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We can teach patients a lot about the biopsychosocial causes of depression-even in 5 minutes.

A man searches for the answers to what happened to him psychologically after a childhood of high achievement. But facts intersect with fiction in this documentary.

A simple handshake is no longer a formal gesture to symbolize parting ways. It has become that moment, with a patient, when we both agree to embark on a journey together.

ECT has been an acute intervention for patients with severe resistant MDD, but what is its effect on brain volume?

Meditation training is a valuable, thoroughly secular tool for psychiatrists to incorporate into our patient practices-and our own personal self-care routines. Here: the basics.

An exploration topics that are relevant to most clinicians who work with patients with personality disorders.

Despite its survival and final inclusion in DSM-5, narcissistic personality disorder remains a controversial diagnosis. Here: perspectives on diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.

Personality disorders are arguably the most challenging for psychiatrists because they are difficult to diagnose and frequently coexist with psychotic, affective, and anxiety disorders.

In the opinion of the author, the psychiatry/anti-psychiatry rift has had a devastating effect on the lives of people with severe psychiatric problems.

The Prinzhorn collection laid the groundwork for psychiatric art and inspired many modern artists.

The current shortage of psychiatric beds in the US is a major problem. Patients are discharged prematurely and often have to be readmitted or end up homeless or incarcerated.

A review of a compelling documentary on the spectacular rise and catastrophic fall of British singer Amy Winehouse, a star with an old voice in a young body.

Suicide contagion and clusters are more likely among young people in contained communities such as college campuses.

A Q&A on the emerging field of positive psychiatry.

A focus on the differential of CNS disorders that present with neuropsychiatric symptoms, their presentations, and guidelines for treatment.

After a brief description of the scope of an important IOM report, this article summarizes content that is especially relevant for psychiatrists.

Setting the record straight on what the literature does and does not say about long-term use of antipsychotics.

When a health system honcho asks me to see his thirty-year-old son “for a little anxiety” I can only agree. He arrives with a girlfriend, the couple dressed like characters from an Armani ad...

A study of treatment tolerance and therapeutic response in children and adolescents with OCD.

Brain-based biomarkers identify more biologically homogeneous categories of psychosis than do clinical diagnoses.

Recently, there were two reports about concerns over changes in terminology in our field. So, what's in a name?

Many teens believe the only way to escape bullying is "not to be here." The author examines recent studies that demonstrate the problem isn't going away.

While much in the history of “madness” has changed over the course of time, one of the most consistent-yet sometimes overlooked-features of that history has been the presence of the visual arts.

Are you up-to-date on the risk of recurrent pneumonia in patients with schizophrenia when an antipsychotic is reintroduced?

This will be a busy year as the role of new digital tools in medicine converge to offer novel opportunities to clinical care.

We see yet another confirmation that thyroid hormone has value as an augmentation agent. What does this mean for our patients?

What can we do, as a society, to reduce the levels of incivility and narcissism that appear to be on the rise?

There is a lot to think about when starting a private practice-and yet more to consider when embarking on a forensic psychiatry practice. A review of a classic book that written by a giant in the field.

New evidence-coupled with advances in molecular biology-has afforded an unparalleled opportunity to move toward identifying potential new treatments for schizophrenia.

This method of administration can mitigate the psychotomimetic and dissociative effects of ketamine.