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“Our hope for patients suffering from TRD is that their serious, but often treatable condition is recognized earlier in the treatment paradigm, and they are put on a treatment that works best for their specific type of depression.”

From to co-occurring substance use and eating disorders to treatment options for OCD, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

A very official critique...

A psychiatrist and their patient reflect on treatment.

What is the current role of lithium?

Playing for mental health makes you a champion.

The new criteria have been updated to increase flexibility and provide greater clarity around standards for behavioral health clinicians.

What is allowed in terms of professional courtesy for physicians, including waiving fees for financial hardship or providing discounted care for physician colleagues and their families?

An AI chatbot gets interviewed about mental health. What does it have to say?

When faced with struggles, stress, and burnout, sometimes the best medicine is simply letting go...

Too often, we only see bad news. Here are some examples of things to be positive about.

Work with compassion to try to prevent the transmission of intergenerational trauma.

Descartes said that if you want to know the mind, the only place to start was in the dissecting room.

"...my father’s spade saving last year’s mud, a long-tined rake, the swan-neck hoe..."

Here’s why TMS is a treatment option to consider in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Imagine a psychiatric utopia… What does it look like?

In a shock-prone world, city-level thinking is a new approach to optimizing the brain health and brain skills of citizens.

What does existing research say about the connection between substance use disorders and eating disorders?

Here’s how money ties back to most social determinants of health.

From over-the-counter naloxone to the true connection between gun violence and mental illness, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

We all know the phrase...

Patients' symptoms often have an etiology that is actually "all in their head..."

How did you get into psychiatry?

We cannot be complacent. Here’s why.

What happens when you talk to artificial intelligence?

"It is amazing how much we know about the magnificent brain—and how much we have yet to learn."

The terms we use when talking about mass shootings might make a difference…

Share your go-to methods for maintaining your mental and physical health in our Wellbeing Checkup video series.

This Sigourney Award winner was recognized for his international work in gender and sexuality.

Here's why Black youth mental health should be a priority...