Alzheimer disease all play a large role in the life expectancy drop reported by the CDC.
When engaging in professional discourse on controversial topics, how can psychiatrists respect the therapeutic boundary with patients when their own fears are heightened?
I’ve been waiting for one of those nine bare-breasted sisters to land by my side and inspire a sonnet...
A follow-up to a previous article about the ethics of euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Truth be told, gender identity variations are not psychiatric disorders. That said, if you were there, what would you have done?
It is winter in America. Perhaps it is fitting, then, that we have a psychiatrist’s self-disclosure that might give you the chills.
Are mood stabilizers causing strokes? Can we treat bipolar II without medication? The past year brought answers to these questions and more.
Here is a selection of eight research developments that may impact psychiatric clinical practice in the coming years.
The incidence of suicidal ideation and self-harm behavior increases rapidly during adolescence and represents a period of heightened suicide risk.
Finding meaning helps to reframe the experiences of our own lives, not as events to hide in shame or guilt, but as experiences that made us physicians we are today.
Although psychiatrists may be better trained to treat suicidal patients, most patients with suicidal ideation are receiving care outside of specialty psychiatric settings and can benefit from interventions in primary care.
More than a slogan, the zero suicide approach applies evidence about what works in the detection, treatment, and management of individuals with intense suicidality.
Determining how to ensure delivery of excellent care while balancing medicolegal demands may seem to be an impossible task. When done in a collaborative way, safety planning can help the clinician better understand risk and targets for intervention.
This Letter to the Editor is in response to the article published in Psychiatric Times, “Sorting Out the Antidepressant ‘Withdrawal’ Controversy,” by Ronald W. Pies, MD and David N. Osser, MD.
In medical publishing, the casebook format has become increasingly popular-and for good reason. A new casebook focuses on the overlap of neurology and psychiatry in child practice.
Our ability to speak freely regardless of role, training, or experience is one element that allows psychiatrists to discuss their fears and limits as clinicians.
Climate is both a public health and a psychological issue and these aspects are intertwined. In this article, particular clinical situations in working with climate anxiety are discussed.
This is the first article in a series focused on reintroducing the arts into psychiatry.
Some thoughts on the pathogenesis and persistence of prevalence of schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder in view of current discoveries.
"The experience of learning to know another’s inner self is one of the most difficult, but most gratifying parts of our clinical work," writes Allan Tasman, MD.
Professionals in our fields are even more reluctant than the general public to seek mental health care because of stigma and negative career consequences. Here are 10 ways to address mental "unwellness."
Patients with active addiction may not present in ways that "fit" our framework. The author provides four steps to an organized and effective crisis response.
Rocko’s story was like theirs-tragedy, survival, despair, resilience, family loyalty, and hope.
Nutritional psychiatry is developing into a real opportunity for clinical intervention for patients who suffer from depression and anxiety.
Why do we, the experts in understanding the mind, have so much difficulty in addressing and improving our own mental health? Dr Moffic introduces our Portrait of a Psychiatrist series.
The Monarch’s cortex, head of a pin, contains maps of Earth and heavens within...
Whatever the etiology, some extreme views come very close to the behaviors of bipolar mania, as illustrated in a recent documentary.
