SPOTLIGHT -
“I’m Just So Tired”: Fatigue in a Medically Complicated Patient
Fatigue is a very common physical complaint. What therapeutic options are available?
"What a Psychiatrist Remembers"
"I remember sitting like my patients when time expired, entire lives grasped in a 50 minute hour..."
Black Pioneers in Mental Health: Test Your Knowledge
How well do you know the immense contributions of African Americans to the mental health field? In honor of Black History Month, Psychiatric Times™ invites you to test your knowledge!
Disease, Disorder, Illness, and All That: How a 12th Century Physician-Philosopher Pointed Us to Our True Calling
What if defining and treating disease is not, after all, the primary function and mission of psychiatry?
Research Explores the Efficacy of Clozapine as a Treatment for Catatonia
There is very modest evidence that clozapine may be associated with improvement of catatonia.
Sex, Loneliness, the Super Bowl, and Valentine’s Day
This Valentine’s Day may serve as a message to Americans…
Governors Join Forces to Support Youth Mental Health
Leaders from across the United States aim to work together to develop bipartisan solutions for the youth mental health crisis.
Treating Acquired Brain Injury With Noninvasive Brain Stimulation
"rTMS and tDCS allow for controlled and targeted neuromodulation, and when combined with other therapeutic approaches, they may produce superior outcomes."
Involuntary Treatment of Mental Illness: Here We Go Again
The perilous politics of involuntary treatment…
A Black Quarterback Leads His Team to an Optimistic Victory in the Super Bowl
Superbowl Sunday: what are the mental health implications?
The Week in Review: February 6-10
From the impact of patients’ overdose deaths on physicians to addressing America’s mental health crisis, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.
Depression in the African American Community
“We are not exempt from these diseases. We have to speak up.”
The Overdose Conundrum
A patient loss does not undo or discard the multitude of meaningful life changing and life preserving work done.
Herzl Spiro, MD: Mourning A Spiritual Founder and Leader of Community Psychiatry
We mourn the loss of Herzl Spiro, MD.
Treatment Resistant: Is It a Misnomer?
"The history of medicine is rich in blaming the disease or the patient for 'untreatable' symptoms, until we stumble upon or develop a treatment that is, in fact, effective."
The Body Sighs for Mental Health
New research suggests the power of breath, sighing, and meditation.
A Sobering Truth
“We are a tale of two Americas, searching for humanity to implore unity.”
Will You Be Our Valentine?
Happy Valentine's Day from us to you!
America’s Mental Health Crisis: Are We Willing to Do What Is Required to Fix It?
"All I could think to myself was, 'At least he is safe and will receive treatment in prison—something the community failed to provide him.'"
Natural Healers: The Black Jack of All Trades
When there is psychological trouble, look for the healers.
Rx Evolution: An Ununified Model of MDD and Pharmacological Paradigms
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
“Rachel Aviv speaks to the stories that help and stories that harm—the narratives that will fashion the identity we will have for a lifetime.”
Interviewing Groundhog Phil and the Tu BiShvat Tree
Imagine an interview with these 2 talking entities…
The Week in Review: January 30-February 3
From addressing physician burnout to helping your patients incorporate friendships into their lives, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.
Psychiatry Comic: Scarecrow
Seems like a reasonable assessment...
Celebrating Black Joy
“Maybe Black History Month should be more centered around the contributions of Black Americans—what they have contributed to what this country is. I would love to know more about that.”
"Anatomy Lab"
"By year’s end, brittle with guilt, we hovered over our hollow creation..."
Psychiatric Lessons from the Memphis Scorpions: What’s in a Name?
Names can hurt, and they can lead to broken bones.
Psychiatric Lessons from the Memphis Scorpions: The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma
Could police brutality be part of a larger legacy of American trauma transmission?
Taking Psychoanalysis off the Couch and Into the World: 2022 Sigourney Award Winner
The 2022 Sigourney Award winner reflects on her work.
